Despite global commodity prices being at their lowest levels in years, livestock producers in Egypt face surging input costs on the back of a depreciating Egyptian Pound, according to the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
A third of fisheries supplying the feed industry with fish oil and fishmeal require “significant improvement” in terms of their sustainability performance, finds a new report from the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP).
Feed enzyme innovation and a tie-up with Monsanto on corn and soy yield enhancement are said to have propelled Danish firm, Novozymes, into the top ten of Fortune magazine’s list of 50 companies ranked for their sustainability efforts.
Exports of soybeans, corn and wheat are predicted to improve, while other feed grains stay flat for fiscal 2017, says the US Department of Agriculture.
The grain market in Venezuela continues to flounder as consumption and production remain stagnant and producers struggle to feed animals, says specialist.
Recent research insights have helped reveal some of the cell biological mechanisms that are likely behind the beneficial effect of additives such as butyrate products, botanicals and yeast cell walls (YCW), but knowledge gaps remain.
Piglets getting supplemental immunoglobulin (IgY) protected by hydrogels and carbon nanotubes saw improved gut health and reactions when facing a disease challenge, said a group of researchers from Argentina.
On the back of a trial in weaner and fattening pigs in the US, Ireland based Ocean Harvest Technology is confident of that market opening up for its seaweed derived swine feed.
Zimbabwe is turning to the US, Mexico and Latin America to fill a gap in corn, feed crop production after a dry growing season, say analysts with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
US grain commodity futures took a hit on Friday following the Brexit referendum vote, but an economist does not anticipate long term ramifications from the result.
Special Edition: Feed Industry Consolidation Review
We caught up with Christopher Nolan, managing director, global deals origination at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who recently spoke at Alltech’s One conference, to hear about his views on amalgamation of the global feed sector.
MiXscience , which is the animal nutrition division of the Avril Group, has formed a “strategic alliance” with Brazilian feed additive and premix player, Salus Group, to leverage the continuing growth in the livestock sector in the Latin American powerhouse.
Feed additive innovation at Evonik has been earmarked as one of six R&D pillars that will contribute over €1 billion (bn) in additional sales by the year 2025 for the group.
As the weather phenomenon known as El Nino ends, a shift to a La Nina cycle may happen, says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
