Cargill is starting production at a new canola-crush facility based in Canada to help it boost its production of canola products, including canola meal for use in feed, and further develop the market in the US, Asia and other countries.
The IFFO is backing the draft ASC Responsible Feed Standard but questions why there is such a focus on marine ingredients given the fact they only make up the minority of the aqua feed formulation.
Prices for corn and soybeans may be about to rise, as some starting crop amounts are down from earlier expectations, said the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE).
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Quality Liquid Feeds (QLF) are forming a joint venture in the US to provide liquid feed supplements for certain states and to build on buoyancy in the segment.
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Cargill may challenge the ruling of South Korea’s competition authority that claims the company was part of an animal feed price rigging cartel over a number of years.
Meal from Arcadia’s bioengineered gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) safflower seed has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as safe to use in cattle and poultry feeds.
Belgian firm, Adifo, said the US market is currently the dominant user of its cloud based animal nutrition focused platform combining ration calculation and feed optimization in a single tool.
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Big data has become a buzzword in the agribusiness industry but it should not be forgotten that data does not always equal ‘information’, said Nutreco.
Fishmeal has moved from being a commodity to a high priced strategic ingredient in feed where other protein sources cannot be used, says Rabobank and the IFFO agrees.
US fermentation technology specialist, Diamond V, has been engaging with academia to ensure curriculum development within agriculture industry orientated education programs reflects the needs of the marketplace.
The AsiaPacific and Central and South American regions, where usage rates remain lower than in North America and Europe, are the markets that offer the most growth opportunities for feed enzyme producers, said a market analyst.
The US feed sector has questioned the reporting obligations sought under the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) as the FDA releases the final version of the rule that aims to bring the use of medically important antimicrobials under veterinary supervision.
The margin between world grain production and demand is far too narrow to call, making the market sensitive to weather - both good and bad, said a commodities analyst.
Ohio based Shur-Green Farms sold contaminated soy oil soon after an earlier shipment of the product was responsible for causing losses of $1 million and the death of 57,000 turkeys at a network of family farms in Michigan, alleges the US Food and Drug...
Cargill said it has been helping integrated pork producers meet productivity gains and has fined tuned a feed mill’s phytase use though leveraging its system of mathematical modelling and ‘big data’.
There is now much more awareness globally about what eubiotics can do in pig production, what they can’t do and how to ensure their greater effectiveness in terms of production and cost, said a DSM specialist.
Nutreco has extended its feed sales contract with Marine Harvest and has managed to reduce its exposure to the loss of business from Mercadona in Spain, said CEO Knut Nesse.
Archer Daniels Midlands (ADM) aims to leverage expected growth in the swine, poultry and aquaculture sectors in China over the next decade by expanding its premix footprint there with a new plant.
Production of Nutrinsic’s new, sustainable protein source for animal and fish feed is about to go online after some ‘to be expected’ teething problems delayed kick-off by several months.
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The new LCA guidelines, developed under the LEAP project, are ‘game changing’ as they synchronize the plethora of existing feed impact assessment methods and provide the feed sector with one set of rules to reduce its environmental footprint, said FEFAC.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition said it is partnering with the US institute, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, to document mode of action, biomarkers of efficacy and benefits of existing yeast and bacteria strains for beef and dairy cattle.
Tyson Foods said probiotics are one of the nutritional tools it is using in its shift away from human medicine important antibiotics in its broiler chicken flocks.
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Alltech has bought one of the largest animal nutrition players in North America, Ridley, saying the combined businesses will have annual revenues in excess of US$1.6 billion.
The Chinese pig sector’s demand for feed will remain under pressure for the remainder of the year but is expected to be higher in early 2016, said Rabobank.
The US feed and poultry sectors applaud the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the US Senate this week that aims to update and renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
Cargill said volume gains in sales of animal nutrition products such as gut health additives and mycotoxin binders helped raise its third quarter profit by 33%.
Increasing livestock fertility, nailing precision feeding, developing fish meal substitutes and a migration away from antimicrobials are the immediate goals of a US led research alliance relying on ‘innovative’ nutritional and management practices.
The EU feed manufacturers’ federation (FEFAC) has published draft soy sourcing guidelines it hopes will help resolve the current disconnect in the European debate over responsible soy cultivation and facilitate greater mainstream market supply for sustainable...
Algal Scientific, a US developer and manufacturer of a microalgae-derived beta glucan for use in the diets of pigs, poultry and shrimp, has received backing to the tune of $7 million in a Series B financing round.
The final animal food rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) won't be published until the summer, but trade representatives say feed mills need to take steps now to be fully compliant regardless of the planned phased-in transition period.
The number of samples testing positive for aflatoxins decreased from 30% in 2013 to 22% in 2014, though the average concentration nearly doubled from 33 ppb to 64 ppb, found Biomin’s latest report into the global mycotoxin threat.
Dry weather concerns in parts of the US are lending support to winter wheat grain prices, says the UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
Up to 40% of feed samples are suboptimal in terms of digestibility, microbial protein production and fiber digestion rates, found a year-long analysis program at Alltech’s IFM Laboratory in the US.
While not the silver bullet in terms of Aflatoxin B1 inactivation, US and Brazilian researchers have shown a beer fermentation residue could be one component of a broiler farmer’s toolbox when faced with an aflatoxicosis challenge in their flock.
The newly announced USDA grant for organic agriculture research, education and extension projects will indirectly help grain and feed producing farmers to grow more organic products, says a Washington based lobby group.
McDonald’s call to its chicken suppliers to phase out the use of antibiotics used in human medicine is potentially game changing for all animal protein sectors in the US, says a leading academic.
