A new North American coalition has formed to expand educational outreach and opportunities for insect producers that provide ingredients to the feed and food industries, says chairman.
A new fund is targeting innovators in animal health, feed and nutrition product development. It is also focused on digital agricultural technology serving the livestock sector.
A new initiative aims to harmonize and simplify regulations related to animal feed, drugs and vaccines in Nigeria, in the hope of triggering socio-economic development in the West African country.
Dutch investment fund, Aqua-Spark, which has sustainable fish farming as its goal, has invested in Hatch Accelerator 1.0, the first-ever incubator type program for the aquaculture industry.
Decades of policy focus on oilseeds and cereals - with the lack of any UK protein policy - has severely limited public funding for research to enhance genetic variability, pulse crop diversification and value in the legume supply chain, says a UK grower...
Improving feed efficiency is a business goal for more than 70% of dairy farmers surveyed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK and Russia.
Australian pork producers are on a par with their competitors in the US, Canada and Denmark for feed efficiency, but are performing “well below the capability of available genetics”, according to latest figures from Pork CRC (Cooperative Research Centre)...
The US to forecast to see continuing low feed crop prices, a shift in feed crops planted and a drop in export market share in the coming decade, says the USDA.
A new Trading Bonus Scheme (TBS), to run for a full year for Glanbia Co-operative Society dairy, beef, pig and sheep farmers in Ireland, was launched in mid-January, and is due to be paid in the first quarter of 2019. It has had a mixed reaction.
The American Soybean Association is raising concerns about potential export challenges for shipping soybeans to China if steel and aluminum tariffs are raised.
Digging deeper into Alltech's feed production review, a short-term decline in beef feed production could signal a larger change, and a decrease is seen in aquafeed production in some regions.
Find out at Feed Protein Vision in Amsterdam in March where supermarket and food service giants, livestock and fish feed manufacturers as well as agribusiness market analysts and leading academics will weigh up the transformation capabilities of new protein...
Corbion has announced that it is in discussions with Bunge regarding the potential acquisition of the US company’s stake in the SB Renewable Oils joint venture.
We caught up with two Rabobank analysts at IPPE in Atlanta to hear about prospects for the US meat production sector and whether the time is right for alternative feed proteins.
The US sorghum industry is denying any wrong-doing and calling for trade to continue as China begins anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations.
Despite strong returns for feed ingredients, corn and agricultural service segments, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) saw a decline in segment operating profit for the last quarter of 2017.
Representatives of Dutch retailing group, Ahold-Delhaize, UK supermarket, Waitrose and food service giant, McDonalds, will participate in the Protein Challenge panel session at Protein Feed Vision entitled: Why is sustainable animal feed protein important...
Beta Hatch, a Seattle, Washington-based insect meal production company set up in 2015, has received backing from Cavallo Ventures, the venture capital arm of US agribusiness company, Wilbur-Ellis.
Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), Shandong Bohi Industry (Bohi), ING, Societe Generale and ABN Amro have completed the first full agricultural commodity transaction using a blockchain platform.
Ruud Tijssens, director of corporate affairs, at Dutch feed group Agrifirm, will be presenting on the regional raw material protein production trend at Feed Protein Vision.
Weather events from a series of cyclones to severe storms to inland floods to a crop freeze, drought and wildfire wreaked havoc for many sectors in the US last year including crop and livestock production; the disasters resulted in around $306.2bn in...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) was the first major UK retailer to publish antibiotic data from its supply chain. It did so in December. Waitrose and ASDA quickly followed suit.
Benjamin Bodart, director of UK based, grain and oilseeds sector analysis firm, CRM AgriCommodities, gave us the low down on those commodities for the next few months and beyond.
The parent of Canadian salmon producer, Cooke Aquaculture, has finalized the acquisition of US fishmeal and fishoil producer, Omega Protein Corporation.
US agricultural producer sentiment turned lower in November, driven by a decline in optimism about future economic conditions in agriculture, says David Widmar, senior research associate at the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture.
The prevalence of aflatoxins in feed crops around the globe makes the presence of this mycotoxin a particular concern, says Trouw Nutrition’s mycotoxin risk management team.
