China's record corn imports are forecast at 24.0 million tonnes for 2020/21.

Batavia, NY – New details on additional government spending, and a cold snap, contributed to firmer market sentiment this week. More on the government spending in a moment.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition has partnered with agri-tech company Poultry Sense to improve the reliability and credibility of data gained from commercial farm trials.

Europe made the most of China's ASF driven import boom but nations with fast growing meat demand will be at an advantage –if they can get past COVID-19 lockdowns.

Prices and revenues slashed to sustain output but EU regulations threaten long-run competitiveness.

No matter how you look at the numbers, the world poultry sector is in trouble. COVID-19 is blamed for most of 2020's economic woes but this is not the case for the world poultry sector. Once the most promising livestock protein line, poultry meat production has been growing at slow, disappointing rates long before our coronavirus infected the world economy.

Not even COVID-19 slowed accelerating investment in commercial RAS salmon –but 2030 output forecasts vary by a factor of more than ten.

Weak Q4 demand, surplus of large-size fish narrows price spreads but exports, prices and revenues less disrupted by COVID-19 than those of Chile.

Prices of soy oil remained strong, motivating crushers to step up production, which in turn supressed soymeal prices as a result. Sales were negligible over the past two weeks due to the Chinese New Year holidays while prices remained flat.

From 2010 through 2020, world pork exports grew at a 6.7% annually and by 5.48 million tonnes, to 11.37 million tonnes. Without China, those same exports would have increased by only 1.4% annually, increased a mere 336,000 tonnes and totaled a mere 6.22 million tonnes in 2020.

Trade was minimal due to the celebration of Chinese New Year. Prices of corn were mainly stable in most regions.

Hog herds, pork production can't fully recover by 2022 but pre-ASF levels of swine meat output will be achieved at least one year ahead of previous estimates.

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences has announced on August 27 the opening of a new animal nutrition manufacturing capability in Wuxi, China.

Poultry breeding company Aviagen has added a fourth farm to its great grandparent (GGP) production complex located in Natividade da Serra, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Brazilian-based meat packer JBS SA posted second quarter net profits close to two times higher compared to analysts' projections thanks to its strong beef and pork sectors in Brazil and the United States, Reuters reported.

Symaga has finished the installation of a new drilling centre, boosting its steel profile automatic processes range with the high productivity of the new model.