The value of South Australia's aquaculture industry has grown to $229 million in 2019-20, the office of South Australia Premier Steven Marshall said on September 6.

The American Farm Bureau Federation has sent on September 3 a letter to US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack detailing a list of solutions to address critical supply chain issues facing the United States' farmers and ranchers.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has predicted that pork production in China will decrease in 2022 due to low inventories and a smaller sow herd.

The United Kingdom has been declared free from avian influenza after suffering a major outbreak of the disease last winter.

After growing 3% to 4% annually for several decades, feed output only grew 2.6% annually and a mere 0.9% in 2021, to 1.187.8 billion tonnes. Moreover, following a decade of livestock diseases cherry-topped by last year's COVID-19 lockdowns, 2021 looks mericless to feed milling's bottom line: From a COVID-19 induced low of $3.13/bu in Q2 2020, corn has risen 75% to 80%, to around $5.60/bu at the time of publication. Soybeans have similarly risen 63% above their Q2 2020 lows of $8.40/bu to the current $13.68/bu.

Chinese and Southeast Asian feed mills have undergone considerable consolidation and productivity increases. With COVID-19 intensifying competitive pressure, the rest of the world will follow.

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.

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.

Angel Yeast Co., Ltd recently announced it has established a joint venture company to invest ¥100 million (US$15.4 million) to acquire Shandong Bio Sunkeen Co, Ltd.

Demand for hog remained soft, which was common during summer. Nonetheless, prices showed signs of stabilising in a couple of provinces, namely Henan and Sichuan, even as overall prices of hog moved lower.

Vitamin A and vitamin E production is expected to be affected due to the supply falls of alcoholates resulting from a fire at BASF's Ludwigshafen plant in Germany.

Sales of threonine improved as feed producers stocked depleting inventories amid concerns that the worsening Covid-19 situation in the country and severe floods would disrupt deliveries. Threonine producers stood firm on prices with production limited.

The animal nutrition business of Chinese yeast developer Angel Yeast covers most countries in the Asia-Pacific, depending on local distributors to market its products.

EW Nutrition has launched Grippozon, the company's respiratory health solution, in the Philippines.

Cargill and the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly launched on June 17 the Holistic Agriculture Risk Management Project, a three-year pilot initiative in Songyuan, Jilin province, China.

Livestock health and farmers' livelihoods have been dramatically improved in Sub-Saharan Africa, following the administration of 1.7 billion doses of vaccines and medicines and over 650,000 diagnostic tests through Zoetis' African Livestock Productivity and Health Advancement (ALPHA) initiative, now in its fourth year.