Nutreco’s aqua feed division, Skretting, is teaming up with local experts to expand tilapia production in Egypt as it also hikes its fish feed capacity in that country.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the America-based agricultural processor, opened two feed ingredients plants in China last week as the country’s demand for food ingredients and animal nutrition continues to increase.
We ran a reader survey earlier this year to find out what the major headaches are for the feed sector - a majority of respondents reported the Russian sanctions as detrimental for business.
Compared to this time last year, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has seen a big drop in its operating profits and net earnings for the third quarter.
InVivo NSA has acquired an Indonesian complete feed producer in a move it said will allow it to grow its share of the poultry nutrition sector in that market.
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ADM’s move to invest in soybean crushing capacity in Germany will incentivize more farmers to grow GM free soy, says the not-for-profit group behind ‘sustainable’ soy production in the Danube region.
As China’s meat production industrializes, feed grain demand will jump significantly, and will require the Asian giant to source feedstocks, particularly maize, on the international market, forecasts Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) in a new report.
ForFarmers says it is looking to grab the number one spot as supplier of piglet feed to sow farmers in North West Europe with a new range it has developed with Trouw Nutrition.
The question of if or when Zilmax will return to the US market remains unanswered despite recently published research into fatigue cattle syndrome and use of beta-agonists showing the cause to be ‘multifactorial’.
Cargill is ploughing US$100m into its soybean oil crush plant in Egypt in an attempt to double its output and meet the increasing demand there for soybean meal and vegetable oil.
Nutreco has flagged up its plan to double its investment in R&D and innovation in both animal and fish feed as it rebrands its livestock nutrition activities.
Cargill has not yet decided if it will appeal a ruling by South Korea’s competition authority claiming the firm was part of an animal feed price rigging cartel over several years.
A recently opened research facility is allowing Land O’Lakes animal milk products to boost work in protein blends, automatic feeders and better respond to market trends, says a company official.
Dutch feed company ForFarmers reported mixed results for the first half of 2015 with a drop in net revenue, bump in gross profit and with company officials predicting a higher annual net profit than last year.
Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification for Cargill’s feed mills in Central America underlines the continued importance of the region to Cargill’s aquafeed business. However, it is the fast-growing Asian region that offers the greatest potential.
Cargill saw profits tumble in the past few months, with the lackluster growth in developing countries blamed for a net loss of $51m in fourth quarter results.
Cargill is starting production at a new canola-crush facility based in Canada to help it boost its production of canola products, including canola meal for use in feed, and further develop the market in the US, Asia and other countries.
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Quality Liquid Feeds (QLF) are forming a joint venture in the US to provide liquid feed supplements for certain states and to build on buoyancy in the segment.
Cargill may challenge the ruling of South Korea’s competition authority that claims the company was part of an animal feed price rigging cartel over a number of years.
Big data has become a buzzword in the agribusiness industry but it should not be forgotten that data does not always equal ‘information’, said Nutreco.
Cargill said it has been helping integrated pork producers meet productivity gains and has fined tuned a feed mill’s phytase use though leveraging its system of mathematical modelling and ‘big data’.
Nutreco has extended its feed sales contract with Marine Harvest and has managed to reduce its exposure to the loss of business from Mercadona in Spain, said CEO Knut Nesse.
Archer Daniels Midlands (ADM) aims to leverage expected growth in the swine, poultry and aquaculture sectors in China over the next decade by expanding its premix footprint there with a new plant.
Tyson Foods said probiotics are one of the nutritional tools it is using in its shift away from human medicine important antibiotics in its broiler chicken flocks.
The Masan Group has a acquired a 52% and 70% equity interest in Vietnam French Cattle Feed JSC – Proconco – and Agro Nutrition Company JSC – Anco – respectively - a deal which makes it the second leading animal feed producer in Vietnam.
Cargill said volume gains in sales of animal nutrition products such as gut health additives and mycotoxin binders helped raise its third quarter profit by 33%.
France’s InVivo group said it has attracted €215m ($235.3m) from investors for its animal health and nutrition division, InVivo NSA, led by private equity firm Eurazeo, now confirmed as the leading minority shareholder in that business.
De Heus, in its strategy to be a leading player in the Vietnamese feed sector, continues to enhance its production capacity in that Asian country, with construction of its seventh feed plant underway in the Mekong Delta region.
In its full year results for 2014, ForFarmers posted revenue of €2.3 billion - a 7.3% drop on the previous year’s income but its overall organic gross profit remained stable.
McDonald’s call to its chicken suppliers to phase out the use of antibiotics used in human medicine is potentially game changing for all animal protein sectors in the US, says a leading academic.
Cargill Animal Nutrition hopes to leverage the ever increasing demand for animal protein products in African markets as its new US$12.5 million South African feed premix facility, targeting the swine, poultry and ruminant sectors, goes operational.
GM plant oils would seem to represent the ‘holy grail’ in the hunt for viable replacements for fish oil derived long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in aqua feed.
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