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Farm visits remain an essential part of creating and maintaining the connection between an animal feed company and their customers. Livestock farmers seek the best advice and need to know their feed supplier understands their objectives and can deliver the right product. One company is exploring how to improve the highly personalised interactions that take place in the feed business.

Papillon has appointed Dr. Devan Paulus Compart, an expert in the ruminant feed industry, as a Technical Services Manager. Compart will work on new product...

Famsun, one of the world's leading feed milling equipment suppliers, signed framework agreement to support agri-food industry development in Madagascar. Famsun Co., Ltd and Embassy...

Alltech Ireland announced the appointments of Dr. Hazel Rooney as technical pig coordinator and Paula Mc Cooey as poultry manager. They join Alltech with valuable education and experience in their respective species and will work closely with the sales, marketing and research teams to support customers and partners.

Nutreco entered into two joint ventures with the Kenya-based, largest feed miller in East Africa Unga Group Plc to meet the growing demand for high-quality protein.

Healthy animals are the foundation for healthy people. And healthy people are the basis for a stable and productive society, not only during or shortly after a pandemic like the one we have been witnessing. After all, animal feed as the first link in the food chain is the right starting point for measures to improve animal welfare and thus animal health. Companies in the agricultural and food industry...

Feed enzymes offer a range of useful options for enhancing the digestibility of the diet. The individual capacity of phytase, carbohydrase and protease to increase the digestibility of amino acids has been extensively demonstrated. However, it is increasingly the case that diets are formulated with more than one enzyme and so the additivity of enzyme effects has become a focal area of ongoing research.

Cargill and Continental Grain Company have announced that they will acquire Sanderson Farms for $203 per share in cash and create a leading U.S. poultry company. The transaction brings together two complementary U.S. poultry operators, Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms, under the joint ownership and control of two premier food and agribusiness companies with deep roots in U.S. agriculture.

Agri-technology company Devenish, in collaboration with global professional services firm Accenture, has launched a groundbreaking sustainable farming initiative which will help decarbonise the global agriculture sector by supporting farmers to continue to produce nutritious meat and milk while dramatically improving their carbon balance.

Bacteria “talk” to each other using chemicals as their words, a signaling system now known as quorum sensing. Numerous bacterial species make small-molecule signals, called auto inducers (AI), that they release into their immediate environment to track changes in cell numbers. As the bacterial population grows, increasing in density, AI concentrations also accumulate.