From coolers to pellet presses to extruders, increased capacity with reduced energy consumption was the cry of many feed technology providers at VICTAM 2015 in Germany last week.
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.
The Agthia Group said expansion of an existing feed production facility to keep up with the growing demand of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) poultry market is near completion.
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French animal nutrition firm, InVivo NSA, said it has renewed a ‘strategic’ alliance with a South Korean feed manufacturer in a deal that allows it ‘get the measure’ of a key growth market.
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.
Belfast-based Devenish said its purchase of Anpario’s organic feed division, Vitrition, announced earlier this month, leaves it with about a 20% share of the UK organic feed market.
European based private equity firm, Eurazeo, has revealed it is holding ‘exclusive’ talks with InVivo NSA towards securing a minority stake in the French animal nutrition and health group.
Nutreco says that SHV has received regulatory clearance from the competition authorities of China in connection with its offer for the Dutch feed group.
The fish feed segment of Dutch group, Nutreco, proved resilient in the second half of the year despite Marine Harvest’s own feed plant coming on stream, concludes a leading equity analyst.
French animal health and nutrition group, InVivo NSA, has high expectations its new ruminant feeding range will perform well in the Latin American markets.
Cargill says its animal nutrition and meat divisions once again had a solid performance, as the US agribusiness giant posts a 41% jump in second quarter profit.
An analyst reckons US agri-giant Cargill will make a concrete offer for Nutreco soon even though such a counter bid must come in at least 8% higher than the €44.50 per share offer from SHV, a stipulation that private firm secured when finalizing its bid...
Dutch group, ForFarmers, has continued its recent expansion drive in the UK through the acquisition of a feed and forage business in a deal valued at €19.3 million ($23.8m).
Dutch investment company, SHV, has published its offer memorandum for Nutreco, revealing that its €44.50 per share offer begins Monday next and ends on 17 February 2015.
Nutreco’s acquisition of two Brazilian premix and feed specialties firms makes sense, and will extend its footprint in one of the fastest growing animal nutrition markets, says an analyst.
Nutreco says the offer process from SHV is “on track” with the investment firm saying it will publish its offer memorandum on its intended acquisition of all the animal nutrition company’s shares at the start of next month.
Cargill says it plans to triple its feed additive output by 2020 with the progressive global shift away from antibiotic growth promoters set to fuel such development.
A bidding war is underway for Nutreco after SHV raised its offer to €44.50 ($54.87) a share in response to acquisition interest shown from Cargill, which is keen to take on the Dutch group’s fish feed division.
Metabolic studies will feature large in Nutreco’s new dairy calf nutrition research program, LifeStart, as a way of exploring what impact a higher plane of nutrition at the perinatal stage has on an animal’s lifetime performance.
Analysts say firms such as Cargill and DSM could still trump SHV's offer
Animal and fish feed group, Nutreco, said it fully endorses the bid from privately-held Dutch investment firm, SHV, to acquire it for €40 ($51) per share, or €2.69 billion ($3.43bn), and it dismissed speculation about third party bids for the business.
InVivo NSA says the acquisition of Brazilian animal nutrition group, Total Alimentos, has strengthened its position in pet food but also its foothold in the dairy and aqua feed segments in that market.
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, said it is not ruling out further acquisitions in the UK, following the recently announced rebranding of its operations in that market.
Agri giant's Q1 results show solid performance for animal nutrition and meat division
Cargill has not had any new cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) within its pig operations since March this year, but the agri-giant is not throwing caution to the wind as a result.
Pre and probiotics supplementation of pig feed is relatively unchartered territory for US pig producers, and it remains quite an under-researched topic in the US, says a pig nutrition expert.
US group unveils new protein blends to combat whey price hike
US group, Land O’Lakes, as it unveils new protein products for calves, says it is aiming to get producers to feed calves more frequently and at a higher plane of milk nutrition to boost their health and growth.
French animal nutrition and health group, InVivo NSA, says its acquisition of Swiss feed ingredients firm, Pancosma, will help it consolidate its position in the specialty feeds market.
Raisioagro, the feed and grain division of Finnish agri-food firm Raisio, has booked significant losses and a decline in net sales for the first half of 2014.
Despite having joined forces with fellow US feed giant DeKalb Feeds to offer non-porcine swine feed, JBS United rejects suggestions that there could be a link between Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) transmission and the use of porcine plasma in...
Cargill reported higher Q4 earnings for its animal nutrition and protein business on the back of recently acquired assets and an enhanced portfolio, despite lower overall earnings in the period for the agri-giant.
Fish feed, on the back of recent investment, is boosting profits at Nutreco, with the Dutch group posting a 2.6% hike in turnover to €2,460 million ($3,306m) in the first six months of 2014.
Dairy farmers need greater insight into how to optimize calf diets, says Nutreco as it invests just over €1m ($1.3m) in a new dairy calf and beef cattle nutrition research facility in the Netherlands.
US aquaculture firm, Bell Farms, has become a fully integrated fish farm with the completion of a new feed mill at its Indiana base that is set to produce around 907 metric tons (MT) of plant-based fish feed monthly.
Dutch livestock feed group, ForFarmers, which operates in the UK through subsidiary BOCM Pauls, is continuing its European consolidation strategy by acquiring feed co-product company Wheyfeed for £5 million ($6.8m)
Piglet mortality during the neonatal phase, from birth until weaning, can often run as high as 18%, and, in a bid to address that, Cargill recently launched a global nutrition program to help improve piglet livability.
French group, InVivo NSA, remains on the lookout for premix, vaccine production and complete feed assets in Mexico and surrounding countries but its immediate priority is to boost its share of the shrimp feed market in the region.
