A new study, conducted by Decision Innovation Solutions (DIS), on behalf of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), estimates that this year the US animal food industry, including indirect and induced effects, will generate $267.1bn in sales.
A long-awaited review of the UK pork supply chain must lead to action that protects and benefits primary producers, says the chief executive of the national pig association (NPA).
China’s fishmeal imports in January and February 2022 decreased year on year, with Peru, Russia, and Vietnam the top suppliers of the raw material to the Asian country, finds the IFFO.
China is seeing its biggest COVID-19 outbreaks in two years, with partial or citywide lockdowns in multiple places and mostly for non-essential services. We look at the implications along with potential market disruption from the Black Sea conflict.
We hear from Danisco Animal Nutrition, Hamlet Protein, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, Novus, and Cargill Animal Nutrition on their projections for the industry, the likely headwinds and opportunities.
As the Omicron variant is driving an unprecedented wave of coronavirus infection globally, resulting in mass absences of staff in multiple industries, due to infection or quarantine, we track the impact on the European feed sector.
Multiple companies, including feed additive producers, have halted production in a critical manufacturing hub in China as the authorities try to contain a COVID-19 outbreak.
The US grain, farm supply and biofuels sectors enter 2022 facing a mixture of inflationary headwinds, supply chain bottlenecks and high-energy prices that present challenges but also a few opportunities, finds an outlook from CoBank.
Crude oil has been a strong indicator of economic demand, and with a new coronavirus variant making headlines, markets are fearing a cut to consumption, and crude oil values have rapidly fallen, finds CRM Agri.
Broiler feed prices have been steadily increasing in Turkey while broiler meat production has been stagnating for the past two years, finds a new report.
The AIC, alongside a number of UK food and drink sector bodies, via a new cross-industry report, is calling for a 12-month COVID-19 Recovery Visa to help alleviate the workforce shortages that are causing serious disruption across the whole of the supply...
Industrial compound feed production in the EU and UK remained stable in 2020 despite the combined effect of the spread of animal diseases including African swine fever (ASF) and Avian influenza (HPAI) along with the disruption brought on by the COVID-19...
Leading European feed manufacturer, ForFarmers, says the first quarter of 2021 showed a mixed picture compared to the same quarter last year, when COVID-19 had not taken hold.
The outlook for the global poultry industry is gradually improving. Big differences remain between countries, and global poultry trade is still very competitive, says Rabobank in its latest review.
Despite the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and the further spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) in wild boar westwards into Germany, EU pork production and exports broke a record in 2020, finds a USDA report.
Constance Cullman, president of the CEO of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), in a talk during the virtual IPPE trade show this week, provided insights gleaned from roundtable discussions the AFIA led in late 2020 on HR best practice during...
Industry concerns vary from region to region and from species to species but there are some common challenges for the global feed and farming sectors throughout 2021, says Erik Visser, CEO of Danish soy protein producer, Hamlet Protein in an outlook.
Kemiex sees rising ingredient prices for a set of reasons: freight related disruptions and charges, a new wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, elevated raw material prices for fermented feed additives and dollar weakness.
Sweden’s Perstorp Group, a global leader in the specialty chemicals market with a focus on polyols, advanced chemicals and animal nutrition, has been granted a liquidity enhancing Revolving Credit Facility of SEK 600m (US$73.1m)
French and Polish feed additives players, NUQO and Aditech Polska, have signed a partnership agreement to develop and distribute the French company’s technologies in Poland and in the Baltic countries.
Washington-based feed and ingredient business, Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, anticipates M&A activity in its space continuing despite ongoing pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the coming year, US livestock and poultry producers will face more feed cost inflation than they have in over a decade, challenging their ability to recover after a difficult and volatile 2020, finds a new report from CoBank.
The Dutch agribusiness bank's outlook for animal protein markets globally sees pork production returning to growth in 2021, but the analysts say it will be a gradual recovery process, as African swine fever (ASF) is still active.
As US President-elect Joe Biden prepares for the transition of power, we talk to Constance Cullman, president and CEO of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), as to what the organisation is hoping for in terms of support for the feed sector,...
Barentz, a global distributor of life science ingredients has acquired Sevecom, a specialist in emulsifiers with their own developed and patented solutions for animal nutrition.
During the first five months of 2020, the volume of Spanish pork exports grew by 11% fueled by record-level exports to China, finds newly released data.
A no-deal Brexit would be extremely harmful for the EU agri-food chain, says three lobby groups in a joint statement released yesterday [September 24].
The feed and food ingredients sectors continue to be held hostage by the Covid-19 pandemic, says Swiss feed and food additives trading platform, Kemiex.
Rabobank expects a slight increase in global poultry production (+0.8% YOY), mostly as a result of poultry expansion in China and Vietnam, where African swine fever has reduced pork availability, and also from expansion in the US.
We track the stories that got you clicking during the lazy, hazy summer days of August. There was a big focus on sustainability drivers in the Top 10 most read pieces that month.
Kansas-State University researchers confirm that emergency diet strategies adopted by swine producers to slow the growth of pigs during the Covid-19 crisis are safe and effective.
June this year saw significant marine raw material production, well above the average for output that month during the years, 2011- 2019, said the IFFO, the marine ingredients organization, in a report this month.
To prevent challenges such as disruption to food supply chains from a pandemic like Covid-19 or other public health sanitary crisis, a key learning for the EU feed manufacturing sector is to have permanent crisis management capacity in place - at company...
COVID-19 infections among workers in German slaughterhouses is expected to not only have a short-term impact on the pig market and global pork trade but will most likely result in fundamental changes for German pork production, argues the USDA’s Foreign...
In our latest Feed Matters podcast instalment, we talk to Brian Philpot, CEO of AgAmerica, about the effect of Covid-19 on the US agriculture industry.
June saw good weather globally, as winter harvests began well and spring crops showed healthy development, says Rabobank in an agri-commodity report for this month.
In an outlook on Iraq’s grain and feed usage, the USDA forecasts that feed sector consumption of grain will rise on population growth and the increasing demand for meat and dairy products, a trend fueling a pick-up in the Iraqi livestock sector.