• Is corn’s price justified?   

Markets:

• Fishmeal gets scarce, but so does soy
     
• Philippine poultry’s tenuous prosperity
     
• Tragedy and hope for Argentina’s beef cattle
     
• Philippine pork: Imports level off, for now

  
China:

• Yurun invests US$3.2 billion in northern China hog farms  
     
• Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic to invest US$36.8 million in Guangdong aquaculture facility  
  
  
• Sichuan Chemical agrees to import US$2 billion of potash over 10 years from the United States  

     
Industry:

• Monsanto: Fast forward to the future through innovation       

• Royal DSM buys Cargill’s enzymes business    
    
• Bunge doubles its third quarter profits   
  
  
• Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods acquires Puratone   
  
  
• Evonik invests US$457 million in its Biolysis L-lysine making subsidiary   
  
  
• India’s Venkateshwara Hatcheries opens a new aqua feed mill in Bangladesh   
   

 Industry Movers:

• Anitox appoints Dr Rick Philips as CEO      
  
  
• ADM announces management changes 
  
  
• Lallemand Animal Nutrition announces new appointments 
  
  
• Bayer CropScience’s new CEO 

• Adisseo launches a new online feed raw material evaluation platform
     
• Intracare’s new kit evaluates microbe and pathogen levels in livestock water and housings      

• Sodium butyrate in poultry - the importance of a proper protection       

• Using methionine as a feed acidifier   

       
Events:

• Review:

- Eurotier 2012: A global melting pot of agribusiness innovation 

 

- World Nutrition Forum 2012: A new era, a new region and counter-intuitive solutions

• Preview:

- International Production and Processing Expo 2013: IPE is rebranded IPPE, putting poultry, feed and red meat all under one roof

 

• VNU Exhibitions Europe: A leading agent of agribusiness’s ongoing transformation