And the UK livestock sector, as some experts had previously suggested, will not become more self-sufficient due to the UK opting to leave the EU - that was an opinion expressed in strong terms by pollsters in our survey on the likely fallout for the feed...
US grain commodity futures took a hit on Friday following the Brexit referendum vote, but an economist does not anticipate long term ramifications from the result.
Special Edition: Feed Industry Consolidation Review
We caught up with Christopher Nolan, managing director, global deals origination at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who recently spoke at Alltech’s One conference, to hear about his views on amalgamation of the global feed sector.
Special Edition: Feed Industry Consolidation Reveiw
As the weather phenomenon known as El Nino ends, a shift to a La Nina cycle may happen, says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Special Edition: Feed Industry Consolidation Review
The global outlook for feed prices, which account for 50-70% of poultry production costs, remains bearish, but there is a lot of price variation across markets, finds Rabobank’s poultry quarterly.
Dairy company, Arla Foods, says it only has ambitions, at this stage, that more of its farmers will convert to GM free feed based on the increasing market willingness to pay the higher price required.
As Dutch media reports show the rate of pig farms going bankrupt in the Netherlands has picked up steam in 2016, the head of the Dutch feed association says his sector has a role to play in securing pork production profitability.
Reports from CFI's Strategy Conference on Animal Agriculture
Of the 1,375 samples of minerals, premix and complete feeds from 16 Asia-Pacific countries submitted for testing, 20% had contamination levels exceeding EU allowable limits for heavy metal contamination of arsenic, cadmium and lead, said Alltech.
Several US companies are set to reportedly reject a new strain of soybean from Monsanto as approval for import of the variety in the European Union lags.
The Brazilian soy moratorium, a private sector voluntary agreement, set up in 2006, which has prohibited participants from trading, acquiring or financing soybeans from areas of the Brazilian Amazon biome that were deforested after July 2008, has been...
