The Dutch feed company, in its trading update for the first quarter of 2014, said revenue for the period, at €853.3 million, was up 8.4% on the same quarter last year.
Elanco said its purchase of the Novartis animal health division will boost its cattle vaccines portfolio, and expand its presence in China and emerging markets.
A leading analyst firm in China is predicting a rebound in domestic poultry feed consumption with warmer weather reducing the risk of further outbreaks of avian flu.
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has urged the US FDA to rethink its approach to animal food regulation to avoid imposing costs and burdens on animal food manufacturers that are even greater than those imposed on human food manufacturers.
The immune, nutrition, and growth enhancing activity of probiotics could see them improve production and profitability of farmed Atlantic cod, according to a new review in the journal Aquaculture.
A ruling in a lysine cartel case which saw damages awarded to French poultry breeder, Doux, against Ajinomoto will make it easier for victims of anti-competitive practices to bring an action for damages and prove prejudice, says a lawyer.
Cargill is funding feed-related research on Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) in a bid to understand how pigs become infected and to help try and eradicate it.
Partial replacement of animal proteins by wheat proteins in the diet of piglets and veal calves can boost the animal's growth performance while wheat gluten could also improve the environmental profile of the aquaculture sector, said Tereos Syral...
No maximum limit should be set for the use of beta-carotene in milk replacers, says the EU feed additive lobby as an EC review on the use of the additive in animal feeds gets underway.
Phytases added to feed for broilers formulated with the optimal calcium and phosphorus ratio can improve the environmental profile of the broiler sector, finds a new study.
Merck said field trial evaluations on its feed additive – Zilmax – are underway in US cattle feeding facilities but Tyson Foods and Cargill are retaining their ban on the controversial product.
DSM is looking to get FDA backing for the use of its vitamin D3 additive in feed for turkeys and for swine in the US, but approval could take up to one year.
Swiss L-carnitine supplier Lonza said, following a two year evaluation and quality phase, it has now got the new production process for L-Carnitine at its Chinese facility under control, with significantly greater capacity for the vitamin-like substance...
The new Norwegian feed plant from farmed salmon giant, Marine Harvest, is set to be operational by July with the company ambitious to set up feed sites in other fish farming markets.
The move last week by the Chinese state-owned food and feed giant, Cofco, to take a $1.5 billion majority stake in Noble Agri – the agribusiness arm of the Noble Group – will help China to diversify the source of its grains such as soy and corn, says...
The availability and the price of feeds given to dairy animals will be threatened by the new animal feed rule, says US milk producers, angry at the FDA’s decision to include the animal feed by-products of alcohol manufacture in the regulation.
Africa’s chicken and broiler industry is five years away from equivalence with the Thai or Brazilian sector but international feed compounders are not yet exploiting this massive business potential, says a leading animal nutrition firm.
Natural feed additives producer, Anpario, said it remains committed to supplying the UK organic meat industry despite sector fragility, as it posted a jump of 20% in gross profit to £9.2m ($15.2m) for 2013.
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Recent investments at BASF animal nutrition are paying off with the integration of Verenium nearly finalized and the feed enzyme it acquired from Direvo being primed for market entry.
Global capacity in the inorganic feed phosphates (IFP) market is set to jump nearly 3.5 million tons in the next three years with the biggest demand coming from East Asia, said an analyst.
The use of rapeseed cake in the production of livestock feed cuts methane and carbon dioxide emissions by up to 13%, without affecting digestibility in vitro, according to the initial results of a EU-funded research project.
The US and Canadian pork, feed and other linked industries have mapped out feed-related research priorities in a strategic bid to control the future spread of the deadly Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv).
Chinese group, Global Biochem Technology (GBT), is to scale down its lysine production this year but is confident it can take the helm in the amino acid segment when buoyancy returns to the market.
EU aquaculture producers have been defending the use of non-ruminant processed animal protein (PAP) in fish feed one year on from EU authorization following negative media coverage, notably in France.
There will be a continuing slide in demand for pig feed in the EU this year due to productivity challenges in the sector and cattle feed demand is set to decline on better weather conditions for grasslands and forages production, says trade group.
The Indian dairy feed market has huge potential for growth, with education around animal nutrition essential for boosting milk productivity, says Cargill.
A major fire due to a technical issue on March 12 at a BASF plant in Germany will close the plant for a month or more and affect supply of vitamins A and E.
A US biotechnology partnership is aiming to increase the digestibility and feed conversion ratio of a grain by-product to save costs for the livestock sector.
The German poultry sector’s claim that supplies of non-GM soy from Brazil can no longer be guaranteed is untenable, said the anti-GM lobby in Germany which is holding a ‘correction’ forum in April to inform the feed industry about the reality of soy volumes.
A new feed additive aimed at the aquaculture industry is said to boost the sustainability of the sector through enabling better feed conversion, less excretion of nitrogen and improved water quality.
"2013 was a once off” for US fish meal producer Omega Protein Corporation, says an analyst, as the group reports an all-time record high gross profit of $83m.
Average prices for compound feed across all animal categories in the UK have slipped in the past quarter, says Defra in its animal feedstuffs price report.
Testing cannot confirm a link between feed containing blood plasma and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus cases in Canada, said the country’s food inspection agency yesterday.
Austrian additive supplier, Lactosan, has high hopes for boosting its share of the pig breeding sector following the positive opinion from EFSA for its probiotic for use in sow feed.
Sourcing large volumes of segregated sustainable soy is some years off yet but there are alternatives for cow feed, said Arla Foods, as it announced a move to support more responsible soy production.
Feed tonnage for poultry was at a ‘surprisingly high’ 444 million metric tons in 2013, with six percent growth over 2012, according to the Alltech Feed Tonnage Survey.
Asia remains the top feed producer by tonnage, but could easily double its totals if it moved all of its animals onto compound feed, according to the director of the Alltech Feed Tonnage Survey.
Supplementing the diet of beef cattle with a combination of selenium and vitamin E may enhance the mineral content and reduce the cholesterol in the meat, says a new study from Brazil.
Early administration of probiotic Lactobacillus fermentum I5007 to piglets may boost the microbial composition of the young animals and modulate their immune status, says a new study.
A bid to streamline the export of US feed ingredients is underway with a new certification process that aims to help manufacturers comply with complex quality protocols in countries such as Brazil and China.
