The British Poultry Council (BPC) is calling for the legalization of insect based meal and the re-introduction of processed animal proteins in poultry feeds, as new government figures reveal that poultry feed prices are rising at a higher rate than prices...
A bidding war is underway for Nutreco after SHV raised its offer to €44.50 ($54.87) a share in response to acquisition interest shown from Cargill, which is keen to take on the Dutch group’s fish feed division.
Pork producers in the US, Brazil and Mexico are witnessing record margins, with low feed costs playing a role, according to Rabobank’s pork quarterly for Q4 2014.
Three years from now feed manufacturers could be replacing soybeans and fishmeal with bacterial protein meal produced from natural gas which might otherwise be flared as a waste product.
Researchers at Teagasc have come up with some pragmatic solutions to the issue of maintaining growth in pigs weaned from large litters, including amino acid supplementation for sows and increasing weaning age to four weeks.
The EU Commission has approved an Adisseo enzyme as effective at reducing body weight loss in lactating sows, despite EFSA, in a May 2014 opinion, unable to conclude on the efficacy of the feed additive.
Barentz Animal Nutrition, which has just acquired its JV partner, AgriNutrition, is aiming to be the leading specialty feed ingredient distributor in Europe by extending its geographical reach, and investing in new protein sources such as insect and bacterial...
Europe may lose vital ground in terms of plant science knowledge unless field trials are allowed of genetically modified (GM) plant varieties that have been deemed safe, said leading plant scientists in an open letter.
Leading German retailer, Edeka, has initiated a regional roll-out of own-label chicken products certified under the German government-backed non GM seal, Ohne Gentechnik (OG).
A new monogastric science research center in Scotland is evaluating the benefits of faba beans and the nutritional value of rapeseed varieties in terms of their benefits for pig and poultry health and in the context of finding home-grown alternatives...
The benefits of probiotics in animals go beyond gut health, says an animal nutrition scientist, who claims the bacteria can play a vital role in ensuring more profitable and sustainable poultry production.
French poultry production businesses must invest at the farm level and increase scale via mergers and acquisitions at home and abroad or lose further ground to the competitive German, Dutch and Belgian producers, who, using more efficient models, are...
Metabolic studies will feature large in Nutreco’s new dairy calf nutrition research program, LifeStart, as a way of exploring what impact a higher plane of nutrition at the perinatal stage has on an animal’s lifetime performance.
Adding resveratrol to feed may boost the antioxidant defenses of broiler birds and prevent liver damage, says a new study from the National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology in Bangalore, India.
Indications from trials assessing the safety of using insects for feed show fly larvae contain very high levels of heavy metals, putting their use as a potential protein source for pigs and poultry at risk.
A Chinese researcher whose study shows how short antimicrobial peptides could replace conventional antibiotics in livestock production has walked off with a top animal nutrition science prize.
FEFAC is calling on feed manufactures to join an EU-backed project looking to develop the parameters by which a company can prove the green credentials of an animal nutrition or food or drink product.
Analysts say firms such as Cargill and DSM could still trump SHV's offer
Animal and fish feed group, Nutreco, said it fully endorses the bid from privately-held Dutch investment firm, SHV, to acquire it for €40 ($51) per share, or €2.69 billion ($3.43bn), and it dismissed speculation about third party bids for the business.
InVivo NSA says the acquisition of Brazilian animal nutrition group, Total Alimentos, has strengthened its position in pet food but also its foothold in the dairy and aqua feed segments in that market.
Dutch feed group, ForFarmers, said it is not ruling out further acquisitions in the UK, following the recently announced rebranding of its operations in that market.
There is still buoyant demand in Europe for non GM soy as a feed ingredient, despite some meat sectors in Germany, the UK, Denmark and Sweden debating the feasibility of retaining a GM free policy, says an industry insider.
The need to find ways to optimize cattle feeding and hence productivity and welfare concentrated the minds of 150 experts at the recent International Beef Exchange in France.
An alignment of two responsible soy standards, RTRS and ProTerra, will help boost physical flows of certified soy by keeping audit costs low, increasing market transparency and enhancing farmer training, says the ProTerra Foundation.
Agri giant's Q1 results show solid performance for animal nutrition and meat division
Cargill has not had any new cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) within its pig operations since March this year, but the agri-giant is not throwing caution to the wind as a result.
Research efforts at AB Vista have yielded insights into enzyme technology, showing the vital importance of specific enzyme characteristics, which the company says will aid poultry producers and feed formulators.
The South Asian poultry market is the first staging post for US enzyme developer, BRI, as it has a shift in strategy for the roll-out of its new thermo stable xylanase feed enzyme, Xylamax.
UK firm, Micron Bio-Systems, is set to enter the well-established yeast-derived feed additive market in the EU on the back of approval by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for a product targeted at the dairy sector.
Exploiting the potential of bacteria to produce natural feed additives is the aim of a new partnership between two French companies - animal nutrition and agribusiness group, Sofiproteol, and biotechnology firm, Deinove.
French firm, Nor Feed Sud, said it has leveraged its long established partnership with medicinal plant producers’ cooperative, Adatris Anjou Plantes, to develop Ubigreen – a series of “well-defined and high quality” botanical products for animal feed...
Hazard control procedures in UK feed mills need to be enhanced, found a Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) review of the systems in place to verify that UK feed operators identify and manage risks effectively.
US group, Sabinsa, is training its portfolio of botanical ingredients, probiotics and enzymes on companion animals and livestock as it sets up a new animal nutrition division, VetVitals.
A US scientist, in a review of the literature, reports that GM feed is safe and nutritionally equivalent to non-GM feed, with no indication of any unusual trends in livestock health since 1996 when GM crops were first harvested.
There is a dire need for pre and probiotic strains that are cost effective and give consistently good results in terms of a beneficial effect on the intestinal flora of pigs, says a Danish scientist.
The clarification of the legal status of medicated feed products as proposed under draft EU Commission regulation has been hailed as ‘long awaited’ by the EU feed production lobby.
If a $3.4million EU Commission funded seaweed cultivation project can deliver on its high yield claims, there will be substantial benefits for the EU feed and food sectors, which, currently, are heavily reliant on imports for protein inputs.
Early next year could see a reintroduction of GM free soy feed into the German poultry supply chain if a working group involving poultry producers and food retailers can reach unanimity on the issue.
Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife (IZW) have found that antimicrobial peptides offer a “promising solution” for reducing the use of antibiotics in pig breeding, and suggest that these amino acid compounds could have application...
Whilst the poultry feed industry is still getting its head around the concept of phytase ‘super-dosing’, AB Vista has come out with the results of a new study which advocates combining phytase super-dosing with a single-enzyme xylanase.
Researchers from Bangor University, UK, warn that diverting fodder crops to farm-scale anaerobic digestion in the UK could put pressure on animal feed supply and cause damage to the environment through land use displacement.
Raisioagro, the feed and grain division of Finnish agri-food firm Raisio, has booked significant losses and a decline in net sales for the first half of 2014.
A Scottish animal feed firm has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death when a two-tonne, fully loaded grain bin fell onto him from a forklift truck.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has raised its forecast for projected EU feed wheat supplies for 2014/15 by 2.5 million ton in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), which were published this week.
Almost 100 pig farms in the Netherlands, which had been shut down by the Dutch food safety authority (nVWA) last week due to an illegal antibiotic find in feed, are operational again.
Market conditions in animal feed continued to improve for DSM in recent months, with it citing a strong performance for its premix businesses during Q2, but the Dutch group predicts ongoing volatility in the vitamin E market.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said French documentation supporting the country's attempt to ban Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified maize in Europe contains no new information or scientific basis to support such a ban.
