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French animal feed production modestly grew in 2025, reaching 18.88 million tons – a 1.1% year-on-year increase. Those data ...

Research shows that targeted late-gestation nutrition can improve farrowing efficiency, piglet survivability and subsequent reproductive performance.

For decades across Europe, human food waste (table scraps, that kind of thing) had been recycled into food for pigs. From a 2013 BBC article: “As recently as the 1990s ‘pig bins,’ into which uneaten ...

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French animal feed production saw a modest rise in 2025, reaching 18.88 million tonnes, which is a 1.1% increase over the previous year, according to ...