Over the past five years, a research alliance has created tools for estimating the carbon footprint of grazing ruminant animals, and it has generated some surprising results.
A new EU funded project, DARWIN, is set to deliver validated analytical and digital tools for screening, detection, identification, and quantification of NGT products in the food chain under an interdisciplinary and co-creative approach.
Tech startup TRACT has unveiled further capabilities for its platform, enabling users to streamline adherence to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
The expert generative AI system has been trained by Bayer agronomists and proprietary data to benefit farmers, agronomic advisors, and other industry users.
LiveEO, a Berlin-based provider of satellite analytics, has launched TradeAware Lite, a free version of its software platform, TradeAware, designed to help companies achieve compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
Cargill has introduced a suite of resources catering to grain farmers, encompassing market insights, pricing options, expertise, and access to farm management platforms.
China is highly exposed to ecosystem damage in Brazil but collaboration between the two countries has the potential to transform the entire sector, according to supply chain transparency experts.
CP Foods subsidiary, Bangkok Produce Merchandising (BKP), and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) have formalized a collaboration aimed at leveraging satellite mapping solutions and traceability data points to create sustainable and deforestation-free supply...
Donau Soja sees great potential for the expansion of regional, European, GMO-free, and certified sustainable soy value chains both in the EU and in European non-EU countries due to the growing demand for deforestation-free raw materials with a low carbon...
A paper documenting a research project that relied on algorithms to predict mycotoxin contamination of corn was published this month in Frontiers in Microbiology.
Dr Matteo Ottoboni, from the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, at the University of Milan, presented on the application of electronic noses for feed safety and animal nutrition at the World Mycotoxin Forum in Antwerp in Belgium last...
Aquarech, Kenya’s first fish farming platform, has closed an equity investment of US$1.7m to hire talent, acquire more feed, and set up infrastructure to support more vertical integration of its technology.
BVRio says its new free soy production map and tool for assessing deforestation and conversion of native vegetation at the farm level for production areas in the Brazilian Cerrado region, has seen over 11,000 searches conducted in its first three months,...
McDonald's and FrieslandCampina announce a new collaborative effort aimed at an accelerated reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on dairy farms.
US feed pathogen control specialist, Anitox, has launched a free app to collect and present feed mill biosecurity audit records for all geographies and regulatory bodies.
Agricultural and food production systems face increasing sustainability challenges and are under growing legislative and public pressure. A new digital platform – TRACT – has been launched to boost transparency in feed and food supply chains - from growers...
Swiss plant equipment manufacturer, Bühler, and UK-based, Entocycle, a provider of insect farming technology, have joined forces to drive adoption of large-scale black soldier fly (BSF) operations.
The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have announced £9m (US$11.43m) funding for phase two of the endemic livestock disease initiative.
A new tool assesses deforestation and conversion of native vegetation at the farm level for soy production areas in the Cerrado, Brazil. It also includes Brazilian Forest Code related indicators and other compliance checks.
dsm-firmenich's animal nutrition and health (ANH) business unit has launched a new Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) initiative, aimed at providing credible Scope 3 reporting to help customers reach emissions pledges.
Missouri, US headquartered Novus said its 'intelligent nutrition' rebranding exercise is about reflecting the 32-year-old feed additive company’s promise to deliver more to its customers using advanced technology and leveraging global scientific...
Dutch dairy cooperative, FrieslandCampina, and snack giant, Mondelēz International, have signed a four-year agreement aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of milk supplied by dairy farmers by around 14% in 2025 compared to 2019.
AB Foods agricultural arm, AB Agri, is to acquire Wiltshire, UK based dairy technology business, National Milk Records (NMR) for £48m (around US$59.5m).
Reports from the World Nutrition Forum in Cancun, Mexico
At the industry level, there is a need for effective and rapid analytical methods for feed mycotoxin detection at the required thresholds, in the parts per billion (ppb) range, for efficient mycotoxin risk management.
Farmers can improve efficiency and life expectancy in insect farming with a better understanding of insect behavior and needs through using artificial intelligence (AI), the co-founder of a Singapore-based start-up has revealed.
Professor Matt Bell, director of agriculture at Hartpury University, one of the UK's leading specialist education providers in agriculture, has created a ‘breeding index’ to select dairy cows based on traits key to enhancing the sustainability of...
The prevalence of infectious diseases in the aquaculture industry requires a multi-pronged approach to control; the experts agree there is no one silver bullet in terms of managing health and welfare in fish and shrimp farming.
Fera Science Ltd is to lead a research project for the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) that will investigate what the risks are from using novel, currently non-approved waste substrates to rear insects such as the Black soldier fly (BSF) and yellow mealworm....
BASF and Schothorst Feed Research (SFR) have signed a pact whereby SFR gains certain non-exclusive licensing rights to Opteinics, BASF’s digital platform designed to calculate the environmental impact of feed and animal protein products to identify opportunities...
Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside the US and Canada, has been fine-tuning the range of IoT monitoring devices for poultry farming it acquired in 2021, with the idea of expanding the footprint of this digital technology, tailoring...
A jury of industry experts have chosen Beakbook, BioBetter, Multus, Tepbac and AquaRech for the final round of Nutreco’s Feed and Food Tech Challenge (NFFTC) 2022.
EU feed, grain and oilseed trade groups have welcomed some of the changes made by the Council of the EU in relation to the draft deforestation regulation.
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.
Through its SeaFurther program, Cargill’s aqua nutrition business has identified ‘hot spots’ where salmon and trout companies can immediately improve their operations, to help reduce carbon emissions, one being feed formulation.
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.
Protenga has closed a US$2m venture debt facility with a syndicate of Singapore-based investors to develop its next generation production facilities and launch YumGrubs, its new pet food brand.
A new Kenya and Uganda focused project is looking to make insect production for livestock feed sustainable and efficient through the application of selective breeding.
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.
DSM has reorganized its animal nutrition and health division, with it now underpinned by three business lines aimed at addressing the industry’s biggest challenges.
