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Thailand ups feed wheat buying against maize shortage

Thailand's animal feed industry has made its biggest feed wheat purchases, contracting to ship some 300,000 tonnes in recent deals on expectations of lower domestic maize production and aggressive offers from the Black Sea region.

Thailand's feed wheat imports come close to similar contracts which mills in Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines have signed recently in order to replace expensive maize as an ingredient in animal feed as grain exporters from Ukraine and Russian offer attractive prices to boost their presence in Asia.

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Call for stopping use of poisonous tannery waste in poultry feed

Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Speakers at a roundtable discussion meeting in the city on Thursday called for stopping the use of harmful and poisonous tannery waste in the preparation of poultry feed.

Save the Environment Movement organised the discussion on 'Preparation of Poultry Feed with Poisonous Tannery Waste:

Impacts on Public Health' at its office.

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Feed prices under investigation

Karachi, Pakistan -- The Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) has been issued a show cause notice for allegedly controlling the pricing mechanism of poultry products.

The Competition Comm-ission of Pakistan (CCP) has said that the association is engaged in practices prohibited under the Competition Ordinance of 2010.

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4 Cargoes of US corn due in China in July

Four cargoes of U.S. corn are expected to arrive in China in July as exporters have advanced delivery of some cargoes, according to a think-tank report.

China, the world's second-largest consumer, may have booked about 21 cargoes, or 1.26 million tonnes, from United States, feed mills, officials said. The volume was larger than figures reported by the U.S Department of Agriculture.

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Carlyle Group takes 11.3% stake in CP feed

C.P. Pokphand, China’s second largest supplier of animal feed products in terms of sales, has agreed to sell an 11.3% stake in its Hong Kong listed animal feed maker to the Carlyle Group, the global investment firm, for US $175 million.

In 2009, C.P. Pokphand recorded sales of $74.24 million and gross profit of $9.5 million from swine, poultry, cattle and fish feed, its fastest-growing segment, following the growing number of fish farms in China.

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