News & Analysis on the Global Animal Feed and Pet Food Industries
Australian company, Food Recycle, says it has developed an innovative process to convert commercial food waste into "high performance" animal feed, offering a sustainable solution to a global challenge.
A Netherlands-based project finds that including fibrous co-products in feed instead of cereals requires a better understanding of pellet binding properties.
New mixing technology has been designed in such a way as to optimize product development and enable the integration of novel liquid raw ingredients in feed, according to its inventors.
A study examining the effects of single and twin thermal screw extrusion on the protein quality of grain-free pet foods including animal- or plant-based protein ingredients found that amino acid digestibility increases after extrusion compared to raw...
Feed processing innovation
Azomite (AZM) is a promising additive to enhance pellet production rates (PPR) when added to corn and soybean meal-based diets that also contain dicalcium phosphate and dried distillers' grains with solubles (DDGS), finds a study.
Swiss plant equipment manufacturer, Bühler, and UK-based, Entocycle, a provider of insect farming technology, have joined forces to drive adoption of large-scale black soldier fly (BSF) operations.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has opened the application phase in its its Integrator Feed Facility of the Year (FFY) program.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has opened the application phase for its 2023 Commercial Dry Feed Facility of the Year (FFY) program.
Mars Petcare Australia is to invest AUS$112.6m (US$74.5m) in its Wodonga factory to expand its pet food manufacturing capabilities.
In the current environment of high energy costs, how can feed producers make quality feed without extended conditioning times and without risking poorly conditioned meal leading to blockages and increased mill maintenance?
Bühler sees higher demand for consultancy services in relation to reducing energy consumption at feed plants in European markets, particularly over the past few months.
To what degree is energy efficiency a priority for US feed mills today? We spoke to Gary Huddleston, director of feed manufacturing & regulatory affairs, American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) to find out.
With escalating energy prices, uncertainty in gas supply and the need for feed mills to be sustainable, the focus on lowering energy consumption in the industry has never been higher but energy savings in the plant should not be at the expense of the...
As rising gas and electricity costs pressure feed mill profitability in many markets, feed compounders are looking to maintain maximum feed plant capacity, lower the total costs of ownership of their processing plants, and optimize use of resources to...
Bühler has created a joint venture with Mexico’s IMDHER, aimed at driving process efficiency, quality, and sustainability in the feed industry.
A Norwegian expert see benefits in redefining the grinding and pelleting process for optimized micro- and macrostructure of broiler diets.
Northern Ireland headquartered firm, Devenish, has partnered with speciality chemicals company, Perstorp, to launch a new moisture management technology designed to help animal feed mills to improve milling efficiency.
An event focused on innovation in feed processing technology aims to provide a vehicle to enhance cooperation between industry and research institutions.
An alliance has been announced between Dinnissen Process Technology, Bolster Investment Partners and the Triott Group owned Ottevanger Milling Engineers.
The University of Illinois says its new $20m Feed Technology Center with state-of-the-art processing and NIR technology will “move the entire industry forward” in terms of feed technology and animal nutrition.
Enhancement of co-products with microbial proteins, improvements in protein digestibility and novel cell wall rupture techniques are among the important directions for future research, according to two feed technology luminaries.
Specializing in process equipment and feed mill design and manufacture, Dutch companies, Wynveen International, and Ottevanger Milling Engineers, part of the Triott Group, are to be integrated as one company from the start of next month.
Cargill, in a virtual event today [January 11], opened its new premix animal nutrition facility in Lewisburg, Ohio. The build represents a US$50m investment from the company.
A public-private collaborative project led by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is looking to understand the fundamentals of feed pelleting to support the use of more fibrous co-products, thus further enhancing the sustainability profile of the sector.
A new US based research paper suggests that sequencing of feed during manufacturing reduces Salmonella-positive contamination within animal feed and on manufacturing surfaces, particularly after the second batch or with the use of chemical treatments.
The EU feed sector has noted significant improvement of the COVID-19 outbreak triggered EU ‘Green Lane’ system over the past week, said FEFAC. However, it is still not business as usual throughout the feed supply chain, other obstacles remain.
Feed millers need to start demanding more coarse substrates from suppliers for their pelleted piglet diets, said Francesc Molist, manager, research and development, Schothorst Feed Research in the Netherlands.
In the latest instalment of Feed Matters, FeedNavigator’s podcast series, we talk to Steven Read, chief operating officer, ForFarmers UK, to hear how the company is navigating a trading landscape utterly changed by the outbreak of COVID-19 globally.
The global demand for insect protein is increasing rapidly, said German separation process specialist, Reinartz, which is active in the development of machinery for the efficient extraction of proteins from insect larvae.
Special edition: reports from IPPE
Precision assessment of feed, additives and ingredients along with the examination of products for unwanted contaminants has a role to play in feed safety.
Special edition: Reports from IPPE
US bearings company was highlighting the role it can play in feed manufacturing at IPPE.
At YAN20, Francesc Molist from Schothorst Feed Research in the Netherlands will be talking about the optimum particle size for pig feed.
Vermeer Corporation expands its feed production technology options with the acquisition of Schuler manufacturing.
A wet and delayed feed crop harvest season in the US is being punctuated with reports of fires in grain dryers; however, there are ways to help prevent incidents and reduce the cost of drying, says industry expert.
Ireland’s Specialist Nutrition has signed a five-year deal, worth €135m, with US-based Attis Industries to supply by-products from that producer’s corn ethanol plant as sustainable feed to local farmers.
special edition: feed sustainability
TeleSense is creating a grain monitoring system – Cellular SensorSpear – that controls feed grain moisture and temperature post-harvest, with a focus on grain in transit or stored outside.
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.
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.
Unibio International plc has raised US$15m from existing and new shareholders in a Series D funding round.
Perdue AgriBusiness acquires organic, non-GMO oilseed crush, production facilities from the financially troubled specialty producer, Hart AgStrong LLC to expand company production of specialty feed and food ingredients.
Co-Alliance and Farmer’s Grain & Feed Co. are in the start up phase and turning on their joint venture feed mill in Indiana following more than a year of construction.
Guest Article
In a response to an article from Sugarich procurement director, Paul Featherstone, on the risks of reintroducing swill feed into the EU, published on FeedNavigator earlier this month, Martin Bowman, policy and campaigns manager at environmental...
Fresh off a feed milling project in Northern Ireland, Binary Consultants, a specialist in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, exhibited at the VICTAM trade show in Cologne last month in a bid to attract more business from feed mills based in the...
A set of new, online tools is aimed at making information about nutritional components in cattle feed and the economic value of feed or feed ingredients more accessible to livestock producers.
Reports from VICTAM 2019, in Cologne
Dutch company, Geelen Counterflow, won an aquafeed innovation award at VICTAM 2019 in Germany for its hybrid electric dryer.
Reports from VICTAM 2019, in Cologne
Dutch processing equipment manufacturer, Dinnissen, has redesigned its Hamex hammer mill, which has automatic sieve exchange.
Reports from VICTAM 2019, in Cologne
Van Aarsen won the Animal Feed and Nutrition Innovation Award at VICTAM International 2019 for its new Hot Start Steam Mixer.
Instead of two separate events, which would not be in the interest of attendees or exhibitors, VIV and VICTAM have decided to combine their trade shows, which were both planned for Bangkok in Thailand, in the early part of 2020.
Market diversification, feed production and research into valued added processing of soy were some of the drivers for setting up a new soy crush and biodiesel production facility in Minnesota.
Reports from VICTAM 2019, in Cologne
Clextral gave us the low down on fish and shrimp feed production trends behind extrusion equipment innovation at the Cologne feed processing show, VICTAM, earlier this month.