Most of the Northern Hemisphere grain production is harvested or weeks away, says the AHDB in its most recent reviews of global grain and oilseed markets, and so all eyes are now trained on the weather conditions in the Southern Hemisphere.
Danish fishmeal and fish oil producer, TripleNine, says it is forced to make redundancies at two of its factories in Denmark due to raw material supply issues.
Prices for feed grains, including corn and wheat, in Mexico are expected to cause a feeding shift with wheat use declining, even as grain production grows.
Agri technology company, Devenish, has trained over 300 local pig farmers in Uganda in the basics of animal nutrition and livestock management since establishing a model pig farm in Hoima in 2015.
It has been US feed group and agricultural good producers – not the importing country or its consumers – that have paid most of the cost of the retaliatory tariffs arising out of US disputes with trading partners, say CoBank analysts.
Rabobank, in a newly released industry note, maintains its projections for China’s feed use and soybean imports from last month. In 2019, it forecasts the year-on-year (YOY) drop in China’s pig feed will be at 35%.
Ireland’s feed producers are now tuning in to the benefits of incorporating US dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in swine formulations as a source of protein, energy and digestible amino acids, according to the US Grains Council (USGC).
Tesco PLC is looking to algal oil and alternative fish feed ingredients to address the sustainability of farmed fish while it revises company production standards for salmon.
Maintaining feed grain and oilseed trade with China may mean exporters should improve their knowledge of their trading partner, agri-food policy analysts say.
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