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Grain Silos in New Orleans Port
Cereals, News

CGC finds consensus for producer protection, licensing of feed mills

The next step is to prepare licensing and farmer-protection regulations for feed mills and then consult again

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The majority of grain industry respondents to a recent Canadian Grain Commission consultation wants western Canadian feed mills to be licensed and required to post security covering grain purchased from farmers. “Most stakeholders agreed there should be some kind of licensing of facilities to provide some kind of producer protection,” Rémi Gosselin, manager of CGC
It is impossible to determine whether pelleted feed contains ergot toxins without laboratory testing. The sample on the left contains 230 ppb ergot toxins. The sample on the right contains 38,900 ppb.
Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock

Ergot becomes invisible in manufactured feed

Researchers and feed makers say new guidelines for assessing risk are needed

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The two pictures of pelleted feed veterinary toxicologist Dr. Barry Blakley put up on the screen at a recent ergot symposium here looked identical. But one had enough toxins in it to kill livestock. The rising levels of ergot in western Canadian cereal grains and forages has turned into a nightmare for the manufactured feed
Livestock, News, Oilseeds

High compound feed cost hits pig farmers

amsterdam / reuters Europe’s pig farmers are struggling to maintain production, caught between a slide in pork prices and a rise in the cost of protein-rich soymeal and rapemeal used in compound feed. The price of soymeal has surged nearly 40 per cent this year. Along with rapemeal it is used as the main source
Livestock, News, Oilseeds

High compound feed cost hits pig farmers

amsterdam / reuters Europe’s pig farmers are struggling to maintain production, caught between a slide in pork prices and a rise in the cost of protein-rich soymeal and rapemeal used in compound feed. The price of soymeal has surged nearly 40 per cent this year. Along with rapemeal it is used as the main source
Did you know?, Livestock, News

Maggots eyed as animal feed

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Reuters / Families tucking into a Sunday roast dinner may not relish the idea of animals fattened on maggots, but a British entrepreneur in South Africa believes they’re a viable protein-rich animal feed alternative. AgriProtein Technologies plans to set up the world’s first large-scale factory in South Africa to produce “Magmeal,” an organic and sustainable
Cereals, Grain Markets

Saudi Arabia A Big Buyer Of Barley In 2011

ABU DHABI/REUTERS Saudi Arabia is set to import seven million to 7.5 million tonnes of barley this year and is looking at long term deals with major grain exporter Ukraine, the finance minister of the world s biggest barley buyer said on Sept. 7. We import around seven to 7.5 million tonnes of barley as
Opinion

Don’t Overlook Feed Value Of DDGs

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Ethanol producers often get much of the blame for driving the price of corn to its current multi-year high levels due to that industry’s strong usage of corn to make fuel. But critics overlook the growing production and distribution of Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), a byproduct of ethanol output used in animal feeds as an
News

Japan Quake Destroys Feed Plants, Grain Shipments Unaffected

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Animal feed-manufacturing facilities in northern Japan, which accounts for 17 per cent of the country’s annual output, have been severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake, although shipments into the world’s top grain buyer were largely unaffected. Japan, the world’s third-largest consumer of commodities, is battling to avert a nuclear catastrophe in its worst crisis
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Japanese Quake Could Cut Imports

Japanese demand for U.S. corn may drop three to seven per cent and demand for soybeans could dip eight per cent after last week’s earthquake and tsunami damaged or destroyed ports, feed mills and meat-processing facilities, a top U.S. commodities analyst said March 14. Corn imports by the top U.S. corn buyer could drop by
News

China’s Top Feed Firm Wants Access To DDGS

China’s largest animal feed producer, New Hope Group, called on the government to stop its antidumping investigation against exports of U.S. DDGS, a byproduct of corn-based ethanol used to substitute corn by feed mills. “The investigation has not consulted the feed industry and only represents the interests of some ethanol producers,” Liu Yonghao, chairman of

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