The National Pork Board (NPB), United Soybean Board (USB) and National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on a sustainability research platform that will benefit all three organisations and their producers This research [...]
CHINA – 28 October 2018 (Reuters): New standards of protein content in animal feed that China announced on Friday will cut the country’s annual soymeal consumption by 11 million tonnes and soybeans by 14 million tonnes, according to a [...]
The volatility of vitamin supply has resulted in price increases for certain vitamins. Nevertheless, they remain one of the cheapest additives nutritionists have at their disposal. But don’t go too low in their inclusion level Vitamins, because they are included [...]
Source: National Pork Board According to an international expert on African swine fever (ASF), it might pay to start paying more attention to people rather than pigs if we truly want to halt the global spread of the costly disease. [...]
USMEF staff recently prepared detailed impact papers quantifying the estimated export losses the U.S. has suffered, or could suffer, as a result of trade disputes with Mexico, China and Canada and the lack of available capacity in the EU’s [...]
International food commodity prices dipped in October, as falling dairy, meat and vegetable oils prices more than offset a surge in sugar prices, the United Nations said today. The FAO Food Price Index, a measure of the monthly change in [...]
Low raw material stock, due to the drought, has led to record feed prices in Australia. Most farmers are failing to cover the cost of production as grain prices skyrocket due to drought. The price of grain has doubled over [...]
Over the decades, pigs were taken from rooting outdoors to being kept inside pig houses, away from the mud and the dirt they are used to. Anaemia problems can mostly be solved by supplementing iron – but would that [...]
For the 1st time in 26 years, an outbreak of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) has been found in Japan. The presence of the viral disease, also known as hog cholera, was confirmed by the Japanese ministry of agriculture. As a [...]
Fish feed company Skretting continues its support for aquaculture growth in Africa with the latest community development project underway in Zambia set to improve the livelihoods of tilapia farmers. The latest project for Skretting is located in the Mpulungu region in the [...]
