Cargill is starting site work on its first feed facility dedicated to manufacturing non-medicated, antibiotic-free products, says director of operations.
Fatty acid enhanced pork, beef, and milk products likely to follow: Devenish
Belfast headquartered farming and food company, Devenish, says a world first clinical trial it carried out with RSCI indicates the health benefits of regular consumption of chicken-meat and eggs naturally enriched with algae-sourced omega-3-PUFAs.
The online grain sales platform FarmLead is expanding its services to offer users a richer picture of market prices, and historical trends for grains and feed ingredients, says CEO.
A call by an academic for Irish livestock farmers to pay for greenhouse gas emissions produced by on-farm activities has been criticized in some quarters.
Grain surplus, export competition and trade agreements may bring headwinds to US grain producers, but the outlook is more positive for feed grain users, says expert.
Vitamin A and E production at BASF in Germany has taken a hit following on from a fire at its aroma ingredients plant at the Ludwigshafen complex, near Frankfurt.
FEFAC has rejected the recent vote by environmental MEPs urging a complete phase out of crop based biofuels in the EU by 2030, rather than a cap on their usage.
US feed industry organizations, including the NGFA, have welcomed the additional time given by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish contract details before enforcement starts.
The producer was asked to improve its use of Current Good Manufacturing Practices along with pest and safety controls after the FDA inspected one of its milk-based powder manufacturing facilities.
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, says it is facing challenges in the UK - both in the market and in its own organization - as it announced its third quarter 2017 trading update.
The WHO is recommending that animal producers cease feeding or using medically important antibiotics to prevent potential disease or as growth promoters.
We talk to Juan Antonio Mesonero Escuredo, global program manager for swine gut health at Trouw Nutrition, to hear about his working life in a career spanning two decades. We also gauge his perspective on industry challenges.
Researchers evaluated the interaction between feed processing and different methodologies for assessing apparent metabolizable energy corrected by nitrogen (AMEn) and standardized ileal digestibility coefficients (SIDC) of amino acids in broiler diets.
Minnesota-based DryMax Solutions is working to swap heat for radio waves in an effort to change the grain drying process to one that leaves more nutritional elements in feed ingredients, says founder.
Kent Nutrition Group is opening a swine research barn focusing on real-time assessment of nutritional research and ties between environmental conditions and feed intake, says vice president.
US researchers say bioactive phenolic extracts (BPE) from blueberry and blackberry pomaces could work as antibiotic growth promoter (AGP) alternatives in broilers.
Australian grower group Southern Dirt has ambitions for amaranth to be grown in Western Australia on the same scale as it is in China, where 800,000 metric tons of the fast-growing crop were harvested this year.
By this time next year, extracts from seaweed harvested from the western coast of Ireland will be produced on an industrial scale, providing the European feed industry with a new natural option for AGP replacement.
A new poultry research unit has opened at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in the UK, with increased feed manufacture capability and equipment for high-end nutritional analysis.
Yesterday, DSM reported a strong first nine months for this year. Sales were up 9% to €6,456m for the vitamins and enzymes producer, with it noting 8% organic growth in the period January to September 2017.
Danish fish feed producer BioMar has expanded production capacity by 140,000 metric tons at its Karmøy facility in Norway and invested in a “new generation” LNG vessel to transport feed from the factory.
Poultry producers wanting to limit their use of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) need to maximize the performance of gut health feed additives by selecting ones that have been proven in vivo and that guarantee delivery to all parts of the intestinal...
Cargill says a hearing in the appeal process it initiated in the Seoul High Court against claims it participated in a feed cartel in South Korea has been postponed.
Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in August and may have left upwards of $200m in agricultural related losses in its wake, including in feed, animals and infrastructure, say economists.
Environmental protections and feed sector consolidation are playing roles in the growth and development of the aquaculture industry in China, says regional expert.
The Minnesota-based agribusiness group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire feed additive company Integral Animal Nutrition on Friday. Additional financial details of the deal were not released.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition said its live yeast probiotic strain, Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079, is the first feed additive authorized in the EU for the reduction of carcass contamination by Salmonella spp. in broiler chickens.
A canola plant that produces DHA and EPA oil may help support the expansion of the aquaculture market by easing ingredient restrictions, says Cargill VP.
A series of proposed instructions for certifying imported organic products may not go far enough to address concerns of market integrity, says analyst.
Scientists at Rutgers University have genetically engineered maize with a high content of the key amino acid methionine, a discovery that has the potential to reduce feed costs by eliminating the need for supplementation with synthetic methionine.
