Chinese group, Global Biochem Technology (GBT), is to scale down its lysine production this year but is confident it can take the helm in the amino acid segment when buoyancy returns to the market.
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The Indian dairy feed market has huge potential for growth, with education around animal nutrition essential for boosting milk productivity, says Cargill.
A new feed additive aimed at the aquaculture industry is said to boost the sustainability of the sector through enabling better feed conversion, less excretion of nitrogen and improved water quality.
EU border officials are stepping up controls on enzymes originating from India and groundnuts from Sudan for use in feed and food due to the contaminant risk linked to both products.
Sourcing large volumes of segregated sustainable soy is some years off yet but there are alternatives for cow feed, said Arla Foods, as it announced a move to support more responsible soy production.
Feed tonnage for poultry was at a ‘surprisingly high’ 444 million metric tons in 2013, with six percent growth over 2012, according to the Alltech Feed Tonnage Survey.
Asia remains the top feed producer by tonnage, but could easily double its totals if it moved all of its animals onto compound feed, according to the director of the Alltech Feed Tonnage Survey.
Supplementing the diet of beef cattle with a combination of selenium and vitamin E may enhance the mineral content and reduce the cholesterol in the meat, says a new study from Brazil.
Early administration of probiotic Lactobacillus fermentum I5007 to piglets may boost the microbial composition of the young animals and modulate their immune status, says a new study.
A bid to streamline the export of US feed ingredients is underway with a new certification process that aims to help manufacturers comply with complex quality protocols in countries such as Brazil and China.
DSM is expecting further growth in meat production this year, an opportunity for its animal nutrition segment that showed flat organic growth in 2013 following weak demand, disease outbreaks and price pressure on vitamin E.
“Our strategic focus is the poultry vaccine segment of Lohmann,” says Elanco following its announcement yesterday of a deal to acquire the German animal health company.
Enhanced cooperation between feed manufacturers and poultry producers could improve efficiency and scale in the supply chain, argues EU poultry trade group AVEC on the back of a study into the competitiveness of that meat sector.
Are feed safety schemes robust enough when it comes to food safety and fraud management? This is one of the questions being put by the initiators of a global feed safety scheme benchmarking drive who are currently reviewing the public consultation phase...
Insects in animal feed could soon become a reality if regulators, industry and researchers can combine their common interests to push this alternative protein source, claims a Dutch academic.
Bullish US data on the global crop outlook means livestock farmers can expect to be enjoying some respite following a particularly tough few years of high prices and lack of quality fodder, said UK brokerage house Shore Capital.
A global feed maker on the hunt for a strategic buy could snap up Nutreco’s compound feed and meat businesses in Spain and Portugal, claims an analyst.
Supplementing the diets of broilers with prebiotics or probiotics may boost body weight gain and feed conversion rates, according to new research from Malaysia.
Interview with Cargill's marketing and technology director Scott Ainslie
Scott Ainslie, director of strategic marketing and technology at Cargill, recently chatted with FeedNavigator about the broad range of challenges facing the animal feed market, from finding ways to better feed a growing global population to new carbon...
Supplements of turmeric oil, capsicum oleoresin, or garlic botanical for weaned pigs may boost the animals’ immune system and reduce the adverse effects associated with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, says a new study.
South Korea plans to end its ban on the animal feed additive zilpaterol early next year, a senior food ministry official said on Oct. 31, opening the door to beef imports containing the growth enhancer and its domestic sale.
Australia and New Zealand’s red meat sector has joined a long list of food processing sectors that the region’s top food safety watchdog looking to standardise food safety requirements.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand has called for submissions from industry and the public an application to change the Food Standards Code for the countries to allow food derived from genetically modified lucerne.
GreenPalm has announced the first certified trade of palm oil by-product for feed use, hailing the development a triumph in supply chain sustainability for food manufacturers.
China’s new administration is continuing to demonstrate its newfound determination to tackle longstanding food-safety problems by issuing a blueprint of measures it plans to take this year.
Wilmar and RiceBran Technologies have announced a series of licencing tie-ins to develop rice bran and its derivatives in China. The venture will seek to develop the human food ingredient and animal nutrition markets in the country.
Last year, FoodNavigator-Asia reported that new Japanese regulations governing “acceptable” levels of the antioxidant ethoxyquin in fishmeal was destined to become a grave issue for shrimp exporters. Exactly six months later, the effects of this policy...
As concerns grow for the security of food supplies for its billion-plus population, China—the sixth biggest producer of genetically modified crops—has resolved to continue importing GM soybeans to satisfy domestic demand.
Thai food major Charoen Pokphand Foods will continue to view Vietnam as one of its biggest investment destinations, and this year the company plans to focus on growing its food processing business in the country.
Last week, FoodNavigator-Asia published an opinion piece by the anti-GE pressure group, GE-free NZ, that criticised AgResearch, the New Zealand research institute. In the article, the author made reference to the institute’s work in breeding a cow that...
By Claire Bleakley, president of GE-free NZ in Food and Environment
In the first of a new series of hard-hitting opinion pieces, Claire Bleakley, president of GE-free NZ in Food and Environment, gives her take on how GE crops—and now livestock—have been quietly moving into New Zealand, a country that has traditionally...
One of Australia’s leading animal nutrients suppliers, Ridley Corporation, has announced it will acquire BPL, Victoria’s largest red meat and poultry renderer for AU$77m.
Whereas China is the key driver of the world’s seafood industry, by the end of a decade of growing affluence among its population, the country’s role will have changed dramatically, bringing wholesale changes to global prices of most major premium seafood...
India’s shrimp exporters are concerned by a new move by Japanese food safety regulators to lower the acceptable levels of a key anti-oxidant used in fishmeal.
Independent sustainability certification is rapidly becoming a must for Asian seafood producers and suppliers if they are to remain competitive in the West, according to agency.
With fish consumption rates soaring and wild fishing stagnating, efforts must be pumped into the sustainable growth of aquaculture, a new report suggests.
Vietnam’s seafood sector is targeting African, latin American and other Asian markets to compensate for expected demand slides in slumping Eurozone economies.
The European Union is to step up controls on food imports from Japan in the wake of the nuclear accident at Fukushima – but stressed there was no evidence that consumers in the region were at risk from radiation-contaminated food.
Maximum limits for melamine in food have been set at the latest session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission following the contamination scandals in China.
Lonza has confirmed that its planned vitamin B3 production expansion will occur in China, where the firm expects a double digit surge in demand for the ingredient in coming years.
Greenpeace has attacked dairy giant Fonterra for using palm-based animal feed from cleared forests and for pushing an intensive farming model in New Zealand.
Hong Kong officials say they have found dangerous levels of melamine in a brand of eggs imported from China prompting fears that the chemical has found its way into animal feed.
Companies involved in a 1990s global vitamin cartel have reached a
A$30.5m (€18.2m) settlement with plaintiffs in a class action suit
to brought by individuals and companies who claimed to have
suffered losses as a result of price-fixing.
