Technology
Arla to trial DSM methane feed additive in Europe
Royal DSM’s innovative methane-reducing ruminant feed additive Bovaer is to be trialled across three European countries by milk processor Arla Foods, while Elanco Animal Health is to distribute the product in the US. Bovaer,...
Bayer acquires cereal N fixing technology
Bayer Crop Science has restructured its research partnership with the US biotechnology business Ginkgo Bioworks to help speed up progress with biological approaches to plant nitrogen optimisation, carbon sequestration and next...
NMR to provide dairy genomics services to Genus
Chippenham-based National Milk Records (NMR) has won a five-year contract to provide UK multinational livestock breeding company Genus with genomic testing and evaluation for female cattle in the UK. Genus will use NMR’s GeneEze...
NMR secures US licence for GenoCells dairy diagnostics
Wolverhampton based dairy testing and herd management company NMR has secured an exclusive US licence for the GenoCells genetic diagnostic technology. It already has the exclusive UK agreement for GenoCells with its French developer...
Gene-editing research approval in place for England
Parliament has now cleared the legislation to make it easier to conduct field trial research in England involving plants produced by new genetic technologies such as gene-editing. This is still banned in the EU. The plant breeding...
Trial to reduce pig slurry GHG
A Norwegian technology company is to trial its slurry emissions reduction technology on pig slurry to improve both air quality and the value of the product as a fertiliser and soil conditioner. The company, N2 Applied, is already...