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Animal Feed Manufacturing

Cargill earnings down 23.8 percent in third quarter

Cargill reported a 23.8 drop in net earnings for the third quarter of 2018: $495 million compared with $650 million a year ago.

April 6, 2018

Animal Feed Manufacturing

US farmers to plant more soybeans than corn in 2018

U.S. farmers plan to plant slightly more soybeans than corn this year, but acreage for both crops is down from last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Prospective Plantings report, released March 29.

April 3, 2018

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

Neogen revenues up 8 percent in third quarter

Neogen Corp.’s revenues for the third quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended February 28, increased 8 percent to $95.9 million, from the previous year’s third quarter revenues of $88.4 million.

April 2, 2018

Feed Production by Region

Strong fourth quarter gives Adisseo a 2017 above budget

For FY2017, Adisseo recorded an operating revenue of CNY10.4 billion (US$1.6 billion), a minor decrease of 3 percent, compared with last year mainly driven by the significant decrease of methionine prices in 2017 which was partly compensated by significant volume growths for all product lines.

March 22, 2018

Poultry

How to hire, motivate employees in a changing workforce

The agribusiness industry must rethink its hiring strategies in order to attract and keep quality employees as an older generation of workers retire and millennials take over.

March 21, 2018

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Royal Agrifirm sees growth despite market fluctuations

Royal Agrifirm Group saw a 25 percent increase in net income in 2017, achieved despite highly fluctuating market conditions.

March 19, 2018

Poultry

Corn, soy costs ‘as good as it gets,’ but for how long?

Costs for key feed ingredients corn and soybeans are currently about “as good as it gets,” but those prices are likely to increase in the not-to-distant future, poultry industry economist Paul Aho said.

March 1, 2018

Feed Production by Region

Ag, commodity groups send Trump letter supporting RFS

Six leaders from farm and commodity organizations have signed a letter addressed to President Donald Trump regarding their support for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

February 26, 2018

Poultry

Ceva hits EUR1 billion in revenue for first time

2017 will go down in history as the year Ceva Santé Animale (Ceva) achieved growth of 20 percent and broke the EUR1 billion barrier for the first time with sales of EUR1.1 billion (US$1.3 billion).

February 8, 2018

Animal Feed Manufacturing

ADM sees solid fourth quarter in 2017

Archer Daniels Midland Co. reported net earnings of $788 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2017. During 2017, the company said it returned $1.5 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.

February 8, 2018

Poultry

World animal feed volumes reach 1.07 billion metric tons

Alltech’s 2018 Global Feed Survey reports volumes exceeding 1.07 billion metric tons of animal feed production worldwide.

January 25, 2018

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Cargill earnings down in second quarter, first half

Cargill has reported financial results for the fiscal 2018 second quarter and first half ended November 30, 2017.

January 3, 2018