Although the human epidemiological situation and measures restricted our normal activities in many respects in the first half of 2020, the past few months have not been uneventful at all with respect to the Platinum Zero piglet diets to be launched. Seeing the evolution of...
The year 2020 presented Hungarian poultry producers with major challenges. The avian influenza virus started to spread in February and eventually decimated our poultry population. This year’s outbreak unfortunately took a heavy toll, killing twice as many poultry as the outbreak in 2016–2017. So far...
Relying on their multiple-decade experience, the accredited service laboratories of Bonafarm Agriculture in Mohács and Nagyigmánd offer reliable physical, chemical and microbiological tests of soil, plant, water, sewage, irrigation water, cereal, forage, feed and food samples. In the course of our laboratory development activities we...
In the old days it was often thought that ‘the goat is the poor man’s cow’. Although the goat is one of the farm animal species that had been domesticated the longest time ago (in the late Stone Age, around the start of the Neolithic...
Currently the use of zinc-oxide (ZnO) mixed into the feed in a therapeutic dose (2500–3000 mg Zn per kg of feed) is the least expensive, most effective and most widespread method of preventing post-weaning diarrhoea and oedema disease caused by E. coli in piglets. However,...
For broiler lines of intensive growth rate, a good start is essential for the maximum utilization of their genetic potential. Reports in both the Hungarian and the international literature call attention to the multiple beneficial effects of early feeding on the development and growth of...
