Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), in its latest sustainability report, stressed the strides it has made towards more sustainable soy production practices in Brazil.
Montana Microbial Products (MMP), has signed a licensing agreement with The Scoular Company to produce and sell its barley protein concentrate product.
Pigs delivered to Danish Crown in the coming years must be fed with 100% responsibly produced soy, said the company in an action plan that it delivered to the Soy Alliance in Denmark last Thursday [April 30].
The EU Commission has been urged to lift certain restrictions on protein crop production in Europe to address what the EU farming lobby terms ‘a growing risk’ to supply.
Stories on the coronavirus outbreak, Nestlé ceasing to source Brazil soy from Cargill and Nutreco investing in a cultured meat pioneer were the top hitting articles last month on our site.
Financially challenged, Vicentin, a diversified agribusiness and one of the largest Argentinian-owned exporters of soy and soy products, has asked a national court to begin bankruptcy-protection proceedings, reported Bloomberg Law.
Around 80% of global deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion, a phenomenon which has roots in the global demand for products such as palm oil, soy and beef, says the EU Commission.
Cargill has moved to clarify what its current trading relationship is with Nestlé, following the report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that the leading food and beverage company had stopped buying Cargill’s Brazilian soy because of concerns about the...
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently reported that the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has stopped buying Cargill’s Brazilian soy because of concerns about the link to deforestation.
Tesco, Nutreco and Grieg Seafood have become the first companies to lend their support to a new industry-led scheme aimed at helping to end soy-linked deforestation in one of Brazil’s most biodiverse regions, the Cerrado.
UK company, Premier Nutrition, has launched a feed ingredients matrix, with global relevance, to help nutritionists formulate livestock rations more accurately.
Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, deserves huge credit for putting the fires in the Amazon rainforest on the global agenda, CEO of US based environmental campaign group, Mighty Earth, Glenn Hurowitz, told FeedNavigator today.
The world’s first financial facility to offer green bonds for sustainable soy production in Brazil was launched yesterday [July 4] at London Climate Action Week.
US based environmental campaign group, Mighty Earth, along with other NGOs, has ranked some of the leading soy buyers in France for compliance with recently established legislation in that market.
A BioMar investigation has found no intent or negligence on the part of its Brazilian suppliers of non-GMO, certified soy - Caramuru, Selecta and Imcopa - in terms of environmental or social legislation violations.
Nestlé has come out top in relation to soy in the latest Forest 500 report that rates food manufacturer, trader, retailer, food service and financial institutions’ efforts to tackle commodity led deforestation in all sourcing regions.
Following years of feed development, the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) is partnering to establish a Pacific Bluefin tuna hatchery in the San Diego Bay area.
The Consumer Goods Forum, through the Soy Buyers’ Coalition (SBC), aspires to work closely with soy producers, traders, local governments, investors, NGOs and more in the main soy sourcing regions, where deforestation is a risk.
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.
Northern Ireland headquartered, Devenish Nutrition, has invested €1m in developing the Ugandan pig and feed industry via a long term project that has transformed productivity.
Several regional platforms are materializing across Europe, alongside the global Roundtable for Responsible Soy (RTRS), to encourage domestic retailers and traders to buy only responsibly sourced soy. One such is the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (UKRT).
Niels Alsted has just retired from Danish fish feed manufacturer, BioMar. In total, he spent 45 years in the aquaculture sector. He talked FeedNavigator through his career, which started in 1974 on a small trout farm in Denmark.
CRM AgriCommodities says global oilseeds values have edged higher this week as markets sensed a more optimistic tone in the trade negotiation between the US and China.
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...
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.
We heard from Alexander Döring, secretary general of the European Feed Manufacturer’s Federation (FEFAC), about the trade group’s agenda for next year.
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...
In a roadmap published yesterday, the European Commission has promised to tackle global deforestation, in particular trying to address and reduce the EU’s role in that.
A recent industry note published by Rabobank describes the impact of the draft Brexit deal on food and agribusiness companies in Europe, with the analysts recognizing the remaining uncertainty about whether this deal will be approved in the UK parliament.
