China would be able to reduce soybean imports by 10 million tons annually by increasing the use of synthetic amino acids, and thereby enabling the feeding of lower protein based feeds to pigs, said the head of the Chinese feed industry association, according...
The INvertebrateIT consortium led a matchmaking event at Aqua 2018 in Montpellier, France, aimed at connecting aquaculture farming and feed companies, researchers, investors and any other parties interested in the use of land and marine invertebrates...
The California-based internet of things (IoT) tech company closed a series A financing round earlier this week. The funding is aimed at expanding its work to improve feed and grain storage and food safety.
Danish feed company, Aller Aqua, launched an updated fry feed portfolio, including reformulations of existing products and a new product for larvae and small fry at Aqua 2018 in France this week.
A number of issues are continuing to influence global beef markets, such as increasing North Asia imports, looming margin pressure, and African Swine Fever outbreaks, according to the latest RaboResearch Beef Quarterly report. The team highlighted, in...
Balchem Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Balchem Italia, has announced the acquisition of Bioscreen Technologies, a small privately held manufacturer of encapsulated and fermented feed nutrition ingredients, headquartered in Bertinoro,...
At Aqua 2018 in Montpellier, France FeedNavigator spoke to Patrick Charlton, vice president, Alltech Europe and CEO of the group’s specialist aqua feeds business, Coppens, to get a deeper dive into the reasons behind the shutting down of its US omega-3...
Commercially produced probiotic strains may provide more support than those found indigenously, but indigenous strains may outperform the use of a non-supplemented diet, say researchers.
US feed and agricultural organizations are welcoming news of a preliminary agreement between the US and Mexico in the renegotiation of NAFTA, however questions about the timeline with Canada remain.
US feed and agricultural producers are getting a little help from the USDA in light of the challenging agricultural economy and ongoing export tariffs.
Supplementing poultry diets with a blend of organic acids and essential oils may improve birds' intestinal functioning and provide an alternative to antibiotic use, say researchers.
Early nutritional programming via the maternal diet could be the key to the development and growth of piglets, whereas there is no benefit to supplementing post-weaned piglet diets with feed additives, say researchers.
Norwegian scientists make the “unexpected” discovery that the addition of a fish bone mineral hydrolysate to salmon feed can increase pink flesh pigmentation, producing fish that is potentially more attractive to consumers.
The close of a funding round is set to support the building of three new facilities for Enterra and an expansion in insect-derived feed ingredient production.
A 10-year assessment of US soybean production highlights the role of trade and points to continuing low prices and a reduction in planted acres as consequences stemming from China’s ongoing tariffs on the feed ingredient, says analyst.
Adding some types of brown seaweed to shrimp diets may support shrimp through challenges from white spot disease and improve digestive capacity, say researchers.
Burned rangeland and pasture, lost cattle and replacement feed are some of the challenges that producers in California are facing from in-state wildfires.
Organic supply chain company Pipeline Foods is extending its reach into the US organic feed and grain markets with the purchase of a grain elevator from ADM.
Scientists from Wisconsin-Madison University want to identify what causes spurred growth in yellow perch exposed to predator attacks, with the view to ultimately developing a feed supplement.
Nutritional programming may help farmed yellow perch adapt to soybean meal-based diets as adults and support growth production while maintaining fertility, say researchers.
Outbreaks of African Swine Fever in China are raising concerns for swine producers in the US as the disease may be able to survive the importing process in feed or feed ingredients, says expert.
Feed transporters working at an ABN feed mill in the UK are considering union action, which could include striking, after the company proposed schedule changes.
Summer has not been a quiet season for many companies and organizations in the animal feed and agricultural industries. Several have seen the arrival of new faces, while a few others have said farewell to longtime employees.
High protein soybean meal for aquaculture could soon be a commercially reality, as US biotech company Amfora embarks on a program to apply its patented gene editing technology to develop crops with an enhanced protein content.
A year has passed since the European regulation authorizing insect proteins in fish feeds came into force. FeedNavigator catches up with Antoine Hubert – a man at the center of industry developments – to find out how the sector has moved on.
Adding coarse grains or supplements are some tools that poultry producers can use to support a healthy ecosystem within birds during early development, says expert.
Compared to alfalfa-only silage, blending red clover and alfalfa may support silage quality by limiting protein degradation, boosting lactic acid levels and lowering pH, say researchers.
Animal nutrition research, company expansion and the construction of a new global innovation facility are among the projects Devenish Nutrition is undertaking with financial support from the EIB, says CEO.
Some 90% of India’s dairy farms have adopted a ration balancing software tool that reduces methane emissions by 12-15% per kg of milk while reducing feed costs and increasing productivity.
Farmed fish feed supplemented with β-glucan binding protein based zinc oxide nanoparticles may support fish survival in the face of a disease challenge and boost fish growth, say researchers.
Feed production and ingredient growth are among the elements considered in a recent report card given to food companies regarding meat production sustainability practices, says campaign director.
Bioforte Biotechnology has developed a nutritionally-dense protein from edible insect eggs that it claims improves newborn animal growth as well as overall feed intake and feed conversion rates.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, predicted the rise of poultry ‘mega farms’. FeedNavigator catches up with him to find out what implications this would have for the feed industry.
Supplementing shrimp feed with a novel probiotic strain may improve shrimp growth and weight gain along with inhibiting some pathogenic bacteria, say researchers.
Sentiments on the health of the US agricultural economy dropped in July, likely reflecting expected losses in income for feed crop producers and export market uncertainty, says analyst.
A lawsuit filed in California is alleging that Nestle has been misleading customers regarding the presence of GMO ingredients in its products, in part through the use of animal feed.
The US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council seeks to expand feed ingredient, food and agricultural exports to Cuba through a streamlining of the payment process, says president.
Taurine supplementation may boost plant protein use in place of fishmeal in the diets of juvenile carnivorous fish and support fish growth performance, say researchers.