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ForFarmers attains UK wide coverage for organic layer feed range Such national rollout has been accomplished by installing a specialist holding tank at the company’s Selby, Penrith and Portbury mill sites along with a dedicated delivery system to enable the incorporation of organic soy oil into the range, said ForFarmers UK. “The organic soy is largely sourced from China and India, with oil extraction being a simple cold pressing,”​ Andrew Fothergill, national poultry advisor at the feed manufacturing company, told us. The use of oil further improves the qu...

Lockdowns, freight and currency challenges fueling high feed additive prices Kemiex sees rising ingredient prices for a set of reasons: freight related disruptions and charges, a new wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, elevated raw material prices for fermented feed additives and dollar weakness. “ We’re approaching the Chinese New Year holidays, which means reduced corporate activity on top of the production restrictions already in place the weeks before. ​ “While purchasing departments are well aware of this and would have taken it into account, with thorough pr...

Dutch livestock sector faces new nitrogen law The Dutch parliament, last month, approved a new law that aims to curb nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Agricultural and Horticultural Association (LTO) - the representative body of 35,000 Dutch agricultural entrepreneurs and employers - commented that, even though the law will be challenging for the Dutch agricultural sector, it was pleased that some of its proposals were eventually incorporated into the new legislation. “With the absence of concrete compulsory measures for the agricultural s...

Delvigent starts fatty acids production with new facility in China Hebei Delvigent Biotech Co Ltd has opened its first feed additive factory in China, setting a course to support antibiotic reduction in farmed animal production in China and beyond. The facility, which is located in Cangzhou, Hebei province, around 150km from Beijing, will produce short and medium-chain fatty acids as well as essential oils. The factory has a capacity of 60,000 tons on an annual basis, with the possibility for such capacity to be doubled to 120,000 tons of feed additives per year ...