Viserion Milling, a newly formed subsidiary of Viserion International, is to acquire Western Milling, a diversified California-based agribusiness, from Kruse Western, Inc.
Industrial compound feed production in the EU remained stable in 2021. However, the increasing threat from animal diseases and the continuing global grain market rally fueled by the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine is expected to reduce compound feed demand...
BioMar reported very strong revenue growth for its first quarter in 2022 but its earnings were down due to increased costs of raw materials and energy. It is lowering its profit guidance, mainly as a result of the Russia/Ukraine situation.
BioMar’s parent company, Schouw & Co, is investing a ‘three-digit million Danish Kroner sum’ to acquire Australia-based company AQ1, an intelligent feed technology company focused on shrimp farming.
BioMar Australia says it has recently commissioned a new dedicated algal oil facility at its Wesley Vale factory in north west Tasmania, with the aim of reducing the amount of fish oil in its salmon feed.
Chinese swine producer, Jiangxi Zhengbang Technology, is to sell eight of its feed units to Beijing Dabeinong Technology, for between 2 billion yuan ($317.13m) and 2.5 billion yuan, reported Reuters.
Leading European feed manufacturer, ForFarmers, expects raw material and energy prices to remain high, given the worrying political situation between Russia and Ukraine.
Skretting ARC has been renamed and restructured into a multi-functional unit incorporating the global marketing, sustainability, and digital teams, along with its experts involved in basic and applied research.
UK agri-feed company, GLW Feeds, says it has sealed a refinancing deal with HSBC UK to support the company’s future growth and to enhance its sustainability credentials.
Avril, the parent company of leading French feed player, Sanders, says it is committed to reducing its CO2 emissions from transport in France by 60% by 2025 from a 2019 baseline.
Dutch animal feed cooperatives, ABZ Diervoeding and De Samenwerking, have drafted a proposal for an amalgamation of the two entities from January 1, 2022.
One of Northern Ireland’s largest animal feed manufacturers, Fane Valley Feeds, has taken a 50% stake in Irish feed, grain and agronomy company, Drummonds.
ForFarmers chief executive, Yoram Knoop, and member of the company’s executive board is to step down from those roles after the shareholders' AGM next April.
Dutch company De Heus has strengthened its position in Southeast Asia’s largest animal feed market by acquiring the feed business of the Masan Group, a conglomerate in Vietnam.
I’Anson Brothers Ltd, a fourth generation, family-owned and managed animal feed manufacturer, has signed contracts enabling work to begin on the construction of its new £20m (US$27.5m) mill in Yorkshire.
A new US$325m soybean processing facility to benefit supply chains for renewable fuels, food products and animal feeds will be constructed by Bartlett in southeastern Kansas, in the US.
French agribusiness group, Avril, is in exclusive talks with meat group, Bigard, to sell its majority stakes in pork processing companies, Abera and Porcgros.
Grōv Technologies announced that they have signed a definitive agreement with a dairy operation in drought stricken, West Texas, to build what will be the largest controlled environment feed center in the US.
Dutch animal nutrition and feed group, De Heus, said construction has got underway of its new compound feed manufacturing facility near Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, in Africa.
Agrifirm has been busy globally and domestically in recent weeks, tapping into the major e-commerce trend in China, expanding in Brazil and investigating ways to reduce methane emissions in a new research partnership in the Netherlands.
Air leaks and steam trap malfunctions: US feed industry trade body, the AFIA, had produced a guidance document aimed at, among other issues, preventing feed facilities from incurring unnecessary costs arising from wasted energy.
Cargill Animal Nutrition is to enter into a strategic partnership with Dutch family-owned feed manufacturer, Fuite, to build a premix, concentrate and young animal nutrition production facility in Hasselt, the Netherlands.
ForFarmers says it is looking to modernize its mill in Izegem in Belgium, while at the same time close another feed manufacturing facility in that country, in its strategy to ensure more efficient and sustainable production processes.
Skretting’s new sustainability manager is very keen to identify, fully understand and mitigate the environmental, social and governance risks in the fish feed supply chain.
De Heus is to acquire Coppens Diervoeding, a feed manufacturer strategically located in Helmond, in the Netherlands, with a 400k capacity feed plant and a strong regional position within the pig and broiler sector.
Dutch compound feed and animal nutrition player, Nutreco, has announced its investment in food tech start-up ENOUGH, a company developing high scale sustainable protein production via fungal fermentation.
Russia’s largest meat producer, the Cherkizovo Group, has announced a series of investments aimed at boosting regional pork and poultry production over the next two to three years, including the construction of a feed plant.
ADM is planning on investing in its manufacturing capabilities and its aquaculture business in China to bring its range of Life Defense branded Ocialis functional fish and shrimp feed to that market.
UK ruminant feed producer, NWF Agriculture, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this month. We ask the company what it sees as the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the UK feed milling industry right now.
Nutreco’s aquaculture division, Skretting, is to buy Ridley’s extrusion facility in Westbury, Tasmania, in an effort to boost its production capacity in that market.
Leading European feed manufacturer, ForFarmers, says the first quarter of 2021 showed a mixed picture compared to the same quarter last year, when COVID-19 had not taken hold.
French agribusiness group, Avril, is looking at acquisitions in animal nutrition and farmer services, along with its other sectors it has identified as having significant potential: specialty ingredients, consumer brands, and renewable energy.
