Tag: feed industry

Expectations for an increase in soybean production continued in March. The harvest, which started in southern hemisphere countries such as Brazil and Argentina, which are the biggest exporters, will clarify the expectations for the season.

"As the Danish great physicist Niels Bohr said: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” But I have no doubt the...

The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) released a new report that found that U.S. domestic livestock and pets consumed nearly 284 million tons of safe, high quality and nutritious food in 2019.

ABN has announced it intends to build a state of the art, animal feed mill in the East of England. The new 1 million tonne ‘super-mill’ represents a scale of investment never seen before within the compound animal feed industry.

Nutrition Technologies opens new industrial-scale insect protein factory in Malaysia and raises additional funds to prepare for next stage of growth.

Royal Agrifirm Group was awarded once again. ‘Factory of the Future' Award was presented to Royal Agrifirm Group’s factory in Belgium, which produces premixes, concentrates, mineral mixtures and young animal feeds.

Alltech has released data from a new meta-analysis for ruminants, with results showing that Optigen® can simultaneously improve animal performance, reduce carbon footprint and increase profitability.

The Covid-19 pandemic was the main agenda for 2020. Like every sector, livestock and feed sectors have had their share of this outbreak. At the beginning of the pandemic, with the effect of panic purchases, the demand for meat, milk and fishery products increased. However, disruptions in raw material supply, logistics, and labor resources due to restrictions made it difficult for the industry to respond to consumer demands at the same pace.

According to IFIF’s estimates, global compound feed production exceeded 1 billion tons per year. However, this represents the amount produced in the professional feed industry.

The majority of animal feed producers and people in the feed industry are convinced about the added value of using animal proteins in feed. Animal proteins are a safe, healthy, sustainable and affordable alternative to fish meal, vegetable proteins, antibiotics and zinc oxide.