Nutreco’s fish feed division, Skretting, is ploughing a significant amount of its research funds into the development of alternative proteins to fishmeal for the aquaculture sector.
Tyson Foods said it reviewing its operations to ensure environmental mishaps do not reoccur after improper disposal of a feed additive was said to have caused a major fish kill in the US state of Missouri last month.
An analyst questions Nutreco’s move to set up a joint venture in fish feed in Nigeria, saying the Dutch feed group should remain focused on the massive growth potential of the Asian and Latin American aquaculture markets instead.
As Nutreco announces it is to hold onto its Iberian business for the foreseeable future, a Dutch broker says management at the feed company has been ‘clumsy’ in the execution of the divestment process.
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‘The industry is crying out for better performing piglet feed,’ says De Heus as it launched a new feed program for young pigs at the Utrecht feed to meat show.
Cargill is still weighing up the attractiveness of the Vietnamese dairy industry, but is optimistic about the feed consumption potential of the poultry, shrimp and swine sectors in a country that is seeing continual GDP growth.
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The Dutch feed group is extending its fish farming R&D capabilities for the Asian country in tandem with the construction of new factories in its strategy to be one of the top five feed makers in Vietnam.
The Dutch feed company, in its trading update for the first quarter of 2014, said revenue for the period, at €853.3 million, was up 8.4% on the same quarter last year.
Cargill is funding feed-related research on Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) in a bid to understand how pigs become infected and to help try and eradicate it.
Merck said field trial evaluations on its feed additive – Zilmax – are underway in US cattle feeding facilities but Tyson Foods and Cargill are retaining their ban on the controversial product.
