Japan is a pioneer in the food waste to animal feed production process, says Dr Jerry Shurson, an animal science professor at the University of Minnesota.
Japanese company, Marubeni, has signed an agreement with French insect producer, Ÿnsect, to collaborate on ways to integrate its insect protein into feed for farmed fish in Japan.
Bioiberica has partnered with feed ingredient suppliers, Aska Animal Health Co and Shintoa Corporation, to distribute its Nucleoforce ranges, and eventually its Palbio portfolio, in Japan.
The USDA has been tracking feed and grain industry related developments in Asian markets. We looked at those pertaining to South Korea, China, Japan and Thailand.
Japan has joined China, South Korea and Singapore in terms of the Asian markets that have imposed a ban on German pork imports after the EU country confirmed its first case of African swine fever last week.
The US feed and ag sectors are among those applauding Wednesday’s news of a partial trade agreement between the US and the country’s third-largest agricultural market, Japan.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has forecast Australian wheat production for 2018/19 will decline to 17 million metric tons (MMT), the lowest since 2007/08, as dry and hot conditions prevail across major wheat growing areas. It expects wheat exports...