UK poultry giant, Moy Park, has announced the sale of its McLarnon’s ruminant feed business to Northern Ireland headquartered feed manufacturer, John Thompson and Sons Ltd.
A Cargill executive is be the next CEO of a US farming student organization, the FFA, that promotes agricultural education and offers leadership training.
Nutreco’s salmon feed business performed strongly last year but the Dutch group decried overcapacity in the main Norwegian market as it released its financial results for 2015.
The FDA is looking to align the three routes of feed registration in the US for greater efficiency, with the future legal status of AAFCO ingredient definitions uncertain, while the CFIA wants to ensure greater transparency and flexibility in its feed...
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, said the listing and trading of its ordinary shares on Euronext Amsterdam is expected to start on 24 May under the symbol ‘FFARM’.
Feed and grain organizations want the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to move slowly with an ongoing revision of biotech regulation, in order to align with other markets.
Researchers studying the impact of adding two yeast products to dairy cattle diets, found no evidence to suggest a ruminal effect but they saw increased energetic output with the cultures, suggesting higher absorption efficiency.
Appointments to and restructuring of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has prompted the Cornucopia Institute to file a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Total US corn plantings have almost doubled where they were at this point in the planting schedule last year says the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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, it has just opened its seventh feed plant in the Mekong Delta.
Northern Ireland headquartered, Devenish Nutrition, has just been recognized, through a UK award scheme, for its achievement in the areas of innovation and international trade.
Olam International said it has broken ground on an integrated feed mill, poultry breeding farm and hatchery in Kaduna State, Nigeria. When completed, it will be the largest such operation of its kind in the African country.
Citing carcinogenic concerns, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has started the process to remove the medicated feed product, carbadox, from use.
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Dutch feed producer, ForFarmers, was recently granted permission to go ahead with the construction of a planned £10.5m extension to its dairy feed plant in Exeter, UK.
UK food producer, Cranswick, is weighing up the potential of the feed side of poultry firm, Crown Chicken Ltd, after its acquisition of that processor for £40m (USD$56.9m).
The academic feed mill at the Northern Crops Institute affiliated with North Dakota State University focuses on time, energy savings when adding technology.
