An EU action plan on organic farming, launched by the EU Commission today, aims at reaching the target of 25% of agricultural land under organic farming by 2030, as well as a significant increase in organic aquaculture.
Green Plains, which has been transforming its business from traditional ethanol into a sustainable biorefinery platform producing value-add ingredients, says it has achieved a milestone in terms of its protein production goals.
UK feed and agrisupply industry representatives, the AIC, said there are a great number of challenges facing agriculture and food production in the UK that more efficient breeding technologies could help address.
China’s COFCO Corporation is reportedly set to combine its international agriculture trading business platform with several domestic entities to enable it to compete on a more equal footing with ag trading powerhouses: Cargill, Bunge, ADM, and Louis Dreyfus...
A series of online events, hosted by a raft of European experts, will run in April and May to mark the end of two collaborative EU Horizon-2020 funded projects – Leg Value and TRUE - that aimed to empower legume-supported food and feed production across...
Analysts see an ‘active pipeline of earning enhancing acquisitions’ for specialist feed additives group, Anpario, across the UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
A new project aims to develop new types of faba beans, ones that are suitable for cultivation in Denmark, in a bid to decrease the country’s reliance on imported soy for livestock feed.
Deep Branch, a startup using microbes to convert CO2 from industrial emissions into high-value feed proteins, today announced it has completed an €8M (US$9.5m) Series A investment round.
Nutreco looks to accelerate action to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, address climate change and decouple the business from deforestation risk in its new sustainability strategy.
This week saw the Northern Ireland located agri technology company, Devenish, set out international growth plans and announce a strategy to raise capital in order to realize those ambitions.
Biomin, which is now part of DSM, has announced the launch today of its mycotoxin control product, Mycofix Plus 5.Z with ZENzyme, in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
A review of the literature sees that Ochratoxin A (OTA), a widespread mycotoxin, can affect gut dysbiosis in birds, including increasing gut permeability, immunity, and bacterial translocation, eventually leading to gut and other organ injury.
Unibio says Danish Agro’s testing of its single cell protein (SCP), branded as Uniprotein, shows it can partially replace high-quality products such as potato protein and prime fishmeal in starter piglet diets without zinc oxide.
In an update regarding the status of its manufacturing facility in Chocolate Bayou, Texas, following the winter storms, Novus says production of methionine hydroxy analogue (HMTBa) is expected to get underway again in mid-March.
A grass biorefinery project run over two years in Ireland has just published its final results, with several co-products produced showing great promise for dairy and pig diets.
Insect protein producer, Nutrition Technologies, has opened its new industrial-scale factory in Malaysia and has just closed a US$5m fundraising round.
The US Department of Commerce has announced its preliminary determination that methionine imports from France, Spain and Japan have been illegally dumped in the US.
The demand for insect protein, mainly as an ingredient in feed and pet food, could reach half a million metric tons by 2030, up from today’s market of around 10,000 metric tons, predict the authors of a new RaboResearch report.
Such national rollout has been accomplished by installing a specialist holding tank at the company’s Selby, Penrith and Portbury mill sites along with a dedicated delivery system to enable the incorporation of organic soy oil into the range, said ForFarmers...
The global poultry sector faces a perfect storm of ongoing COVID-19 related disruption, particularly to the foodservice sector, soft economic conditions, high and volatile feed prices, an exceptionally high-pressure avian influenza winter season, and...
Suspended exports from Argentina has increased demand for maize from Brazil and the US, pushing up global prices, according to the latest market analysis from AHDB.
French and Polish feed additives players, NUQO and Aditech Polska, have signed a partnership agreement to develop and distribute the French company’s technologies in Poland and in the Baltic countries.
In an exclusive, Asbjørn Børsting, FEFAC president, looks ahead to what is in store for the EU feed industry for the coming year, highlighting priorities for the sector and pending challenges.
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) US$200K for 2021 through the Market Access Program (MAP) to support increasing access to US feed products abroad....
Early nutrition compared to delayed feeding would appear to accelerate maturation of humoral immunity in broilers up to seven days of age, according to a new study.
Dutch fish feed and animal nutrition group, Nutreco, is aiming to source soy and oil palm ingredients by 2025 that are free from both legal and illegal deforestation, with the purpose of limiting its impact on biodiversity and climate change.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Company plans to end production of dry lysine in the first half of 2021 after the global supply increased faster than actual demand. The company is working with customers to ensure a smooth transition before ending production...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reporting, for the second consecutive year, an increase in the sales of medically important antibiotics for farmed animals in the US.
BASF and Adifo say their new software partnership will advance feed formulation and support more sustainable animal protein production as sustainability can now be a used as a parameter in feed formulations and rations.
The complex will be one of the largest in West Africa and will include seven broiler farms and a slaughterhouse capable of treating 60,000 birds per week, said developer, Agrotop.
Belgian processor, Trotec, is involved in an €1.5m EU funded three-year project aimed at developing innovative packaging and processing technologies to process new streams of former foodstuffs into high quality feed.
Nutreco’s animal nutrition division, Trouw Nutrition, has invested in a new facility in India; the 20,000 MT plant is located in Jadcherla, near Hyderabad, and will produce vitamins, mineral premixes, and mineral blends, among other products, targeting...
The Dutch agribusiness bank's outlook for animal protein markets globally sees pork production returning to growth in 2021, but the analysts say it will be a gradual recovery process, as African swine fever (ASF) is still active.
Dietary fiber has received a considerable amount of attention in recent years with fiber components demonstrating beneficial effects in chickens and pigs.
Insect protein producer, InnovaFeed, has announced the opening of its insect protein production site in the north of France, it has also closed a new €140M (US$166M) fundraising effort to accelerate its domestic and international expansion strategy, while...
Evonik's animal nutrition business line is launching Ecobiol Fizz, the first probiotic for chicken in effervescent tablet form; the product is designed to stabilize the intestinal microbiota of broilers and layers, especially during stressful periods....
Recently released economic research from the University of Kent, University of Reading and IHS Markit, reveals the extent to which UK consumers dislike food produced using production methods such as hormones in beef, and chlorine washed chicken.
Zero Waste Scotland wants to educate the market about the potential of insect farming for feed and other sectors. It is running a series of online events around that objective this month.
A multi-factorial system integrating postbiotics, pre and probiotics supports gut health and provides an alternative strategy to antibiotics in poultry, says a USDA expert.
Single cell protein (SCP) innovator, Deep Branch, has been awarded €2.5m (US$2.93m) from an accelerator fund to help shift it towards industrial scale production and get volumes of its protein feed, Proton, out for testing purposes.
