People: Diamond V appoints dairy specialist
16 May 2012 - The Diamond VLatin America office has appointed Vicente Guerrero as Dairy Specialist. He will be responsible for providing technical support to dairy customers in Mexico and Latin America.
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DSM launches Fertility Improvement Profit Calculator app
14 May 2012 - DSM has launched its Fertility Improvement Profit Calculator for dairy farmers as a free smartphone app. This tool enables dairy farmers to calculate in two easy steps the financial returns that may be generated by improving dairy herd reproductive performance. Read more >>
Company update: Tyson Foods Q2
10 May 2012 - "Our multi-protein business again proved advantageous, producing solid earnings for the fiscal second quarter," said Donnie Smith, Tyson's president and chief executive officer. Read more >>
New name for Dutch takeover will be ForFarmers Hendrix
10 May 2012 - The takeover of Hendrix UTD feeds by ForFarmers from Nutreco was formalised and approved by competition authorities on 1 April 2012. The new organisation will continue as ForFarmers Hendrix in the Dutch market as of 1 January 2013.
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Pancosma launches new website
09 May 2012 - Following recent changes to its corporate identity, Pancosma has launched a new website, www.pancosma.com. Read more >>
Company update: DSM Q1 2012
09 May 2012 - DSM made a good start to the year, supported by positive momentum in the US, continued progress of high growth economies and a return to more normal trading conditions in Performance Materials compared to Q4 2011. However, the global economic outlook is still uncertain and conditions remain weak in Europe. Read more >>
Animal feed company expands operations in Colorado
09 May 2012 - JD Heiskell & Co, a grain, commodity trading and livestock feed manufacturing company based in Tulare, California, USA, is expanding its grain trading and origination operations in Colorado, including in Fort Morgan and Wiggins.
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Bühler & Intelscan sign deal on moisture control systems
07 May 2012 - Swiss-based company, Bühler, has signed a contract with Intelscan, for the supply of on-line moisture control systems to be installed at a large feed producer later this year.
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Skretting to extend rapid NIR analysis to shrimp feed
07 May 2012 - Skretting researchers have extended the capabilities of rapid NIR analysis used in fish feed production to cover the raw materials and finished feeds for shrimp. Read more >>
USA: New swine feed mill for Massachusetts
04 May 2012 - Seaboard Foods has begun work on a new feed mill west of Holyoke. The new plant will produce about 200,000 tonnes of swine feed for the Colorado-based live operations of the company and will purchase about five million bushels of locally produced grain annually to support the plant’s operations.
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Gevo & Land O’Lakes Purina Feed sign accord to pursue advanced animal feed
04 May 2012 - Gevo and Land O’Lakes Purina Feed have signed a Joint Development Agreement that follows an off-take and marketing agreement entered into in January 2012. The agreement contemplates the companies' research and development efforts to upgrade isobutanol distiller grains (iDGs(TM)) for special value-added applications in animal feed markets. Read more >>
Diamond V awards scholarships to Future Farmers of America graduates
04 May 2012 - Two scholarships have been awarded to graduating Iowa high school members of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) by Diamond V, supplier of fermentation-based feed additives used to optimize digestive function and nutrition key to animal and aqua health.
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Adisseo’s new Precise Nutrition Evaluation Service offers the most precise characterization of feedstuffs
04 May 2012 - Adisseo offers a unique new service, Precise Nutrition Evaluation, which combines near infra red (NIR) spectroscopy and in vivo digestibility tests to generate the most precise characterization of raw materials for monogastric feed. Read more >>
Photo project on European feed mills
03 May 2012 - Professional photographer Laurent Bellec has started a five-year project with the aim to produce the largest photographic collection ever made of architectural images of factories in the European animal feed manufacturing sector. Read more >>
Alltech launches graduate program 2012
03 May 2012 - President and founder of Alltech, Dr. Pearse Lyons has announced the launch of the Alltech Graduate Development Program, which will recruit up to 20 applicants annually from around the world and prepare them for future managerial and leadership positions in the global agribusiness company. Read more >>
Premier Nutrition teams up with South Korean DongA One
02 May 2012 - UK based animal nutrition business, Premier Nutrition, has signed an agreement with DongA One Corporation of South Korea, to provide technical support and animal feed supplements from its manufacturing base in Rugeley, Staffordshire. Read more >>
Balchem expands production capacities to meet growing demand
02 May 2012 - Balchem Corporation, global specialist in choline chloride and encapsulated nutrient protection technology, announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in Covington, Virginia. The planned expansion will more than double output capacity for the Animal Nutrition and Health ruminant sector focusing on its new and improved encapsulation technology. Read more >>
AB Vista sponsors debate on pigs, poultry & phosphorus
02 May 2012 - AB Vista is sponsoring a symposium on the benefits of the mineral phosphorus for pigs and poultry. Titled “Developments in Phosphorus Nutrition in Pigs and Poultry”, the symposium takes place in Wageningen, The Netherlands, on 14 June 2012. Read more >>
CPF expands pig farming in Philippines
01 May 2012 - The Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) recently approved the application of Thai-owned Charoen Pokphand Foods Philippines Corp. (CPFPC) to raise hog parent stocks and slaughter hogs in the country.
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AB Vista supports pig physiology symposium
01 May 2012 - AB Vista, global supplier of new generation micro-ingredients for the animal feed industry, is lending its name and support to the 12th International Symposium of Digestive Physiology of Pigs (DPP) – one of the world’s biggest conferences on pig nutrition. Read more >>
