Global feed production remained steady in 2022 at 1.266 billion metric tons (BMT), despite significant macroeconomic challenges that affected the entire supply chain, finds the 12th Alltech global feed survey.
Danish algae-based carbon capture and utilization startup, Algiecel, has raised €1.3m in seed funding from Denmark’s Export and Investment Fund, a UK-based family fund and private individuals.
Dutch animal nutrition and fish feed player, Nutreco, and BiomEdit, a spinout from Elanco Animal Health, are teaming up on long-term strategic research work as well as engaging in a commercial partnership around microbiome technology.
MarinTrust is inviting feedback from stakeholders as it evaluates the effectiveness and impacts of its review system for its program aimed at improving the global responsibility of the sourcing and production of marine ingredients.
China will reduce the amount of soybeans it imports over the next seven years, in progressive fashion, due to slower livestock production growth, continuous improvement in farming practices, and widespread adoption of a low-soymeal inclusion ratio in...
The Yield Lab Asia Pacific is the latest investor in Asian insect ingredient developer, Protenga. The Singapore-based company’s most recent funding round also saw participation from SEEDS Capital and JBI Innovations.
A UK project aimed at transforming carbon emissions into algae feed ingredients, being run by Canada’s Pond Technologies and AB Agri division, Livalta, has achieved another milestone.
Ÿnsect has inked two major agreements for new facility builds: one in the US with Ardent Mills and another in Mexico with Corporativo Kosmos, a food service business.
Ecuador became the world’s largest exporter and producer of shrimp in 2022, overtaking India as an exporter and China as a producer, according to Rabobank’s Global Animal Protein Outlook 2023.
Animal protein companies face strategic challenges of sustainability, animal health and market volatility.They must pivot in 2023 to secure their future, according to Rabobank’s Global Animal Protein Outlook 2023.
DSM is to significantly cut back production of vitamin C at its Jiangshan, China based facility, with immediate effect. It says it will re-evaluate the situation in late January 2023, after the Chinese New Year.
The ICCF has released a draft guidance document for public comment, one that is focused on an environmental risk assessment approach for feed ingredients.
Singapore-based impact investor, Silverstrand Capital, has ploughed an additional €15m investment into Netherlands-based aquaculture investment fund, Aqua-Spark, bringing its total investment to €25m (US$25.8m).
BioMar says it grew its reported revenue by 41% in Q3, even with slightly lower volume sales than last year, while earnings recovered significantly compared to the same quarter in 2021.
Tallin-based Flyfeed, an insect farming startup, has developed and tested its production technology, signed letters of intent with top-tier companies, and it has also built a team of employees, partners, and advisors in under one year. In addition, it...
Cargill says it is raising the bar to accelerate sustainable ingredient sourcing, prioritize animal health and welfare, and drive innovation so farmed fish producers can do more with less.
Climate change is something that concerns all ocean scientists, but it hasn’t negatively affected many major fisheries thus far, including those most important to the omega-3s industry, an expert says.
Deep Branch has secured £4.8m (US$5.8m) in funding from the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio to scale up its CO2-to-protein technology.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and De Heus TMH Company Limited (DH-TMH) have signed a US$15m loan to boost Cambodia’s feed sector by expanding DH-TMH’s storage and processing capacity in Kampong Speu province.
The Norwegian Supreme Court has found in favor of fish health group, STIM, in its long-standing IP battle with BioMar in relation to a smolt-feed patent.
Supermarkets have been urged to end relationships with soy traders who allegedly continue to buy soy from suppliers contributing to deforestation in the Cerrado region of Brazil.
Andfjord Salmon, Skretting Norway and Sortland-based Zooca are partnering in relation to a plankton-based feed for the Norwegian land-based salmon producer.
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.
EIT Food has announced the latest group of companies to join its Food Accelerator Network (FAN) – a total of 61 agrifood startups have been selected to receive support and investment opportunities to grow and scale.
Leading soy traders have collectively developed a protocol to monitor and trace soybeans from indirect suppliers in the Cerrado, they have also initiated a financial scheme to incentivize sustainable land use practices.
A Texas A&M AgriLife team is working to improve the health, growth and productivity of farmed bass by developing effective nutritional strategies to substitute fishmeal and other protein feedstuffs in their diets.
A transformation is underway in the US soybean market, says former Bunge procurement director, Gordon Denny, who also advices the United Soybean Board and US Soybean Export Council.
Algiecel says its pilot-scale, mobile container-based photobioreactor utilizing algae to sequester CO2 emissions from industrial processes is now operational.
Nofima, in the hunt for new and sustainable fish feed proteins, has been testing the technical quality of tunicate meal, along with its nutritional constraints, since both determine possible inclusion levels in fish feed.
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.
China’s fishmeal imports in January and February 2022 decreased year on year, with Peru, Russia, and Vietnam the top suppliers of the raw material to the Asian country, finds the IFFO.
Belgian business, the Colruyt Group, is expanding its minority interest in The Seaweed Company to 21%. The retail group was already a shareholder in the Dutch startup.
A new study, carried out in India, indicates krill meal inclusion in shrimp diets can have a positive effect on survival, body weight and fatty acid concentration in the body.
MEP Christophe Hansen's new ENVI report amending the proposal to end imported deforestation into the EU for certain commodities has been praised by industry and some environmentalists, but not all.
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.
