Edinburgh-based biotech startup, MiAlgae, has received investment of £1m (US$1.3m) in total to focus on the commercialization of its microalgae product, targeting the aquaculture and pet food sectors.
Following an expansion in products for animals containing hemp or cannabidiol, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture is accelerating its surveillance activities aimed at preventing the use of unapproved ingredients in feed.
The Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada (CATC) is expanding its research facilities on Prince Edward Island with the acquisition of Elanco Animal Health’s former aquaculture R&D site.
Cargill has moved to clarify what its current trading relationship is with Nestlé, following the report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that the leading food and beverage company had stopped buying Cargill’s Brazilian soy because of concerns about the...
Dutch animal nutrition and fish feed group, Nutreco, has announced a strategic partnership with Mosa Meat, the company behind the world’s first cell-based or cultivated hamburger.
Following a year marked by uncertain in feed production and access to international markets, the US feed industry is approaching 2020 with greater optimism.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently reported that the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has stopped buying Cargill’s Brazilian soy because of concerns about the link to deforestation.
Feed crop producers in Argentina increased forward sales of some oilseed based feed ingredients in the last quarter of 2019 in anticipation of a change in export taxes.
Global demand for protein following the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks and increasing sales in aquafeed helped boost Cargill’s second quarter returns.
Four salmon feed companies have been accused by the Chilean National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE) of conspiring from 2003 to 2015 to fix fish feed prices in that market.
A novel perennial crop aims to provide a more sustainable forage for livestock production along with a grain cash crop while reducing soil erosion and protecting water quality, says researcher.
Columbia Grain International is being fined $191,322 and cited for safety violations regarding feed grain handling, employee training and equipment use following an employee’s death.
Improving neonatal piglet survival is a key focus for pig farmers today and good farm and health management, along with optimal housing conditions are positively associated with sow and piglet performance parameters, says a leading pig welfare and housing...
Expanding federal funding for foundation agricultural and feed-related research is needed to improve sector productivity and prevent future problems like disease outbreaks.
David Speller, owner of Applied Group, will be talking at our Young Animal Nutrition event, YAN20, in March about the importance of managing and manipulating a broiler chicken’s behavior in the early stages and how that is linked to feed intake.
Supplementing dairy cow diets with clay feed additives can support rumen pH while improving the degradability and use of feed ingredients, a researcher says.
Darling Ingredients today announced that it has acquired the 50% joint venture interest of EnviroFlight, LLC owned by Intrexon Corporation, thereby making it the full owner of the US insect protein producer.
There is little upside risk in feed prices internationally, and the outlook for global poultry in 2020 is slightly more positive than it was in 2019, when markets suffered from relative oversupply, according to Rabobank’s global poultry quarterly, released...
Finnish researchers are using industrial side streams – from the forestry sector or the bioethanol industry - that contain renewable carbon sources to produce Pekilo mycoprotein, a form of single cell protein (SCP) derived from fungi.
