Ethanol groups, Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association, have called for US President Barack Obama to act in the DDGS antidumping investigation by China.
The German group, in releasing its financial results for Q4 and the full year 2015 yesterday, predicted adjusted earnings for this year could dip by as much as 19%.
US animal production may be set to increase as feed prices are expected to remain low for the near future, even with a potential reduction in planting.
Developments to AusScan Online, Aunir’s web-based spectroscopy calibration tool, mean the pig feed industry can now analyze soybean meal to obtain SID (standard ileal digestible) values for all essential amino acids.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) saw a dip in revenue and gross profit stemming from lower returns across US agricultural exports, the ethanol business and soy crushing globally.
Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were concluded in the fall, but US feed manufacturers are still waiting for the deal to get final approval.
A deal that could result in the merger of Asian lysine producers, CJ Cheiljedang and Meihua Bio, would heighten consolidation in the manufacture of that feed amino acid and others, says analysts.
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently announced that it is starting anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations regarding imports of US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS).
The move from Chinese state-owned food and feed giant, Cofco, to acquire 100% of Noble Agri, the agriculture arm of the Noble Group, shows the market in international trading is shifting, says an analyst.
Heavy rains and flooding in parts of the US bring the possibility of soil erosion and nutrient loss, but not the same crop concerns as spring or summer flooding.
We ask the head of a US feed trade group, an agricultural economist and a feed additive supplier to tell us what their chief concerns are over the next 12 months.
A UK plant breeding initiative might be able to identify a class of proteins in wheat similar to that of soy, said a lead researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB).
For the second year in a row, Beijing is planning to cut Chinese maize prices in a bid to encourage local processors to buy domestic stocks, reported Reuters citing industry sources.
The increase in ethanol production since 2000 has resulted in the ethanol industry moving from being a market for US corn to being the primary user of the grain by 2010, according to a USDA report.
Most of China’s nine major lysine manufacturers, which between them account for over 61% of the global market, are back up and running, but nearly all of them are still on a go slow, said Chinese based analyst firm CCM.
US corn and soybean crops have seen hikes in both overall amounts and yield per acre, while the export market remains down, say officials with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
In the latest cereals supply and demand balance sheet from the EU Commission, production and stocks have been increased for wheat and barley, but it is a different story for maize.
Compared to this time last year, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has seen a big drop in its operating profits and net earnings for the third quarter.
Syngenta cannot appeal a ruling allowing Cargill, ADM and others to continue to sue the Swiss company alleging damages from the sale of the Swiss company’s Viptera seed into the US prior to Chinese trait authorization, said a Kansas federal judge.
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Global dairy supplies and a decrease in exports stemming from diminished demand along with the strong dollar have hit the US dairy market but domestic use is high.
Feed manufacturers will benefit from cheaper folic acid (vitamin B9) prices in Q4 as prices in China plunged 37.5% in August, said market intelligence firm CCM.
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A change to weather patterns in late 2016 may mean a pause to bumper corn and soybean crops for the US, Brazil and Argentina, a meteorological expert says.
Prices for corn will go marginally higher in the US, while demand and supply levels return a steady price for soybean meal, predict officials with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
As China’s meat production industrializes, feed grain demand will jump significantly, and will require the Asian giant to source feedstocks, particularly maize, on the international market, forecasts Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) in a new report.
Expansion projects by the three largest poultry groups in Saudi Arabia will see an 8% hike in broiler meat output there against 2014 levels but the production costs involved, especially feed, remain high, said the latest USDA GAIN report on the Saudi...
The feed industry and agricultural sectors in Ghana are set to get help from the American Soybean Association (ASA) backed World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) program.
The EU parliament’s agriculture committee today rejected the Commission's draft law aiming to give countries the power to restrict or prohibit the use of EU-approved GM food or feed.
Cargill has not yet decided if it will appeal a ruling by South Korea’s competition authority claiming the firm was part of an animal feed price rigging cartel over several years.
The production estimate for the 2015/16 global wheat crop is 720.3 metric tons (Mt), according to a report from the International Grains Council (IGC), released late last week.
With another good US harvest on the way, grain prices are expected to move lower, although weather conditions in the EU and Canada are likely to prevent them from falling far.
Cargill saw profits tumble in the past few months, with the lackluster growth in developing countries blamed for a net loss of $51m in fourth quarter results.
Spot prices for vitamin E bottomed out in H1 2015, said Dutch nutrition giant, DSM, in releasing its Q2 results today with it claiming Chinese competitors in the space are weakened.
The National Chicken Council (NCC) supports moves to shrink the mandates on ethanol production in the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) as a way to avoid high feed corn prices and inelasticity in the feed market.
The US market for distillers dried grains (DDGs) is not likely to see wild fluctuation even if less ethanol is produced domestically than once expected as a reaction to changes in biofuel policy.
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