Frost & Sullivan has published a new report: US food and feed enzymes markets. The report discusses the key trends while also quantifying the markets in terms of revenue.

Widespread rain across South Australia state in recent days has improved the prospects for the 2008 winter cereal and oilseed crop, barley exporter ABB Grain Ltd said. ABB Grain's managing director Michael Iwaniw said most regions in the state had received enough rain to begin planting, to capitalise on strong world prices.

Morocco and Tunisia will be increasing their DDGS imports, according to Dr. David Hutcheson, U.S. Grains Council consultant and ruminant nutritionist.

At an emergency meeting of the UN food summit today, Patrick Wall, chairman of the European Food Safety Authority, suggested that the EU lift the ban on feeding animal by products to livestock to help lower food prices.

Sunzen Biotech - a company that produces and markets animal feed additive - hopes to become Malaysia’s largest feed additives company within three years, driven by overseas expansion.

In 2007, the compound feed production for the EU-27 according to Fefac data, reached 149.8 million tonnes, which is 3.4% higher than the figure for 2006. This is the highest annual growth rate registered in almost 20 years.

Highest ever prices and early rainfall have pushed Asia's biggest supplier of soybean meal, India, to plant a record soybean crop for a second year in a row.

China faces serious challenges in ensuring it will have enough grain to feed its population in the decades to come, according to Premier Wen Jiabao.

The estimated rise in Thailand’s 2008-09 corn crop of 3.7 million tons, up from the proceeding year’s 3.6 million tons, is expected to double Thai corn exports on surging foreign demand, following India’s recent corn export ban through October 15th.

US feed grain production in 2008 is expected to be down from 2007 because of reduced acreage according to the latest Feed Outlook from the Economic Research Service of the USDA.