• Brazilian feed crops encounter a perfect storm of transport woes   

            
Markets:

• Is the dairy market crash over?
     
• Philippine dairy: An incomplete recovery
     
• Philippine beef cattle: Can it learn from its Australian investors?
           

• CP Group sets up new food processing plant in Shanhaiguan   
      
  
• Wens Group's Guangxi dairy farm commences operations 
  
  
• Sichuan Luke layer farm invests in automated layer production 
  
  
• Xin Rui Xian building Guangdong aquaculture farm
  
  
• Bayer to start cooperation with Heilongjiang State Farms Beidahuang Group
  
  
• COFCO partners Infinity Group to develop ecological project  

• Cargill opens Russian chicken processing plant
      
• Lallemand, BioMar collaborate on probiotics R&D
     
• Marine Harvest to restructure European operations 
     
• Danone invests US$419 million in Mengniu, enters joint venture with COFCO
     
• BASF, Monsanto launching drought-tolerant GM corn in 2014 
     
• Cobb-Vantress expanding Brazilian operations
     
• Yara buys Bunge’s Brazilian fertiliser subsidiary for US$750 million
           

      

Industry Movers:

• Cargill Canada appoints Jeff Vassart as new president   
  
   
• Provimi appoints Ercole Pavesi as Italy country manager 
  
  
• Todd Bastean appointed CEO of Bunge North America 
  
  
• Adisseo appoints director of marketing and business development for Americas   

• Fancom's FarmManager system for hog farms
     
• Tulderhof develops X-Stream air inlets for poultry housing
     
• Termotecnica Pericoli launches centrifugal shutter system for poultry housing
     
• Nutraferma's UltraPro+ protein ingredient for piglet diets     

• Applying NutriEconomics to the aquaculture industry            

• Using feed grade bacitracin zinc premix to treat necrotic enteritis in chickens   

           
Events:

• Review:

- Indo Livestock Expo & Forum 2013 

• Preview:

- SPACE: Livestock farming in Europe and beyond 

 

- Ildex Myanmar: Your window into Myanmar’s dynamic agribusiness markets    

   

• Kiotechagil: Tackling the gut of animal production