TheCattleSite Latest News: Switzerland
18 November 2019

When the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis hit, Switzerland was a step ahead of many countries in Europe. The Swiss National Reference Laboratory had already implemented measures that would pay off in two ways: by controlling the disease in...
06 September 2019

SWITZERLAND - Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics. Often, resistance is mediated by resistance genes, which can simply jump from one bacterial population to the next....
13 August 2019

SWITZERLAND - From 1 September, milk producers can use a new "Swissmilk Green" quality label if they meet ten basic criteria, including avoiding palm oil products in animal feed....
18 June 2019

SWITZERLAND - "Field-grazing animals always eat some earth and dust along with the plants," says Jean-Michel Hatt, professor at the Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife. ...
17 May 2018

SWITZERLAND - Swiss retailer Coop has launched a new dairy product line sourced from cows fed exclusively on Swiss hay....
10 April 2018

SWITZERLAND - Swiss retailer Coop has launched a new dairy product line sourced from cows fed exclusively on Swiss hay....
26 July 2017

SWITZERLAND - Analysis of strontium isotopes in teeth from Neolithic cattle suggest that early Europeans used different specialised herding strategies....
26 June 2017

SWITZERLAND - As temperatures climb and growing seasons change, milk producers across Switzerland must cooperate with one another to improve their grassland management practices if they want to break even, says an official agriculture report....
28 July 2016

SWITZERLAND - Livestock medications can impair beneficial organisms that break down dung, but a new study could show a way to conduct better testing to prevent such harm....
21 September 2015

SWITZERLAND - A new start-up company in Switzerland is leading the way on helping to reduce our food waste, writes Lucy Towers....
02 April 2015

SWITZERLAND – Half of Swiss farm receipts come from farm support measures and major trade barrier reductions should be rolled out to address this....
02 September 2014

SWITZERLAND - Irish Food marketing body, Bord Bia recently hosted a two-day promotional event in Flims, a town located in the Swiss Alps focused on the promoting Irish beef and lamb to a number of high-end chefs and local Swiss media....
07 August 2014

SWITZERLAND - Farming representatives are hoping that lessons learned in Switzerland can ensure milk quota abolition is supported with market stabilising and monitoring measures....
27 December 2013

SWITZERLAND - If grassland is managed intensively, biodiversity typically declines. A new study led by Bernese plant ecologists shows that it is rare species that suffer the most....
16 August 2013

SWITZERLAND – The Federal Office for Agriculture has distributed a questionnaire to assess how best to handle open border dairy trading with the EU....
30 May 2013

SWITZERLAND - FEI President HRH Princess Haya and Goodwill Ambassador to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has called for sustainable solutions to feed the world's growing population....
22 November 2012

SWITZERLAND - DSM is showcasing the full breadth and versatility of its Animal Nutrition & Health offering with a brand new website....
13 November 2012

SWITZERLAND - DuPont Pioneer recently prevailed in a major European patent challenge to its bacterial strain used in the Pioneer® brand inoculants portfolio. The decision in favor of Pioneer by the European Patent Office (EPO) means that the key bacterial...
16 August 2012

SWITZERLAND - 33 cases of Schmallenberg have been identified in Switzerland, all in cattle....
30 November 2011

SWITZERLAND - Swiss dairy farmers along with other European producers protested yesterday against export dumping....
03 May 2011

SWITZERLAND - One animal has been destroyed in the canton of St Gallen, following the finding of subclinical BSE during routine surveillance. ...
14 January 2011

SWITZERLAND - Researchers at the University of Zurich, have concluded that airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder. ...
06 December 2010

SWITZERLAND - The US Grains Council built on its long-standing presence at the Global Grains Conference to promote US sorghum and distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to almost 900 grain traders and feed manufacturers. ...
29 October 2010

SWITZERLAND - 16 months after the abolition of the milk quota in Switzerland, members of the parliament have decided to introduce the motion of volume control, which will be managed by milk producers. ...
11 October 2010

SWITZERLAND - Members of the Swiss National Council have voted in favour of implementing volume control for the milk market. ...
03 August 2010

SWITZERLAND - BIG-M, the Swiss member organisation of the European Milk Board organised a cattle procession through Zurich last week to highlight the unfair dealings in the milk market and to protest against the business practices of MIGROS, one of the...
14 July 2010

SWITZERLAND - More than 100 milk producers gathered on 12 July to demonstrate against the inaction of the branch organisation milk (BO Milk) regarding the dairy market situation....
02 June 2010

SWITZERLAND - New UHT milk processing technology launched by Tetra Pak claims to cut production time by up to 90 per cent and cut operating costs in half....