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U.S. cash grain basis levels remain soft, but solid underlying demand and outlooks for grain movement to slow as blizzard conditions grip the central U.S. this week are seen supporting the market. The market is filtering through the rash of fresh supplies delivered to elevators in early January, but with farmer sales slowing and poor transportation expected from a central U.S. storm that is expected to dump as much as 2 feet of snow, the basis will be supported, a cash connected CBOT broker said. Basis is the difference between cash prices and futures. Export basis levels for soybeans have been supported by strong demand, with weekly export sales reported by U.S. Department of Agriculture last week exceeding analysts' expectations. Basis levels for hard red spring futures are strengthening on increased demand for high quality U.S. wheat and the potential transportation problems from adverse weather in the central U.S. this week. "Concerns are building over the availability of high-grade milling wheat in the world market," said Karl Setzer, analyst with MaxYield Cooperative. "It is becoming increasingly clear that the United States is going to be the primary source for milling wheat, as export bookings are leading last year by 60 percent," Setzer added. The cash basis for hard red spring wheat for rail in Minneapolis is up 65 cents a bushel at US$2.65 over March futures Monday, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture and US cash grain merchants. Read more...

Lallemand Animal Nutrition India receives Frost & Sullivan Award

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Sandip Ahirrao, Technical Sales Manager-Aquaculture received the award on behalf of Lallemand Animal Nutrition for “Product Innovation & Quality Excellence in Food Additives” from Dr. R R Hirwani, Director, URDIP, CSIR, Pune in the presence of Ms. Mamta Wadhwa - Senior Director, Chemicals, Materials & Foods, Frost & Sullivan, at the occasion of the glittering award ceremony that took place in Mumbai. Dr Pradip Linge, Area Manager Asia for Lallemand Animal Nutrition commented: “Receiving an award from an independent firm like Frost and Sullivan itself is a matter of pride and a warrant of quality and customer confidence for Lallemand Animal Nutrition in India. Read more...

Argentine port strike may get worse

Since last week Wednesday a strike is disrupting activity at key river ports that ship a significant portion of Argentina's grain and edible oil exports to global markets, with unionized workers blocking access to additional ports demanding higher pay. A pay strike at key Argentine grains ports that is disrupting exports from one of the world's biggest food suppliers could worsen if it is not resolved soon, a union leader said yesterday. Walter Cabrera, secretary general of the San Lorenzo chapter of Argentina's powerful Confederacion General de Trabajadores union umbrella group, said workers are currently picketing 17 ports to demand higher wages for its members who work in and around the ports. "We are demanding equal wages for all the workers in the oilseed crushing/port complex," Cabrera said. The strike, which has paralyzed soy-crushing plants and port terminals in the northern Rosario area, helped lift US soy futures last week but has had a minimal effect because farmers have yet to start corn and soybean harvesting. "We're going to ask them not to suspend people, or take away their jobs. If that were to happen there'll be clashes," said Pablo Reguera, secretarygeneral of the San Lorenzo oil workers union, based in one of the major ports outside Rosario. Read more...

Feed Regulators meet industry in Atlanta

The International Feed Regulators (IFR) took the opportunity to hold their fourth annual meeting prior to the Feed Expo on January 24-25 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA to promote discussion on international feed regulations and its impact. Presented in conjunction by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF), IFR offers the opportunity for industry leaders and regulators to convene over topics relative to the feed and feed ingredient industries. Over 70 delegates from more than 20 countries attended the two-day event, held in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. In addition to industry representatives sharing knowledge and exchanging information, experts held workshops and presentations on topics vital to the feed industry, including the Intergovernmental Codex Task Force on Animal Feeding, risk assessment and management tools, the IFIF Feed Regulatory Comparison Report and emergency notification systems for the feed industry. Read more...

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Grain Prices Staying High, Stoking Unrest

Algeria and other wheat importers continue to buy grain even as prices rise, suggesting cereals will be costly in the coming months, a senior economist at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization says. “Demand is not rationing even though prices remain high, and this is going to support prices for some time,” Abdolreza Abbassian at the Rome-based FAO said in an interview last week. “Countries are getting concerned as prices are staying high.” Russia last year banned cereal exports after the country’s worst drought in at least half a century destroyed crops and cut 2010 production, sparking a surge in grain prices across the world. Ukraine also restricted exports. Paris-traded milling wheat futures have more than doubled in the past 12 months. Governments in Africa have faced protests amid rising costs and high unemployment, and a revolt toppled Tunisia’s leader. “There’s also a question of instability in some countries, which could result in some countries purchasing more, and therefore adding more to the demand side,” Abbassian said. A surge in food and energy costs is stoking inflation in emerging markets and causing riots that may topple governments, Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who predicted the financial crisis, said Wednesday on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” Read more...

Sorghum exports play important role in pricing

While it is normal for US sorghum prices to follow corn markets, the strength of global sorghum markets currently has US Department of Agriculture’s farm price estimates for sorghum slightly higher than those of corn in 2010/2011. Although sorghum acres have moved lower over the last decade, US sorghum exports have remained stable, making exports a more important component of sorghum prices overall, according to Erick Erickson, US Grains Council special assistant for planning, evaluation and projects. “Sustaining exports is critical to sustaining sorghum prices,” he said. “Additional support from Council members like the United Sorghum Checkoff Program allowed us to support key markets in Mexico and Japan, but also bring along emerging markets in Morocco and Egypt.” Read more...

Forces affecting change in crop production agriculture

A number of factors are significantly reshaping crop production agriculture in the United States. Consider the following: Concentration has been on a steady rise for several decades. Today, 75 percent of the value of primary field crop production corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, sorghum, and barley oats is produced by 40 percent of U.S. farms (USDA-NASS, Census of Agriculture, 2007). Productivity increases have been significant. Corn yields increased from an average of 55 bushels per acre in 1960 to 165 bushels in 2009 a 300 percent increase in 50 years. Wheat and soybean yields have seen 215 percent and 169 percent increases, respectively, over the same period. Meanwhile, according to the cost and returns survey of USDA's Economic Research Service, variable costs of corn production have declined on a real basis from $0.94 per bushel in 1975 to an estimated $0.63 per bushel in 2005. Producers are adopting larger pieces of equipment and more sophisticated technologies. Some estimate the time to plant and harvest the crop, two of the most time consuming operations, has been cut in half in the last decade, allowing producers to effectively manage more acres within one operation. Read more...

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February 02, 2011

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Cattle feeding margins decline, packer margins improve

Cattle feeding margins declined about US$12 per head last week, while packer margins improved US$30 per head. Feeding margins slipped below the US$100 per head threshold, while packer margins jumped above US$50 per head. The Sterling Profit Quotient lost nearly 30 points for the week, according to estimates developed by Sterling Marketing Inc, Vale, Ore. “Estimates for feedlot feed costs, break even prices, and margins are generated based on the cost of a 775 pound feeder steer, and corn prices (Western Kansas) during the week the cattle were placed on feed,” says John Nalivka, Sterling Marketing president. “The days on feed for those animals and closeout week are then calculated using average data that might be expected for feeding performance, i.e. feed conversion and ADG. Break evens and margins will vary according to differences in the cost of cattle, cost of feed, and feeding performance,” Nalivka says. Read more...

Turmoil in Egypt casts light on food politics

In Egypt, food is a highly political issue. The world’s biggest wheat importer, where one in five people lives on less than US$1 a day, provides subsidized bread for 14.2 million people. United Nations figures showing world prices pushed above their highs of three years ago in December has sparked a wave of unease throughout the heavily import-reliant region as governments looked to stave off domestic inflation. Yet Daniel Williams, a worker for Human Rights watch who has been living in Egypt for seven years, said food inflation has played only a minor role in the current discontent. “For someone poor trying to feed a family of four children here has always been difficult,” he said. Read more...

Press Release: Ukraine is going to cancel grain export limitation

The Government of Ukraine will possibly increase quotas for grain exports by one million tonnes – for wheat, and by 1.7 million tonnes – for maize, and then cancel the quotas imposition after March 2011, declared Nikholay Prysiazhnyuk, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, on January 26. The Minister of Agrarian Policy added that his department will try to cancel quotas in April, due to approaching of the new harvesting campaign beginning and coming of new grains on the market. To date, the Ministry of Economy works out the project of the future Decree, which will be completely formed in February or till the end of March 2011. Ukraine imposed grains export quotas till March 31, 2011. The Russian Federation has existing grain export ban from August 15, 2010, till July 1, 2011. Grains export quotas, imposed by the Government of Ukraine in the beginning of October 2010 till December 31, 2010, were prolonged till March 31, 2011. At the same time, the total volume was increased by 1.5 million tonnes – till the level of 4.2 million tonnes. Maize export quota was increased from two to three million tonnes, wheat – from 0.5 till one million tonnes. If you are interested in meeting with leading Ukrainian grain exporting companies please attend the International Grain Trading Summit-2011 (hold in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt on March 30- April 1). Organizer of the conference - APK-Inform Sponsor of the company: Abo Donkol (Egypt) 7

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FDA recalls pet food and horse feed

The FDA is recalling certain brands of pet food and horse feed for possible salmonella and rumensin contamination. Merrick Pet Care recalled Jr. Texas Taffy Pet Treats and Manna Pro recalled Family Farm Complete Horse 10 Horse Feed. Merrick Pet Care, of Amarillo, Texas, is recalling all batches of Jr. Texas Taffy Pet Treats because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. Manna Pro Family Farm Complete Horse 10 horse feed is being recalled because certain lots contain monensin sodium or Rumensin. Rumensin is a medication that has been approved for use with livestock and poultry, but can be fatal to horses. Products in question were sold between January 11, 2011 and January 21, 2011 in California, Nevada and Oregon.

February 03, 2011

Holding grain for market highs?

Recent government grain reports showing low-end-of-year carryover stocks have sent corn, soybean and wheat futures prices upward at rates that make crop farmers smile. For most, their present marketing plan will be to hold and sell at the market peak. “Rethink that!” says crops analyst Melvin Brees at the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI). “Hitting the high depends mainly on luck and is nearly impossible.”

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Grain owners should have plans in place, now, for marketing both the old crop and new crop. “No one wants to sell when prices are going up,” Brees says. “But, expecting these price levels to last until harvest time might be asking a lot!”In other words, if prices can go up fast, they come down faster. “We are in a complicated marketing situation, but it can be managed,” Brees says. In his University of Missouri “Decisive Marketing Newsletter,” Brees outlined several plans. “Current prices offer profit opportunities that are well above typical break-even prices. Don’t let profitable prices slip away. It is one thing to pass up a good price on the way up, but don’t miss it on the way down.” Read more...

The GM Alfalfa decision: 'This could threaten the Future of Food

Roundup, Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicide, is causing Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a serious plant disease, in many fields. Study after study shows that glyphosate is contributing not only to the huge increase in SDS, but also to the outbreak of numerous other diseases. Glyphosate is the world's bestselling weed killer; it was patented by Monsanto for use in their Roundup brand, which became more popular when they introduced "Roundup Ready" crops -- genetically modified (GM) plants that can withstand applications of normally deadly Roundup. But the herbicide doesn't destroy plants directly; instead, it creates a unique perfect storm of conditions that activates disease-causing organisms in the soil, while at the same time wiping out plant defenses against those diseases. The Institute for Responsible Technology reports: "By weakening plants and promoting disease, glyphosate opens the door for lots of problems in the field. According to Don [Huber, a plant pathologist], 'There are more than 40 diseases of crop plants that are reported to increase with the use of glyphosate …' Some of the fungi promoted by glyphosate produce dangerous toxins that can end up in food and feed... They've 'been linked to the plague epidemics' of medieval Europe, 'large-scale human toxicosis in Eastern Europe,' esophageal cancer in southern Africa and parts of China, joint diseases in Asia and southern Africa, and a blood disorder in Russia." Read more...

Argentina grain ports reopen after strike

After the federal government ordered unions and employers to the negotiating table following an eight-day strike Argentine grain ports and soy crushing plants located near the city of San Lorenzo slowly resumed operations. Hugo Lopez, deputy secretary general of the edible-oil workers union in San Lorenzo, said the union's 3,000 members have gone back to work after picketing workers affiliated with other trade unions started to lift their siege of the ports. "In 24 hours everything will be back to normal," he said in a telephone interview. "The plants are being put back into operation, there is grain on hand, and more grain can now be trucked in." The local port authority said shipping activity in the affected area has yet to resume, with 22 vessels still docked or moored near the San Martin, San Lorenzo and Timbues port terminals. Read more..

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GM soybeans now allowed in Turkish feeds

The Turkish Animal Feed Producers’ Union (Türkiyem-Bír), has announced that it acquired the Biosafety Commission’s permission to use three types of genetically modified soybeans in animal feed. Union Chairman Ülkü Karakus said the body asked to use the three types of GM soybeans allowed in the US and EU. The permission was announced in the official newspaper on Wednesday.

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Karakus said that the committee also determined the terms of the imports, adding they were preparing to present a crisis action plan to the Agriculture Ministry within a week, after which the ministry is expected to allow the import of the GM crops.

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“China cannot rely on grain imports for grain security”

Agricultural Minister Han Changfu said China cannot rely on imports to ensure the security of its domestic grain supply, and that maintaining 95 percent self-sufficiency for rice, wheat and corn is a fundamental national policy orientation. With its consumption of grains decreasing its volumes available for global export, China has to depend on its own output or risk unduly influencing international prices, Han said in the Qiushi Journal, a magazine published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Grains available for trade worldwide total around 250 million tonnes, less than half of China's domestic grain production, Han noted. Read more...

Company update: Archer Daniels Midland Q2

Archer Daniels Midlands Co’s fiscal second quarter earnings rose 29 percent as it took advantage of surging exports demand for grains and favourable ethanol margins, pushing the company’s stock to a high not seen in more than 20 years The grain processor and merchandiser, which was caught off-guard in the summer by the timing of a Russian grain export ban, began benefiting from tightening global supplies toward the end of 2010. Its results for the quarter beat analysts' expectations, with shares up 6.4 percent to US$34.75 in recent trading.

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“People in my own organization used to come up and ask me, ‘Why do you do all this traveling?” said Allen Scobie, a crop consultant from Scotland, who has become a fixture at the annual meetings of the U.S.-based National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants. “Why do you go to America and these other places? “I tell them it’s because of the contacts I make,” said Scobie, who works with Bridgend Consultancy Services in Dundee in Scotland. “And it’s because of what I learn about my profession and about agriculture.” Scobie first came to speak to the NAICC as president of the Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants or AICC, the NAICC’s counterpart in the United Kingdom. He’s been coming back almost every year. This year he was joined by Patrick Stephenson, a crop consultant from Pickering, North Yorkshire, in the UK. Read more...

February 04, 2011

Winter storm cripples cash grain markets

The worst winter storm to hit the central United States in at least a decade crippled agricultural operations across the Midwest and southern Plains and threatened the wheat crop and livestock on Wednesday. Transportation of grains and livestock in the multi-billion-dollar cash markets ground to a virtual halt amid icy road conditions and up to two feet of snow in the worst-hit areas since the storm started on Tuesday. Grain exports from the United States, the world's top supplier of corn, soybeans and wheat, remained largely unhindered at the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Northwest - ensuring on-time arrival of grains and oilseeds. The top five corn and soybean states are located in the Midwest and account for about 62 percent of U.S. corn production and about 55 percent of soybean output. Pit trading of futures at the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest grain exchange, suffered a 30-minute delay but it was business as usual on the Globex electronic platform. Here are some of the ramifications on commodities markets due to the storm: Grain Elevators/Processors Grain elevators and processors in several states belonging to major companies such as Cargill Inc and Archer Daniels Midland Co were shut because of the storm, which made travel for employees and customers difficult, while frigid conditions made equipment hard to operate. Read more...

Storm paralyzes grain, livestock movement

U.S. grain and livestock movement ground to a halt on Wednesday as one of the biggest storms to hit the U.S. heartland in a decade dumped up to 20 inches of snow in some spots and forced grain elevators and processors to close. The closures stretched from far western Iowa to Ohio, snarling grain deliveries in the biggest corn- and soybean region of the United States, the world's top producer of corn and soybeans. "The storm is winding down but it is by far having a huge impact on transportation," said Mike Palmerino, a forecaster with Telvent DTN weather service.Those grain elevators that were open had a skeleton crew."I'm the only one here working from the office," said a dealer at an Iowa elevator along the Mississippi River. "Yeah, they can deliver if they can make it in, but why would they want to?"

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The storm stretched across 30 states, leaving many Midwest roads snow covered or impassable, and Interstate 80 was closed from Morris to Princeton, Illinois. Many grain merchandisers are unable to load barges amid the heavy snow and icing on rivers. Both corn and soybean futures hit fresh 2-1/2 year highs overnight before easing as traders took profits. Wheat futures also hit highs in many contract months at exchanges in Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis, triggering farmer sales. Read more...

Cash wheat hits US$10 in the U.S

Export demand and concerns about planting have pushed U.S. cash prices for hard red spring wheat above US$10 a bushel for the first time in 31 months. Demand for spring wheat, a high-protein variety grown in northern Plains states like North Dakota, has been strong after rains lowered the quality of wheat in Canada and Australia. Traders are worried wet weather may prevent farmers from planting a big crop this spring to replenish supplies because heavy snows could lead to flooding and saturated soils. "Rivers and streams are still running full. It could be a mess," said Mike Krueger, president of the Money Farm, a grain marketing advisory service near Fargo, N.D. National cash price indexes maintained at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange last traded at US$10.05 1/2 a bushel for hard red spring wheat, reflecting an average basis of - 4 3/4 cents relative to Wednesday's settlement of the MGE hard red spring wheat futures contract. The average cash price jumped from US$9.77 a day earlier. Snow cover should remain "very deep" across key growing areas in North Dakota, eastern South Dakota and Minnesota, according to MDA EarthSat Weather, a private weather firm. Hard red spring wheat is often blended with lower-quality wheat varieties, such as soft red winter wheat, or used to make bread. Read more...

ADM upgrades CitriStim facility

Archer Daniels Midland Company recently completed an upgrade of its Southport, North Carolina, USA facility to allow the company to increase production and packaging capabilities for its proprietary CitriStim feed additive. The facility upgrade included the addition of driers that allow ADM to double CitriStimÂ production capacity and also packaging improvements that help minimize package leaks, create more uniform and durable pallets, and make product information easier to read. CitriStim is a yeast mannan source that is used as a feed ingredient for livestock, equine, poultry, aquaculture and companion animals. Read more...

Schaumann present new calf nutrition products

With Kalbi Liquid and Schaumann Energy Protect German specialist Schaumann presents two new products for use in calf drinking milk and calf rearing feed.Â High weight gains and a smooth development through to full ruminating ability represent the central aims of calf rearing. Optimal early development lays the foundations for performance in the following beef production or as member of a milking herd. Kalbi Liquid Protect features a combination of high quality omega-3 and further specific fatty acids, a blend conceived especially for use during the early drinking stage. The high content of valuable omega-3 fatty acids has an anti-inflammatory effect and plays a role in the development of the large mucous membrane surface in the digestive tract, a surface particularly sensitive and especially so during this early stage. Read more...

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Company Update: InVivo

The leading French farming cooperative group InVivo, have posted revenue of € 4.4 billion for 2009-2010, down 12.8 percent on the previous year. This downturn was expected due to the fall in agricultural raw material prices and the gloomy environment throughout the year for animal and plant production. The consolidated net income of € 27.7 million was the same as last years. Returns paid to the cooperative before the end of year was up by 17.5 percent to nearly € 55 million. InVivo results were satisfactory despite the agricultural situation in the financial year 2009-2010. Read more...

Biofuels impact on farmland in the longterm

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While a useful biofuel source, crop residues also play a crucial role in maintaining soil organic carbon stock. This stock of organic carbon preserves soil functions and our global environment as well ensures the sustainable long-term production of biofuel feedstock. In a study funded by the USDA Agriculture Research Service, scientists analyzed five classical long term experiments. Using a process-based carbon balance model, researchers simulated experiments lasting from 79 to 134 years to predict the potential of no tillage management to maintain soil organic carbon. Read more...

February 7, 2011

Press Release: High Turnout Expected for VIV Asia Mycotoxins Conference

Mycotoxins2011 is stimulating a lot of interest and registrations are strong for this respected technical conference that will once again be being held on the day before VIV Asia (Tuesday 8th March 2011). The speakers come from a dozen different countries and after focussing on defining problems and monitoring in the morning session the afternoon looks at features a series of presentations on the interface between science, products and solutions. Among the speakers will be Carlos Mallman from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil who will speak on Brazilian experiences with mycotoxins, Alois Schiessl who will speak on reference testing, Swamy Haladi from Canada who will consider the interaction between mycotoxins and immunity Alain Reocreux from France on mycotoxins and reproduction. Full programme and booking details can be seen in the conference section at www.positiveaction.co.uk or from Palm at palmpositive@yahoo.com.

UK to back plan for changing zero-tolerance policy

The Observer understands that the UK intends to back EU plans permitting the importing of animal feed containing maximum traces of 0.1% of unauthorised GM. Environmental groups are alarmed. Importing animal feed containing GM feed must at present be authorised by European regulators. But a vote last week in favour of the scheme put forward by the EU's standing committee on the food chain and animal health would overturn the EU's "zero tolerance" policy towards the import of unauthorised GM crops.

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The move would mark a significant victory for the GM lobby, which has pushed for a relaxation of the blanket ban for years. Environmental groups claim the GM industry wants to use the presence of unauthorised organisms in animal feed as part of a wider strategy to promote its technology. Read more...

Man, 33, crushed by animal feed load in Scotland

A MAN has been crushed to death by a falling load of animal feed at an Inverness agriculture plant. Fire crews rushed to the plant at the Longman Industrial Estate yesterday, but were unable to resuscitate the 33-year-old man, a spokeswoman for the Highlands and Islands Fire Service said. "We attended reports of a male crushed by a load of animal feed at an agricultural plant on Harbour Road. Fire crews administered CPR and oxygen but were unable to revive him," she said. Police are currently investigating the incident, which occurred at 10:30am yesterday morning, but said there do no appear to be any suspicious circumstances. A statement from Northern Constabulary said: "Police officers from Northern Constabulary, and personnel from the Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue and the Scottish Ambulance Service, responded to a report of an industrial accident which had occurred within agricultural premises on the Longman Industrial Estate, Inverness. Read more...

Fonterra defends use of controversial feed

New Zealand dairy company Fonterra responds to activists' criticism of the use of palm kernel, as a protest continues on a cargo vessel off Port Taranaki. Fonterra is defending its use of palm kernel by-products, in the face of a Greenpeace protest on a ship. Five activists boarded the MV Great Motion, aiming to stop it unloading 10,000 tonnes of animal feed. The dairy cooperative says a palm kernel by-product makes up about 1% of the dairy cow diet and it's mainly used during drought. A spokeswoman says Fonterra shares people's concerns about tropical deforestation and has made sure its supply is sustainable. She says the company buys the feed from a source which practises a no-burn policy and respects designated conservation areas. Read more...

Grain groups team up to promote bin safety

The National Corn Growers Association and the National Grain and Feed Foundation — the research and education arm of the National Grain and Feed Association — have unveiled a joint video project to promote awareness about grain bin safety on the farm. The two organizations teamed up in November to develop the video in response to an increase in U.S. fatalities and injuries associated with entry into grain bins. “In 2010 we saw a record number of farmers becoming engulfed in grain bins and we decided it was time to have a proactive role in creating awareness about the serious nature of this issue,” NCGA President Bart Schott, a grower from Kulm, N.D., said. “We hope this video makes farmers stop and think twice before the next time they put themselves in danger.” Read more...

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February 8, 2011

New soybean meal sources good fish meal alternatives

Two new sources of soybean meal are capturing attention throughout the country. University of Illinois research indicates that fermented soybean meal and enzyme-treated soybean meal may replace fish meal in weanling pig diets. “The price of fish meal has exploded and is causing producers to search for new options for weanling pig diets,” said Hans H. Stein, U of I professor of animal sciences. “Pigs are traditionally fed diets containing relatively large amounts of animal proteins such as fish meal from weaning up to 40 pounds when they can digest traditional soybean meal.” The fermentation and enzyme treatment process helps remove some of the antigens found in traditional soybean meal and other compounds that are not easily digested by weanling pigs. Stein said these new sources of soybean meal may be the answer producers are looking for to keep costs down without sacrificing digestibility of important amino acids. Read more…

Cash grain bids mixed; follow futures lead

U.S. cash grain prices were mixed Monday, following the lead of price action in the futures market. Corn and soybean prices stumbled, succumbing to profit-taking in futures and slowly improving transportation, as the Midwest dug out from last week's winter storm over the weekend, a cash connected CBOT broker said. U.S. grain futures were mixed Monday, closing with cash contract gains of about 5 to 9 cents for winter wheat, and losses of 2 to 3 cents for corn, and 7 to 9 cents for soybeans. Basis levels held steady, as farmer selling remained light, as many producers with stored grain to sell were content to sit on the sidelines until after Wednesday's supply-and-demand report from U.S. Department of Agriculture, he added. Basis is the difference between cash prices and futures. Meanwhile, export demand and concerns about planting continued to support U.S. cash prices for hard red spring wheat. Demand for spring wheat, a high-protein variety grown in the northern Plains, has been strong after rains lowered the quality of wheat in Canada and Australia. Read more…

Cargill introduces new line of back yard poultry feed

Cargill Inc. said that its Nutrena brand is introducing a newly reformulated line of NatureWise poultry feed, featuring five new natural formulas specially designed to meet the needs of backyard poultry flocks. The original NatureWise formulation is still available, now under the Nutrena Country Feeds label. NatureWise natural poultry feed is made without any chemicals or animal by-products. It is antibiotic free, with the exception of the Chick Starter Grower formula, which is offered in medicated and non-medicated forms. The new line, for all types and ages of poultry, is specially formulated to support healthy chicken performance and enhance fresh egg quality. Read more…

Nutreco invests €20 million in Russian premix and specialties plant Global feed supplier Nutreco is investing approximately €20 million in a new factory in the Voronezh agricultural region in Russia. The plant will produce young animal feed, concentrates and premixes for ruminants, pigs and poultry. The plant is scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2012 and will employ 50 people. 17

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The investment will strengthen Nutreco's market position in Russia. Nutreco has currently a sales organisation in Russia with 140 employees. The sales are primarily based on imports. Nutreco is one of the largest importers of young animal feed, concentrates and premixes in Russia. The investment is a logical next step and offers a good opportunity for sustainable growth in one of the most important agricultural countries in the world. The development has been welcomed and supported by the local government. Read more …

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Presence of Giant Whitefly insect pest discovered in Indonesia

Scientists with a Virginia Tech-led program have discovered the presence of the giant whitefly (Aleurodicus dugesii) in western Java, the first known infestation of this pest in Asia. The scientists fear an infestation could cause widespread destruction of crops in southeastern and South Asia. Muni Muniappan, entomologist and director of a multimillion dollar U.S. Agency for International Development-funded program at Virginia Tech, noticed the insect on a poinsettia plant along a roadside in Cipanas, Indonesia. Taxonomists soon confirmed whitefly's presence. Muniappan was in Indonesia with partner scientists from Clemson University and Bogor Agricultural University in Bogor, Indonesia, inspecting program progress when he noticed telltale signs of the whitefly: a sooty black mold that covers the surface of infected leaves, making photosynthesis impossible. Read more

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China drought uncertainty tantalises wheat traders

Traders are betting China's drought could hurt its wheat crop and boost high global prices even further by forcing the country to eat into its vast reserves and push it closer to imports. The drought was "potentially a serious problem", the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday in the latest warning about China's wheat output.

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Another jolt may come later on Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is expected to tighten its forecast for wheat supplies in a monthly report. Although China is not about to run short of wheat, since it says it holds more than a year's consumption in reserve, traders believe any erosion of the country's self-sufficiency would be seen as a big turnaround for the global wheat market. "Even if China just imported several million tonnes, it would have a significant psychological impact on the global market," said an analyst at a state-owned trading house in China. U.S. wheat futures are near a 30-month high, buoyed by strong demand and worries about threats to production in China and the United States. Read more...

Analysing dioxins in animal feed

Phenomenex has published a new method for the analysis of dioxins in animal feed and tissue using high-resolution gas chromatography with mass spec detection (HRGCMS). The new method, developed in collaboration with Vista Analytical, also analyses dioxin-like compounds, dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are often monitored in conjunction with dioxins to give an overall toxic equivalent (TEQ) for a sample. Dioxins enter the environment, and subsequently the food chain, through combustion of organic materials in waste incineration. Recently 2,256 tons of fat, incorporated into feed products in Germany, were found to be highly contaminated, posing the threat of chain reaction through the food supply. Read more…

Balchem expands production to meet growing demand

Balchem Corporation in the USA, specialist in choline chloride and protection technology, announced expansion at two of its Animal Nutrition and Health production plants in St. Gabriel (Louisiana), and Verona (Missouri). One of the largest liquid choline plants in the world, the St. Gabriel location is undergoing an expansion due to the growing demand for choline products. Construction plans began earlier this year and commissioning is expected to be completed by the 2nd quarter of 2011. The expansion is designed to ensure that production capabilities meet increasing customer demands. The Verona plant expansion, scheduled to be completed in the first quarter 2011, is the result of on-going process and technology developments to meet the growing demand for Balchem’s AminoShure-L (Lysine) and ReaShure (Choline) products. Read more

Biomin survey 2010: Mycotoxins inseparable from feeds

Mycotoxins are, more frequently than not, present in animal commodities and feed. That is the conclusion from the annual survey carried out by Biomin on the presence of mycotoxins in raw materials and animal feed. Mycotoxins are, more frequently than not, present in animal commodities and feed. That is the conclusion from the annual survey carried out by Biomin on the presence of mycotoxins in raw materials and animal feed. In 2010 the company had 3,349 samples tested and 11,195 analyses were carried out on the most important mycotoxins in terms of agriculture and animal production – aflatoxins (Afla), zearalenone (ZON), deoxynivalenol (DON), fumonisins (FUM) and ochratoxin A (OTA). Read more

Ukraine: MHP to invest US$350 million in 2011

OJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural production companies, intends to invest US$350 million in production development in 2011, reported the company’s press-service.

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The company says this investment will be funnelled into further construction of poultry facilities in Vinnytsya region. “The amount of investments in the project will approximate US$350 million in 2011. Granaries of Ladyzhynsky compound feed mill, being a part of the Vinnytsya facilities, will be put into operation in late 2011”, MHP representatives said. Read more

February 14, 2011

U.S. farm exports reaches record high US$115.8 billion

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement regarding data released showing that U.S. farm exports reached an all-time high of US$115.8 billion in the calendar year 2010: “U.S. farmers and ranchers had a record-breaking export year, surpassing the previous high of US$114.8 billion, set in calendar year 2008, by nearly US$1 billion. We saw a rise in both the value and volume of U.S. agricultural exports worldwide. “Today’s numbers indicate that the demand for U.S. food and agricultural products is soaring worldwide. This is good news for all Americans in these trying economic times. Every US$1 billion in agricultural exports supports 8,000 American jobs, which means agricultural exports supported nearly 1 million jobs in 2010. Read more

US and global corn stocks projected lower

Record-high farm prices for corn in 2010/11 are expected to ration demand of corn over the coming months, concludes the US Department of Agriculture in its monthly Feed Outlook for February. This months increases in demand is pushing ending stocks lower, where as last month the lower production was the driver. Corn is still strong, pushing projected US ending stocks to use to their lowest post war levels since 1995/96. The total domestic use of corn increased by 70 million bushels, with most of the increase in corn being used for ethanol. Read more

De Heus acquires South African Tuinroete Agri

South African Tuinroete Agri and Dutch De Heus have announced the acquisition of Tuinroete Agri’s animal feed business by De Heus, which includes the production location at Kleinberg. The acquisition is set for transition on 1 May 2011. The animal feed operations of Tuinroete Agri which are currently taking place at the locations Riversdale and Kleinberg will be consolidated by De Heus to the Kleinberg production site after the transition date. “Tuinroete Agri is excited about the prospect of De Heus being an international and independent player, competing in the local Southern Cape market benefiting both livestock and grain farmers” according to Jan Weys, Managing director of Tuinroete Agri .” Read more

DuPont's Danisco bid rejected by US shareholder

US chemical company DuPont's bid for Danish enzymes and food ingredients firm Danisco is too low, according to US shareholder Elliott Associates, Danish daily Borsen reports. The shareholder, a New York-based hedge fund, criticizes Danisco's board for recommending the bid. Elliott Associates wants a higher price for Danisco or to keep Danisco as an independent company, Borsen writes, citing a letter Elliott Associates sent to Danisco's board. Elliott Associates controls about 1.25 percent of the Danisco shares, according to Borsen, making it one of the largest shareholders in the company.

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DuPont has offered DKK665 (€ 89.17 or US$120.90) a share for the Danish food ingredients company. According to Borsen, several large hedge funds have bought Danisco shares amid speculation that DuPont will raise its bid. Read more

FEFANA clarifies information on chloramphenicol in Vitamin A/D3 Chloramphenicol in vitamin

A/D3 that have been sourced from two different producers in China, have been placed on the EU market by two EU operators. According to the European Union Association of Specialities Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA). Two EU rapid notifications are active for the detection and reporting of low amounts of chloramphenicol in some vitamin A/D3 products. Several EU countries have had have had this distributed to them and are the subject to information and recalls by the concerned companies. Read more

February 15, 2011

Perten wins huge order for NIR analyzers

Perten Instruments and ABP, its partner in Turkey, have won a tender issued by the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) to supply 250 NIR analyzers. Under the tender Perten and ABP will deliver 250 Inframatic Near Infrared wholegrain analyzers, for placement at TMO's grain terminals across Turkey. After a very thorough evaluation of several NIT instruments, TMO found that the Inframatic was the only instrument to fulfil all the requirements of the tender. The Inframatic grain analyzers will be delivered with an integrated Hectoliter Weight (Test Weight) module and calibrations for a range of grain types. The full scope of the contract includes communication solutions, instrument monitoring and a multi year service and support commitment. Read more

Brazil's 'agricultural frontier'

It’s the new ‘New Agricultural Frontier’ of Brazil’s Cerrado. In the 1980’s, the state of Mato Grosso was labeled the area of South America with the greatest potential for millions of acres of soybean production. That title has been transferred. Though farmers have produced crops here for ten years, electricity just showed up last year in this town located on a north eastern Brazil plateau, thousands of feet above sea level. Farmers journeyed here from the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana. The land-seeking farmers were led here by a cooperative to clear Cerrado land that was priced, at the time, at US$66 per acre. After two years, the coop pulled out but the farm-families stayed. Today, developed land sales for US$1,890,00 per acre. Read more

Starlings sacrificed to save dairy feed

Dozens of European starlings fell out of the sky onto the ground and into trees last week in Kinderhook in the state of New York, USA. It was the result of a US Department of Agriculture sanctioned controlled killing of birds that are considered a threat to specific dairy farms.

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The dark, lightly spotted birds that travel in enormous flocks consume massive amounts of cattle feed, according to a spokesman of the Columbia County Health Department. He said the USDA went to two farms this week, one in Kinderhook and one in Millerton, where the starlings were congregating and laid down a large mat laced with poisonous bird seed. Read more

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Coceral says GMO rule delay threatens farm sector

Delays to permitting grain imports containing traces of unauthorised genetically modified organisms into the European Union pose a serious threat to the bloc's farming sector, the European Union grain trade lobby said. The EU currently doesn't allow shipments containing even tiny amounts of GMOs not deemed safe within its borders and has impounded feed shipments for this reason in the past. Officials were due to agree on new rules to allow low-level presence of GMOs in shipments last week in order to ease the pressure on the bloc's already hard-pressed farmers. But now the proposals face further delays after Commission and member state representatives were unable to reach a consensus. Read more

Alert on dichlorvos in Argentine sorghum

Dutch authorities have confirmed that a shipment of sorghum from Argentina destined for use as animal feed was contaminated with the pesticide dichlorvos, an EU-wide alert showed. It is possible the tainted animal feed has already been distributed to the market in both the Netherlands and Germany, the European Union's rapid alert system for food and feed showed. According to sources the tainted sorghum had been delivered to a feed factory in Germany, where the insecticide had been detected during an in-house check. The said manufacturer had made a formal complaint to the provider for not complying with product quality. The merchant has traced this batch to a sorghum ship, which contained 30,000 tonnes, of Argentine origin which had been unloaded in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Read more

EU to lower important duty on wheat and barley

In response to the escalating cost of wheat and barley, the European Commission (EC) has proposed suspending import duty on these cereals, the Financial Times reports. This would allow feed manufacturers to obtain cheaper raw materials and ease their financial burden, while the EC also expects it will help to calm domestic markets. The EC told the newspaper that the decision to reduce import duty was made "to help facilitate feed cereals imports from outside the EU and so reduce tensions on the European markets". The goal of reducing grainimport duties would be to “help facilitate feed cereals imports from outside the EU and so to reduce tensions on the European markets,” the commission said. Read more

World's first GE biofuels corn threatens contamination of food-grade corn

The Center for Food Safety criticised an announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will approve the world's first genetically engineered (GE) crop designed specifically for biofuel production. The Centre maintains that this GE "biofuels corn" will contaminate food-grade corn, and has not been properly assessed for potential adverse effects on human health, the environment, or farmers' livelihoods.

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"The USDA has once again put the special interests of the biotechnology and biofuels industries above the clear risks to our nation's food system," said Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director for the Centre for Food Safety. "The Obama Administration is well aware of the costly effects that Starlink corn contamination had on farmers and the food industry, and now it is poised to repeat the same mistake.” The GE corn - known as Event 3272 - is genetically engineered to contain high levels of a heat-resistant and acid-tolerant enzyme derived from exotic, marine microorganisms. The enzyme breaks down starches into sugars, the first step in conversion of corn to ethanol, and has not been adequately assessed for its potential to cause allergies, a key concern with new biotech crops. Read more

February 16, 2011 United States Feed Outlook - February 2011 Record-high farm prices for corn in 2010/11 are expected to ration demand over the coming months, according to the latest report from the USDA Economic Research Service. This month, increases in demand are pushing ending stocks lower, in contrast to last month when lower production was the driver. Corn use continues to be strong, pushing projected US ending stocks relative to use to their lowest post-World War II levels since 1995/96.

Total domestic use of corn is increased by 70 million bushels, with most of the increase in corn used for ethanol. With no changes to supplies, corn ending stocks are lowered 70 million bushels. The corn farm price forecast is increased by 10 cents to US$5.05 to US$5.75 per bushel. World coarse grain production for 2010/11 is reduced this month with a smaller expected corn crop in Argentina. World corn ending stocks for 2010/11 are projected lower, with higher usage in the United States and a smaller carry-in in Brazil. Read more...

Fermented soybean meal may replace fish meal in piglet diets

A new study has suggested that fermented soybean meal and enzymetreated soybean meal may replace fish meal in weanling pig diets. “The price of fish meal has exploded and is causing producers to search for new options for weanling pig diets. Pigs are traditionally fed diets containing relatively large amounts of animal proteins such as fish meal from weaning up to 18 kg when they can digest traditional soybean meal,” said Hans H. Stein of the University of Illinois. The fermentation and enzyme treatment process helps remove some of the anti-nutritional factors found in traditional soybean meal and other compounds that are not easily digested by young pigs. Read more

U.S.D.A. scientists match bioenergy sites, feedstocks

Scientists with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), have figured out a cost-benefit balance between identifying the best sites for building bioenery facilities in the Pacific Northwest and supplying those facilities with the biofeedstock needed to produce fuel. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) agronomist George Mueller-Warrant, plant physiologist Gary Banowetz, and hydrologist Jerry Whittaker calculated that the 6.2 million tons of straw left over from the production of Pacific Northwest cash crops could be used to produce in excess of 430 million gallons of biofuel. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency, and this research supports the USDA. priority of developing new sources of bioenergy.

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The scientists, who work at the ARS Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit in Corvallis, Oregon, revised a statistical approach that had been developed by other location analysts to identify the best locations for commercial and public facilities. Read more

Company update: Harbro

Scotland Harbro Group is looking good with turnover and profits rises. Increased sales and lower borrowing costs saw animal feed manufacturer, the Aberdeenshire-based Harbro Group, boost turnover and profits in the year to June 30, 2010. Group turnover rose by UK£3 million to UK£68.1m (€80.8m) and pre-tax profits are UK£800,000 higher at UK£1.9m (€2.25m). “Unlike other sectors of industry, the economic downturn has not had a detrimental effect on sales,” said managing director, Graham Baxter. “Our market share has increased and all companies within the group are showing strong performance. “We have benefited from reduced interest rates and the policy the board has been following to reduce borrowings.” Read more … February 17, 2011

USDA Acres & oil: 2011 crop factors

The biggest message from last month's USDA grain supply and production reports was that there's not much margin for error with this year's corn and soybean crops. The world needs a lot of both crops. But, the same could still be the case next year at this time; that slim margin for error may be just as tight next year, making a big 2012 crop just as important as a big one this year, says Iowa State University Ag Marketing Resource Center director Robert Wisner. "Early indications are that crop plantings this coming spring and normal yields would provide only a very modest easing of the tight supplies and that additional easing would be likely to occur in 2012-13," Wisner says. Even if crop output's average this year, the economist says some demand factors could expand in future years, adding to the supply squeeze. "One should keep in mind several important variables that may influence the degree of tightness next season, including 2011 weather and crop yields in the U.S., China, former Soviet Republics, Europe, and South America," Wisner adds. "Also, with record or near-record high corn and soybean meal prices, it likely is only a matter of time before significant rationing of feed demand begins to occur." Read more

US state to ban arsenic from poultry feed

Legislation in the state of Maryland is seeking to ban arsenic compounds from poultry feed. Supporters of the bill say arsenic in chicken feed contaminates both chicken meat and chicken waste, which can end up in the Chesapeake Bay. They also say it increases risks of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Some growers, including Perdue, have stopped using arsenic. But others fought bills in the General Assembly last year, saying it has been approved by federal regulators. Arsenic is often added to chicken feed in the form of the compound roxarsone. While it is intended to control the common intestinal disease coccidiosis and promote growth, there is little evidence that it is necessary to support these functions. Chronic exposure to arsenic has also been shown to increase the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological deficits and other health problems. Read more

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New Chairman for AgFeed Industries

The board of pork and animal feed manufacturer AgFeed Industries Inc. has elected John Stadler chairman and named him interim president and CEO, replacing two executives who will stay with the company. Stadler replaces Songyan Li as chairman. Li will become vice chairman of the company's hog production business with a focus on Chinese government relations. Junhong Xiong stepped down as president and CEO and as a board member to focus on being chairman of the company's animal nutrition business, which is in registration for an initial public offering. AgFeed also said it made Edward Pazdro chief financial officer. He had served as an acting CFO since November. Read more

European Feed Ingredients Platform (EFIP) symposium

The European Feed Ingredients Platform on April 5th, 2011, will organise a symposium on "The Contribution of Sector Guides and Certifiable Codes to Feed Safety in the EU". The conference has the aim to explore and discuss with the different stakeholders the present situation of feed safety in the EU. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will look together at a number of key issues, such as the responsibility of the industry sectors, the role of the European Guides and certifiable feed safety management schemes in supporting the supply of safe feed,â&#x20AC;? says Didier Jans, secretary general of Fefana. It will also be discussed how feed ingredient suppliers can contribute to feed safety. Read more

A Review: World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity by Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices

ISBN:1-55963-370-0 In 2004 Jason Clay wrote World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity by Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices. A well-respect author and conservationist with more that 20 years experience working with non-governmental organisations, he taught at Harvard University and has worked with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He received his BA in anthropology at Harvard, studied economics and geography at the London School of Economics and anthropology and international agriculture at Cornell University,in the USA where he received his PhD in 1979. In this book he shows how farming is the single largest threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functions of any single human activity. He shows how the pattern can be broken and identifies activities that producers, policy makers, researchers, market-chain players and environmentalists can play in the creation of more sustainable agricultural practices within the evolving context of global trade.

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The Introduction is split into two parts (chapter one and chapter two), the first part (chapter one), deals with agricultural trends and realities. He explains how in the late 1950s most small farms were virtually self sufficient, but by the 1960s farms were encouraged to grow by government programs. The growth of farming onto land that was once considered to poor quality to farm went under the plow. Erosion increased and the once abundant wildlife, disappeared from those areas. The increased plowing caused ponds and rivers to become loaded with pesticides, nutrients and sediment, making the available water on the farms no longer safe to drink. These kinds of effects can be seen in almost every country of the world where farming has been made more efficient and more productive. The second part of the introduction (chapter two), looks at agriculture and the environment and how like any other natural resources, modern farming practices has an impact on the environment. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent of all agricultural land has been lost to urbanisation. In the future, the highest losses of land due to urbanisation and population growth are likely to happen in China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil and Indonesia where half of the increase in world population will occur in the next generation. Chapters three through to 23 deal with separate commodities, taking an overview of the production and the amount of land used in the production of that commodity. It also looks at the countries producing the commodities and those consuming it. Dr Clay also looks at the markets and the markets trends for each of the commodities. Towards the end of each chapter he deals with the environmental impact of production such as habitat conversion, soil erosion and degradation also pesticide use and the degradation of water quality. Dr Clay goes onto highlight better management practices, and farming practices that could reduce the overall environmental impact that the industrial farming practices are having on the land. In this book Dr Clay has not only explained the problems and issues that farming is causing on a global scale, but suggests a number of ways to make global agriculture more sustainable. He highlights 11 generals areas in which policy could stimulate more widespread use of the ideas and suggestions in this book. I found this book to be an interesting and thought provoking read, showing how farming in the early part of the 20th Century has evolved. And how we need to change to make global agriculture more sustainable for the future. This book would be a good asset to anyone teaching agriculture, and for students, as well as for ministers of agriculture departments within governments. A must have book for the bookcase.

February 18, 2011

Spain pressured to implement Animal Feed Directive

The European Commission has asked Spain to notify national implementing measures as required by the Animal Feed Directive (2009/141/EC). The request takes the form of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;reasoned opinionâ&#x20AC;? under EU infringement procedures. In the absence of a satisfactory response within two months, the Commission may decide to refer Spain to the European Court of Justice. Directive 2009/141/EC establishes maximum limits for heavy metals such as arsenic, certain pesticides and botanical impurities in animal feed. States were supposed to implement this Directive by July 1, 2010, but Spain has failed to do so. Read more...

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Poultry feed takes over pig feed in European Union

For the first time ever in the European Union (EU), poultry feed overtook pig feed to become the leading segment of compound feed. According to the preliminary statistical data provided by Fefac members, the compound feed production in the EU-27 in 2010 may have reached a level of 149 million tonnes, which is about 0.5 percent above the figure for 2009 (148.2 m. t). This positive result is exclusively due to an increased demand for poultry feed (+three percent), whereas the pig feed production fell back by one percent and the cattle feed production remained stable. The most important factor which has weighed in on the EU feed demand in 2010 was the dramatic crisis affecting the pig sector, aggravated by the high feed materials costs, which triggered a contraction of the demand for efficient pig feed. Read more...

Rice reserve used to stabilise feed supply in Taiwan

Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) plans to allocate 65,000 tonnes of its old rice reserves to be used as raw material for livestock feed to stabilise the feed supply in the country, council officials said Wednesday. The old-crop rice will be sold to owners of pig, duck, goose and other livestock farms at 10 percent below the cost of imported maize, the council said. According to the COA, the average price of imported American maize at Kaohsiung harbour rose 27 percent to NT$9.92 (US$0.33) per kilogram in early February this year from NT$7.79 per kilo (US$0.265) last June. Sale of the rice buffer stock will begin in March at a price of NT$8.74 per kilo (US$0.297), in keeping with a decision made at a Cabinet-level meeting held Wednesday to discuss price stabilisation in Taiwan. Read more...

Evonik to expand its L-Lysine feed amino acid business

Evonik Industries has begun expansion of its North American lysine operation, which will be realised in two steps beginning already in 2011. The first phase of the expansion at its Blair, Nebraska production facility has begun, with the basic engineering for a second phase expansion already approved by the Evonik Degussa GmbHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Management. Final production output of the Blair, Nebraska production site by 2013 is expected to nearly double its current output, with the first additional quantities to come on stream already in 2011. This expansion plan fits into the overall growth strategy of Evonik in the area of feed amino acids, and it complements the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent announcement of a major expansion of its DL-Methionine business to reach 580 kilotons. Read more...

Plants cloned for the first time as seeds

Plants have for the first time been cloned as seeds. The research by UC Davis plant scientists and their international collaborators, published February 18 in the journal Science, is a major step toward making hybrid crop plants that can retain favourable traits from generation to generation. Most successful crop varieties are hybrids, said Simon Chan, assistant professor of plant biology at UC Davis and an author of the paper. But when hybrids go through sexual reproduction, their traits, such as fruit size or frost resistance, get scrambled and may be lost. "We're trying to make a hybrid that breeds true," Chan said, so that plants grown from the seed would be genetically identical to one parent. Some plants, especially fruit trees, can be cloned from cuttings, but this approach is impractical for most crops. Other plants, especially weeds such as hawkweed and dandelions, can produce true seeds that are clones of themselves without sexual reproduction a still poorly understood process called apomixis. Read more...

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February 21, 2011

Corn stover valuable cattle feed

A new process can improve feedlot’s profits using stalks, leaves, cobs of corn currently left on field. New research has shown that a substantial portion of the grain in cattle feed can be effectively replaced with corn stover the plant’s stalks, cobs and leaves when these harvest residues are treated with a common food ingredient known as hydrated lime, or pickling lime. The alternative feeding strategy, which could improve feeders’ financial returns by lowering input costs without impacting the animals’ physical development, has been validated through recent studies conducted at Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska. Read more...

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DSM gets competition clearance for acquisition of Martek

Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, has received the unconditional clearance of the Counsel of the National Competition Commission in Spain for its previously announced take over of Martek Biosciences Corporation. This was the final clearance needed under applicable antitrust and competition laws and this condition of the offer is thus completely satisfied. Martek is a specialist in innovation, development, production and sale of high-value products from microbial sources that promote health and wellness through nutrition. Read more...

The impact of rising food prices on Arab unrest

As governments across the Arab world look for ways to calm their angry populations, one challenge in particular stands out: how to address the spiraling cost of food. Coincidence or not, the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt came just as world food prices hit a record high. The World Bank reported this week that the cost of food is now at "dangerous" levels. High prices are far more burdensome for people in the developing world because they typically spend a much higher percentage of their income on food. Many also buy raw food commodities grain rather than packaged bread, for example and it is those commodity prices that have increased most dramatically. Wheat prices have doubled in the past six months alone. Read more...

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This database contains statistics on four feed grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats), foreign coarse grains (feed grains plus rye, millet, and mixed grains), hay, and related items. This includes data published in the monthly Feed Outlook and previously annual Feed Yearbook. Data are monthly, quarterly, and/or annual depending upon the data series. Available data include: • Supply: beginning stocks, production, and imports • Demand: utilisation for food, seed, and industrial uses, feed and residual, • exports, and ending stocks • Prices: farm and market prices • Quantities fed: concentrates, oilseed meals, and animal and grainprotein • feeds • Feed-price ratios for livestock, poultry, and milk • And much more! Yearbook Tables Data in the Feed Yearbook. Custom Queries Query the feed grains database. Read more...

February 22, 2011

Nations to expand food stockpiles, boost subsidies, traders say

Governments worldwide will increase their role in global food markets and may boost stockpiles and subsidies or impose trade curbs to head off the protests that have rippled through the Middle East, commodity traders said. “Greater political intervention in food matters is only to be expected,” Alan Winney, chairman of Emerald Group Australia Pty Ltd., said in an interview at a sugar-industry conference in Dubai. “Governments will be careful to take preemptive measures to prevent increases in food prices,” said Winney. Countries across Africa to Asia are increasing imports or releasing supply from state reserves to cool inflation as rising demand and adverse weather cuts harvests and pushes food prices to a record. A revolt in Libya widened at the weekend, with leader Muammar Qaddafi’s son warning that a civil war would risk the country’s oil wealth and invite a return of colonial powers. Read more...

Growing world middle class changing grain industry

J.B. Penn, chief economist with Deere & Company, set an optimistic tone during the opening session of the U.S. Grains Council’s 2011 International Marketing Conference and Annual Membership Meeting in New Orleans. In “Forces Shaping the Agricultural Marketplace of the Future,” Penn credited rising incomes and changes in dietary preferences of the growing middle class in developing countries as important drivers of demand for U.S. coarse grains.

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Fast-growing world demand is keeping commodity prices high. Penn noted that 40 percent of the world’s population now lives in countries with economies that are growing at eight percent annually. “This is good news for people with grain to sell,” Penn said. Penn contended the world is undergoing a significant and sustainable shift in supply and demand. Read more...

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Proposed budget cuts threaten US food supply

Not since the Great Depression have Americans been so concerned about food security in this country. At the same time, demand for more and better food to feed the hungry around the world is exploding. US agriculture, and especially agriculture in the Southeast, is prepared to ramp up production to meet the demand. Exports are at an all-time high. Yet, devastating funding cuts from state legislatures across the nation over the past two years have threatened our ability to develop better crops, advance food safety and improve packaging and shipping technology. Earlier this week, the US House Appropriations Committee released proposed cuts to agriculture that, if passed, will endanger the US food system. Nothing is more important to Americans than keeping a roof over their heads and food on their dinner tables. In the proposed Continuing Resolution that will determine budgets for the remainder of the 2011 calendar year, Housing and Urban Development and the US Department of Agriculture are asked to shoulder 55 percent of the total federal budget cuts. Read more...

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Oregon State University (OSU) to study farming methods to adapt to climate change

Oregon State University has been named a partner on a US$20 million grant to ensure the long term viability of cereal based farming in the inland Pacific Northwest amid a changing climate. OSU will receive US$4 million of the total award, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today in Washington, D.C. The other participants are the University of Idaho, Washington State University and the USDA's Agricultural Research Service. The five-year grant will take a holistic approach to study the relationship between climate change and cereal crops, primarily winter wheat. Researchers will study how climate change might affect cereal crops; how production practices might contribute to or help curb climate change; what farming methods might help these crops withstand climate change; and which factors influence decisions about crop management. "As a result of this project, the people who produce our food will be better equipped to reduce their carbon footprint and to face the challenges associated with climate change," said Sonny Ramaswamy, the dean of OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences. Read more...

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Most of the focus on 2011 US planted acreage centers on corn acreage. There are a number of reasons for that focus, said University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good. “First, under the current policy regime, there is a mandate of 13 billion gallons of renewable biofuels production during the 2011-12 corn marketing year that begins on Sept. 1, 2011.

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Almost all of that mandate is being met by corn-based ethanol production. The mandate implies that a minimum of 4.65 billion bushels of corn will be used for ethanol production during the 2011-12 marketing year,â&#x20AC;? he said. Use in other categories of consumption is influenced by available supply, demand and price. Consumption of corn for food and industrial purposes other than ethanol is currently running at about 1.4 billion bushels per year, Good said. Read more...

Farmers watch crop returns rise as production costs follow

Farmers will spend more to produce their 2011 crops but they're likely to make that up and then some from higher grain prices, say two Purdue University Extension specialists. Which crops farmers choose to plant this season also will play a factor in the returns they'll earn, said Craig Dobbins and Bruce Erickson of Purdue's Department of Agricultural Economics. The numbers suggest a corn-soybean rotation is the best choice, with double-crop soybeans/ wheat a good option for those farmers living in areas where that cropping system is viable. "At this point in time, contribution margins the difference between gross revenue and production costs are really quite large," Dobbins said. "If one is looking for a place to expend energy from now until you can get out into the field and plant, I think one ought to focus that energy on protecting the margin that you've got in crop production today." Read more...

February 23, 2011

IFF Feed Processing Conference at Victam exhibition

The IFF Feed Processing Conference during Victam 2011 is meant to be a platform for innovations which were developed by science and industry. The conference is taking place on May 3 11:00-16:30 hrs, in rooms 3 to 5 of the Rheinsaal on the second floor of Congress Centrum Nord of Koelnmesse. Well-known companies will present their innovations to a skilled audience. More statements on product safety as well as on nutritionally favourable compound-feed products will complete this compacted event. The conference is organised by the Research Institute of the International Research Association of Feed Technology (IFF) which since its foundation in 1961 has been engaged with topics of the compound-feed production relevant for practice. Read more...

Fenchem launches coated products for ruminants at VIV Asia Nutritionists are constantly challenged to maximize the digestibility of sometimes poorly absorbed feed ingredients. Many approaches have been evaluated to physically protect feed ingredients from ruminal degradation. The products Fenchem launches at VIV Asia in Bangkok have high ruminal protection and intestinal release coefficients, produced through a unique microencapsulation technology: Aminofence-Lys is a rumen stabilized lysine - a cost effective source of rumen bypass and intestinally released lysine for use in ruminant. CholineShield is a rumen stabilized choline - a cost effective source of rumen bypass and intestinally released choline chloride for use in ruminant. Aminofence-Met is a rumen stabilized methionine - a cost effective source of rumen bypass and intestinally released methionine for use in ruminant.

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Failed policies lead to food shortages

World food prices are pushing higher the United Nations overall food index shows a 28.3 percent annual increase, with cereals up 44.1 percent, sparking concerns that a new food crisis may be emerging, just three years after the last one. Does this mean the world is running out of food? The quick answer is that the world does seem to be running low on cheap food. There is still an ample potential supply of foodstuffs; it's just not getting tapped, thereby creating low current supply even as demand shoots up with the rise of large emerging markets. This supply shortage stems from the failure of governments and donors over nearly three decades to fund the basic agricultural research, investments in rural infrastructure, and training for smallholder farmers necessary to push out the productivity frontier. Until recently, world food crises have been relatively rare eventsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;occurring about three times a century, usually three to four decades apart. The last one to have truly global ramifications, occurred in 1972-74. Over those two years, real rice prices rose 206.3 percent and real wheat prices rose 118.2 percent, both setting historic highs. Read more...

Organic Vs. Conventional Farming: No clear answers

The population and diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in agricultural soils varies more according to what crop was previously farmed than with whether those soils are organically or conventionally farmed, according to a paper in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. This study was conducted as part of the ongoing and long-standing Nafferton Factorial Systems Comparison study in Northumberland in northeast England, UK. The Nafferton study has conventional and organic plots side by side, enabling precise comparisons between the two methods. In the study, the researchers analysed soil samples from both sets of plots, once each in March, in June, after application of fertiliser (manure to organic plots, chemical fertiliser to conventional), and in September, following application of pest control measures. Read more...

US DDGS exports reach record high in 2010

The United States, due to a 400 percent increase in ethanol exports in 2010, managed to increase its export of Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) by 60 percent compared to 2009. DDGS exports already doubled in 2009 compared to 2008 and last year the increase was 60 percent totalling nine million tonnes. China was the largest buyer with 2.5 million tonnes, or 28 percent of the total. The remaining top importers were Mexico, Canada, South Korea, and Vietnam. The upward trend in 2011 will be tempered because China in January started an anti-dumping investigation on US DDGS, which halted imports. Read more...

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February 24, 2011

2010 Agricultural Export Sales Hit US$115.8 Billion, Sets New Record

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that US farm exports reached an all-time high in 2010, showing again that agriculture is one bright spot in an otherwise middling economy. Ag exports were worth US$115.8 billion in 2010, surpassing the previous high export record of US$114.8 billion set in 2008, a year of high prices and short supplies due to weather and other issues for many crops, including wheat. Export sales of bulk commodities increased 19 percent to $47.2 billion, and consumer-oriented agricultural products increased by 15 percent to US$45.4 billion. For the marketing year (MY) 2009-2010, US wheat export sales totaled 22.7 million metric tons (mmt). According to USDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly Export Sales Report, exports of all classes of wheat for the current 2010-2011 MY, through Feb. 10, were 29.6 mmt, 55 percent higher than last year at this time. Read more...

Strong growth agribusiness Thailand foreseen

Agriculture has been consistently contributing an average of 11 percent to the country's GDP. The main contributors are rice, sugar and livestock industries which are highly export-oriented. Business Monitor International (BMI) continues to foresee strong growth in these industries on the back of strong private investment. Poultry Production to 2014/15: 35.6 percent. BMI expects most of the production growth to stem from increased private investment in the sector. Increased trading links with the region for example through the ASEAN Free Trade Area should also boost production of poultry and other livestock of which Thailand is already a major exporter of. Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is to expand operations rapidly in emerging markets. Main markets it is targeting are India, Russia and Turkey. It has also reportedly set aside some US$199 million for overseas investment in 2011. Read more...

Leather protein new food concern in China

China pledges to halt use of leather protein in food production, saying the potentially harmful substance was being added to some products in the country's latest concern over safety. China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said the quality and safety of fresh milk on the Chinese market was "generally safe" and that no leather hydrolyzed protein or other prohibited materials had been detected in its tests in recent years. Authorities will "harshly crack down upon and punish companies that illegally process or produce milk using leather protein," the country's product quality watchdog said in a statement on its website. Read more...

Vi-Cor to present research results at VIV Asia

Manufacturer of specialised yeast culture products for livestock Vi-Cor will present research results in pigs of two of their product at VIV Asia.Â Sangita Jalukar of Vi-Cor will be a presenter at Asian Pig Veterinary Society Congress, held in conjunction with VIV Asia, March 7-11, 2011 in Thailand. Jalukar, a microbiologist and immunologist, will present the results of university research in which Vi-Cor's Bg-Max and Celmanax yeast-based products were added to swine diets.

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Yeast culture

In a research trial conducted by the University of Kentucky's Department of Animal and Food Science, Celmanax was added to the diets of sows and their weaned pigs. Celmanax is a product made of yeast culture and hydrolysed yeast cell walls and offers many beneficial complex carbohydrates. As a result of including Celmanax in gestation, lactation and nursery diets, the average piglet weight increased by 1,860 grams by the end of the nursery phase. Read more...

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February 25, 2011

Examining climate change effects on wheat

Wheat growers in the Southwest have a better idea about how to adjust to climate change in the decades ahead, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Arizona. Researchers with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) installed infrared heaters in experimental wheat fields at the agency's Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Ariz, to simulate growing conditions expected by 2050. ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency, and this research supports the USDA priority of responding to climate change. Wheat is normally planted in Arizona in mid-winter, harvested in late May and irrigated throughout its growing season. Temperatures can range from below freezing in winter to above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in May. But increasing temperatures can drastically reduce yields and increase the threat of drought, making climate change a major concern. Read more

American farmers demand better transport infrastructure

American farmers are producing at record levels, and international customers are purchasing more than ever. But the question is: Can our nation’s transportation system move grain from farm to port with the speed and efficiency that today’s international trade demands? The answer is rapidly becoming glaring “NO.”

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Surplus masks inefficiency For decades, U.S. farmers raised more grain than global customers were buying, so the nation could live with inefficiencies in moving it to port via truck, rail or barge. By 2002, however, world demand decreased the surplus, and U.S. infrastructure deficiencies started to become more apparent and problematic The United States must place greater priority on the movement of freight because the aging U.S. transportation system is not keeping up with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pace of international trade, according to two infrastructure experts who addressed the U.S. Grains Council International Marketing Conference & Annual Membership Meeting in New Orleans. Read more...

Diseases diminish South Korean feed imports

Cattle, pig and poultry are slaughtered in South Korea to contain its worst foot-and-mouth disease outbreak and combat avian flu. Feed grain imports will be down by at least 1.3 million tonnes this year, a Korea Feed Association (KFA) official said. Weakening feed demand along with record high grain prices are likely to subdue buying activities of South Korean feed makers for a while unless the livestock outbreaks wane or global prices drop sharply, Kim Chiyoung, director at the KFA's purchasing division, told Reuters. As part of efforts to curb inflation and ensure supplies, South Korea, the world's fourth largest grain importer, is looking to build a strategic grain reserve and plans to buy cargoes of corn and other grains, joining similar efforts by more Asian nations worried about high food prices and social unrest. Read more...

Europe considers using meat and bone meal again

The European Commission said to issue a new plan regarding the reintroduction of meat and bone meal in animal feed. This was stated this week at a meeting for European Agriculture Ministers in Brussels. The use of meat and bone meal in livestock diets was banned late 1990s, due to its risk of spreading, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Since then, the prevalence of the disease has been significantly reduced. The European Commission responds to a call by the Agriculture Minister in Poland. Last week, he suggested reconsidering the use of meat and bone meal in the European Union. In the second half of 2011, Poland will be chairing country for the European Union. Animal feed companies applaud the idea of re-introducing meat and bone meal in animal diets. The raw material is protein rich and can replace the use of soy to a great extent. Read more

No danger anymore from German dioxin contamination

European Union health experts have said this week that they see no more danger from an alert in Germany after the discovery early January of dioxin in animal feed, meat and eggs. An EU health alert started on January 3 when German officials said animal feed tainted with dioxin had been fed to poultry and pigs, contaminating eggs, poultry meat and pork at the affected farms. Several countries later banned some German meat imports. "The member states, meeting in the framework of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, recognised that the contamination incident is fully under control by the German authorities and there is no risk that potentially contaminated food and feed are placed on the EU market or dispatched to Third countries," an EU statement said. Read more

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Climate change the most serious risk to aquaculture: study

A study conducted on the analysis of stakeholders’ and shrimp farmers’ perceptions in Vietnam’s Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces determined that they find climate changes the most serious risk. Small scale farmers and other stakeholders involved in shrimp aquaculture have been suffering the effects of climate changes via frequent extreme weather events. The present study run by the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) showed that shrimp farmers perceived too much rain, high temperature, canal/river/sea level rise, irregular weather and storms as their most serious concerns regarding monetary losses. The study also ranked the risks of the different climate changes in Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces, prioritising the gravity of each of the climate changes that the farmers identified. At the top came high temperature and irregular weather (involving factors such as temperature and rainfall), followed by excessive rain, sea level rise and storms. Read more...

February 28, 2011

Alltech opens Kentucky algae plant

Animal nutrition company Alltech has opened its US$200 million algae plant in Winchester, Kentucky that is going to produce in April. Alltech Algae is a state-of-the-art algae fermentation facility that was acquired in 2010 from Martek Bioscience Corporation for approximately US$14 million and has been renovated in the past few months to begin in April as one of the largest algae production sites in the world. “For Alltech, algae fermentation presents the latest technological frontier from which we expect incredible opportunities in the areas of food, feed and fuel to arise,” said Dr. Pearse Lyons, founder and president of Alltech. “We have already been working in this area for several years and see it playing a major role in both human and animal health and nutrition. I am confident that this will be one of the key pieces that will help our company pass the US$1 billion revenue threshold in 2015,” Dr. Lyons continued. Read more...

Global GM crop area keeps on growing

World plantings of genetically-modified crops keeps increasing and have hit one billion hectares, but areas in Europe decline. Plantings rose by 10 percent in 2010 after more than 15 million farmers across 29 countries used the crops. The figures, released by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, found 10 developed countries - including eight in the EU - planted GM crops last year. But the report shows that over 90 percent of farmers using the technology were "resource-poor" and in developed countries. The United States saw the most plantings with 66.8m ha, followed by Brazil (25.4m), Argentina (22.9m) and India (9.4m). Herbicide tolerant soya bean was the most commonly-planted crop, occupying 73.3m ha (50 percent) of global GM planting areas. Read more... Protect methionine and lysine in dairy rations A high concentration of methionine or lysine in a dairy feed does not ensure that large amounts of it will pass to the small intestine for absorption, because the ruminal bacteria degrade amino acids to different extents. The degradability (how much is degraded in the rumen) of protein in feeds, along with the amount of protein that is indigestible in feeds, needs to be considered when evaluating feed sources of methionine and lysine, writes Gerold Higginbotham in the February issue of the California Dairy Newsletter.

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Methionine and lysine are two amino acids which have been suggested to be potentially limiting milk and milk component production by dairy cows. If true, this means that high producing dairy cows need to be fed protein from sources which have both a good amino acid profile and have resistance to degradation by bacteria in the rumen. Methionine and lysine contents of proteins vary greatly among feeds. Fish meal and by-products produced from cereal grains (including corn), tend to have higher concentrations of methionine and lower lysine than soybean meal and blood meal. Read more...

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Officials at United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Attorney General's office are continuing efforts to close the chapter on allegations that discrimination occurred at USDA in past decades. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Assistant Attorney General Tony West have announced the establishment of a process to resolve the claims of Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who assert they were discriminated against when seeking USDA farm loans. The program provides up to US$50,000 for each Hispanic or woman farmer who can show that USDA denied them a loan or loan servicing for discriminatory reasons for certain time periods between 1981 and 2000. Successful claimants are also eligible for funds to pay the taxes on their awards and for forgiveness of certain existing USDA loans. There are no filing fees or other costs to claimants to participate in the program. Read more...

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Mrs Adriana Hörmann has succeeded Carlo Lupi as Mesma Trading AG's managing director from the beginning of 2011. Mrs Hörmann joined the company little more than a year ago as an associate and partner. Mr Lupi, who has retired, wishes Mrs Hörmann every success in her new position. Mesma Trading AG, is a leading supplier of milling equipment, providing spares and wearing parts for the milling indus More information MESMA Trading AG Postfach 662 CH-4153-Reinach (Switzerland) Tel: +41 61 712 19 19 Fax: +41 61 713 80 16 Email: info@mesmatrading.ch Website: www.mesmatrading.com

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