Preliminary data from Swiss feed additive price watchers, Kemiex, for the current year suggests significant price volatility for the majority of products, with amino acids in particular posting higher price fluctuations than in 2019.
In an exclusive, Asbjørn Børsting, FEFAC president, looks ahead to what is in store for the EU feed industry for the coming year, highlighting priorities for the sector and pending challenges.
Washington-based feed and ingredient business, Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, anticipates M&A activity in its space continuing despite ongoing pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) US$200K for 2021 through the Market Access Program (MAP) to support increasing access to US feed products abroad....
SKOV, which produces ventilation, management systems and digital services for animal production, has entered into a partnership with Danish insect startup, ENORM Biofactory, to develop future climate control and production systems for insect farms.
Early nutrition compared to delayed feeding would appear to accelerate maturation of humoral immunity in broilers up to seven days of age, according to a new study.
Dutch fish feed and animal nutrition group, Nutreco, is aiming to source soy and oil palm ingredients by 2025 that are free from both legal and illegal deforestation, with the purpose of limiting its impact on biodiversity and climate change.
Norwegian company, ORIVO, which provides origin certification of ingredients based on lab testing, has been granted funding from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to lead a three-year long project aimed at developing the next generation DNA-based analysis...
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Company plans to end production of dry lysine in the first half of 2021 after the global supply increased faster than actual demand. The company is working with customers to ensure a smooth transition before ending production...
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) is calling on the UK government to negotiate an ‘orientation phase’ starting from January 1 next year that can be staggered over the coming 12 months, with it citing a lack of preparation on behalf of officials...
Scotland’s whisky industry and biotechnology innovators are continuing to up their game to try and find new sustainable solutions from whisky co-products such as animal feed, while a new barley based vodka from Finland sees benefits for pig farmers as...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reporting, for the second consecutive year, an increase in the sales of medically important antibiotics for farmed animals in the US.
DSM says a two-year large-scale trial in beef cattle in Alberta, Canada has successfully demonstrated that its feed additive 3-NOP, branded as Bovaer, can be included in commercial feedlot diets to reduce methane emissions by up to 80%, without negative...
In the coming year, US livestock and poultry producers will face more feed cost inflation than they have in over a decade, challenging their ability to recover after a difficult and volatile 2020, finds a new report from CoBank.
The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) is exploring new ways to further refine and improve the accuracy of traceability at the farm level in Brazil’s Cerrado region, as it members achieve and even surpass the targets the group set around soy sourcing traceability...
Valio, Finland’s largest dairy cooperative, and Netherlands-based Royal DSM, have signed a collaboration agreement to reduce the carbon footprint of dairy production in Finland.
Danish innovator, Unibio, has signed an agreement with Chilean based distributor, Grupo Blumos, for “a large order” of its single cell protein product, Uniprotein.
Salmon feed production incorporating a Europe Soya certified soy protein concentrate (SPC) can cut 41% of CO2 emissions compared to Brazil sourced SPC, according to a new study carried out by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Austria...
BASF and Adifo say their new software partnership will advance feed formulation and support more sustainable animal protein production as sustainability can now be a used as a parameter in feed formulations and rations.
In terms of wheat, the December USDA WASDE has been largely overshadowed by the possibilities of an export tax being placed on Russian wheat later this season, said Peter Collier, analyst, CRM AgriCommodities.
As Brexit negotiations teeter on the brink of collapse, European farmers, the EU agriculture trade and food sectors have outlined five actions for the European Commission and the UK
SalmoSim, a salmon simulator start-up, has secured its first commercial contract, supporting trials for an alternative aquaculture feed protein source.
The complex will be one of the largest in West Africa and will include seven broiler farms and a slaughterhouse capable of treating 60,000 birds per week, said developer, Agrotop.
Dutch feed group, Nutreco, has started using integrated cloud-based logistics platform provider, Transporeon, to optimize its logistics sourcing and execution, monitor the environmental impact of shipping feed, and further improve its customer service.
Julien Denormandie has taken to social media to make his position on cell-based meat clear: ‘Meat comes from life, not from laboratories’. Is this stance a blow to French food tech?
Supply prospects for wheat have been boosted, while rain is proving beneficial for maize crops in South America, according to the latest market report from the AHDB.
The use of raw proteaginous seeds (PS) such as faba bean, lupin or pea in dairy cow rations increases ruminal nitrogen degradability compared to soybean meal (SBM), according to a new meta-analysis from a French team of researchers.
Belgian processor, Trotec, is involved in an €1.5m EU funded three-year project aimed at developing innovative packaging and processing technologies to process new streams of former foodstuffs into high quality feed.
While the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a new set of challenges, Brexit has the potential to cause enormous damage to the beef sector in Ireland.
A recently published study by Danish researchers showed milk replacer with high levels of starch – wheat flour - could potentially increase piglets’ feed intake and also mature those animals' small intestines prior to weaning.
Layn Natural Ingredients has announced an expanded botanical extract portfolio through its majority acquisition of Chengdu Wagott Bio-tech Co (Wagott), China’s largest exporter of green tea extract, and a leading producer of tea and resveratrol extracts.
Nutreco’s animal nutrition division, Trouw Nutrition, has invested in a new facility in India; the 20,000 MT plant is located in Jadcherla, near Hyderabad, and will produce vitamins, mineral premixes, and mineral blends, among other products, targeting...
After the introduction of ALUS Nutrition, its first product to optimize feed management, earlier this year, Dublin-based Cainthus is launching a second product - ALUS Behavior.
Dutch animal nutrition and feed group, Nutreco, has completed further investment in Nordic Aqua Partners (NAP), which will build China’s first fully integrated and commercially viable recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility.
Embion Technologies, a Swiss startup specializing in the development of functional nutrients for human and animal health, has announced a collaboration with Japanese brewing giant, the Asahi Group, in relation to extracting potent molecules from industrial...