Chicago headquartered, ADM, has opened a new production facility in Valencia, Spain to help meet rising global demand for probiotics, postbiotics and other products that support health and well-being in humans, animal, and pets.
UK based insect technology company, Entocycle, has raised $5m in a Series A investment round led by Climentum Capital, a climate-tech venture capital firm based out of Copenhagen, Berlin, and Stockholm.
As ADM reports record profits, it flags headwinds in relation to its animal nutrition business for 2023 due to the impacts of weaker margins in amino acids and recovery in the global supply of lysine.
Phileo Lesaffre is launching its Actisaf Sc 47 HR+ probiotic for the poultry sector at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta this week. The probiotic is already used across the ruminant and swine sectors.
Thailand-based protein multinational CP Foods is targeting the full integration of blockchain technology for all products, after a successful introduction for pork and chicken.
Alltech Crop Science has acquired Ideagro, a Spanish company focused on the analysis and testing of food products, agricultural inputs and the development of microorganisms.
Novus International has acquired biotech company Agrivida Inc. The deal gives the US animal health and nutrition company ownership of Agrivida's INTERIUS technology, which is designed to embed feed additives inside grain.
Researchers are seeing benefits for the calf from the supplementation of the diets of the cow with choline, according to Balchem Corporation, which has been working with choline for the past 25 years, for both ruminant and monogastric application.
Silvateam is undertaking trials in beef cattle in Brazil on its additive, a blend of chestnut and quebracho tannins and saponins designed to reduce methane emissions in ruminants, following on from its recently formed partnership with JBS.
Tools that can help maintain a farm’s profitability margin and boost feed efficiency are increasingly important, given the escalating feed prices, says Lallemand Animal Nutrition.
DSM’s recently updated vitamin supplementation guidance looks to ensure the tool reflects changes in the genetics and management of all farmed animals along with advancements in nutritional understanding.
The sustainability debate in the European animal feed context is one that is continually evolving, and it can be challenging to keep ahead of developments, says a Cargill animal nutrition expert.
Ÿnsect has inked two major agreements for new facility builds: one in the US with Ardent Mills and another in Mexico with Corporativo Kosmos, a food service business.
Danish enzyme and cultures suppliers Novozymes and Chr. Hansen plan to merge their businesses in a move they say will create a ‘leading global biosolutions partner’.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition has been expanding its reach in the global pet food business, and this year saw it broaden its companion animal team, which now comprises five specialists, who are based across North America and Europe.
DSM is to significantly cut back production of vitamin C at its Jiangshan, China based facility, with immediate effect. It says it will re-evaluate the situation in late January 2023, after the Chinese New Year.
DSM says construction has got underway of a manufacturing facility for its methane-reducing feed additive for cattle, Bovaer, at its site in Dalry in Scotland.
We caught up with Cargill at EuroTier in Hanover last week and heard about what the company has been doing in relation to methane emissions reduction in dairy cattle.
Black Solider Fly (BSF) producer, Protix, has released sustainability figures for its products following a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) conducted by the Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik (DIL).
The companies say advanced discussions are underway to build a site five times the size of their single cell protein (SCP) fermenter facility in China.
DSM said its revised OVN guidelines are designed to be used across all animal species to achieve peak health and performance and more sustainable farming.
Several years after the Panama small pelagics fishery was accepted onto the MarinTrust Improver Program (IP), the fishmeal and fish oil production plants sourcing from it have demonstrated full compliance and they have just gained MarinTrust certification.
Bioiberica has partnered with feed ingredient suppliers, Aska Animal Health Co and Shintoa Corporation, to distribute its Nucleoforce ranges, and eventually its Palbio portfolio, in Japan.
Nutreco has announced that David Blakemore will join the company as CEO of Trouw Nutrition, also becoming a member of its management board in January 2023.
North American dairy farmers can add the corn hybrid to silage and see feed efficiency boost of around 5%, including carbon, land and water reductions. ‘There doesn’t seem to be a downside for producers to try the technology . . .’
Unibio’s licensing partner, the Doha-based industrial biotech investor, Gulf Biotech, has reached the final stages before construction in the first single-cell protein (SCP) plant project in Qatar.
AB Vista has been collaborating with Volac to provide UK dairy farmers a new service, an app aimed at reducing the occurrence and impact of mycotoxins.
Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) generated substantial profits in the first half of 2022, saying it capitalized on its diversified business portfolio and global network to manage global trade challenges and the fall-out from the war in Ukraine.
The Singapore headquartered company aims to use the proceeds to fund an expansion into new markets; launch new products; accelerate R&D; and create new strategic partnerships, with a new JV facility elsewhere in Southeast Asia on the horizon.
Last week saw two corporate giants come together to initiate a project aimed at significantly expanding regenerative agriculture practices across their shared North American supply chains.
Texas, US based, Core Protein LLC, is bringing a court case against Unibio US APS over the protein innovator’s alleged threatened termination of an exclusive licensing agreement.
European based ingredient and technology suppliers, feed formulation experts and farmers have collaborated on the development and launch of a new shrimp feed.
Trouw Nutrition, Nutreco's livestock feed business, has launched a comprehensive antibiotic reduction campaign tailored to the challenges of livestock stakeholders globally.
