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NCGA: Southeast Asian Feedmillers Plan To Increase U.S. Feed Ingredients Usage

NCGA: Southeast Asian Feedmillers Plan To Increase U.S. Feed Ingredients Usage

Americas 23 Oct 2009

The U.S. Grains Council invited key technical staff from Southeast Asia’s major feedmilling companies currently utilizing U.S. corn and co-products to travel to the United States last week for a five-day educational program at the Norther…
Turkey waste powers mill in Howard City

Turkey waste powers mill in Howard City

Americas 23 Oct 2009

A West Michigan business is now running on turkey waste. It is the area's first commercial biomass alternative energy system and it went online today. It is located at the Sietsema Farm Feeds site in Howard City, inside a new 15,000 square …
Dresden feed mill ready to rebuild

Dresden feed mill ready to rebuild

Americas 22 Oct 2009

More than eight months after a fire ripped through the old Dresden Feed & Supply store, the time has come for a new building to rise from the ashes. Owner Jim Roman is readying plans to build a 4,000-square-foot steel and stone structur…
Cargill unit says to sell Suriname feedmill share

Cargill unit says to sell Suriname feedmill share

Americas 14 Oct 2009

LNB International Feed, a subsidiary of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, plans to sell its majority share in the Suriname-based LNB Surimix N.V. feedmill to Benie Rice N.V., the Cargill unit said on Tuesday. No amount was given for the tran…
Cargill earnings plunge 65% in Q1

Cargill earnings plunge 65% in Q1

Americas 13 Oct 2009

Cargill Inc.’s earnings fell 65 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2010, including a significant decline in earnings from the company’s majority investment in The Mosaic Co. Minnetonka, Minn.-based Cargill reported net earnings of $…
New Columbia Farms poultry feed mill in Madison County

New Columbia Farms poultry feed mill in Madison County

Americas 12 Oct 2009

Standing 17 stories tall, the new Columbia Farms chicken feed mill is the tallest building in Madison County. The $23 mln plant, which opened this month, will produce 8,000 t of feed for Northeast Georgia chicken farmers in the Columbia Far…
Marfrig to Buy Cargill’s Seara for $706.2 Million

Marfrig to Buy Cargill’s Seara for $706.2 Million

Americas 15 Sep 2009

Marfrig Alimentos SA, the world’s fourth-biggest meatpacker, agreed to buy Cargill Inc.’s Brazilian poultry and pork business for $706.2 million in cash, a month after talks to merge with a rival failed. The accord includes the assumpti…
Reduced Hog Numbers Impact Feed Demand and Cost Jobs

Reduced Hog Numbers Impact Feed Demand and Cost Jobs

Americas 09 Sep 2009

Canada - The Animal Nutrition Association of Canada reports drastic reductions in livestock numbers have dramatically reduced demand for feed products forcing widespread consolidation within the animal feed industry. The Animal Nutrition As…
FDA announces online availability of 'Blue Bird' medicated feed labels

FDA announces online availability of 'Blue Bird' medicated feed labels

Americas 02 Sep 2009

The Food & Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is announcing the availability of many approved "Blue Bird" Type B and Type C medicated feed labels on its web site as a way to help ensure feed safety. Blu…
Feedstock Research Facility to support agriculture, impact economy

Feedstock Research Facility to support agriculture, impact economy

Americas 28 Aug 2009

Drivers along Selby Road might catch a glimpse of a tannish, nondescript-looking feedstock facility. While there's not much to the box-like structure from the exterior, on the interior it is a state-of-the-art operations that will further r…
Sanderson Farms swings to profit

Sanderson Farms swings to profit

Americas 25 Aug 2009

Chicken producer Sanderson Farms Inc. reported Tuesday it swung to a quarterly profit compared to a year ago, helped by a combination of lower feed-grain costs, higher poultry prices, and supply cuts. For the quarter ended July 31, Sanderso…
FDA supports banning antibiotics for growth promotion, feed efficiency

FDA supports banning antibiotics for growth promotion, feed efficiency

Americas 14 Jul 2009

The Food & Drug Administration's second highest ranking official, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, testified today that his agency "supports ending the use of antibiotics for growth and feed efficiency in the United States." He made the…
Brazil feed lot industry more cautious about expansion

Brazil feed lot industry more cautious about expansion

Americas 14 Jul 2009

Brazil is planning to increase the number of cattle in feed lots by 4.6% which would be equivalent to a total of 1.673.500 heads, according to Beef Point, a Brazilian portal linked to the meat industry. The number is the result of a survey …
Stimulus Funds Offered to Fish Farmers

Stimulus Funds Offered to Fish Farmers

Americas 13 Jul 2009

Wisconsin, USA - Fish farmers hit with high feed costs last year may be able to recoup some of their losses under a new federal recovery program, but they need to act by July 31. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allocated …
Chicken farmers feel threatened by Oklahoma suit

Chicken farmers feel threatened by Oklahoma suit

Americas 13 Jul 2009

Rose, Oklahoma - There's a good chance the chicken you bought at the grocery store or ordered in a restaurant grew up in a dimly lit poultry house like the ones on Ray Goertz's 160-acre farm, where roughly 120,000 birds preen and peck and p…
Pork industry presses for $800 million in aid

Pork industry presses for $800 million in aid

Americas 11 Jul 2009

Canada's pork industry needs an immediate injection of$800 million in government aid to solve the liquidity crisis that's pushed the sector to the brink of disaster. The Canadian hog industry is losing around$3.4 million a day, as the finan…
U.S. cattle being fed chicken manure?

U.S. cattle being fed chicken manure?

Americas 10 Jul 2009

Are we eating American beef raised on chicken manure? A commentary on behalf of the National Farmers Union Ontario. When you think of cattle feed very few of us probably imagine chicken manure. Certainly it would be the last thing that woul…
Nearly 4,000 cattle die in heat wave

Nearly 4,000 cattle die in heat wave

Americas 09 Jul 2009

Omaha, Neb. - The number of Nebraska cattle that died in last month's heat wave has grown to 3,800. The Farm Service Agency's Tim Reimer said July 6 that he'd received reports of significant cattle deaths from 23 counties in the eastern thi…
U.S. chicken feet are being booted out of China

U.S. chicken feet are being booted out of China

Americas 08 Jul 2009

US, Chicago - China and the United States are kicking up a trade war over chicken in which Beijing effectively has given the boot to millions of dollars worth of U.S. chicken, about half of which is chicken feet. This action comes as Congre…
Higher meat prices expected as livestock industry reels

Higher meat prices expected as livestock industry reels

Americas 07 Jul 2009

Saskatoon - Higher meat prices may be in store for consumers next year as hard-hit North American farmers thin herds of cattle and pigs, but the scale of downsizing may hinge on whether recession-weary consumers are willing to pay more. Hig…

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