Official Recognition of Progress in Feed Analysis
US - The Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) has given an award to Dr Julee Driver for her research in quantifying the amount of the antibiotic, neomycin, in animal feeds.

Taiwan Set on Purchasing US Corn and DDGS
TAIWAN - The Taiwanese Agricultural Goodwill Mission signed a letter of intent Thursday, 24 September, with the US Grains Council, committing to purchase 7.7 to 10.5 million metric tons, or 303 to 413...

New Pig Research Station Opens in Belgium
BELGIUM - A new experimental farm has been opened in Bocholt.

Changes in Grain Grading Could be Forced
CANADA - A wheat breeder with the University of Manitoba says the increasing prevalence of a more aggressive form of fusarium graminearum could force changes to Canada's grading system for wheat, writes...

Aussie Pork Industry Aims to Be Carbon-Neutral
AUSTRALIA - The Australian pork industry believes it can be carbon neutral within five years.

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

Market Preview: 2009 Crop Vulnerability Reinforced
US - Weekly US Market Preview provided by Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc.

Weekly Outlook: Soft Red Winter Wheat Basis Weak
US - The soft red winter wheat basis in virtually every location has been generally very weak for about three years. There have been occasions of more normal basis behavior, but those periods have not...

US DDGS Quality Impresses Major Korean End-users
US - A team of grains industry professionals traveled from Korea to the United States on a mission to visit suppliers of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of US ethanol produ...

Weekly Review: Increase in 2009 Corn Yield
US - Weekly review of the US hog industry, written by Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain.

EFSA Proposal: Feed Vitamin A Could Risk Deficiency
EU - The UK's National Pig Association (NPA) is calling on European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) to re-consider its latest proposal on maximum vitamin A levels in pig feeds.

Pork Commentary: Huge US Corn and Soybean Crop
CANADA - This week's North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Years of Poor Maize Harvests Hits Pig, Poultry Sectors
ZIMBABWE - A decline in maize yields is hampering poultry and pig production.

CME: Corn, Soybean Crops Short on Maturity
US - When you touch the spark of a frost warning (even if it for 10 days out!) to the powder keg that is this year’s immature corn and soybean crops, you get at least a small explosion, write Len Steiner...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

More Toxic Fusarium Graminearum Chemotype
CANADA - The Canadian Grain Commission reports a new more aggressive and toxic form of fusarium graminearum is quickly replacing the more familiar form in western Canada, writes Bruce Cochrane.

Weekly Outlook: Corn and Soybean Supply Prospects
US - Corn and soybean prices will continue to be influenced by a wide range of factors. For the next few weeks, the prospective size of the US harvest will be one of the dominating price factors, writes...

New Disease Threat?
EU - There were reports of a new unexplained syndrome of diarrhoea in young piglets from Denmark and France at the first European Symposium on Porcine Health Management in Copenhagen at the end of August....

USDA Forecasts Second-Largest Corn Crop
US - The USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) predicts the second-largest corn crop, record yields and exports up by 100 million bushels.

Weekly Review: Feeder Pig Prices Up
US - Weekly review of the US hog industry, written by Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain.

NPA Calls for Rethink on Vitamin A
UK - To protect consumers, the European Food Standards Agency has proposed new maximum levels of vitamin A in animal feed.

Swine Producers Encouraged to Analyse Feed Grain
CANADA - With the increasing prevalence of a new more aggressive and toxic form of Fusarium graminearum, swine producers are encouraged to make sure they know what is in the grain they feed their...

Cargill Expands Romanian Animal Nutrition Production
ROMANIA - US feed and meat processor Cargill is expanding its animal nutrition footprint in Romania through a major investment in its feed plant in Sura Mica near the town of Sibiu, including the construction...

Challenge to Find Low Cost Feed Ingredients
CANADA - The Animal Nutrition Association of Canada reports the current low cost of dried distillers grains with solubles is the one variable allowing feed mills to keep a lid on feed costs, writes Burce...

CME: Accuracy of Reports Dependent on Weather
US - According to Steve Meyer and Len Steiner, USDA will release its September Crop Production report and World Supply and Demand Estimates on Friday morning.