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.
Cargill published its first quarter FY 2019 results yesterday. The US agribusiness giant said adjusted operating earnings for the period, ending 31 August, totaled $883m, nearly matching the $888m of last year’s comparative period.
Ian McIntosh, formerly chief strategy officer at agribusiness giant, Louis Dreyfus Company Holdings BV (LDCH), has been appointed the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Although both corn and soybean production are looking at large yields, the overall outlook paints separate pictures as soybean trade uncertainty weighs on the industry, said analysts.
DSM and Novozymes have co-developed a new enzyme product, branded as Balancius. The feed ingredient is designed to remove bacterial cell debris from the animal’s gut, helping to optimize nutritional absorption and digestibility.
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.
Animal nutrition research, company expansion and the construction of a new global innovation facility are among the projects Devenish Nutrition is undertaking with financial support from the EIB, says CEO.
Developing feed additives to reduce virulence in pathogenic bacteria and new product development are some of the research priorities for Amlan International.
Feed manufacturers need agility and flexibility whilst navigating great uncertainty in animal protein sparked by the trade disputes, operation weak flesh and disease outbreaks, warns a global expert.
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.
Fornazor International is looking to expand its market coverage in Southeast Asia and the Middle East after receiving halal certification for a poultry feed protein.
China’s livestock industry has experienced a vast transition during the last three decades, with profound effects on domestic and global food provision, resource use, nitrogen and phosphorus losses, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, finds a new study.
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.
The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) is counting on industry involvement as it looks to strengthen the regulations that govern enforcement in the US organic program.
The USDA predicts that the production of soybeans will climb in Ethiopia, partially due to requirements for the raw material in livestock feed – soybean meal for poultry production.
Poultry vaccines producer, Ceva Santé Animale, has signed an agreement with Olam Hatcheries Ltd, a subsidiary of Olam International, to further develop poultry production in Nigeria.
The growing middle class in Africa is driving change throughout that continent’s poultry production value chain, encouraging greater local and international investment in required supporting infrastructure, says Rabobank.
Heidi Hall, technical manager for swine at Anpario, outlined at VIV Europe 2018 in Utrecht last month how acid based eubiotics help regulate the microbial population of the animal’s gut.
BASF said that, as of today [July 20], it has lifted the force majeure for its Lutavit A 1000, Lutavit A 500, vitamin A Palmitate 1.6 Mio IU/g, Lutavit E 50, Lutavit E 50 S, and vitamin E Acetate 94% animal nutrition products.
Growth for feed grains are expected to come from export markets, but what steps are needed to support and grow trade alliances in a period marked by tariffs and counter-tariffs?
Animal nutrition group, Neovia, has acquired a Nigerian premix company, Hi Nutrients, in a move it says will help accelerate its expansion within Africa.
The Marine Ingredients Organization, the IFFO, says former Cargill aqua feed executive, Petter Martin Johannessen, is its new director general. He will replace the incumbent, Andrew Mallison.
Irish biotech company, MicroSynbiotiX Ltd, says it is making significant progress around proof of concept of its edible vaccine system, showing that it can use microalgae as an oral delivery platform to vaccinate farmed juvenile fish.
Antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in global livestock and aquaculture production should be phased out immediately, said the FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, at a high-level UN coordination meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) this week.
Last week saw German chemical group, Evonik, inaugurate its first animal nutrition laboratory in Nairobi in Kenya. The facility is equipped with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) technology.
Awareness raising among consumers is needed to stimulate demand among downstream players if the soy supply chain is ever to get the level of palm oil in terms of responsible production and sourcing, says a representative of a French agribusiness group.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition says it is now in the process of generating mobile app versions of its rumen efficiency investigation (REI) audit tool for both the dairy and beef sectors, much like the app it has for silage evaluation, Lalsil.
Representatives of soy producing countries, under the ISGA umbrella, were involved in a recent mission to China; their aim was to ensure a more efficient biotech approval process in that Asian country.
XpertSea, a Canadian, female-led technology company with an IoT device for tracking and managing aquatic populations in warm water farmed fish production has raised $10m CAD in Series A financing.
A potential candidate in the hunt for effective alternatives to in-feed antibiotics in pig and poultry feed is resistant starch (RS) due to its prebiotic effect, say the authors of a review in Animal Nutrition.
The USDA has published a list of international and domestic businesses it claimed are using fraudulent organic program certificates. The move forms part of the agency's efforts to maintain the integrity of the US feed and food labeling system.
BASF says it is on schedule in terms of getting its citral production plant in Ludwigshafen, in Germany up and running again after the fire at that facility in October 2017.
The retailer, fast food company, and NGO took part in an interactive panel debate during a workshop style event, at our conference, Feed Protein Vision 2018, last month. They were asked to explain why sustainable animal feed protein is relevant for the...
Global fast food giant, McDonald’s, is exploring the potential of protein derived from both insects and seaweed as alternatives to soy in chicken feed.
A new North American coalition has formed to expand educational outreach and opportunities for insect producers that provide ingredients to the feed and food industries, says chairman.
A new initiative aims to harmonize and simplify regulations related to animal feed, drugs and vaccines in Nigeria, in the hope of triggering socio-economic development in the West African country.
Dutch investment fund, Aqua-Spark, which has sustainable fish farming as its goal, has invested in Hatch Accelerator 1.0, the first-ever incubator type program for the aquaculture industry.