A no-deal Brexit looms larger with the UK prime minister’s EU exit agreement suffering a crashing defeat in the House of Commons last night [January 15].
Reuters reported on Christmas Day that China had detected the African swine fever (ASF) virus in protein powders derived from pork blood and manufactured by a Tianjin-based company.
Finding ways to improve feed mill efficiency, ramping production, reducing process variability, ensuring feed safety and reducing costs are critical, and moving from dry to liquid supplements can help in this regard, says a Kemin executive.
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is in the process of recalling some of the cattle feed products manufactured at a company facility in Columbus, Nebraska after discovering a production malfunction.
The Belgian authorities recently notified the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) over their identification of the presence of an unauthorized genetically modified strain of bacteria - Bacillus subtilis KCCM-10445 - in vitamin B2 (80% feed...
French company, Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, launched a new generation of its live Saccharomyces cerevisiae product, ActiSaf Sc 47 HR+, and a new technical service at EuroTier last week.
The second International Sorghum Congress took place on 7-8 November 2018 in Milan, Italy. The event looked at how sorghum could compete with other cereals both in terms of profitability for farmers and economic and nutritional interest for users in both...
Chinese animal feed maker, Tangrenshen Group, confirmed on Tuesday this week that independent analysis of feed made by one of its units had ruled out the presence of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, according to Reuters.
Kemin has released a statement saying its coated calcium chloride product, NutriCAB, is not affected by the recent RASFF alert launched following a notification from the Netherlands about high dioxin levels found in coated calcium chloride products sourced...
The EU Commission has asked EFSA to provide a report on the available occurrence data on nickel in feed and to provide estimates of animal exposure to that naturally occurring metal.
The African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in China will change the structure of the swine sector there, accelerating a consolidation trend, according to RaboResearch’s latest Pork Quarterly report.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned two feed mills about the use of monensin in feed production after both facilities produced horse feed containing the livestock drug.
US pork producers and feed suppliers are increasingly worried about feed safety due to the discovery and spread of African swine fever (ASF) in China where some feed ingredients, including soy bean meal, dried distillers grains and solubles (DDGS), amino...
Biomin is in expansion mode. It recently broke ground on a new mineral feed and premix production plant in Austria, while, in November 2017, it increased its capacity in the fast-growing Chinese market with the opening of a production plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu...
As concerns about the presence of African swine fever (ASF) overseas continue, a series of questions for swine producers to ask their feed companies about feed origins and feed safety measures are being developed.
Damage to agricultural production in North and South Carolina is forecast to be more than $1.1bn based on loss of feed and other crops and livestock, reported the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA).
UK bulk liquid and powder road tanker firm, Abbey Logistics, has launched a new tanker division, focused on providing nationwide bulk transport and logistics for liquid feed.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are seeking stakeholder involvement in an advisory meeting and are also looking for data to address the issue of the carryover from feed to food of unavoidable and...
With formaldehyde banned in the EU, preventative measures to fight pathogens like Salmonella in feed are even more critical and industry must consider all aspects from raw material input to storage and transport, say Kemin executives.
Both Purina Animal Nutrition LLC and Texas Farm Products Company (TFPC) requested that some components of the lawsuit brought against them by Veath Fish Farm LLC be rejected in summary judgement in August.
German specialty chemicals company, Evonik, says it has expanded its high-precision Near Infrared (NIR) analytical services to enable the content of raw, unground feed materials to be assessed as soon as they arrive at the feed mill.
Ongoing swine health research seeks to track the potential for virus-infected feed to cause the related disease in pigs, says swine health center director.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called an emergency meeting of animal disease specialists to try and prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) to other countries in Asia as China announces its ninth case of the disease since...
Burned rangeland and pasture, lost cattle and replacement feed are some of the challenges that producers in California are facing from in-state wildfires.
Outbreaks of African Swine Fever in China are raising concerns for swine producers in the US as the disease may be able to survive the importing process in feed or feed ingredients, says expert.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, predicted the rise of poultry ‘mega farms’. FeedNavigator catches up with him to find out what implications this would have for the feed industry.
European feed processor, Dantrace-Danfeed, and US industrial ag-firm, DPI Global, have joined forces on a patent for zinc-copper gluconate feed additives to treat bovine digital dermatitis in herd cattle.
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Would it not be nice to produce L-Met in a safer way – without HCN – while utilizing the abundant industrial side product CO2? Yes, say a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
The dominant factors governing polybrominated diphenyl ether congeners (PBDE) concentration in Atlantic salmon fillet are uptake via contaminated feed and fish growth, finds a study.
Coceral, the European association of trade in cereals, rice, feed oilseeds, olive oil, oils and fats, is calling for legal certainty and regulatory coherence for New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs).
Phibro’s feed additive-focused app aims to give dairy producers usable trend data on feed formulation, intake, animal production and health parameters.
Industry is railing against the ruling published yesterday by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that classifies plants from mutagenesis techniques as GMOs.
The Archers Daniels Midland Company is recalling a batch of Mintrate tub cattle feed sold this spring in several US states regarding potentially elevated non-protein nitrogen levels.
A team of researchers from the University of Alberta examined the transfer of arsenic (As) from feed additives through the production of chickens into poultry litter.