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New website connects buyers, sellers of bulk feed ingredients

A new website, www.feedpail.com, is designed to connect buyers and sellers of bulk feed ingredients quickly and easily, simplifying a process that creator Ryan Cooney said normally involves multiple phone calls, emails and negotiations to complete. The free service allows users to see the prices and availability of more than 50 bulk feed ingredients such as fats and oils, animal proteins, grain byproducts and minerals.

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Lower feed ingredient prices expected in 2012

Back-to-back harvests with below trend line yields for corn have buyers wondering if 2012 will bring any reduction from the record-high average corn price the U.S. experienced in 2011. Poultry and egg producers may get some relief in 2012 as feed ingredient prices fall slightly from 2011 levels—at least that seemed to be the consensus of the presenters at USPOULTRY’s Grain Forecast and Economic Outlook Conference held recently in Atlanta.

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission limits trading on agriculture commodities

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has voted to limit speculative trading for agricultural commodities, including corn, wheat and soybeans, according to the American Feed Industry Association. Part of the Dodd-Frank Act, the new rules establish speculative position limits on futures and swaps, and clarify rules for derivative clearing organizations.

Novus International AGRADO Plus

Novus International Inc.

Novus International offers AGRADO Plus feed ingredient. The feed ingredient is designed to help mitigate the negative effects of mycotoxins.

Mosaic Feed Ingredients Nexfos

Mosaic Feed Ingredients' Nexfos is a granulated feed-grade monodicalcium phosphate for use in animal and poultry feed. The company says the product enhances throughput and energy efficiency in the milling process.

Novus International BioOptimized Trace Minerals Program

Novus International Inc.

Novus International offers a BioOptimized Trace Minerals Program that allows minerals from Novus to be delivered to beef producers. As part of the program, the company proposes a three-step plan for beef producers to remove, replace and reformulate feed to make it more efficient.

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Feed ingredients company seeks partners for Middle East expansion

Borregaard LignoTech, an animal feed ingredients company, is expanding its business in the Middle East and India, and seeks partners for its animal feed additives business in these regions. The company says it wishes to establish Borregaard LignoTech as a long-term supplier with the help of prospective partners that already have a strong local presence in these markets.

Kemin doubles production capacity with expansion to India facility

Kemin has doubled the company’s production capacity and added new technologies to its manufacturing portfolio through an expansion to its manufacturing facility in Gummidipoondi, India. The new facility will manufacture KemTRACE Organic Trace Minerals for poultry, dairy and aqua, as well as provide additional blending capacity and new research and quality assurance facilities.

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DLA Group, Raisio sign feed ingredient procurement agreement

An agreement to work together on feed ingredient procurement has been signed by two of the largest grain product organizations in Scandinavia, Denmark's DLA Group and Finland's Raisio. DLA coordinates wholesale trading activities for 31 cooperative and privately owned raw materials companies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic States, while Raisio is Finland's largest industrial grain processor, operating also in the UK, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Baltic countries.

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Feedtech-Croptech Asia in Bangkok to highlight alternative feed ingredients

The Feedtech-Croptech Asia 2011 Conference, held March 9 by VNU in association with WATT, during VIV Asia in Bangkok, will focus on future trends in animal feeds. With grain prices soaring, the discussion will include the potential for using alternative ingredients to manage feed costs.

Novus International Mintrex feed additives

Novus International Inc.

Novus International Inc. received European Union registration and Association of American Feed Control Officials' Ingredient Definitions Committee approval of its Mintrex feed additives. Mintrex Zinc, Mintrex Manganese and Mintrex Copper are chelated trace minerals approved as feed additives for all species.

Chr. Hansen GalliPro probiotic feed ingredient

Chr. Hansen has developed GalliPro, a probiotic feed ingredient for poultry that contains antiprotozoal agents that act upon coccidia parasites.

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