News & Analysis on the Global Animal Feed and Pet Food Industries
As vitamin E and A prices increase due to the recent supply constraints, animal nutrition companies are proposing interim strategies to lower financial stress for end users.
Feed additive producer, Nutriad, which operates four laboratories and five plants located in Belgium, Spain, the UK, China and the US, has been bought by Chinese group, Adisseo.
Ascus Biosciences is looking to translate research focused on sampling and identifying communities of microbes in the rumen of high performing dairy cows into a health and production focused feed supplement.
Timberfish Technologies and Five & 20 Spirts and Brewing are working together to trial a wastewater and by-product recycling venture that feeds and produces a range of species including catfish and trout.
Offering farmed tilapia a diet with lower levels of digestible protein and more digestible energy may boost egg weight, larvae survival, say researchers.
Ending stocks for some feed crops grew as usage or exports declined, however they dropped for corn, says USDA.