An increase in regional protein production in Europe is possible, but any further development of regional raw feed protein cultivation is going to need a lot of support, both from feed manufacturers and policy initiatives.
The Danish fish feed manufacturer said its earnings fell slightly short of the results of 2016, with developments in foreign exchange rates and prices of raw materials and competition in certain regions having curbed the revenue increase.
Increasing the amount of trimmings and including microalgae in BioMar’s In the Blue feed has yielded salmon with a record-breaking fish-in:fish-out ratio and double the omega-3 of conventional farmed salmon.
Swapping algae meal for portions of fishmeal, fish oil and plant proteins may provide similar growth performance and body condition in carnivorous fish, say researchers.
Decision-making documentation, developing performance measures and establishing an implementation plan for meeting long-term goals were among the GAO’s recommendations to improve FDA's FSMA efforts.
Slow-growing broilers can be reared on diets lower in digestibility, along with reduced levels of protein and amino acids, without this impacting performance, according to a researcher from ILVO (the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research).
Research funded by IFFO, the marine ingredients organization, finds that better management of aquaculture by-products could maximize “human edible yield”, but where would this leave the feed industry?
Trouw Nutrition says new data from a recent longitudinal study continues to support the idea that a higher plane of nutrition pre-weaning can help ‘program’ a cow’s future metabolism.
“Free and frictionless trade with the EU” and “a proportionate regulatory system that delivers policy requirements in a pragmatic manner” are the top objectives that the UK feed industry has asked the Government to pursue as it negotiates the UK’s exit...
A temporary halt to glyphosate product labeling requirements in an ongoing lawsuit offers feed crop producers ‘time to breathe’ while the case is argued, says the National Corn Growers Association.
Tyson Poultry faces a $2m criminal fine for violations of the Clean Water Act from a US federal court stemming from the leak of a feed additive that led to the deaths of numerous fish.
German crop chemicals and drug group, Bayer, is said to be edging closer to getting EU backing of its proposal to acquire agribusiness company, Monsanto, sources told Reuters.
Improving feed efficiency is a business goal for more than 70% of dairy farmers surveyed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK and Russia.
Australian pork producers are on a par with their competitors in the US, Canada and Denmark for feed efficiency, but are performing “well below the capability of available genetics”, according to latest figures from Pork CRC (Cooperative Research Centre)...
