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.
Nutreco looks to accelerate action to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, address climate change and decouple the business from deforestation risk in its new sustainability strategy.
In a move aimed at expanding its global footprint within shrimp feed, Danish group, BioMar, has acquired majority ownership of the Viet-Uc feed business.
Philippines headquartered, Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (AEV), is weighing up a sale of a minority stake in its feed business, Pilmico Foods Corp., reported Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the move.
As part of its strategy for growth, ABN has unveiled its plan to build what will be the UK’s biggest, state-of-the-art, feed mill in the East of England, capable of producing 1m tons of pig and poultry feed on an annual basis.
Private investment group, Tattarang, owned by Australian mining and agribusiness billionaire, Andrew Forrest, has spent AUS$12mn (US$9.3m) on a stake in leading domestic feed manufacturer, Ridley Corporation.
Such national rollout has been accomplished by installing a specialist holding tank at the company’s Selby, Penrith and Portbury mill sites along with a dedicated delivery system to enable the incorporation of organic soy oil into the range, said ForFarmers...
Dutch feed group, Nutreco, has started using integrated cloud-based logistics platform provider, Transporeon, to optimize its logistics sourcing and execution, monitor the environmental impact of shipping feed, and further improve its customer service.
Dutch animal nutrition and feed group, Nutreco, has completed further investment in Nordic Aqua Partners (NAP), which will build China’s first fully integrated and commercially viable recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility.
Danish feed manufacturer, BioMar, reported a good third quarter (Q3) with improved revenue driven mainly by higher volume sales in the salmon division.
ForFarmers has acquired Dutch poultry feed producer, De Hoop Mengvoeders, and becomes a leading broiler feed manufacturer serving the Netherlands, Belgian and West-German markets.
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, outlined its ambition to expand to two new growth markets, potentially outside of Europe, as it launched a new strategy, Build to Grow 2025, yesterday.
