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.
If sows are fed within the last three hours before farrowing, they will repay with a shorter farrowing time and considerably fewer stillborn piglets, according to a Danish researcher.
UK bulk liquid and powder road tanker firm, Abbey Logistics, has launched a new tanker division, focused on providing nationwide bulk transport and logistics for liquid feed.
A study confirmed the yeast species, Yarrowia lipolytica, in combination with a probiotic - a mixture of Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis - is highly suitable for feeding piglets.
Bühler has launched a cloud-based digital feed and food drying service, MoisturePro, that it says boosts yield, while reducing costs and the environmental footprint of thermal processing in the feed and food industries.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are seeking stakeholder involvement in an advisory meeting and are also looking for data to address the issue of the carryover from feed to food of unavoidable and...
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).
With formaldehyde banned in the EU, preventative measures to fight pathogens like Salmonella in feed are even more critical and industry must consider all aspects from raw material input to storage and transport, say Kemin executives.
We track new plant developments as far apart as Tasmania and Austria, and we find out about the winners of an agriculture and food start-up accelerator initiative in London, as well as an acquisition of an animal health player by a UK agribusiness group.
Botanicals company, Nor-Feed, and SONAS, a research unit of Angers University based in western France, have launched LabCom FeedInTech, a joint laboratory for the close study of plant based feed additives.
In its third forecast for the 2018 crop, Coceral has revised down its EU total grain crop forecast from its early June figure of 299.1 million tons to 283.5m tons, with most European farmers having been hit by severe droughts.
High value protein derived from grass biomass shows the most potential for replacing protein imports like soybean meal for Danish farmed animal production, finds a review.
German amino acid producer, Evonik, said research conducted using modern broiler genetics has confirmed the bioavailability of methionine from liquid hydroxy analogue (MHA-FA) products is only about 65%, compared to DL-methionine (DLM) products such as...
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.
Lack of details on trade and failure to acknowledge food as a ‘public good’ within the UK government’s Agriculture Bill are disappointing, said the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) a trade group that counts the UK feed sector among its member...
Protelux has completed the construction of a 6,000 ton per year methane to feed protein plant in Russia, based on technology from Danish company, Unibio.
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.
German specialty chemicals company, Evonik, says it has expanded its high-precision Near Infrared (NIR) analytical services to enable the content of raw, unground feed materials to be assessed as soon as they arrive at the feed mill.
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.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called an emergency meeting of animal disease specialists to try and prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) to other countries in Asia as China announces its ninth case of the disease since...
Using black soldier fly (BSF) larvae and bacteria, poultry producers may be able to reduce chicken manure and generate large amounts of feed proteins, say researchers.
The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service released details last week regarding expected trade for agricultural products, including feeds, feed grains and oilseeds.
China would be able to reduce soybean imports by 10 million tons annually by increasing the use of synthetic amino acids, and thereby enabling the feeding of lower protein based feeds to pigs, said the head of the Chinese feed industry association, according...
The California-based internet of things (IoT) tech company closed a series A financing round earlier this week. The funding is aimed at expanding its work to improve feed and grain storage and food safety.
Danish feed company, Aller Aqua, launched an updated fry feed portfolio, including reformulations of existing products and a new product for larvae and small fry at Aqua 2018 in France this week.
A number of issues are continuing to influence global beef markets, such as increasing North Asia imports, looming margin pressure, and African Swine Fever outbreaks, according to the latest RaboResearch Beef Quarterly report. The team highlighted, in...
Balchem Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Balchem Italia, has announced the acquisition of Bioscreen Technologies, a small privately held manufacturer of encapsulated and fermented feed nutrition ingredients, headquartered in Bertinoro,...
At Aqua 2018 in Montpellier, France FeedNavigator spoke to Patrick Charlton, vice president, Alltech Europe and CEO of the group’s specialist aqua feeds business, Coppens, to get a deeper dive into the reasons behind the shutting down of its US omega-3...
Early nutritional programming via the maternal diet could be the key to the development and growth of piglets, whereas there is no benefit to supplementing post-weaned piglet diets with feed additives, say researchers.
Norwegian scientists make the “unexpected” discovery that the addition of a fish bone mineral hydrolysate to salmon feed can increase pink flesh pigmentation, producing fish that is potentially more attractive to consumers.
Outbreaks of African Swine Fever in China are raising concerns for swine producers in the US as the disease may be able to survive the importing process in feed or feed ingredients, says expert.
Feed transporters working at an ABN feed mill in the UK are considering union action, which could include striking, after the company proposed schedule changes.
Summer has not been a quiet season for many companies and organizations in the animal feed and agricultural industries. Several have seen the arrival of new faces, while a few others have said farewell to longtime employees.
A year has passed since the European regulation authorizing insect proteins in fish feeds came into force. FeedNavigator catches up with Antoine Hubert – a man at the center of industry developments – to find out how the sector has moved on.
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.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, predicted the rise of poultry ‘mega farms’. FeedNavigator catches up with him to find out what implications this would have for the feed industry.
