XpertSea, a Canadian, female-led technology company with an IoT device for tracking and managing aquatic populations in warm water farmed fish production has raised $10m CAD in Series A financing.
Australian feed giant, Ridley Corporation, expects up to AU$ 7m in losses due to the fact a critical raw material supply has ceased with the collapse of local chicken business, Red Lea.
A potential candidate in the hunt for effective alternatives to in-feed antibiotics in pig and poultry feed is resistant starch (RS) due to its prebiotic effect, say the authors of a review in Animal Nutrition.
The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) is funding a new project aimed at helping the country's salmon farming industry manage gill health challenges in their fish stocks.
BASF says it is on schedule in terms of getting its citral production plant in Ludwigshafen, in Germany up and running again after the fire at that facility in October 2017.
The retailer, fast food company, and NGO took part in an interactive panel debate during a workshop style event, at our conference, Feed Protein Vision 2018, last month. They were asked to explain why sustainable animal feed protein is relevant for the...
Global fast food giant, McDonald’s, is exploring the potential of protein derived from both insects and seaweed as alternatives to soy in chicken feed.
Dutch investment fund, Aqua-Spark, which has sustainable fish farming as its goal, has invested in Hatch Accelerator 1.0, the first-ever incubator type program for the aquaculture industry.
Some 1,750,000 tons of feed from Cargill’s fish feed mills last year were used in the diets of 30 different type of fish species. One-eighth of that product was functional feeds, aimed at promoting animal health, said the company.
An increase in regional protein production in Europe is possible, but any further development of regional raw feed protein cultivation is going to need a lot of support, both from feed manufacturers and policy initiatives.
German crop chemicals and drug group, Bayer, is said to be edging closer to getting EU backing of its proposal to acquire agribusiness company, Monsanto, sources told Reuters.
