Fuelled by pet food scares – such as the melamine issue – and more luxury lifestyles for pet owners, more and more people are buying natural and organic foods for their cats and dogs.

Last week, I attended the AFIA Liquid Feed Symposium in Austin, TX. Amongst the trade shows that I attend on an annual basis, Liquid Feed is my favorite.

The current situation of the world food supply calls for supreme efforts to ensure the increasing requirements of the growing world population for staple diets and high-quality food and to bridge the widening gap in food demand and food supply ...

Just returned from my well (or not) earned holidays I want to bring up the subject that I name: "The battle about nothing…" I notice a current battle between companies that all want to take the lead in automation in the feedmill (also other ind...

We have a great food programme on the Dutch television - "The food diggers CIA". The tv hosts go on a hunt to find out w here a certain product comes from, what is in it and what the claims on the labels mean? During the l...

Changing to soybeans transforms a landscape from fields with a large number of different crops into a monoculture. Also the political landscape in a country can alter and even the ownership of a country can be threatened through the cultivation...

Today's animal production is changing. Consumers are increasingly aware of the process of food production, which is directly reflected back in the policies that are formulated by the agricultural ministers. Animal welfare is one of those topics...