A review of the literature sees that Ochratoxin A (OTA), a widespread mycotoxin, can affect gut dysbiosis in birds, including increasing gut permeability, immunity, and bacterial translocation, eventually leading to gut and other organ injury.
Feed additives markets are quite active as Chinese production has returned with a bang after Spring Festival and is now fully operational, according to the Swiss feed additive trading and data platform, Kemiex.
In a move aimed at expanding its global footprint within shrimp feed, Danish group, BioMar, has acquired majority ownership of the Viet-Uc feed business.
Insect protein producer, Nutrition Technologies, has opened its new industrial-scale factory in Malaysia and has just closed a US$5m fundraising round.
The demand for insect protein, mainly as an ingredient in feed and pet food, could reach half a million metric tons by 2030, up from today’s market of around 10,000 metric tons, predict the authors of a new RaboResearch report.
Kemiex sees rising ingredient prices for a set of reasons: freight related disruptions and charges, a new wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, elevated raw material prices for fermented feed additives and dollar weakness.
India’s soybean meal exports nearly tripled during December last year on higher demand in the global market, according to the Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA).
Hebei Delvigent Biotech Co Ltd has opened its first feed additive factory in China, setting a course to support antibiotic reduction in farmed animal production in China and beyond.
The global poultry sector faces a perfect storm of ongoing COVID-19 related disruption, particularly to the foodservice sector, soft economic conditions, high and volatile feed prices, an exceptionally high-pressure avian influenza winter season, and...
Suspended exports from Argentina has increased demand for maize from Brazil and the US, pushing up global prices, according to the latest market analysis from AHDB.
French and Polish feed additives players, NUQO and Aditech Polska, have signed a partnership agreement to develop and distribute the French company’s technologies in Poland and in the Baltic countries.
Preliminary data from Swiss feed additive price watchers, Kemiex, for the current year suggests significant price volatility for the majority of products, with amino acids in particular posting higher price fluctuations than in 2019.
Washington-based feed and ingredient business, Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, anticipates M&A activity in its space continuing despite ongoing pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) US$200K for 2021 through the Market Access Program (MAP) to support increasing access to US feed products abroad....
Dutch fish feed and animal nutrition group, Nutreco, is aiming to source soy and oil palm ingredients by 2025 that are free from both legal and illegal deforestation, with the purpose of limiting its impact on biodiversity and climate change.
BASF and Adifo say their new software partnership will advance feed formulation and support more sustainable animal protein production as sustainability can now be a used as a parameter in feed formulations and rations.
Nutreco’s animal nutrition division, Trouw Nutrition, has invested in a new facility in India; the 20,000 MT plant is located in Jadcherla, near Hyderabad, and will produce vitamins, mineral premixes, and mineral blends, among other products, targeting...
The Dutch agribusiness bank's outlook for animal protein markets globally sees pork production returning to growth in 2021, but the analysts say it will be a gradual recovery process, as African swine fever (ASF) is still active.
Insect protein producer, InnovaFeed, has announced the opening of its insect protein production site in the north of France, it has also closed a new €140M (US$166M) fundraising effort to accelerate its domestic and international expansion strategy, while...
The latest USDA world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE), released on Tuesday, provides further insight into where markets could be going, according to the AHDB.
Danish feed manufacturer, BioMar, reported a good third quarter (Q3) with improved revenue driven mainly by higher volume sales in the salmon division.
In 2019 there was little change to report in terms of biggest marine ingredient exporters and importers – Peru remained the main pelagic-based fishmeal and fish oil production and exporting country, while China stayed the biggest importer of fishmeal...
FeedNavigator’s webinar on poultry gut health will navigate current strategies targeted at microbiota management and will evaluate next generation approaches.
The EU Commission has asked EFSA for an opinion on the risks for animal and human health linked to the presence of polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in feed and food.
China has become the biggest player in animal protein trade globally, and there should be concern about the implications, politically and economically, of such strong market dominance, says an analyst.
Aquaculture was the initial focus of FEED-X, under Project X, an initiative working to accelerate the adoption of environmentally sustainable solutions within global supply chains; a subsequent cycle will look to speed up feed innovation in the poultry...
German specialty chemicals company, Evonik, is set to manage all its DL-methionine production from three hubs in Europe, Americas and Asia to maximize economies of scale.
The USDA, citing lower supplies in the US and higher foreign use, reduced global soybean ending stocks by 4.9m tons to 88.7m, according to the latest WASDE report.
China’s commerce ministry (MOFCOM) has ended its anti-dumping investigation against imports of methionine originating in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan, and will not be implementing tariffs on such imports.
Spain headquartered, Indukern Group, has rebuffed any suggestions it is looking to divest its chemical distribution business focused on the feed, food, vet and pharma sectors.
We look at industry exits and new appointments over the past four weeks. Our career gallery tracks appointments at single cell protein producer, Calysta, at feed additive supplier, AB Vista, new feed space entrants and more.
Demand for Australian wheat from Asia is expected to gain momentum in coming months, with the 2020/21 Australian crop estimated to be the largest crop in the past four years.
Bulgaria-headquartered insect producer, Nasekomo, is looking to secure a niche function in the less capital intensive, upstream part of the insect protein value chain.
Disease susceptibility in monogastrics, predicting regional contamination and new product launches - we talk to Biomin about the work its R&D team is undertaking in respect of mycotoxin control.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) and over 60 US agricultural industry stakeholders voiced support for the World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday [September 23] but they also encouraged WTO reform, calling some of its rules outdated.
Factors such as steady demand for chicken meat, availability of feed from an ample grain crop in Russia and growing imports of soybean meal (SBM) support marginal poultry production growth in Russia next year, finds a USDA report.
The feed and food ingredients sectors continue to be held hostage by the Covid-19 pandemic, says Swiss feed and food additives trading platform, Kemiex.
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, outlined its ambition to expand to two new growth markets, potentially outside of Europe, as it launched a new strategy, Build to Grow 2025, yesterday.
