UK feed company, AB Agri, is partnering with GMP+ International to officially launch a new online training academy for feed chain professionals to improve safety in the global feed industry.
Dutch-based startup Connecterra and Fonterra, which is owned by 8.800 New Zealand dairy farmers, are teaming up to expand access to artificial intelligence (AI) technology for farms across New Zealand in 2022.
A low dose of functional amino acid combinations can improve performance and gut health parameters in monogastrics, namely in piglets at weaning, coccidiosis challenged birds, heard attendees at EAAP’s 2nd Amino Acid Academy in Paris last month.
The promise, made in a joint statement issued late on Monday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, was backed by the leaders of countries including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Green Blue Health Pty Ltd is running a study evaluating the use of mussel meal, at different inclusion levels, as a replacement for fishmeal in black tiger prawn diets.
Much of the world is experiencing high enough milk prices to offset high feed costs and general input cost inflation, according to the latest dairy report from Rabobank.
Last week saw the IGC amend its projections for global wheat production in 2021-22 to 782m tons, that is 6m tons lower than its July forecast but still an increase of 1.2% from 773m ton in 2020-21.
Researchers at an Australian university are investigating the value of industrial hemp as feed for cattle and sheep, after a pilot study highlighted the potential value of it as a feed source.
In a recently ran UN Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue, UC Davis experts talked about how US beef and dairy sectors can be climate neutral. They said the question is: How soon?
Beef supply chain contributions to global GHG emissions need to go down, and they can. However, in order to unlock the opportunities, leadership is needed, finds a new report from Rabobank.
In what is claimed to be a world-first off-take-agreement, CH4 Global will provide Australian company, Pirie Meats, with an Asparagopsis seaweed supplement for up to 10,000 head of cattle, cutting methane emissions by up to 90%.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has just launched a feed standard to tackle any unsustainable and irresponsible practices across the aquaculture feed supply chain.
Agri-commodity prices in April were pushed to levels not seen since 2011 to 2013, noted Rabobank in its beef quarterly. It says the knock-on effect of that trend are heightened concerns about the cost of feed.
Bacteriophages, probiotics, postbiotics and vaccines offer potential as alternatives to antibiotics to control E. coli associated challenges in pigs. But such additives need additional well-designed experiments and field-based work, finds a new review.
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Nutreco’s aquaculture division, Skretting, is to buy Ridley’s extrusion facility in Westbury, Tasmania, in an effort to boost its production capacity in that market.
Australian seed provider, Pacific Seeds, and government agency, CSIRO, have joined forces on a new three-year AUS$250K (US$194,245) research project set to better tailor canola hybrids and crop management to regional Australia’s variable growing conditions.
This week saw the USDA release its first official look to World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) for next season, alongside the first time that the UK has been split from the EU, an interesting report in what has been a big data week,...
A Novus study indicates a combination of organic trace minerals, organic selenium, and dietary antioxidants resulted in the effective reduction of wooden breast severity.
Hamlet Protein, a Danish producer of soy-based protein ingredients for young animals, collaborated with international pig breeding company, Danbred, on the development of a new manual aimed at optimized pig feeding.
DSM has just released a new service, Sustell, developed in collaboration with consultants, Blonk, that it says provides analysis and results of environmental impact assessments, interventions and improvements throughout the animal protein value chain.
Favorable conditions around the time of winter grain planting across most production regions of Australia bodes well for the forecast year of wheat and barley production in MY 2021/22.
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Specialty chemicals company, Evonik, says version 6.0 of its AMINODat database is now available for the first time as a web application. This new format allows the data to be updated several times a year.
A new study sees that extruded flaxseed at inclusion levels of up to 9% is efficient in terms of improving the productive performance of laying hens in a commercial setting.
Early examination of corn for use in 2021 feed production suggests the need for producers to continue to check for mycotoxin presence and be aware of where they source their feed ingredients, says Trouw Nutrition, Nutreco’s animal nutrition division.
Animal feed related startups, among others, are being encouraged to participate in this year’s FoodBytes! Pitch – Rabobank’s innovation discovery platform.
US corn and soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) bounced after the release of the prospective plantings report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday.
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.
Australian company, FutureFeed, published a response on its website, criticizing a recent study by Wageningen University Research (WUR) that explored the risk of transfer of a compound present in the seaweed, Asparagopsis taxiformis, to milk when added...
Current conditions are positive for wheat supply, while corn markets have been dominated by the large US-China export sales, and soybean markets have continued to trade sideways, finds this week’s analysis by CRM Agri.
China’s COFCO Corporation is reportedly set to combine its international agriculture trading business platform with several domestic entities to enable it to compete on a more equal footing with ag trading powerhouses: Cargill, Bunge, ADM, and Louis Dreyfus...
The latest USDA WASDE changes were limited and mostly reflected known data, but it, nevertheless, can be viewed as a slightly bearish report, says Peter Collier, an analyst at UK based CRM Agri.
The global poultry sector faces a perfect storm of ongoing COVID-19 related disruption, particularly to the foodservice sector, soft economic conditions, high and volatile feed prices, an exceptionally high-pressure avian influenza winter season, and...
BASF and Adifo say their new software partnership will advance feed formulation and support more sustainable animal protein production as sustainability can now be a used as a parameter in feed formulations and rations.
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.
Recently released economic research from the University of Kent, University of Reading and IHS Markit, reveals the extent to which UK consumers dislike food produced using production methods such as hormones in beef, and chlorine washed chicken.
Danish feed manufacturer, BioMar, reported a good third quarter (Q3) with improved revenue driven mainly by higher volume sales in the salmon division.
