Ridley-CSIRO super prawn feed has wide livestock prospects

Andrew Marshall
March 29 2017 - 8:30am
Ridley Corporation managing director, Tim Hart says just a fraction of the improved growth and survival rates achieved in prawns fed with Novacq ingredients could similarly revolutionise the poultry industry or other land-based livestock feed markets.
Ridley Corporation managing director, Tim Hart says just a fraction of the improved growth and survival rates achieved in prawns fed with Novacq ingredients could similarly revolutionise the poultry industry or other land-based livestock feed markets.

Stockfeed processor Ridley Corporation is to pay  $1 million a year to an ongoing prawn feed research alliance with CSIRO which promises potential gains for land-based livestock feed regimes, too.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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