Nutreco’s salmon feed business performed strongly last year but the Dutch group decried overcapacity in the main Norwegian market as it released its financial results for 2015.
The Brazilian soy moratorium, a private sector voluntary agreement, set up in 2006, which has prohibited participants from trading, acquiring or financing soybeans from areas of the Brazilian Amazon biome that were deforested after July 2008, has been...
The move by the British Poultry Council (BPC) to reveal antibiotic usage data across 90% of domestic broiler, turkey and duck production is a game changer, says an antimicrobial resistance expert.
Secondary plant compound producer, EW Nutrition, says animals will indicate when all is not well and such signals should be analyzed carefully to determine the multiple parameters undermining performance.
The feed market is said to be a significant growth driver for Hamburg based functional ingredient producer, Stern Wywiol Gruppe, which had 12% growth overall in 2015.
EU trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, quickly moved to dismiss concerns about the EU position in TTIP negotiations with the US following the Greenpeace leaks today.
Researchers, publishing the findings of extensive feeding trials with insect derived meal today, called for a review of insect protein legislation in the EU and funding to help address its protein deficit.
De Heus, in its strategy to be a leading player in the Vietnamese feed sector, continues to enhance its production capacity in that Asian country, it has just opened its seventh feed plant in the Mekong Delta.
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), the trade group representing the feed, crop protection, grain and oilseed sectors in the UK, said Brexit would not be in the best interest of its members.
Irish company on the asset trail in North America and the Middle East
Northern Ireland headquartered, Devenish Nutrition, has just been recognized, through a UK award scheme, for its achievement in the areas of innovation and international trade.
Olam International said it has broken ground on an integrated feed mill, poultry breeding farm and hatchery in Kaduna State, Nigeria. When completed, it will be the largest such operation of its kind in the African country.
Special Edition: Environmentally friendly feed sector initiatives
Identifying sustainable feed ingredients for the European feed manufacturing sector is a priority for Netherlands based feed sector orientated research and education center, the Feed Design Lab.
Special Edition: Environmentally friendly feed sector initiatives
The sustainability profile of Calysta’s methane gas to feed protein, FeedKind, could be bumped up if its production involved the use of biogas, but its land and water resource saving metrics are solid, finds a report from UK agency, the Carbon Trust.
The controversial herbicide, glyphosate, should be reauthorized but not for 15 years as originally proposed, say MEPs, citing concerns about its carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties.
Special Edition: Environmental friendly feed sector initiatives
Dutch feed producer, ForFarmers, was recently granted permission to go ahead with the construction of a planned £10.5m extension to its dairy feed plant in Exeter, UK.
A four-year, €5m backed EU project is looking to create a cloud-based platform that provides real-time, customized advice about mycotoxins in order to achieve crop contamination reductions of between 20 and 90%.
UK food producer, Cranswick, is weighing up the potential of the feed side of poultry firm, Crown Chicken Ltd, after its acquisition of that processor for £40m (USD$56.9m).
Denmark’s Vilomix has signed a deal with a Vietnamese integrated feed and food producer, Hung Vuong, to build a new premix and vitamin factory in Lang An province in Vietnam.
The US-based agri-giant said earnings rose in animal nutrition, led by operations in the US and Vietnam, as it released its Q3 results for fiscal year 2016 and first nine months to end of February, but, overall, it noted a tough trading environment.
EFSA has found the current Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of the mycotoxin, zearalenone, in food and feed should be maintained at the previous level of 0.25 µg/kg BW per day.
Brussels based agri trade group, Copa and Cogeca, has a sent a letter to the Commission, urging them to keep the herbicide active substance glyphosate on the EU market.
ZIVO Bioscience, a US developer of what it calls a ‘cost effective’ algae culture derived feed ingredient, is looking to partner with a global feed company on dairy formulation testing.
Deinove says it is finally edging towards commercial revenue generation and industrial scale manufacture of natural carotenoids for use in feed, dietary supplements and cosmetics. The Montpellier-based producer uses Deinococcus bacteria as host strains.
Expanding markets, research and feed use are some of the focus areas for a new venture started by the Sorghum Checkoff, Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission and Kansas State University.
A German government funded initiative, EsRAM, aims at reducing antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens in broilers and will look at how feed additives can contribute to this goal.
Any revisions of the EU feed additive authorization regulation should take account of the need for new safety data and flexibility on efficacy, says an expert.
The Canadian producer has recently developed a synergistic alliance of inactivated yeast strains, from Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Cyberlindnera jadinii called Yang that is said to help with piglet weaning and pathogen challenges.
WWF, Hershey and Waitrose in Protein Challenge 2040 steering group
A global forum has initiated a call to action to the wider industry, the Protein Challenge 2040, to accelerate development of alternatives to soy and fishmeal.
