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May 2011
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Press Release: Cal-BMS-KSL to be renamed Cultura Technologies Five Agri-Food software businesses within the Volaris Group adopt global brand to strengthen geographic reach and expertise offered to companies in the agriculture and food industry. Cologne, Germany, May 3, 2011. Today at the Victam International Show, was the launch of Cultura Technologies. The newly named company brings together five leading Agri-Food software organisations: Cal Software , BMS Computer Solutions and Kinross Software (KSL) of the United Kingdom, AGRIS Inc and ExtendAg of the United States. Bringing together these companies and their strengths further solidifies all that Cultura is. The organisation believes in strong customer relationships and that the strength of its people and their expertise can make the difference in delivering technology solutions that enable Agri-Food businesses to efficiently produce, process and deliver quality food and bio-products. “With this rebrand to Cultura Technologies, we aim to strengthen collaboration between our global businesses and our commitment to product innovation creating long-term value for customers, employees, and our owners,” stated Jim Baker, President of Cultura Technologies. 3
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Cultura is all about connecting people and processes across the broader Agri-Food supply chain, helping to nurture Agri-Food advancement through technology. Cultura’s name has its roots in the Latin word “agricultura” which means agriculture and “cultivate” which is to foster growth or development. About Cultura Technologies Cultura, with offices in the United Kingdom and North America, delivers customer-centric solutions that enable Agri-Food businesses to efficiently produce, process, and deliver quality food and bio-products. Cultura Technologies is an operating division of the Volaris Operating Group of Constellation Software Inc. We are Cultura Technologies. We bring Agri-Food solutions to life. Cultura Technologies Meaghan Wilkinson, (647) 801-2945 meaghan.wilkinson@culturatech.com www.culturatech.com
VIV Russia to open its doors soon to international animal feed industry Soon coming up on the international calendar is VIV Russia, to be held in Moscow, from May 17-19, in Moscow’s International Crocus Exhibition Center. VIV Russia focuses on the latest developments in the international feed to meat market, offering a platform for the international agribusiness to meet, greet and maintain contacts. The show being organised for the fifth time and it is the biggest in size and number of exhibitors so far. The organisers VNU Exhibitions Europe and Asti Group, expect to welcome 340 exhibitors from more than 30 countries, covering a surface of 9,400 m2 net; this is 900 m2 more than during the previous editions in 2009. Read more ....
Vietnamese animal feed producers request price hike
For the 15th time since the beginning of 2010 animal feed producers in Vietnam have sent registrations to the Ministry of Finance to increase prices, the ministry has reported. The request is in response to the continued rise in prices of raw materials. Le Ba Lich, chairman of the Vietnam Animal Feed Association, said the price of corn is currently up from US$240 (UK£145.552) to US $280 (UK£169.81) per tonne. Meanwhile, the price of Soya oil cake has risen from US$420 (UK£254.715) to US$450 (UK£27.291) per tonne. The devaluation of the dong has also greatly affected the industry as the country imported 60 percent of all raw material. For this reason, restructuring, cost cutting and strong co-operation among related stockholders had been the most important measures to help protect producers. Read more ....
Investing in a big crop .What’s it take to get a corn crop started?
A recent report from the Nebraska Corn Board shows just planting the 2011 crop in that state will take an investment by farmers of US$2.6 billion (UK£1.577 billion). “This multi-billion dollar investment, perhaps better known as planting, occurs in just a few weeks every spring,” says Nebraska Corn Board director Don Hutchens in a recent report. “It’s a tremendous investment, but one that also is subject to Mother Nature and the whims of outside markets.”
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Take that figure US$2.6 billion (UK£1.577 billion) and line it up with United States Department of Agriculture’s corn acreage number for Nebraska from last month’s projected plantings report: 9.5 million acres. That means for each acre of corn planted this spring, farmers will invest US$273 (UK£165.565). So, what’s the investment for the top five cornproducing states in the US? Last month’s USDA report showed those states and their respective acreage totals are: Read more ...
AminoNews 1st Edition 2011 is now available
The Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Evonik Industries, Essen (Germany), has now published the latest edition of its customer magazine AMINONews® for the compound feed and livestock production industries. This edition focuses on the topic of sustainability. The contribution “Healthy and environmentally sustainable food production” written by Dr Michael Binder present the results of the most recent amino acid life cycle analysis carried out within Evonik. Read more ....
Ag Policy Initiative designed to nurture dialogue and solutions
Eight of the world’s leading foundations have come together to launch an initiative that will tackle long-term food and agriculture policy issues. This new initiative, Agree, is designed to nurture dialogue and solutions among diverse opinions on agriculture issues. One of its leaders is former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Jim Moseley who says the initiative will help with current situations. “There’s a lot going on in the world concerning agricultural and food policy,” Moseley said. “There seems to be some misunderstanding, some confusion, there’s certainly a lot of angst about agricultural policy. How could we contribute to make this process perhaps a little bit clearer to folks and as a result AGree came into being.” Read more ....
Company update: Haid Group 2010 earnings up 36 percent
Guangdong Haid Group, Chinese animal feed producer, reported a rise in net profit of 36 percent to 210 million yuan (1cny = 9.66 euro) in 2010. Sales revenue last year rose 46.66 percent to 7.68 billion yuan, with earnings per share (EPS) of 0.72 yuan. The Guangzhou-based firm announced a stock dividend of 10 shares and a cash dividend of two yuan for every 10 shares held. The company sold 2.38 million tons of animal feed in 2010, of which sales of fish feed were 1.06 million tons and poultry feed were 1.32 million tons. Revenue from southern China rose 34.74 percent and accounted for 68.93 percent of Haid Group’s total revenue in 2010. Revenue from eastern and central China respectively rose 87.7 percent and 78.81 percent. Read more ... May 04, 2011
Amandus Kahl wins Victam Innovation Award
In a head to head race the AllAboutFeed jury awarded the new crown expander from German equipment manufacturer Amandus Kahl with a golden award as the best innovation of Victam International 2011. Buhler and European Machine Trading gained silver and bronze respectively The new crown expander for Amandus kahl’s is unique in a way that the expander process is now extended with additional shaping of the Expandat. This enables easy processing and pelleting of feed mixtures that are usually difficult or even impossible to pellet. Read more ...
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Buhler acquires pelleting die manufacturer Tijdhof.
The Buhler Technology Group acquired the company Tijdhof Persmatrijzen, headquarters in Oldenzaal, Netherlands, effective from the end of April 2011. This manufacturer of dies and rollers for feed pellet mills will be integrated in the Feed & Biomass business unit. The acquisition allows Buhler to strengthen its Customer Service and to enlargen its customer base.Tijdhof Persmatrijzen, which was set up 30 years ago, specialises in the manufacture of high-grade pelleting dies and rollers, which it supplies to the animal feed and biomass industries worldwide. The family-owned company, which boasts cutting-edge production equipment and operates its own vacuum hardening shop, will be integrated in Feed & Biomass business units of Buhler (Grain Processing division). The management and the roughly 20 employees will be retained in the company, which will be continued under the Buhler Tijdhof product brand. Read more ...
Feedlogic launch FeedMeter product line
Feedlogic Corporation, a leading supplier of intelligent feeding solutions for livestock production, is introducing FeedMeter, a new system which allows real-time measurement of feed usage on-farm. FeedMeter’s core technology is an entirely new process to measure the mass flow of feed through a standard feed line. The patent-pending system uses a simple, low-maintenance device which attaches to a feed line and uses unique software to calculate mass flow and record the data. Information generated by the FeedMeter can be used to monitor feed disappearance, detect feed bridging and feed outages, and manage feed bin inventories. It will provide important diagnostic information to help producers spot feed wastage and ensure the right feed is being fed to the right animals. Read more ...
New feed design lab encourages innovation
Dinnissen Process Technology, Imtech, DSM and Vitelia are to open the Feed Design Lab, a unique multiflexible development factory in a highquality test environment specially intended for the development of new animal feed. This development factory will be made available to companies that may or may not wish to develop new products with each other. With the Feed Design Lab, Dinnissen Process Technology aims to stimulate innovation. The Feed Design Lab is a part of Dinnissen’s test centre, known as D-Innocenter. Here users, developers and technology providers can work together from the offset in a neutral operational environment. Read more
Dinnissen introduces flexible extrusion line
Dinnissen Process Technology presented its Magi-N.ext, a brand new extruder line concept for the pet food and feed industry, for the first time at the Victam 2011. With Magi-N.ext, Dinnissen is targeting pet food and feed producers who wish to use a single production line for producing economic/basic, premium and super-premium pet foods and feeds. The Magi-N.ext enables these producers to do so in a customer-focused and cost-effective manner, while at the same time complying precisely with their desired quality and hygiene standards within a multi-flexible framework. Read more ....
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Company Update: Novozymes first quater
The recently completed acquisition of EMD/Merck Crop BioScience strengthens the company’s capabilities in the domain and has already impacted sales in the microorganism sales area in this first quarter. Sales of microorganisms were up by 95 percent in Danish kroner, mainly due to the contribution from the acquisitions of EMD/Merck Crop BioScience and Turfal completed this year and last year respectively. Solid first-quarter sales, earnings, and cash flow. Sales, earnings, and cash flow had a solid development in the first quarter. Sales grew by 16 percent in Danish kroner (DKK) and by 14 percent in local currencies (LCY). Acquisitions contributed positively at approximately five percent - points. EBIT grew by a strong 19 percent, taking the EBIT margin to 23.6 percent. Read more ....
Formidable fungal force counters biofuel plant pathogens
Fungi play significant ecological and economic roles. They can break down organic matter, cause devastating agricultural blights, enter into symbiotic relationships to protect and nourish plants, or offer a tasty repast. For industrial applications, fungi provide a source of enzymes to catalyze such processes as generating biofuels from plant biomass. One large fungal group with such enzymes are the rust plant pathogens which cannot survive on their own so they use crops as hosts, leading to reduced yields and potentially hindering efforts to grow biomass for fuel. Factors that could reduce the growth of plant biomass, thus reducing biofuel production, are a target for investigation of the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Read more ....
May 05, 2011
Danisco appoints new Latin American Marketing Manager
Veterinarian and marketeer, Ms. Viviana Schroeder, has been appointed as Latin American Marketing Manager for Danisco Animal Nutrition. She will be based in Mexico City and will report to Missy Abbott, Regional Marketing Manager for the Americas. Viviana has extensive experience in animal health, not only with her veterinary degree, but also from having worked for many years for Bayer Animal Health, her most recent position being Product Manager for the Food-Animal Nutrition product line. Read more ...
CPF five-year focus; “India, Vietnam, Russia and Philippines”
CharoenPokphand Foods (CPF) fve year business plan has identified India, Vietnam, Russia and the Philippines as its “top priority markets for expansion, says president and CEO Adirek Sripratak, because we plan to access those markets where we believe we can win”! CPF’s yearly investment budget of which 60 percent will be spent overseas in these four countries, and the aim is to “increase CPF’s overseas sales from 26 percent to 40 percent by 2015”. In Vietnam, CPF is expanding businesses including pig, chicken, fish and shrimp farms, feed mills and shrimp hatcheries, while in Russia, the focus will be on pig farms two of the planned 10 already running and more investments in feed mills to serve the pig farms. Read more
Revolutionary dry feeding mixer from WEDA
WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp GmbH introduces the world’s first dry feeding system onto the market that enables pigs’ feed to be distributed into four feed circles from a compact mixer.
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The dry feed mixer (TM) is available in two versions; “TM 100” and “TM 40”, and takes up 40 or 100 kg per mixing process. Through this device various feed mixes can be filled in after another and can be fed out in two parallel running lines at the same time. Read more ...
US$55 million grant to produce animal feed from marine algae
Cellana LLC, a subsidiary of Hawaii-based HR BioPetroleum is to receive a US$5.5 million (UK£3.336 million) grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to produce affordable animal feed from marine algae in order to aid the large-scale production of feedstocks for biofuels, aquaculture and other animal feeds.
Cellana LLC is set to be the first algae company to move towards commercial use for a biofuel application in Hawaii
This commercial algae facility would also represent one of the first of its kind in the United States. Read more ...
Victam ‘Award for Milling’ GRAPAS 2011 Highly Commended Francesco Piacentini of Golfetto Sangati stands beside the roller mill synthesis SY09 which was highly commended by the judges in the Victam ‘Award for Milling - GRAPAS 2011 The unique innovative features of the Golfetto rollermill ‘Synthesis SY09’ is very relevant to the industry. This is a new core milling product of potentially significant importance in a very competitive market. It brings together a number of important features to create a ‘state of the art’ milling machine. It also revives some earlier concepts such as single pair roll modules, a useful option which had fallen out of use. The rollermill ‘Synthesis SY09’ met all the scoring criteria. The judges comment that this “is a new core milling product of potentially great significance and importance in a very competitive market. Whilst it does not appear to represent a radical innovation it does appear to bring together a number of important features to create a ‘state of the art’ milling machine. It also revives some earlier concepts such as single pair roll modules, a useful option which had fallen out of use.” Golfetto Sangati Spa De Marchi Moreno via Montegrappa 8 Galliera Veneta Pd 35015 Italy Tel: +39 0422 476700 Email: info@golfettosangati.com Website: http://www.golfettosangati.com.
CPM Amsterdam wins Victams inaugural award for milling at Victam 2011 CPM Amsterdam
‘Roll Speed Measurement’ Winner: Allen Willoughby General Manager of CPM Europe (left) and Ing Paul Alderliefste pose with Victam ‘Award for Milling - GRAPAS 2011 Winner of Victams Award for Milling GRAPAS 2011 CPM Amsterdam, The Netherlands Awarded to the company displaying the most innovative and economically beneficial equipment, process or service at GRAPAS International and Victam May 2011, Köln, Germany. 9
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CPM’s won the award for their ‘Roll Speed Measurement’ CPM developed and tested this pellet mill roller speed measurement in combination with its famous automatic roller adjust type Lineator to provide additional information for pelleting management which it had not seen before. It quotes one customer saying : “The CPM roll speed measurement is similar to the ABS system for automobiles.”
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The Judges choose CPM because of its absolute relevance to the milling industry and the broad range of advantages resulting from the ability to monitor the pelleting process that resulted from its use and offers a meaningful benefit to the user.” The ‘Award for Milling’ on the CPM stand at Victam-GRAPAS 2011 Koln, Germany Grain and Feed Milling Technology is honoured to sponsor this award for GRAPAS and Victam and thanks all companies making application for the award..
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Grain, soy prices tumble on sell off
US grain and soybean futures tumbled Thursday in a broad selloff of commodities, with futures dropping to six-week lows as investors reduced risk exposure, reflective of slumping energy and metal futures, and a rise in the US dollar. Selling overwhelmed the markets, with the broaderbased commodity selling overshadowing supportive crop concerns, analysts said. The plunge in prices was tied to the sell-off in financial markets, with investors selling long commodity/short dollar positions that had propelled corn, wheat and soybeans last month, analysts said. A rapid rise in the US dollar Thursday weighed on prices, as a stronger dollar raises the cost of basic goods for buyers using other currencies. After driving commodity prices higher for much of 2011 on worries about supply shortages, investors now fear that high prices will lower consumption. Read more ....
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Mississippi Governor calls flood threat ‘Monumental’
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said the combination of heavy rains from the violent storms that have hit Mississippi and high water levels on the Mississippi River could produce a flood that will be “monumental” in the annals of his state. Speaking at a press briefing at the Capitol Building this afternoon, Barbour said as many as 900,000 acres of farmland, much of it in the South Delta, could go under water as the Mississippi and area streams continue to rise. Barbour urged residents in areas that could be impacted by the flooding to begin preparing to evacuate now and to not wait for the projected crest of the flood-waters on May 18 “because the roads in and out of the areas could be flooded before then. Read more ....
PAVA’s enterprises are leading in export shipments
Major export volume was shipped to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. In total PAVA shipped over 3000 tons of flour to its foreign partners in March. Due to modernisation works at Mikhailovsky milling plant PAVA shipped its products abroad mostly from its milling plant in Rebrikha, Altay region. Production activities at Mikhailovsky milling plant have resumed in April, which will definitely lead to total increase in shipped volumes of PAVA’s products.
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Being one of the Russia’s largest grain processors PAVA announced its intention to resume export shipments immediately after Russian authorities lifted the embargo for grain and grain processed products. The company continued negotiations with potential partners during the ban. Read more ....
May 09, 2011
A Review: Technology of functional cereal products ISBN: 978-1-84569-177-6
In 2008 a book called Technology of Functional Cereal Products, compiled from many authors, was edited by Bruce R. Hamaker, director of the Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research at Purdue University in the United States; his general areas of research are carbohydrates and health, starch and cereal chemistry. This publication is split into two parts and covers a wide range of cereal products with different health promoting benefits. And more acceptable look and taste quality. Part one (chapters one to seven) looks at the consumers and functional cereal products, labelling and regulatory issues related to functional cereal products, health effects of various cereals with chapters on whole grain foods, micronutrients of cereals and resistant starch and determining the functional properties of food components in the gastrointestinal tract. Part two (chapters eight to 22) deals with the technologies of functional cereal products. Looking at improving the nutritional quality of cereals by conventional and novel approaches focuses on technologies to improve the quality of functional cereal products. It also reviewing issues such as grain improvement, novel cereal-derived ingredients and improving the use of dietary fibre and other functional ingredients. Chapters dedicated to a wide range of product types are also included, covering cereal foods made from oats, rye, barley and speciality grains and breads fortified with vitamins and minerals, soy and omega-3 lipids among others. Methods to slow starch digestion rate in functional cereal products. This publication deals with a complex subject, of the cereal food industry and deals with the science that goes into developing better cereal products that are more nutritional and healthy for the consumer. It also deals with the technology used; this would be a good knowledge base for anyone interested in the science of cereal foods and their derivatives. In my opinion this would be a useful text for teachers and students alike as well as anyone working in the cereal processing industry.
Winner of Victams inaugural Award for Milling GRAPAS 2011 CPM Amsterdam Winner of Victams Award for Milling GRAPAS 2011 CPM Europe/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CPM Europe/Amsterdam won the inaugural award for milling at the 2011 Victam GRAPAS International in Koln Germany, the award presented by Mr Roger Gilbert of Perendale Publishers England. CPM were elated to recieve this award since they are a food processing company and not a milling company. The Competition was strong with Companies like Golfetto Sangati Spa in the running but in the end CPM was awarded first place.
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The Victam International 2011, was held in the Köln Messe on May 3-5, and is part of a major interenational show for the international feed industry. To Showcase new technology and innovations, and to bring together petfood, animal feed aquafeed industries where suppliers can meet with producers. The judges choose CPM because of the absolute relevance to the milling industry for their ‘Roll Speed Measurement’. CPM developed and tested this pellet mill roller speed measurement in combination with its famous automatic roller adjust type Lineator to provide additional information for pelleting management which it had not seen before.
The ‘Award for Milling’ on the CPM stand at Victam-GRAPAS 2011 Koln, Germany One customer is quoted as saying that “The CPM roll speed measurement is similar to the ABS for automobiles”
Grain and Feed Milling Technology is honoured to sponsor this award for GRAPAS and Victam and thanks all companies making application for the award. And a big congratulations to the winner CPM Europe/Amsterdam.
Victam ‘Award for Milling’ GRAPAS 2011 Highly Commended Golfetto Sangati Spa The rollermill ‘Synthesis SY09’
Francesco Piacentini of Golfetto Sangati stands beside the roller mill synthesis SY09 which was highly commended by the judges in the Victam ‘Award for Milling - GRAPAS 2011’ Highly Commended Golfetto Sangati Spa were extremly happy to recieve their award from Mr Roger Gilbert of Perendale publishers at the VictamGRAPAS show .The unique innovative features of the Golfetto rollermill ‘Synthesis SY09’ is very relevant to the industry. It brings together a number of important features to create a ‘state of the art’ milling machine. The Victam-GRAPAS International show was held in Köln Messe on May 3-5, 2011 and is part of a major international show for the international feed industry. Held every four years. The judges say that this “is a new core milling product of potentially great significance and importance in a very competitive market. Whilst it does not appear to represent a radical innovation it does appear to bring together a number of important features to create a ‘state of the art’ milling machine. It also revives some earlier concepts such as single pair roll modules, a useful option which had fallen out of use.” Golfetto Sangati Spa De Marchi Moreno via Montegrappa 8 Galliera Veneta Pd 35015 Italy Tel: +39 0422 476700 Email: info@golfettosangati.com Website: http://www.golfettosangati.com
Rising animal feed costs in Kenya hit industry hard
Animal feed manufacturers in Kenya are shutting down all over the country and many others are operating at half capacity and struggling to cover their costs, according to the Association of Kenya Feed Manufacturers (Akefema).
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Due to a shortage of grain, by-products and oil cakes and price of animal feed has on average, gone up by 50-94 percent since October 2010. The result being an increase in the cost of animal feeds to a point where most farmers are not able to sustain their livestock. Akefema has on several occasions alerted the government to the critical consequences facing the livestock industry if no action is taken. Read more ...
May 10, 2011
Report calls for government to expedite trade agreements
The Global Harvest Initiative has published a report titled, “Removing Barriers to Global and Regional Trade in Agriculture.” This is the second of five issue briefs outlining policies to sustainably increase the rate of agricultural productivity and address hunger and food security in anticipation of a global population surge to over nine billion people by 2050.
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The report highlights the critical importance of improving food and agricultural trade flows to counter the impact on agricultural supply resulting from changing weather patterns, urban population shifts, and limitations of water, land and inputs, among other factors. Read more ...
Danisco appoints a new senior key account manager
Dr Bob Stock has recently been appointed as Senior Key Account Manager, USA, with Danisco Animal Nutrition. Based in New Jersey, Bob will be responsible for the development and maintenance of Danisco’s enzyme, betaine and probiotic sales in the eastern portion of the United States. Bob has a BSc in Biology from Case Western Reserve University and an MSc and PhD in Poultry Nutrition from the Ohio State University. In addition to a wealth of experience in monogastric and ruminant nutrition and new product development, Bob has an extensive background in sales and marketing. His most recent position was with DSM Nutritional Products as Market Development & Technical. Read more ...
Taiwan needs to back-up its zero tolerance position on ractopamine
If the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a United Nations - affiliated group, amends its regulations on allowable levels of the leanness enhancing drug, ractopamine, in meat products, the Taiwanese government will seek the opinions of local experts before making a decision on the issue, Council of Agriculture (COA) Minister Chen Wu-hsiung said at a legislative hearing. “In theory, we should follow the international standard. If not, we’ll need to show scientific evidence to back our decision, “ Chen said. Read more ...
United Co-operative wins Land O’Lakes Purina Feed “Dedication to Quality” award
United Cooperative, based in Beaver Dam, has received Land O’Lakes Purina Feed’s “Dedication to Quality” award for meeting or exceeding the national feed manufacturer’s safety and quality standards. Over the years, many of United Co-operative’s feed locations have consistently been honoured with this award. “The United Co-operative feed division always works very hard at maintaining a high level of quality with our products and services,” said John Scheuers, United Co-operative vice president of feed operations. “Good quality feed and service results in successful customers.” Read more 14
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Feed additive market poised for growth
The report “Global Animal Feed Additives by Type, Livestock, Geography, Regulations Trends & Forecasts (2009 - 2016)” forecasts an annual growth of 3.8 percent to US$18.7 billion (UK£11.4 million) in 2016. The global feed additives market is estimated to reach US$18.7 billion (UK£11.4 million) in 2016 with an expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8 percent from 2011 to 2016. The Asian market is driving the sales and is expected to hold 28.5 percent of the global market share in 2016. The Asian market is expected to have a high CAGR of 4.74 percent due to increasing demand for meat products in the region, and rising domestic meat production. Read more ...
DSM acquires the premixing unit in Romania
DSM Nutritional Products has acquired the premix unit of Fatrom, the leading premix manufacturer in Romania. When the competent authorities approve the take over the move expands the company’s global network of premix facilities and offers DSM improved access to the growing Romanian livestock feed market. With 21.5 million people, Romania has the seventh largest population of the European Union. Agriculture has traditionally been the backbone of the country’s economy. Romania has approximately 10 million hectares of actively cultivated arable land, producing ample resources of grains which favour livestock production. Read more ...
May 11, 2011
DSM CEO gets innovation award
DSM’s CEO Feike Sijbesma has received the prestigious George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology in recognition of his outstanding contribution and vision to the development and innovation in industrial biotechnology. “The so-called fossil-age will make a shift to the bio-based-economy. In two or three centuries from now, people will look back on our civilisation as a merely brief moment in history where we in a period of just about 250 years shifted our total economy to coal, oil and gas. To make the shift back to living with, and especially off, nature, we need to start this shift now. We are at a turning point towards a next green industrial revolution to secure our feed and fuel needs in the future.” Read more ...
Market share discussions killed Sanofi-Merck JV
Sanofi-Aventis plans to cut costs and expand its animal health business through acquisitions as it fully integrates Merial after the collapse of its long standing joint venture with Merck of the US. As of Friday 6, May, Sanofi-Aventis shareholders approved a name change. From now on the company is known as Sanofi. Chris Viehbacher, chief executive of the French pharmaceutical group, told the Financial Times there was scope for “synergy” in back office operations, manufacturing, marketing, and research and development. He said the failure of the partnership meant Sanofi-Aventis would seek new take over targets in animal health and plan to grow, notably in emerging markets where animal health sales contributed a smaller proportion than other divisions in the group. Read more ...
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Danisco strengthens its technical team
Danisco Animal Nutrition has appointed Dr Armin Vikari to the position of Regional Technical Manager. Armin will be responsible for ensuring pig and poultry producers throughout northern Europe maximise value from the latest developments in feed enzyme and betaine technology, as well as through the use of essential oil compounds. He will be based in the Netherlands and reports to Business Director, Kim Hjortstrøm. Dr Armin Vikari - his previous roles include Area Sales Manager for J. Rettenmair & Sons GmbH & Co KG, focussing on raw fibre concentrates in feed and later as Bioactives Product Manager for Pancosma. Armin’s previous experience and specialisation in natural growth promoters means that he is ideally placed to provide Danisco’s customers with advice over the alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters.. Crop damage from weather growing as cost of grains advances .Less than a year after the worst drought in a generation destroyed one-third of Russia’s wheat crop and sent global food prices surging, more bad weather is damaging fields from North America to Europe to Asia.Corn planting in the US, the world’s largest grower, is advancing at half of last year’s pace because of excess rain, government data show. The Canadian Wheat Board said fields are so muddy that only three percent of grain has been sown, compared with 40 percent normally. At the same time, drought left the Kansas wheat crop in the worst shape since 1996, and dry spells are threatening crops in France, Western Australia and China. Read more ....
Food safety for whom? Corporate wealth versus people’s health
School children in the US were served 200,000 kilos of meat contaminated with a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the nation’s second largest meat packer issued a recall in 2009. A year earlier, six babies died and 300,000 others got horribly sick with kidney problems in China when one of the country’s top dairy producers knowingly allowed an industrial chemical into its milk supply. Across the world, people are getting sick and dying from food like never before. Governments and corporations are responding with all kinds of rules and regulations, but few have anything to do with public health. The trade agreements, laws and private standards used to impose their version of “food safety” only entrench corporate food systems that make us sick and devastate those that truly feed and care for people, those based on biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and local markets. People are resisting, whether its movements against GMOs in Benin and “mad cow” beef in Korea or campaigns to defend street hawkers in India and raw milk in Colombia. The question of who defines “food safety” is increasingly central to the struggle over the future of food and agriculture. Read more ...
Planting corn or soybeans into wet soils can cause sidewall compaction
Conducting fieldwork after wet weather can cause soil compaction, and in particular sidewall compaction in the seed furrow, says DeAnn Presley, Kansas State University Research and Extension soil management specialist. This is especially true if the weather then turns dry after planting, she adds.
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“The worst cases of sidewall compaction are seen after a field has been planted when the soil was too wet, followed by a period of dry weather,” Presley says. “If the soil stays moist, the roots are usually able to grow through the walls of the seed furrow. But if the soil gets dry, the roots can have a harder time growing through that seed furrow wall, and instead grow along the furrow, resulting in what is referred to as sidewall compaction,” she explains. Read more ...
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Genomes of fungi that threaten wheat, poplars sequenced
An international team of researchers co-led by a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has sequenced the genomes of two fungal pathogens-one that threatens global wheat supplies and another that limits production of a tree crop valued as a future source for biofuel. The sequencing of the genetic codes of wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis) and poplar leaf rust pathogen (Melampsora larici-populina) is expected to help researchers develop control strategies to address worldwide threats to wheat fields and tree plantations. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was a six-year collaborative effort of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research. Read more ....
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Surprise thunderstorms overnight in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles are coming far too late to help out the wheat crop in that area, but are certainly going to help conditions in regards to summer row-crop planting. Not everyone in that area is getting these rains, but those locations that are under the strongest thunderstorms are getting over an inch. Look for that activity to end by mid-morning and dry weather will be seen in that area for the rest of the five-day forecast. The rest of the hard-red winter wheat belt has rain chances for today and in some areas tomorrow, and chances are good that a lot of this will be quite severe in nature. Rains this morning in the Corn Belt are mainly in the west, and this activity marks the start of what will be an active period of weather that will last through at least the end of the weekend (or even into Monday in the east). Read more ....
May 16, 2011
Saudi barley importers punished for price hike .
The Saudia Arabian government is to take disciplinary action against 10 barley importing companies found to be selling their barley at higher prices than was set out by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The Ministry of Commerce had been receiving complaints from farmers about unreasonable rises in the price of cattle feed. It ordered all companies dealing with cattle feed not to raise their prices without justification and to clearly write the prices on each bag. Its officials have been making regular field inspections to monitor the situation.
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Japan culls livestock around nuclear no-go zone
The Japanese government plans to cull a vast amount of swine, cattle and poultry in the nuclear evacuation zone surrounding the country’s damaged nuclear plant, several news sources report. Livestock producers in Fukushima, in the North East of Japan had to leave behind their animal herds when a 20 km evacuation zone around the nuclear power plant was imposed after the tsunami and earthquake had happened on March 11. The disaster had knocked out the plant’s cooling systems. The departure of farmers from the no-go zone resulted in the abandonment of an estimated 31,500 pigs, 3,400 cows, and 630,000 chickens at least, these figures were reported prior to the crisis. The cows once the pride of Fukushima prefecture, prized for their marbled beef and rich milk were left behind in the scramble to escape, many of them locked in sheds where they starved to death, farmers have said. Read more ....
Comment period closes on Mexican trucking plan
The public comment period on the Department of Transportation’s revised program to allow Mexican trucks access to US highways closed last Friday. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says US and Mexican government officials have met in recent months to set final details of the deal. The final rules could be announced in a matter weeks. DOT said last month its three-year pilot program to allow Mexican trucks on US roadways includes multiple safety-related steps. Those include a target of 4,100 vehicle inspections designed to test the safety of Mexican trucks, instead of establishing a number of carrier participants. Read more ...
Chinese chickens fed mineral powder to increase weights
In yet another food scandal in China, almost 1,000 live chickens have been seized after it was discovered they were feed a mineral powder to increase their weights. The chickens were found in China’s Southwest Chongqing municipality during a raid jointly conducted by several local authorities while they were being transported from Guizhou province early Sunday morning. When officers stopped two trucks carrying suspected chickens at the toll stations of the Chongqing-Guizhou highway, the officers noticed that the chickens’ craws were abnormally plump and asked the drivers to hand over several of the chickens for testing. The owners of the livestock confessed to the inspectors that each of the birds had been fed between 300 to 400 grams of barite powder. Barite powder is mostly used to add weight to oil drilling mud, to deflect X-rays in medical science, as a material in the brakes of vehicles and in high-quality paints. Read more ....
Time to re-instating food waste into livestock diets?
According to waste food expert Tristram Stuart, the introduction of a formalised system of sterilising and processing waste food and converting it into a useable livestock feed is inevitable. Stuart, a lecturer at Sussex University and author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, said he believed a nationwide off-farm food-recycling program will provide vast tonnages of low-cost feed for UK pig producers. He added that because of the ever-increasing concern for environmental and economic approaches to food production, the demand will be driven by consumers. “There will soon be zero tolerance among consumers over the 20 million tonnes of waste food that has to be disposed of every year in the UK,” Stuart said. Read more ....
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May 17, 2011
Research: Effect of yeast protein on piglet intestines
Australian scientists studied the use of nucleotides, vitamins and functional amino acids to enhance the structure of the small intestine and circulating measures of immune function in the post-weaned piglet. Ninety individually-housed castrated pigs (Large White×Landrace×Duroc mixed crossbred, n=18) were used in a randomised block experiment to determine the effect of yeast protein concentrate (YPC) or its major active components, nucleotides (NCL), inositol (INS), and glutamate (GLU), on pig performance, indices of gut structure and circulating measures of immune function. Daily gain and feed intake were not affected by diet, however pigs fed the YPC diet had a lower feed conversion ratio compared to those fed the control (CON), INS and NCL diets in the feeding period. Villous height in the duodenum was increased in pigs that received the YPC diet compared to the CON and INS diets. In addition, immuno-globulin G levels were increased in pigs that received the INS and GLU diets compared to the CON and NCL diet on day 21. Read more …
DDGS sales to Southeast Asia up
Sales of US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are up globally this year, with the largest regional gain on a percentage basis in Southeast Asia, where exports were up 27 percent year-over-year for the January-March period. That puts sales at 296,047 metric tons for the quarter, said the US Grains Council, citing US Department of Agriculture figures. The largest percentage growth within the region is Malaysia, which grew from 4,329 tons imports in January-February 2010 to 16,347 tons in the same period this year, a fourfold increase. “We are very active in promoting DDGS in Southeast Asia,” said Adel Yusupov, the Council’s regional director for Southeast Asia who is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read more ...
Senior management changes at Kiotech
Richard Edwards becomes Executive Vice-Chairman and David Bullen Chief Executive Kiotech International plc, the supplier of natural high performance feed additives to enhance growth, health and sustainability in agriculture and aquaculture has redefined roles and responsibilities at board level. Richard Edwards, who has been Chief Executive since November 2006, becomes Executive Vice-Chairman and will be responsible for implementing the company’s acquisition strategy. He will also retain responsibility for Aquatice® to ensure continuity of its commercial development. Read more ....
Molecular technique advances soybean rust resistance research
A new tool is available to select for soybean rust resistance in breeding populations, said Glen Hartman, University of Illinois professor of crop sciences and United States Department of Agriculture -ARS scientist. Hartman and his team of researchers successfully used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) assays to assess fungal DNA in soybean leaf tissue to quantify the level of resistance in individual plants with resistance to soybean rust.
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“This is not a new technique,” Hartman said. “But it is a new tool for use in soybean rust resistance breeding, which has typically used phenotyping or visual assessment to measure resistance. We discovered that we can perform more precise and quicker assessments using this molecular technique.” Read more ....Novus expansion facility in Little Rock .Novus International Inc. today cut the ribbon commemorating the opening of its newly expanded Novus Arkansas facility in Little Rock. The Novus Arkansas site was developed in the Little Rock Riverport Industrial Park in 2006 to manufacture MHA® feed supplement, a dry, granular powder that provides an effective and environmentally friendly source of methionine, an essential amino acid in premixes and farm feed mills. MHA provides benefits to laying hens and other livestock and companion animals. The new expansion features a 45,000 square foot manufacturing facility for Mintrex, a unique line of chelated trace mineral products for aquaculture, poultry, pork, beef, dairy and pet nutrition. Chelated trace mineral technology enables farmers to reduce their levels of mineral inclusion, thus saving money and reducing waste to the environment. Read more ...
E.P.A. Issues Compliance Orders to 7 Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
E.P.A. Region seven announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to seven concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Region seven’s latest round of CAFO enforcement activity, aimed at encouraging producers’ compliance with the Clean Water Act and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting program, involves seven beef feedlots, including 4 in Iowa, 2 in Kansas and one in Nebraska. “Feedlot-related pollutants have significantly contributed to water quality problems, causing states to list streams as impaired under the Clean Water Act,” E.P.A. Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said. “As Clean Water Act permits provide a crucial tool to maintain water quality, E.P.A. works with our state partners and stakeholders to promote producers’ legal compliance. Enforcing feedlot permits and requiring producers to get them, where appropriate, will produce cleaner waters and likely require fewer enforcement actions in the future.” Read more ...
May 18, 2011
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) gets new Chairman .
William C. Barr was elevated to the chairmanship of the American Feed Industry Association at the annual meeting on May 11. Barr, the president of Bill Barr & Company Incorporated of Overland Park, Kansas, succeeds VanRoekel, the president and CEO of Ridley Inc of Mankato, Minnesota. The terms of chairman and past chairman are one year. In related business, the AFIA Board voted to accept the nomination of Alan Gunderson to become chairman-elect of the organization. Gunderson, the vice president of Vita Plus Corporation, will succeed Barr in May 2012. Read more .... 22
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Lipids to control methane emission in dairy cows
Australian scientists studied the influence of cold-pressed canola, brewers grains and hominy meal as dietary supplements suitable for reducing enteric methane emissions from lactating dairy cows. There are limited data in the literature concerning in vivo effects of dietary fat supplementation on enteric CH4 emissions from lactating dairy cows. The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate four dietary treatments designated as control (CON), brewers grains (BG), hominy meal and cold-pressed canola (HCC) and hominy meal only (HM) for their effects on CH4 emissions and milk production. Sixteen late lactation Holstein cows were used in pairs, in a double four×four Latin square experiment with the four dietary treatments fed as total mixed rations over 24 day treatment periods. Read more ...
TechMix and GenTech join in China
Nutritional product specialist TechMix, from Minneapolis USA, expands and announces the launch of joint venture in Shanghi, China. In a partnership created with GenTech China, the TechMix BioTech new facilitiesinclude a manufacturing plant, offices and sales team. “China is the largest swine market in the world with more than 650 million hogs produced every year. Chinese producers are looking for more specialty nutrition products for targeted applications to better manage the stress periods of pigs, as alternatives to medications and antibiotics and based on proven technology. TechMix products are proven with 28 years of experience” said Mike Nelson, President, TechMix. Read more ....
MS Schippers joins forces with De Heus and Wellhope in China
MS Schippers, an international Holland-based livestock equipment company, has closed a joint venture with De Heus Feeds and the Chinese Wellhope Group. De Heus International, one of the Netherlands’ larger compound feed producers, has already had a joint venture with feed producer Wellhope Group since 2006, by buying shares of the company. In an explanation, John van den Broek, Schippers Export’s commercial director said: “We received lots of requests for delivery of our products and knowledge to the Chinese market and so we have decided to anticipate to these requests this by creating this joint venture with De Heus and Wellhope.” Read more ...
US wheat is a logical choice for world’s consumers
As proof that American wheat farmers continue to produce the world’s most consistent supply of high-quality wheat, wheat exports are expected to increase about 45 percent more this marketing year compared to last year in all wheat classes, says Alan Tracy, president of the
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Study links climate change to changes in crop yields
A new study says climate change has reduced the world’s wheat and maise production. The study says rice and soybean yields have also decreased in some places but increased in others. In the words of the researchers: “For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out.” The researchers studied climate trends and global crop production from between nineteen eighty and two thousand eight. They found that climate changes “are already exerting a considerable drag on yield growth” and may have affected food prices. Read more ....
Wheat damage claims may signal worse harvest than forecast
Wheat crops in the US Great Plains are showing signs that production may plunge more than the government forecast last week as hot weather and a lack of rain erode plant quality and force farmers to harvest early. As of May 15, US winter-wheat was in the worst condition since 1996, with 44 percent of fields rated poor or very poor by the government. The National Weather Service estimates rainfall in the past two months was less than half of normal in much of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, where insurance adjuster David Reed said he’s had 300 farmer claims for drought damage in his area this season, already 10 times more than last year. Read more ...
Cargill’s Amsterdam soya plant gets EFISC certification
The European Feed Ingredients Safety Code (EFISC) has approved Cargill soya plant for crush and refining in Amsterdam for EFISC certification. The plant is producing about 170.000 tons of feed materials annually and is as such a major player on the feed material market. The certification resulted from an audit conducted by the certification body SGS. “As a global and regional producer of feed materials Cargill is fully committed to the implementation of European feed safety schemes in the EU. The EFISC scheme, based on the European Guide for safe feed materials endorsed by the European Commision and EU Member States, provides us with a harmonised, high quality standard for feed safety across the EU in an open, transparent and non- discriminatory matter”. Read more ...
May 19, 2011
Major feed business created in New Zealand
Ballance Agri-nutrients is joining forces with two of New Zealand’s independent suppliers of customised animal feeds to create a new nationwide business focused on meeting farmers’ complete animal nutrient needs from pasture through to supplements. The company is purchasing a large share of two of New Zealand’s leading animal nutrient manufacturers; Seales Ltd in Morrinsville and Winslow Feeds and Nutrition in Ashburton. The new operation, Seales Winslow, will be 51 percent owned by Ballance Agri-Nutrients. The shareholders of Seales Ltd and Winslow Feeds and Nutrition will each own half of the remaining 49 percent of the new business. Seales Winslow is expected to begin operations by June 1, 2011. Read more ....
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Australian researchers developing test to improve pig & poultry feed
Scientists at the Department of Agriculture and Food in Western Australia are close to developing a new rapid computerised screening tool for pork producers to measure protein quality in imported soybean meal. Principal researcher Jae Kim said the tool, expected to be developed by June this year, could also eventually be applied for the broiler/layer industry. Dr Kim said the tool would enable producers to check the lysine quality in soybean meal, an important ingredient in the diet of young pigs. “Lysine is the most important essential amino acid in pig nutrition,” he said. “A deficient or short supply of lysine hinders the utilisation of other amino acids needed for the efficient production of pigs. So it is important for producers to be able to precisely estimate the biologically available lysine in pig diets. Read more ...
Pancosma appoints new market manager
Pancosma has announced the appointment of a new market manager to its marketing department, Clément Soulet. Soulet has been named Palatants range Market Manager. He will be responsible for overseeing the global development of the Sucram and Pantek brand products already established as market leaders in several countries. Soulet was graduated with an agro engineer diploma (AgroParisTech) with a specialisation in management, innovation and business performance. He recently was employed at the Nutreco Ruminant Research Center in the Netherlands and in a camelids Argentinean cooperative. He has also been working for four years in a French consulting firm in strategy and organisation. Read more ....
AFIA strongly urges passage of Free Trade Agreements
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) strongly urges Congress to pass the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Panama, Korea and Colombia. Increasing export opportunities is a top priority for the US feed industry and AFIA urges congressional action on all three FTAs as soon as possible. Ratifying the agreements will increase American competitiveness while removing barriers to US goods entering these markets. “AFIA applauds the efforts thus far, but we encourage passage of all three FTAs,” explained Joel G. Newman, president and CEO of AFIA. “While the country wrestles with a struggling economy, any trade agreement that has the potential to create American jobs and expand US exports really makes sense.” Read more ....
Recipients announced of AFIA’s 2011 Member of the Year Award
Dale A. Hill, ADM Alliance Nutrition and Paul Phillips, Maxi-Lift/Southwest Agri-Plastics, have both been named the American Feed Industry Association’s 2011 Members of the Year. Hill and Phillips received the honour during the annual meeting of AFIA’s Board of Directors this week. The AFIA Member of the Year award is given to an individual who exhibited amazing support in helping the association achieve its goals and objectives over the previous year. Dale Hill is manager of companion animal nutrition with ADM Alliance Nutrition, with a background in dryland and irrigated crop production and livestock production. Dr. Hill has served on the AFIA Pet Food Committee since 2009 and served as chair this last year. He spearheaded the effort to review, renew and publish an updated version of “Salmonella Control Guidelines,” which was distributed to the membership and FDA in December 2010. Read more ...
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May 20, 2011
A Review: Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security ISBN: 978-1-4200-9009-3
Remote sensing began primarily with the military, but became a scientific subject after World War II. Remote sensing refers to the technology of acquiring information about the earth’s surface, land, ocean and atmosphere. Using sensors on various platforms, such as aircraft, balloons, satellite and space shuttles. Since the 1940s the technology has improved and along with the understanding and the ability to decipher the information gained from the data gathered. The range of remote sensing applications includes archaeology, agriculture, cartography, civil engineering, meteorology and climatology, coastal studies, emergency response, forestry, geology, geographic information systems, hazards, land use and land cover, natural disasters, oceanography, water resources. In 2009 this publication was published by Taylor & Francis and is part of a series in remote sensing applications, edited by Prasad S. Thenkabail, John G. Lyon, Hugh Turral, and Chandashekhar M. Biradar and series editor Qihao Weng. This book is split in to eight sections: Section one deals with the background and history of global irrigated area maps (GIAM) Context and need and scope for mapping global irrigated and rain fed areas A history of irrigated areas of the world Section two looks at global irrigated area maps (GIAM) and statistics using remote sensing. Section three looks at GIAM mapping section for selected global regions: Uncertainty of estimating irrigated areas in China Irrigated areas of India derived from satellite sensors and national statistics: A way forward from GIAM experience Mapping Irrigated Lands across the United States Using MODIS Satellite Imagery Use of Remote Sensing to Map Irrigated Agriculture in Areas Overlying the Ogallala Aquifer, United States Assessing the Extent of Urban Irrigated Areas in the United States The challenges of mapping irrigated areas in a temperate climate : Experiences from England Irrigated Area Mapping in the CWANA Region and Its Use in Spatial Applications for Land Use Planning, Poverty Mapping and Water Resources Management Subpixel Mapping of Rice Paddy Fields over Asia Using MODIS Time Series Section four covers Evapotranspiration Models, Water Use, and Irrigated Area Section five covers Rain-Fed Cropland Areas of the World Section six Methods of Mapping Croplands Using Remote Sensing
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Section eight Way Forward in Mapping Global Irrigated and Rain-Fed Croplands This book Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security covers a broad spectrum of how remote sensing can be used to better understand our use of water and irrigation systems and rain fed crop lands around the world. It also highlights that with improving technology and better interpretation that remote sensing will play a key role in future decisions relating to climate change and population growth. A well-written book with fantastic quality images, a good book for anyone who is interested in this modern science and I believe it would also be of interest to hydrologists and agricultural students and professionals..Thai feed makers cancel soy meal shipments .Animal feed makers in Thailand have cancelled around 50,000 tonnes of soy meal imports and delayed another 40,000 tons as global prices fall amid plentiful South American supplies. The Philippines is seeking to defer around 40,000 tons due from Argentina in June to August, traders said. Traders said most cargoes being cancelled or deferred are from Argentina, the world’s biggest exporter of the feed ingredient, which is on track to produce a bumper soybean crop. The benchmark Chicago Board of Trade soybean meal has lost around seven percent since the start of April on bumper soybean output in South America. Read more ...
European Union should speed up authorisation process for GM animal feed
The European Union should speed up the authorisation processes for novel GM events, to preserve the relative importance of the EU market in animal feed products, concludes a Wageningen University study. In this context, it is necessary to take into account the increasing number of countries which are embarking on the development of GM events, and which will be submitting applications to the EU for authorisation of the novel events. A second possibility is to introduce a practical tolerance threshold for EU unauthorised GM events that would allow limited liability partnership in shipments to the EU. Read more ....Research: Protein management to lower GHG-emission in pigs .Japanese scientists in cooperation with amino acid supplier Ajinomoto studied the potential reduction of greenhouse gas emission from swine manure by using a lowprotein diet supplemented with synthetic amino acids. Although effects of dietary protein reduction on N excretion are well documented, the potential of protein reduction to decrease N2O and CH4 emissions has not been widely examined. Read more ...
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THE GLOBAL MILLER | May 2011
Studies focus on feed ingredient’s effects on levels of E. Coli O157:H7 in cattle After corn is processed to make ethanol, what’s left of the corn looks something like slightly dampened cornmeal, though a somewhat darker yellow, and not as finely ground. Known as “wet distiller’s grains with solubles” (WDGS), this by-product is sometimes used as a cattle feed ingredient.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Clay Center, Nebraska, are studying the pros and cons of that practice. WDGS are rich in protein, and also provide calories and minerals, according to James E. Wells, a microbiologist with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Read more …
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Wheat replaces maize in poultry feed in India due to surplus
Wheat stocks in India have exceeded buffer stocking norms, causing the price to plumet. This has prompted poultry feed manufacturers to substitute wheat for maize in their produce. The increased stock of wheat is the result of bumper harvests and the government’s refusal to export. The reason given for not allowing exports, despite the fact that a large portion of the stocks are in the open, in danger of being drenched in premonsoon rains and spoiled beyond redemption, is that the government does not know how much of grain would be required to implement the food security law. However, they are now considering allowing the export of surplus grains. Read more ....
Cargill contributes innovative nutritional software to Iowa State University
Cargill today announced it is making a significant in-kind software contribution to Iowa State University (ISU) to aid in its efforts to improve swine nutrition and pork production. Cargill’s Animal Nutrition unit is licensing its Pork MAX® patented nutritional software to ISU’s Department of Animal Science. This innovative software will be used in ISU’s applied swine nutrition program, which includes research, teaching and extension services. Cargill’s Pork MAX® software will allow students to accurately model and project swine nutritional needs to improve research outcomes and aid in pork business decision making. “I am excited by the prospect of using the growth modeling capabilities of the Pork MAX® software to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our research and extension activities,” said Dr. John Patience of ISU’s Department of Animal Science. Read more ....
Perten gets substantial order for Falling Number instruments Perten Instruments announce receiving a substantial order for Falling Number instruments from Viterra in Adelaide, Australia. Perten Instruments will deliver 78 Falling Number instrument for placement throughout the Viterra grain handling system in Australia.
Viterra is strengthening their support to growers delivering grain into their system by providing the option of having weather affected wheat assessed by the Falling Number test. Included in the delivery from Perten Instruments are Falling Number instruments, Cooling Towers for water saving, Shakematics for improved reproducibility and operator support, and Laboratory Mills with Mill Feeders for correct sample preparation. Read more ....
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THE GLOBAL MILLER | May 2011
AFIA Liquid feed symposium 2011
AFIA’s Liquid Feed Committee presents the 41st annual Liquid Feed Symposium, which will be held at the Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo, Sept 13-15. This year’s program, Industry Innovations, will focus on critical technologies and science essential to liquid feed manufacturing and delivery. The keynote will be delivered by Alex Avery, director of research and education with the Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute, who will share his renowned presentation, “Technology and Increased Worldwide Food Production.” In addition, other experts from business, government and academia will speak on a variety of relevant topics, including presentations from Dr Dan McChesney of FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, AFIA’s Richard Sellers and industry speakers addressing ingredient and nutritional advances. Read more ....
DuPont expects seed market share to increase
DuPont Co expects an increase in the market share for corn and soybean seeds in North America for 2011. This will be the third year in a row, the head of the company’s seed division said. The gains by Pioneer HiBred, the Iowa-based DuPont subsidiary, would continue the company’s momentum as it battles with rival Monsanto Co, which took a big chunk of Pioneer’s market share last decade. Pioneer had lost share for three straight years before its market share stabilised in 2008. It increased its corn market share by two percentage points in 2009 and three percentage points in 2010, Pioneer President Paul Schickler said in an interview. “We’ll have again this year not only the share gains, but price increases as well,” Schickler said. Read more ....
In-ovo feeding can optimise poultry production
In-ovo feeding technology has established a new science of perinatal nutrition that will open opportunities for greater production efficiency and animal welfare. It may even be a necessary means to optimise poultry production, concluded Peter Ferket (North Carolina State University) and Zehave Uni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) at the Alltech Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky held this week. The incubation and neonatal periods account for about 50 percent of the productive life of a two-kg market broiler. The perinatal period, the last four days before hatch through the first four days after hatch, is most critical for development and survival of commercial broilers, the researcher state. Read more ...
Charoen allocates US$174m for expansion
Animal feed and processed chicken producer PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia (CPI) says it will allocate Rp1.5 trillion (US$174 million) in 2011 for capital expenditures to support expansion plans. CPI director Ong Mei Sian said on Wednesday that the funds would be sourced internally, even though bank loans were available. She added that the company would spend the funds to increase the capacity at existing plants, relocate an existing plant in Lampung and build a new plant in East Java. CPI, the local subsidiary of the Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods, currently has seven plants one each in West Java, Central Java, Lampung, North Sumatra and South Sulawesi and two plants in East Java. Read more ....
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May 31, 2011
Cull causes feed grain demand in South Korea to fall
Millions of pigs, cattle and poultry were culled during late 2010 to April this year in South Korea, due to disease, and as a result the demand for feed grain is expected to fall by as much as 10 percent, according to a local feed group. Kim Chi Young, a director for grain purchases at Korea Feed Association, the nation’s top grain-buying group, said in an interview, that Consumption may fall 7-10 percent in 2011 from an estimated 9.35 million metric tons for 2010 South Korea destroyed about 9.7 million cattle, pigs and poultry after outbreaks of foot- and-mouth and bird-flu last winter. “The Korean livestock industry may remain sluggish for a long time after the outbreaks,” said Kim at the group’s headquarters in Seoul. “It will probably take a long while for the pork industry, in particular, to recover.” Read more ....
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