Livestock and feed industry producers should consider how they could operate in the event of the US and China decoupling, new strategic alliances forming and trade restrictions being imposed, Rabobank analyst warns.
2021 Morrison Award winner Steven Zinn discusses his work on the impact of maternal diets on offspring, which suggests that underfeeding or overfeeding may cause multi-generational health issues.
Partially replacing fishmeal with Prairie AquaTech’s microbial enhanced protein in sea bass diets can reduce feed costs and may even benefit fish health, according to a new study.
Feed industry operators who haven’t adapted their security to the risks introduced by digitalization and supply chain globalization could be in the crosswire of ransomware attackers, warns Stroz Friedberg executive.
The US Grains Council (USGC) is advancing a strategy to promote corn co-products including new high protein distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to aquaculture producers in the high-potential North African and Southeast Asian regions.
Research center APC Microbiome is on a mission to develop microbiome solutions to industry challenges such as anti-microbial resistance, pathogen persistence and methane production.
The generous biotech funds that have transformed other sectors are now backing food and agriculture, with the potential to ‘disrupt’ the food value chain, says a venture capital fund insider.
“My team is excited to develop a low-polluting microalgal co-product diet for trout,” says scientist Pallab Sarker, after his lab is awarded a $1m grant to finance a new aquafeed project.
China’s hog prices sharply declined in the first six months of 2021, to levels lower than imported pork prices. This dramatic change in China, the world’s largest pork importer, will impact the global market, says Rabobank.
Processed animal proteins (PAPs) are an important source of highly concentrated proteins but are expected to provide a relatively limited contribution to reducing the EU and UK deficit in home-produced proteins for feed use, said the AIC
In a recently ran UN Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue, UC Davis experts talked about how US beef and dairy sectors can be climate neutral. They said the question is: How soon?
A report from agricultural research institute, Rothamsted Research, concludes a tax on red meat to help curb climate change could do more harm than good.
A blast at a German industrial park today, in Leverkusen, home to well-known chemical companies, killed one person and left four others missing, reported Reuters.
DSM has acquired Midori USA, Inc, a biotechnology start-up with a novel precision platform developing breakthrough targeted eubiotics that improve the health and environmental impact of animals.
Assessing and improving the biosecurity of feed ingredient supply chains is an emerging but urgent need for the global feed and pork industries because of the inherent need for greater prevention of transboundary transmission of diseases like Africa swine...
Trends and patterns in grain auctions, local meat production and corn production are all indicative of stronger grain demand by China in the coming years, reported S&P Global Platts.
Evonik says it has enhanced its near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) services to the feed industry through implementation of the ISO 12099 standard for updated and expanded calibrations for feed raw materials and feed.
A phage cocktail reduced Salmonella count to below detection limits in broilers, according to the findings of a recent study by experts based at AB Agri, along with the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham.
Spot rates for most ingredients peaked during February and March and have since returned to lower levels amid lackluster demand and cautious purchasing, says Swiss data and trading platform, Kemiex.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has opened the application phase for its commercial dry feed facility of the year (FFY) program, a competition open to all members of that trade group operating within that milling category.
Belgium headquartered, Azelis, which is a distributor of specialty chemicals and animal nutrition and food ingredients, has acquired French company, Quimdis.
De Heus is to acquire Coppens Diervoeding, a feed manufacturer strategically located in Helmond, in the Netherlands, with a 400k capacity feed plant and a strong regional position within the pig and broiler sector.
Certain areas within two South African provinces have been plunged into civil unrest following protests over the imprisonment of the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, with the ensuing blocking of roads and port closures hitting the food and agriculture...
The flooding in Germany and Belgium this week will undoubtedly alter expectations for EU-27 crop production numbers and has the potential to create regional tightness within that market, says CRM Agri.
A new project is looking to provide scientific support for accurate measurement of US dairy’s GHG footprint in relation to feed production and also set the stage for new market opportunities related to carbon, water quality and soil health.
A UK veterinarian is a recipient of a €10K research grant from Trouw Nutrition, in the context of the company’s aim to improve the sustainability of dairy farming by increasing the longevity and performance of dairy cows.
In 2019 the UK government commissioned a review of the country’s food system. Today, the results are in – and the far-reaching paper includes some controversial recommendations.
The destruction of ecosystems in Brazil endangers local soy agriculture: Researchers, in a new paper, have calculated that extreme heat costs losses in soy revenue, up to US$3.55bm annually due to drier conditions.
The EU Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food & Feed (SCOPAFF) has opted to delay a decision regarding the modification of hemp entries in the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials.
Supplementing broiler chicken diets with capsaicin extract could improve numerous performance and functionality parameters in the birds, finds a study.
Officials in Argentina’s Sante Fe providence have ordered mandatory talks between protesting port workers and companies to try and end a ports blockage that is preventing grain shipments, writes The Rio Times.
Brazil based ethanol, bioenergy and dried distillers grains (DDG) producer, FS, is implementing a system that it says will make it the first biorefinery to be carbon negative.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, when used as probiotic, or as prebiotic could act as a growth enhancer in healthy broiler chickens through boosting gut health, leading to improved digestive enzyme activities, growth performance, meat yield, nutrient digestibility...
Feedworks USA is introducing Agolin Ruminant, a product certified by the UK’s Carbon Trust to improve feed efficiency and reduce enteric methane, to the US dairy industry.
Research and innovation play a huge role in advancing the beef and dairy industries, says Cargill as it announces it is collaborating with industry partners such as Nestlé USA on the Dairy Beef Accelerator.
OSHA has cited a grain-handling facility in Missouri, MFA Enterprises Inc, operating as West Central Agri Services, for one willful and six serious safety violations.
In high-income countries, per capita consumption of animal protein - meat, fish, dairy, and eggs - is expected to “level off” over the next decade, according to a new report.
Total demand for insect meal from the UK’s pig, poultry and salmon sectors could reach around 540,000 tons a year by 2050, finds a new report from the WWF and UK retailer, Tesco.
