Superior Ag, a feed producing and grain merchandising cooperative active in parts of Indiana, Kentucky and along the border of Illinois, seeks to expand its regional grain market and feed footprint with a Kentucky-focused partnership, says CEO.
For the next decade, US feed crop producers are expected to face challenges from large stocks, flat domestic use, limited export market growth and growing global competition, analysts say.
Supplementing beef cattle diets with nitrate and canola oil lowered methane yield and daily methane production but it does not alter the flow of microbial non-ammonia nitrogen, researchers say.
A renovated Cargill feed production facility in Temple, Texas has gone live; it has been expanded to 70,000 square feet to address feed demand in the region.
Facing increasing global market competition from South America and the Black Sea Region, US feed crop producers are predicted to see shrinking market share for ingredients through 2028, say USDA economists.
A meta-analysis of Asia-based research indicates that fermented feed ingredients such as soybean meal or rapeseed meal boost the growth performance of weaner and grower pigs, while fermented feed additives promote pig’s growth at all stages.
ForFarmers saw small declines in compound feed volumes for the third quarter as growth in acquisitions along with sales in Germany and Poland could not offset declines in volumes and other regions.
Challenging conditions for agribusiness, including delayed farmer selling, trade uncertainty and slower demand for soybean meal negatively influenced third quarter results of Bunge Limited.
The founding partners of the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI) are establishing a legal non-profit institute, under the same name, to expand its work and make the data more widely available to stakeholders throughout the global food value chain.
The US is set to import more organic feed grains as wet spring weather limited domestic planting of corn, soybeans and corn silage, with questions about crop quality remaining.
Throughout October, we’ve been focusing on feed innovation in the aquaculture industry; the gallery covers farmed fish feed industry developments that we reported on earlier in the year.
Low wheat prices are prompting questions about how US feed crop acres will be allocated next year, as acreage that is not planted with winter wheat could add to production of other feed crops like corn and soybeans, says analyst.
Lowering barriers to imported soybeans could improve use of crush capacity, reduce costs and support the expansion of the livestock sector in India, says analyst.
Harvest pace and crop quality continues to lag for some US feed crops, even as producers see weather-related delays and anticipate colder or freezing temperatures.
To streamline feed mill, grain and flour mill design and construction along with expanding services in the western US, Bühler Group and Halverson Company are establishing a partnership.
The Global Commodity Technology Association (CGTA) is launching with a focus on supporting and improving digitization and modernization in the global agricultural commodity industry, says managing director.
Following the receipt of federal funding, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is assessing Vietnam’s market potential as an export destination for US feed or feed ingredients.
Despite talk of the development of an early stage deal between the US and China, feed and agricultural industry members await more concrete details of the potential impact for their sectors.
Work focused on removing a toxic element in cottonseed, coupled with US regulatory approval, may expand the use of that ingredient beyond cattle diets to feed for monogastrics and fish.
US soybean markets saw a boost at the end of last week, said the market specialists at the UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) in a report today [October 14].
Quality Roasting invests $12m in soy processing facility in Michigan, US, as part of a joint venture to strengthen and expand the company’s dairy feed market reach.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts reduced production for some feed grains including corn, soybeans and sorghum even as corn yields see a slight boost.
Ongoing weather and trade challenges are keeping the agricultural industry’s focus on markets, exports and tariffs as harvest starts and global economies slow, say CoBank analysts.
China’s feed consumption is down sharply, but set to rebound during ASF recovery, says Rabobank in a review this month of the impact of African Swine Fever (ASF) on the industry in China and other Asian markets hit by that virus.
The Iowa Crop Improvement Association is supporting Iowa State University’s work on a new feed mill and grain science complex with a $1.5m gift to help fund construction and development.
Increasing global and domestic demand is expected to boost Brazil’s production of pork and beef, while low and stable feed prices may support the growth of feed use in cattle production.
The Rodale Institute is establishing regional research and education centers in the American Midwest, South and West to expand research into regenerative organic farming methods, support producers transition to organic production and increase organic...
Expanding the understanding of how long African Swine Fever survives in complete feed and feed ingredients and tracking the virus’ half-life may improve mitigation strategies, says KSU researcher.
Abandoning sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) makes no sense if replaced by therapeutic doses in medicated feed, says a Danish expert.
Authorities in the region of Rouen, France have issued an order banning the harvest and sale of agricultural products, including animal feed, in 112 municipalities located near the site of a chemical factory fire.
Animal nutrition and protein was one of two of Cargill’s business segments that saw a hike in adjusted operating earnings. Industrial and financial services was the other.
The US feed and ag sectors are among those applauding Wednesday’s news of a partial trade agreement between the US and the country’s third-largest agricultural market, Japan.
US agricultural exports are projected to reach $137bn in fiscal year (FY) 2020, up $2.5bn from the revised forecast for FY 2019. The anticipated increase will primarily be driven by higher exports of pork, beef, soybeans, and horticultural products, found...
Certain US feed and agricultural products are likely to be excluded from punitive Chinese tariffs, as the US and China move to ease trade war tensions. Over the last week, both Washington and Beijing offered gestures of good will.
