Confidence in Brazilian second corn crop remains high, and planting of US corn has become incentivized due to the sustained and large-scale reduction in fertilizer costs, finds a CRM Agri outlook.
The Ocean 14 Capital fund, focusing exclusively on the multi-trillion-dollar ‘blue economy’, has received an investment of €30m (US$32.1m) from Ingka Investments, one of the three core businesses of Ingka Group, the largest owner and operator of IKEA...
Australian climate technology company, Rumin8, has closed Phase 2 of its seed funding round, led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV).
Global feed production remained steady in 2022 at 1.266 billion metric tons (BMT), despite significant macroeconomic challenges that affected the entire supply chain, finds the 12th Alltech global feed survey.
Wheat prices saw record highs in mid-May, before falling notably in recent months, bringing markets back to where they started the year, finds a CRM Agri review.
BioMar says it grew its reported revenue by 41% in Q3, even with slightly lower volume sales than last year, while earnings recovered significantly compared to the same quarter in 2021.
This month’s WASDE saw corn production in the US forecast higher, to 353.84Mt, a slight hike on the 352.95Mt estimated in October, leading to a slightly eased ending stock projection.
Supermarkets have been urged to end relationships with soy traders who allegedly continue to buy soy from suppliers contributing to deforestation in the Cerrado region of Brazil.
Medium to long-term strategies for reducing poultry density in high-risk areas should be considered to reduce bird exposure to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), said EFSA.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition has developed a tool to predict the negative impact that heat stress has on milk yield and milk quality for dairy cows, milk yield for dairy sheep and goats and growth for beef cattle.
One of Australia’s largest cattle producers, the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCo), has signed a collaboration and supply agreement with DSM, which will see the Dutch company’s feed additive, Bovaer, used through the NAPCo supply chain.
Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI) membership can facilitate transparency and a more rapid transformation to sustainable feed supply chains, says marine ingredients organisation, the IFFO, as it signs up.
The agri-commodities market’s attention continues to be fully on Ukraine, where harvest prospects and the ability to export remain unknown, say analysts.
Bühler says innovative services it introduced in 2021 in relation to pelleting and moisture control for feed millers reduces the energy consumption of the feed pelleting process and lowers the C02 footprint of feed plants by 4%.
Skretting ARC has been renamed and restructured into a multi-functional unit incorporating the global marketing, sustainability, and digital teams, along with its experts involved in basic and applied research.
We hear from Danisco Animal Nutrition, Hamlet Protein, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, Novus, and Cargill Animal Nutrition on their projections for the industry, the likely headwinds and opportunities.
The biodiversity of the intestinal microbiota of black tiger prawns, Penaeus monodon, increases with age and is only transiently impacted by major ingredient replacement in the diet, found a paper.
The was limited revision to soybean and corn estimates in the latest WASDE but the global wheat supply and demand this month has eased slightly, with the report forecasting an increase in global production estimates.
UK feed company, AB Agri, is partnering with GMP+ International to officially launch a new online training academy for feed chain professionals to improve safety in the global feed industry.
Dutch-based startup Connecterra and Fonterra, which is owned by 8.800 New Zealand dairy farmers, are teaming up to expand access to artificial intelligence (AI) technology for farms across New Zealand in 2022.
A low dose of functional amino acid combinations can improve performance and gut health parameters in monogastrics, namely in piglets at weaning, coccidiosis challenged birds, heard attendees at EAAP’s 2nd Amino Acid Academy in Paris last month.
The promise, made in a joint statement issued late on Monday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, was backed by the leaders of countries including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Green Blue Health Pty Ltd is running a study evaluating the use of mussel meal, at different inclusion levels, as a replacement for fishmeal in black tiger prawn diets.
Much of the world is experiencing high enough milk prices to offset high feed costs and general input cost inflation, according to the latest dairy report from Rabobank.
Last week saw the IGC amend its projections for global wheat production in 2021-22 to 782m tons, that is 6m tons lower than its July forecast but still an increase of 1.2% from 773m ton in 2020-21.
Researchers at an Australian university are investigating the value of industrial hemp as feed for cattle and sheep, after a pilot study highlighted the potential value of it as a feed source.
In a recently ran UN Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue, UC Davis experts talked about how US beef and dairy sectors can be climate neutral. They said the question is: How soon?
Beef supply chain contributions to global GHG emissions need to go down, and they can. However, in order to unlock the opportunities, leadership is needed, finds a new report from Rabobank.
In what is claimed to be a world-first off-take-agreement, CH4 Global will provide Australian company, Pirie Meats, with an Asparagopsis seaweed supplement for up to 10,000 head of cattle, cutting methane emissions by up to 90%.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has just launched a feed standard to tackle any unsustainable and irresponsible practices across the aquaculture feed supply chain.
Agri-commodity prices in April were pushed to levels not seen since 2011 to 2013, noted Rabobank in its beef quarterly. It says the knock-on effect of that trend are heightened concerns about the cost of feed.
Bacteriophages, probiotics, postbiotics and vaccines offer potential as alternatives to antibiotics to control E. coli associated challenges in pigs. But such additives need additional well-designed experiments and field-based work, finds a new review.
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the spotlight on meat supply and food security. We get three different perspectives on the future of global food production.
