FeedMachinery.com Newsletter: No. 24
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Australia: Animal-based fertilisers threaten BSE status : Tasmania's chief vet says Australia's status as being free of mad cow disease (BSE) could be threatened by the indiscriminate use of animal-based pasture fertilisers. A number of cattle deaths from botulism in Tasmania have been attributed to the use of poultry litter as a fertiliser...

USDA changes loan deficiency payment rules : Colleen Cashell, executive director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Washington County, announced what she called "an important change" to 2006 and subsequent crop years' beneficial interest requirements for Loan Deficiency Payments. She said this change is due to a change in the beneficial interest regulations recently printed in the Federal Register, 7CFR Part 1421. Beneficial Interest is defined as having control of the commodity and title to the commodity. Control of the commodity includes being able to make all decisions affecting the commodity and having risk of loss associated with producing and maintaining quality and quantity of the commodity...

India to provide subsidised corn to poultry farmers : India has announced that it will distribute 800,000 tonnes of corn at subsidised prices to provide relief to its poultry farmers. Corn would be sold at Rs. 450 to Rs. 500 a quintal (100kg) compared with Rs. 670 at the open market, according to the National Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC). 60,000 tonnes of country maize and 7,000 tonnes of cumbu would also be distributed to farmers. The Union Government usually would release corn during monsoons...

Fodder exports demand raises local prices : A booming export fodder market is good news for growers but farmers looking to feed livestock in Australia are facing high prices and short supply. Lucerne prices have almost doubled since November to around $300 a tonne, while hay prices are up between $30 and $40 a tonne. Colin Peace, from the Fodder Industry Association, says drought in the US...

Bird flu claims 40th human victim in Indonesia : A World Health Organisation laboratory test has confirmed a 5-year-old Indonesian boy who died last month was infected with bird flu, a health ministry official said on Monday. His death takes the total number of confirmed bird flu fatalities in the country to 40. The victim died on June 16 in Tulungagung in East Java province after being admitted to hospital on June 8, I Nyoman Kandun, director general for communicable disease control at the health ministry...

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