Entobel, a biotech company specialized in insect-derived feed protein, with production activities based in Vietnam since 2013, has raised €1m (US$1.13m) in funding, and its first commercial production plant is just about to go live.
Researchers based at Aarhus University in Foulum, Denmark are optimistic they can partially replace traditional protein ingredients like soy with clover grass in organic pig feed.
Brussels based, International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), has just unveiled a guidance document on the best practices in quality and hygienic insect production
Black Soldier Fly (BSF) derived protein and single cell proteins from bacterial sources are two products nominated by an expert group as having potential in terms of new feed inputs for pigs and poultry.
Portuguese start-up, EntoGreen, says construction will begin on its first commercial scale black soldier fly (BSF) derived feed protein facility at the end of this year. The company was established in 2014.
Calysta, a manufacturer of fish and animal protein feed products using methane conversion technology, has made it onto a roll-call of leading companies involved in sustainable innovation, the Global Cleantech 100.
Arbiom, a developer of non-food biomass processing technology, announced last month that it had successfully produced tonnage quantities of its high protein feed ingredient derived from wood at a combined 80,000-L industrial fermentation scale, with partners...
In an effort to address increasing feed manufacturer interest, EnviroFlight, a joint venture of Intrexon and Darling Ingredients, opened a new production facility at the end of 2018 in Maysville, Kentucky.
SweetPro Feeds is expanding its product line with a dried, high protein and fiber fermented feed ingredient after buying and refurbishing a new drying facility.
In late 2017, we reported on an Irish project, Newtrients, involving the capture of essential nutrients from dairy processing wastewater to grow duckweed as a novel feed protein. Some 13 months on, we hear from the project leader as to the targets met...
Pizzeria by-product may support tilapia growth and development while lowering feed costs for producers using biofloc production systems, say researchers.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has recently revealed it is aiming to bring plant ingredients within its Feed Standard, through the development and adoption of assessment tools for traceability and sustainability, in an approach similar to that...
White Dog Labs is locating its upcoming commercial-scale production facility for its alternative feed ingredient derived from single-cell proteins in Nebraska, says CEO.
Danish company, ENORM, has been awarded a grant from the government to establish the country’s first industrial insect production site, based on the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) .
Auchan supermarket in France is now selling own label insect fed trout in 52 of its stores in the North of France region with the objective of extending the initiative to all its supermarkets in France by the end of 2019.
KnipBio’s single-cell protein feed ingredient may allow farmed trout to meet or exceed growth and feed conversion rates set using other alternative proteins or fishmeal.
Aarhus University’s Knud-Erik Bach Knudsen, leader of the work package on alternative protein feed ingredients and real-time characterization under the Horizon 2020 backed Feed-a-Gene project, was presenting on achievements to date of that work at EuroTier...
High value protein derived from grass biomass shows the most potential for replacing protein imports like soybean meal for Danish farmed animal production, finds a review.
Protelux has completed the construction of a 6,000 ton per year methane to feed protein plant in Russia, based on technology from Danish company, Unibio.
High protein soybean meal for aquaculture could soon be a commercially reality, as US biotech company Amfora embarks on a program to apply its patented gene editing technology to develop crops with an enhanced protein content.
A year has passed since the European regulation authorizing insect proteins in fish feeds came into force. FeedNavigator catches up with Antoine Hubert – a man at the center of industry developments – to find out how the sector has moved on.
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Microbial protein production, driven by renewable hydrogen, and coupled with carbon capture, could be an interesting ‘out of the box’ solution as a protein source for food and feed that warrants further exploration, finds a new paper.
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Low- and high-tannin faba beans may support turkey gut health and provide a locally grown alternative feed ingredient to the use of soybean meal for turkey producers, says researcher.
Dairy cattle pelleted feeds made with carinata meal may provide more protein than diets made with conventional protein meals like canola meal, say researchers.
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Novel proteins can replace soybean products in European poultry diets while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and arable land requirements for feed provision relative to conventional diets, finds a study.
The level of success of the EU Commission’s EU Protein Plan depends, to a great extent, on whether the European feed industry is able to incorporate locally cultivated protein crops in feed formulations, argues FEFAC.
EFSA says it has received new data from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) to help it assess environmental risk from supplementing feed for salmonids with a higher level of vitamin D3.
Amino acid (AA) concentrations are highest in red, followed by green, and lowest in brown seaweeds, found Danish and Norwegian researchers looking at the potential of macroalgae as an alternative protein source in dairy cow diets.
The UK’s University of Nottingham says a new £6m (US $8.05m) facility will position it at the forefront of research into the health, nutrition and welfare of dairy cows.
MiAlgae, a student-launched startup that is targeting the farmed fish and livestock sectors with microalgae made from the co-products of whisky, has received £500,000 (US $668,748) from investors.
Netherlands supermarket giant, Albert Heijn, has started to sell eggs from laying hens fed live grubs; the sustainability and circular economy aspect of such egg production appealed to the retailing group.
The South Dakota-based, Prairie Aquatech, is building a new facility to expand production capacity for its fermented, soybean-based protein meal, targeted at fish feed.
Dutch feed group, Nutreco, has taken a 25% share in Eruvaka, an India-based Internet of Things (IoT) company that develops connected devices and mobile-based decision tools aimed at helping shrimp farmers increase productivity.
Newly developed strains of the oilseed carinata may offer a high protein alternative feed ingredient to canola that also grows in an arid climate, says researcher.
KnipBio and ICM have agreed a joint effort to work on a commercial-scale fermentation process for the biotech company's premium single cell protein ingredient for KnipBio Meal (KBM).
Unibio, a company producing a single cell protein for animal feed – Uniprotein – using methane as feedstock, has just made a new hire as it is set to ramp up production.
