Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to volatility in several sectors of the global economy. For India and the region, trade is being disrupted in the grains, oilseeds, fertilizer, and energy sectors, among others.
Ukraine has become an increasingly large corn exporting country, suppling significant volumes of that grain to the UK, EU, China, and North African markets.
Argentina’s drought has been having a major negative impact on the country’s soybean crop, and the weekend saw its agricultural ministry move to suspend soybean oil and meal export registrations.
EU feed manufacturing companies are currently searching for alternative supplies to compensate for loss of Black sea origin, mainly in relation to maize [corn] and sunflower meal.
EU feed, grain, and oilseeds sectors warn against the pitfalls of the current EU Commission draft regulation to curb global deforestation. They want to make it more workable.
Global crude oil values have rallied sharply as the conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate and markets price in risk premium, with growing uncertainty in global markets, finds CRM Agri in its latest outlook.
Leading European feed manufacturer, ForFarmers, expects raw material and energy prices to remain high, given the worrying political situation between Russia and Ukraine.
UK based analysts say it is impossible to forecast whether the escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine will have an impact on physical supply of grains.
US headquartered technology provider, Centaur, says it has reached a milestone in terms of its work to preserve quality and maximize profitability across the food and commodities supply chain.
Commodity trader, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), has committed to eliminate deforestation and conversion of native vegetation of high conservation value for agricultural purposes from all its supply chains by December 2025.
Camelina seed can be used to produce a low-carbon oil for renewable diesel but it can also work as a sustainable, plant-based replacement for fish oil, says a US innovator.
Viterra Limited is to buy Gavilon, a grain and ingredients trading business, supporting its long-term strategy of significantly increasing its presence in the US, an agricultural region where Viterra had a limited sourcing presence.
Brazil and Argentina are likely to step up corn and soybean exports to China during the US winter months, finds a newly released report from US organization, CoBank.
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.
Markets have had a mixed reaction to the January WASDE. Initially, falling following the publication of the USDA’s report, they recovered quickly, thereafter.
Technology like AI can help poultry producers improve the efficiency and health of flocks, identify previously unknown problems and anticipate outcomes, says Cargill.
Soybean meal prices have reached their highest levels since May 2021, due to the worsening outlook for South America, finds a new outlook from CRM Agri.
In a move to control the rising domestic price of a key compound feed ingredient, India’s ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution has imposed stock limits on soybean meal.
The Argentinian soybean meal and oil output and exports are predicted to increase in 2021-22 despite significant headwinds, noted a review by S&P Global Platts.
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.
In recognition of his pioneering work on livestock nutrition, Xingen Lei, professor of animal science at Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) was named a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) on December 7.
There has been significant local and foreign investment in the fish feed industry in Egypt in recent years, especially in aqua feed extrusion technology, according to a new paper.
Despite deteriorating political and economic conditions, US food and agricultural exports to Nicaragua through the first nine months of 2021 exceeded $300m – shattering previous annual records – driven by strong commodity prices and demand for US feed...
Palm oil production is set to recover next year in Malaysia, while soybean production in Brazil is forecast to reach record levels. Although, La Niña is set to play a critical part in the ultimate outcome of the latter, said the CRM Agri team.
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.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) says the passing of HR 4996, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021, will address some of the bottlenecks stifling the export of feed, feed ingredients and pet food products at American ports.
Avril, the parent company of leading French feed player, Sanders, says it is committed to reducing its CO2 emissions from transport in France by 60% by 2025 from a 2019 baseline.
Using nutrient kinetics as part of diet formulation enables pig producers to use raw materials in a targeted way, allowing higher inclusion levels of more cost-effective local feedstuffs, say two animal nutrition specialists.
An investigation by Global Witness alleges that global commodity traders, ADM, Bunge and Cargill, are dealing in ‘conflict-tainted soy’ sourced from powerful agricultural producers in Brazil.
FrieslandCampina and Agrifirm are joining forces for the purpose of create a physically separated supply stream of guaranteed deforestation-free soy for dairy cattle feed.
A newly released draft law on deforestation would seem to prioritize the ‘cleaning up’ of domestic supply chains rather than trying to curb the issue at origin, according to three stakeholder groups.
A new mechanism has been developed, the Responsible Commodities Facility (RCF), with the goal of protecting vast tracts of native Cerrado vegetation in Brazil, reducing CO2 emissions and protecting biodiversity.
Bunge Pro-S, Italy’s CSQA scheme and USSEC’s SSAP certification program have passed the independent benchmarking process against the FEFAC Soy Sourcing Guidelines 2021.
The ongoing freight costs and shipping challenges, along with drought in South America, are the factors behind a shortage in the supply of certain key feed ingredients, reports the Irish Farmers Journal.
