The reopening of the Chinese market to US poultry products is expected to boost demand for the feed ingredient and signal improving global trade relations; the change also comes as a new round of federal support for crop producers is set to start.
Danish fish feed manufacturer, BioMar, announced strong financial results in Q3 yesterday [November 7], with the group raising its overall guidance for the year.
Challenging conditions for agribusiness, including delayed farmer selling, trade uncertainty and slower demand for soybean meal negatively influenced third quarter results of Bunge Limited.
Despite talk of the development of an early stage deal between the US and China, feed and agricultural industry members await more concrete details of the potential impact for their sectors.
China’s feed consumption is down sharply, but set to rebound during ASF recovery, says Rabobank in a review this month of the impact of African Swine Fever (ASF) on the industry in China and other Asian markets hit by that virus.
Abandoning sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) makes no sense if replaced by therapeutic doses in medicated feed, says a Danish expert.
Certain US feed and agricultural products are likely to be excluded from punitive Chinese tariffs, as the US and China move to ease trade war tensions. Over the last week, both Washington and Beijing offered gestures of good will.
UK feed additive producer, Anpario, has announced the opening of its new £1m (US$1.2m), fully automated, bottling plant at its Manton Wood facility in Nottinghamshire, UK.
It has been US feed group and agricultural good producers – not the importing country or its consumers – that have paid most of the cost of the retaliatory tariffs arising out of US disputes with trading partners, say CoBank analysts.
Rabobank, in a newly released industry note, maintains its projections for China’s feed use and soybean imports from last month. In 2019, it forecasts the year-on-year (YOY) drop in China’s pig feed will be at 35%.
Feed ingredient producers and industry members are decrying the escalation in the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China, which are prompting fears of longer-term market damage.
Maintaining feed grain and oilseed trade with China may mean exporters should improve their knowledge of their trading partner, agri-food policy analysts say.
Feed protein producer, iCell Sustainable Nutrition, has opened a new production facility to support aquaculture and poultry producers and reduce organic waste, says VP.
Global expansion plans and interest in supporting a developing dairy sector are spurring a dairy-focused joint venture for two international cooperatives.
Novus International Inc. presented at the Zero Zinc Summit in Copenhagen in Denmark earlier this week on the efficacy of chelated trace minerals as a reliable alternative to zinc oxide (ZnO).
The outbreak of African Swine Fever in Asia may bring both challenges and opportunities to US feed producers as export demand dwindles initially and livestock producers seek to fill animal protein demands, says analyst.
Ongoing trade uncertainty and continuing tariffs are prompting a new round of federal support for US feed crop and agricultural producers as disruption to international markets continue.
The African swine fever (ASF) virus, initially detected in Vietnam in February, has resulted in the culling of over 1.3m domestic pigs in that market, so far, according to an update from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The ongoing US-China trade situation could result in another round of aid for US feed crop producers as China outlines its response to increased tariffs and feed crop producers ask for a trade deal.
The US feed industry calls for a resolution to the trade war with Beijing as Washington points to the possibility of new or increased tariffs on products.
The Canadian government is stepping in to support canola producers as a period of trade uncertainty stemming from a slow down in exports to China continues.
Weather and market challenges reduced segment earnings for ADM in the first quarter, but predictions of a potential trade deal with China could boost returns in the later half of the year, says CEO.
The US Grains Council (UGC) has asked for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) to review the existing anti-dumping tariffs on distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) from the US.
Although the WASDE report brought bearish news for feed crop producers, there was little change in the commodity markets, said Chad Hart, associate professor of economics, crop markets specialist and extension economist with Iowa State University.
'The transformations we have been seeing are overwhelming,' said Mark Lyons, president and chief executive of Alltech, the Kentucky-based feed multinational.
Canada is amending its feed and feed ingredient regulations to address the potential risk from imports originating in countries experiencing African Swine Fever outbreaks.
US officials’ discovery of 1m pounds of smuggled pork from China at a port in New Jersey may heighten US industry virus fears as African Swine Fever (ASF) is known to survive in pork and feed products.
There are signs that China’s vast feed market is beginning to look at natural additives as a means to replace antibiotics, according to Biorigin’s regional chief.
As China agrees to increase purchases of US soybeans, questions regarding lifting tariffs on the feed ingredient and ongoing trade negotiations remain.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has forecast Australian wheat production for 2018/19 will decline to 17 million metric tons (MMT), the lowest since 2007/08, as dry and hot conditions prevail across major wheat growing areas. It expects wheat exports...
DSM says its animal nutrition division had a strong year, with 8% organic growth in the underlying business. The feed additive producer released its overall full year 2018 financial results today [February 14].
The US Soybean Export Council is meeting with international customers to bolster markets and address the feed value of US soybeans in an effort to stem an anticipated fall in sales, says chairman.
