Danish company, UniBio, has sold the entire production from its future methane gas to feed protein production facilities to Danish animal feed manufacturer, Vestjyllands Andel.
Nutreco says its strategy to reduce or eliminate fishmeal in its fish feed portfolio is generated by the need to deal with spikes in pricing of that raw material and less by sustainability drivers.
In a change from recent years, Canada has returned to being the US’ top trading partner for agricultural products including animal feed and feed ingredients.
A global forum has initiated a call to action to the wider industry, the Protein Challenge 2040, to accelerate development of alternatives to soy and fishmeal.
Biomin’s 2015 survey shows deoxynivalenol (DON) is the most prevalent mycotoxin for all regions except South America and Middle East, where fumonisins (FUM) pose the bigger threat to livestock production.
Ethanol groups, Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association, have called for US President Barack Obama to act in the DDGS antidumping investigation by China.
The German group, in releasing its financial results for Q4 and the full year 2015 yesterday, predicted adjusted earnings for this year could dip by as much as 19%.
Members of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) are still in negotiation with Russia after a temporary ban was announced on imports of soybeans and corn.
ADM, Cargill, Express Grain Terminal LLC and Rail Transfer Inc have recently called for third-party and counterclaims brought against them by Syngenta in the ongoing biotech corn lawsuit to be dismissed.
The past 12 months has seen Algal Scientific looking to demonstrate proof of efficacy for its algae sourced ingredient, Algamune, though large scale barn trials.
Poultry gut health was firmly on Cargill’s agenda when we caught up with the company at IPPE last week to get the low down on its additives and research pipeline.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) saw a dip in revenue and gross profit stemming from lower returns across US agricultural exports, the ethanol business and soy crushing globally.
Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were concluded in the fall, but US feed manufacturers are still waiting for the deal to get final approval.
A deal that could result in the merger of Asian lysine producers, CJ Cheiljedang and Meihua Bio, would heighten consolidation in the manufacture of that feed amino acid and others, says analysts.
US natural gas conversion technology company, Calysta, is building a small scale production plant in the UK for its methane gas to feed protein — FeedKind — for use in fish and chicken diets as a fishmeal replacer.
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently announced that it is starting anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations regarding imports of US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS).
The move from Chinese state-owned food and feed giant, Cofco, to acquire 100% of Noble Agri, the agriculture arm of the Noble Group, shows the market in international trading is shifting, says an analyst.
China’s increasing imports of animal feed ingredients stem from the expansion and commercialization of animal production, but it also may be looking beyond the US for trade.
We ask the head of a US feed trade group, an agricultural economist and a feed additive supplier to tell us what their chief concerns are over the next 12 months.
