TheBeefSite Latest News: Belgium
02 December 2021
12 November 2021

Pork and poultry consumption up, beef down...
06 March 2020
17 February 2020

Emerging research from Belgium indicates that cows fed spent grains produced while brewing beer produce 13 percent less methane....
25 April 2019

BELGIUM - The beef, apple and pear sectors are in crisis, according to Federal Agriculture Minister Denis Ducarme, who is offering to postpone or cancel the social security contributions to be paid by the farmers concerned....
16 January 2017

BELGIUM - Meet our CID LINES team at booth 7422 of Agriflanders in Gent, Belgium!...
17 April 2015

BELGIUM – Placing microphones in calf pens to listen to coughing can assist stock keepers in detecting Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) earlier....
27 October 2014

BELGIUM - Key dairy calf management practices can be informed by observing how Belgian Blue calves are reared, says a Belgian cattle expert....
14 July 2014

BELGIUM - Six per cent less antibiotic was used in the Belgian veterinary sector in 2013 than in the year before....
19 March 2014

BELGIUM - CID Lines recently hosted a visit by 34 sales reps from its Danish importer, DLG....
07 August 2013

BELGIUM - From 22 to 24 May 2013, the University College and University of Ghent, as well as the Society of Mycotoxin Research organised the 35th Mycotoxin Workshop....
29 January 2013

BELGIUM – Laboratory testing at the Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre in Brussels has confirmed the presence of a the Brucellosis virus strain has been discovered on a farm in Temloux, Namur....
15 January 2013

BELGIUM - The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA), have announced the launch of a Scientific Council of distinguished world-class experts who will serve as the...
30 November 2012

BELGIUM - The way in which herd and flock health is managed could change radically over the next 20 years thanks to developments in molecular technology - this was one of the conclusions from a recent meeting in Brussels on Advances in Diagnostics....
09 November 2012

BELGIUM- Carrefour Belgium, a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest retailers,will move towards more animal welfare friendly requirements with its contractors. ...
20 March 2012

BELGIUM - After two cases of brucellosis were found on a cattle farm in Belgium, 262 cattle have been culled....
25 January 2012

BELGIUM - A new outbreak of Schmallenberg virus was reported to the OIE by Dr Pierre Naassens, Directeur Santé des Animaux et Sécurité des Produits animaux/ CVO, Belgium....
16 January 2012

BELGIUM - There have been 14 outbreaks of Schmallenberg virus recorded in sheep flocks in Belgium....
07 October 2011

BELGIUM - Scientists of the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) have developed a molecular technique to identify the biting midges that spread bluetongue disease. Until now, this identification was a problem. The new technology helps to understand...
27 September 2011

BELGIUM - KenoTsan combines a deep cleaning and extremely strong adherence power at very low concentrations. The new and unique technology ensures an unprecedented cleaning in all circumstances....
16 September 2011

BELGIUM - CID Lines has renamed its ‘Biorex’ cleaning product as ‘Keno san’. ...
08 July 2011

BELGIUM - Janssen Pharmaceutica NV has completed the divestiture of its animal health business to Elanco. ...
25 May 2011

BELGIUM - CID LINES R&D has achieved a perfect combination of a high activity disinfectant with a formulation that respects the skin of the teats and sphincters. It is therefore possible to disinfect without harming. ...
09 December 2010

BELGUIM - The Chief Belgium Veterinary Officer, Dr Pierre Naassens has confirmed that brucellosis has been found on a dairy and beef farm near the German border....
12 February 2010

BELGIUM – Kemin is pleased to announce that Jan-Jeroen De Beucker has been appointed Marketing Director of Kemin Agrifoods worldwide, based in Herentals....
12 January 2010

BELGIUM - The Belgian authorities have responded with new measures following an audit carried out by the European Commission DG SANCO into the welfare of layers, calves and pigs last year....
12 February 2009

BELGIUM - The UK Institute for Animal Health (IAH), as the Bluetongue Reference Laboratory for the EU and OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health), has demonstrated that a cow in the Flanders region of Belgium had been infected with bluetongue virus...
27 November 2008

BELGIUM - The European Commission has decided today to launch a formal investigation against unlawful State aid granted by Belgium since 2002 to farmers for the BSE tests of bovine animals. ...