January 2023

The Poultry Site

Despite tectonic shifts in consumer eating habits, record high feed costs, labor shortages, and supply chain logjams, most US animal protein industry segments have posted phenomenal financial performance over the past three years. However, this broad-based era of profitability will likely come to an end in 2023.

TheFishSite

A new publication has found that leveraging a combination of probiotics along with complementary exogenous enzymes in an intensive culture system can boost growth parameters and improve the culture en….

BusinessWorld

The Philippines will likely experience shortages of rice and pork this year, with growers impacted by high costs for key inputs as well as climate change, analysts said. “We will be in short supply of rice by more than three million metric tons this year due to the high fertilizer and fuel costs and the continuing threat of climate change,” former Agriculture Undersecretary Fermin D. Adriano said in a Viber message last week.

The Poultry Site

The 2023 outlook for the global poultry industry is for strong market conditions, but operational challenges are expected to intensify, according to RaboBank senior analyst Nan-Dirk Mulder. Rising costs, supply and avian influenza remain worries.

FeedNavigator

With the ever-increasing shift to “no-antibiotics-ever” (NAE) production, probiotics have become more common in poultry diets, said Elizabeth Bobeck, PhD, a nutritional immunology expert and associate professor at Iowa State University…

FeedNavigator

The US FDA has issued revised guidance for assessing the risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in people, which could result from the use of medically important antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals.

MEAT+POULTRY

The organization said that the meat and poultry industry will begin to feel tightening of the economy in 2023 in ways it has managed to escape the past few years. Meat and poultry consumption will likely be flat in the coming year.

The Poultry Site

The $70 trillion-backed FAIRR investor network finds meat and dairy industry failing to manage its biodiversity impacts, undermining targets of a new global deal for nature and exposing companies to increased regulatory, legal and reputational risks. 60% of companies source soy for feed from deforested areas.

TheFishSite

The latest analysis from RaboResearch finds that animal protein companies must pivot in 2023 to respond to structural challenges of sustainability, animal health and market volatility as economic grow….

The Poultry Site

In a recent press release, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies said the government should strengthen the country’s surveillance of African Swine Fever (ASF) and other animal diseases. The aim is to protect poultry and livestock from disease outbreaks.

BusinessWorld

In a statement attributed to Einstein, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity. This seems to be the case with agriculture in our country. The people who produce our food are still among the poorest. We still have to import much of our basic food needs. Today, the President has decided to run the Department of Agriculture himself.

Saigon Online

Vietnam will build areas for producing animal feed ingredients with the aim to reduce reliance on imports, said Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Livestock Production Department Duong Tat Thang.

Daily Tribune

Dairy is a staple worldwide. Unfortunately, Filipinos have limited access to fresh milk, with the country importing 90 percent or 2.8 million metric tons of its milk and milk byproducts due to poor feed and management practices, high production costs and lack of adequate infrastructure. According to Global Ag Media’s dairy industry news outlet, The Dairy Site, the Philippines imports nearly $500 million worth of raw milk from countries such as New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.

The Jakarta Post

Called “The Infrastructure Improvement Project for Shrimp Aquaculture”, the project is designed to assist the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry in introducing sustainable shrimp aquaculture to increase productivity, quality, profitability and environmental preservation in shrimp-farming areas for smallholders.

Vietnam Plus

Vietnam has so far earned 361 million USD from exporting poultry meat and eggs to 26 countries worldwide, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) reported.

Vietnam Briefing

Dairy is among a range of products to benefit from reduced tariffs under the Vietnam-Eurasian Economic Union (VN-EAEU) free trade agreement. The agreement, signed in 2015, has strengthened ties between Vietnam and the bloc, which may soon pay dividends for one of Vietnam’s biggest dairy producers.

NST Online

Kuala Lumpur: The Selangor Poultry Breeders Association is keen to meet Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu to discuss the egg shortage issue.

BusinessWorld

The livestock, poultry and dairy industries are not making progress due to inadequate employment of technology, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said. A PIDS study concluded that “investment must be poured into production and process improvements, including technology, equipment, animal inventory, and manpower capacity upgrades, for the agriculture industry to be more competitive.”

NASDAQ.com

Thailand’s association of feed mills (TFMA) is believed to have bought about 50,000 tonnes of animal feed barley expected to be sourced from Australia in a tender on Wednesday, European traders said on Thursday.