Kemin Industries Inc., which provides health and nutritional solutions to
the Agrifoods, Food Ingredients, Pet Food and Human Health and Pharmaceutical
Industries, has announced their Second European Meeting to be held in
April.
Chinese agricultural biotech company Origin Agritech
Ltd has developed the world's first genetically-modified phytase corn, and will
introduce the product to the market in 2009 as an animal feed.
To help manufacturers manage with increasing
production costs, the Thai Feed Mills Association has urged the government to
cut duties to zero on imports of raw materials for animal feed.
Consumers will see another major run-up in food prices this summer due to the
competition for raw materials, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA)
board of directors was told at its recent meeting.
Japan, the world's largest corn importer has long had animal feed that uses
genetically modified organisms, or GMO, but is still holding out against
genetically modified corn for human food use.
Japan's acute butter shortage, which has confounded
bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest
unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities
crisis.
My previous blog "Going organic is a dead-end street"
received a lot of comments, mostly telling me that I didn’t know what I was
talking about. However, the FAO backs my conclusion.
Federal regulators in the US should temporarily waive
the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and lower the current national RFS mandate to
the 2007 level of 4.02% through 2009, according to the American Feed Industry
Association (AFIA). This year’s RFS mandate is 7.76%.
The role of the u.s. ethanol industry in food and feed
production
The rapid expansion of the U.S. ethanol industry - and the corresponding
increase in the amount of grain processed into ethanol - has been well
documented and scrutinized in recent years. But what is often overlooked is the
simultaneous increase in the amount of animal feed produced by the U.S. ethanol
industry. One-third of every bushel of grain that enters the ethanol proce...