Newsletter No. 69 – Item 2 One way some attempt to reduce costs is to seek alternative feed ingredients. This has been a very common practice with Ostrich production, even when the main feed ingredients were at reasonable prices. More … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 65 – Item 4 Newsletter No. 64 discussed the effects of low, medium and high production to demonstrate how efficiencies in production methods improve performance. The article illustrated the impact on the overall profitability in money terms. The … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 64 – Item 2 The Farm Management Pocket Book is a book published in the UK for farmers to use as a guide for production targets, costs of production and potential revenue to establish gross margins in the … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 62 – Item 4 There are an increasing number of reports and articles written to advise producers on how to manage the effects of the increasing feed prices as they represent the highest single input cost. When prices … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 62 – Item 3 Any discussion on feed ingredients and optimising the use of resources has to include the important role of Alfalfa. At a time when there are concerns regarding world shortages of water, Table 1 shows … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 62 Item 3a Improving production performance offers the greatest opportunities for optimising resources. Some examples: Breeders consume approximately 2,300 kilograms of feed per trio per annum. Genetically ostrich can produce 100 and more eggs, but only when the … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 61 – Item 4 The following is the header for an article in Feed Formulator, published this week. (2013 note: This article was published in 2008 but the principles discussed remain important today as the are the basis … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 59 – Item 3 & 4 This section of the newsletter discussed the importance of testing the forage fed to production livestock to ensure the nutritional profile of the batch is accurate to enable the nutritionist to balance … Continue reading →
Newsletter No 59 – Item 1 & Item 2 The meat market is highly competitive and never more so than today, with rapidly increasing ingredient prices that make excellent feed conversion ever more important. Previously we have discussed the tremendous … Continue reading →
A new case of avian influenza was reported this week (April 2013) in South Africa. To put this outbreak into context it maybe helpful to provide a reminder of the situation over the past couple of years as it has … Continue reading →
