Dairy
The difficult weather conditions for silage making means that identifying and mitigating mycotoxin...
Now that virtually every silage pit is open and silage is the main source of forage in the cow's diet, minimising waste has to become a...
Beef
In recent years, there have been increasing reports of mycotoxins being found in grass silage in Northern Ireland (NI), particularly...
Tillage
Safefood has published research on the control of mycotoxins in cereals, which found that 35% of all oat samples were contaminated.
N.Ireland
Ten years of the Food Fortress programme have delivered an unmatched level of security for the farming and food chain throughout Ireland
Ongoing Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) research is looking at ways of reducing the threat of mycotoxins within cereal crops...
Mycotoxins are natural substances produced by moulds and fungi. They cannot be seen with the naked eye, and they cannot be tasted
Dairy News
The scale of the mycotoxin challenges in Irish silages is higher than in previous years and will need to be managed
Silage slippage is a major challenge on many dairy and beef farms throughout Northern Ireland at the present time.
Last year saw many Irish dairy farmers confirming that cow performance had been impacted significantly by mycotoxins.
Agri-Business
Health, nutrition and bioscience company, Royal DSM, recently unveiled the results of its annual mycotoxin survey
Surveys carried out by Alltech have confirmed the heavy presence of mycotoxins in silages across Northern Ireland, Munster and South Leinster
There's a lot we could learn from the Grain Farmers of Ontario. Randy Jackiw outlined that weather conditions last year caused incidences of mycotoxins.
