The second International Sorghum Congress took place on 7-8 November 2018 in Milan, Italy. The event looked at how sorghum could compete with other cereals both in terms of profitability for farmers and economic and nutritional interest for users in both...
Dispatches from the Cornell Nutritional Conference
Almost all classes of nutrients can act like hormones, and some feed additives may need to be reconsidered in terms of their role in signaling, says researcher.
Rabobank has published a new report showing how it sees opportunities for establishing soybean crushing in Indonesia, although there are some challenges as well.
Polish poultry and livestock producers are maintaining pressure on the government to postpone a ban on the use of GM feeds beyond the current January 1, 2019, deadline.
The African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in China will change the structure of the swine sector there, accelerating a consolidation trend, according to RaboResearch’s latest Pork Quarterly report.
Russian poultry and livestock producers are looking for the ways to save on feed costs, to boost their profitability, as feed prices continue to increase in that market, according to a new report.
Dispatches from World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
The mycotoxin load in staple food and feed crops is likely to increase due to combination of climate change factors including increasing temperatures and CO2 levels, extreme wet and drought conditions, says an expert.
Dispatches from the World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
Milk demand is growing rapidly in India but the lack of quality feed could jeopardize the country’s ambitious milk production plans in the coming years, says CEO of Lactalis India, Rahul Kumar.
Dispatches from World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
A massive reduction in the mycotoxin load in DDGS, sensor led indication of toxin contamination of grains in silos as well as greatly enhanced biocontrol of aflatoxin development in the field – EU Horizon 2020 project, MyToolBox, has had a number of wins...
Dispatches from World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
Africa will be home to 25% of the global population in 2050, and the demand for animal-sourced food is projected to be extraordinarily high on that continent in the coming decades, but production will be challenged to keep pace with consumption, says...
Dispatches from World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
Policymakers globally have been weighing up the benefits of taxing meat, much in the same way as sugar, carbon emissions and tobacco. However, a Zurich based scientist and entrepreneur believes such a levy on meat would be disastrous.
Feed crop and agricultural producer sentiment about the year and future in declining, after a brief uplift in expectation in August, say industry analysts.
Food production is increasingly competitive and with that comes rising pressure around feed safety but big data, strong validation of controls and knowing your supply chain from farm to fork can help, say experts at Kemin's feed safety conference...
Aller Aqua, which produces fish feed for freshwater and saltwater aquaculture, is participating in SDG Accelerator, a UNDP initiative aimed at fast-tracking the private sectors impact on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
BioMar recently asked commodity supply chains risk assessment provider, NEPCon, to scrutinize its soy value chain in Brazil, as part of the Danish company’s source-to-market rating process of its raw material portfolio – Sustainable Solutions Steering.
The INvertebrateIT consortium led a matchmaking event at Aqua 2018 in Montpellier, France, aimed at connecting aquaculture farming and feed companies, researchers, investors and any other parties interested in the use of land and marine invertebrates...
Danish feed company, Aller Aqua, launched an updated fry feed portfolio, including reformulations of existing products and a new product for larvae and small fry at Aqua 2018 in France this week.
Big data is all about the volume and veracity of data but smart data considers whether the data is useful or not for a particular stage in the value chain, says Dr Tomas Norton, based at the Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven in...
The growing middle class in Africa is driving change throughout that continent’s poultry production value chain, encouraging greater local and international investment in required supporting infrastructure, says Rabobank.
The use of AgTech needs to go beyond a focus on the farmer and integrate other parts of the production chain including feed mills and processors, says Robert Walker, CEO of Keenan, the Alltech owned cattle feed machinery business.
Major retailers and manufacturers have pledged zero deforestation by 2020 but are they ready to buy sustainable soy and is communication with the feed sector strong enough?
The depressed protein content of oil meals combined with the lack of sufficient growth in fuel and fermentation co-products is encouraging the development of novel sources of protein, says Sara Girardello head of LMC International’s starch research team.
Livestock production is expect to double by 2050, but there is little room to expand arable land so reducing farmed animals’ intake of crude protein is an effective strategy, argues Professor Ermias Kebreab, from the University of California, Davis, in...
Global fast food giant, McDonald’s, is exploring the potential of protein derived from both insects and seaweed as alternatives to soy in chicken feed.
Efficient use of local resources may improve the productivity, resilience and competitiveness of European pig production, says Wendy Rauw, research scientist, INIA in Spain.
FEFAC wants the EU Commission to invest in tools that would allow effective measurement of the impact of all relevant EU policies on protein supply for the European feed sector.
Advanced technology to develop novel feed resources from natural gas and non-food biomass such as trees and seaweeds will be important to help meet the global food challenge, says Margareth Øverland, professor in nutrition at the Norwegian University...
Sustainability, outreach and research provide focus areas for the National Renderers Association as it looks toward product development and feed ingredients.
AFIA is seeking additional regulatory guidance and more information regarding work with animal feed-specific hazards and hazard mitigation in its ongoing efforts to help the industry address FSMA, says VP.
Primary processing may reduce the amino acid levels and amino acid digestibility in feed materials, factors currently not accounted for in feed tables, says a Dutch academic.
The need for broader investigation of the role of amino acids in animal nutrition was the central theme emerging fromt the Amino Acid Academy in Paris last week.
French farming trade show, SPACE 2017 in Rennes last week, served as a launch pad for Applifarm, an open platform for data sharing in the livestock sector.
French botanical extracts producer, Nor Feed, secured official EU authorization for its dry grape extract as a sensory additive for feed in February this year.
A group of coders pitching the idea of a data capture tool to link pig feed intake patterns to desirable characteristics at slaughter – Swine Smarts - snatched the top prize at a hackathon event at Agrivision 2017, a two-day conference hosted by Dutch...
Delacon says the initial industry skepticism about botanical compounds is decreasing as a growing number of independent studies show the impact of such additives on livestock production.
ForFarmers reported the pressure on the Dutch dairy sector to meet phosphate emission levels could see a significant reduction in herd sizes next year, but such a development is expected to have a limited impact on the company’s dairy feed volumes overall.
