Nutreco has taken a stake in Israeli startup, ViAqua, as part of its strategy to invest in innovation aimed at combatting disease in the aquaculture industry.
Animal nutrition group, Neovia, has acquired a Nigerian premix company, Hi Nutrients, in a move it says will help accelerate its expansion within Africa.
Nutreco has formed a joint venture with Mumbai-based West Coast Group to supply the growing Indian aquaculture market; the companies are to build a feed production facility in west India to supply to aquaculture farms in the region.
As the winner of its 2018 feed tech challenge is announced, Viggo Halseth, chief innovation officer at Nutreco, gives us his perspective on the victor. He also discussed the Dutch group’s innovation pipeline, and its hunt for what he called “moonshot”...
Feed company, Nutreco, is one of three subsidiaries of the SHV group being investigated by the Netherlands fraud body, Fiod, according to Dutch media reports.
Dutch feed group, Nutreco, has taken a 25% share in Eruvaka, an India-based Internet of Things (IoT) company that develops connected devices and mobile-based decision tools aimed at helping shrimp farmers increase productivity.
On a global level, farm animals are 30 to 40% below their genetic potential due to suboptimal farm conditions and health status; a tremendous opportunity exists to improve poultry performance, says Leo den Hartog, director of R&D at Trouw Nutrition...
Several feed additives may be effective in regulating intestinal environments and improving pig growth performance if diets without antibiotic growth promoters are fed, but results in terms of their various attributes are variable and further research...
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.
Since the start of the year, several feed industry companies have announced new hires, advancement from within and the filing of new positions – some also have seen changes in leadership or to elected positions.
In Europe, the use of processed animal proteins (PAPs) in fish feeds used to be prohibited, but regulatory changes enforced in June 2013 opened up the European aquaculture sector to this protein source. However, retailer and consumer perceptions are said...
