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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Philippines: Feed crop self-sufficiency, for the worst of all reasons
Skyrocketing Philippine meat imports are symptomatic of a profoundly damaging feed grain import policy: Farmers stay poor and feed mills stay idle while non-productive middlemen enjoy excess profits. Superficially, the Philippines is the on ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Heavy monsoon rains weigh down feed prices (week ended Aug 8, 2012)
According to the Department of Agriculture, damage to crops and fisheries from the monsoon rains has already reached PHP167.9 million or nearly US$4 million. The rice sector was the hardest hit at PHP143.9 million (US$3.41 million). The DA ...
Monday, August 6, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices escalate amid heavy rains (week ended Aug 1, 2012)
Cost of wheat in the Chicago Board of Trade has surged 20.2% at US$8.88 per bushel while corn futures also jumped 19.9% and soy at 17.21%. Industry players say this was the reason for the increase in the local feed prices despite the usual ...
Monday, August 6, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices slightly up amid steady livestock trade (week ended Jul 25, 2012)
Despite the slight escalation, feed producers are not expecting any major changes in price movements in the coming weeks due to the typhoon season. The third quarter is usually considered an off-season due to rains and sluggish market deman ...
Monday, August 6, 2012
San Miguel to construct feed factory in Mindanao, Philippines
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Philippine feed millers to import more soymeal in Q4
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices slide on subdued market (week ended Jul 18, 2012)
The typhoon season has also contributed to the weak trend of feed prices. According to market observers, continuous rains have dampened both feed and meat trade and this trend may last until the start of the fourth quarter of this year.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices slide on sluggish market demand (week ended Jul 12, 2012)
A Hong Kong based firm has urged the Philippines to allow more animal feed millers in the country. M. Gandhi, managing director of UBM Asia Thailand Co., Ltd says that with a lot of pressure of prices in food seen in the next 10 to 20 years ...
Friday, July 13, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices remain stable amid oil price hike (week ended Jul 4, 2012)
The Philippine government will implement new guidelines on the planting of Bacillus thuringensis (Bt) corn all over the country that will take effect on September 1 of this year. In a circular released by the Department of Agriculture, all ...
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Philippines urged to have more animal feed millers
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Fuel price slightly ups feed prices (week ended Jun 20, 2012)
While declining oil prices serve as a bit of good news to livestock and feed producers, the government has warned that another series of oil price hike might come soon. The Department of Energy (DOE) said that while the low pump prices is a ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices remain firm despite intensify rains (week ended Jun 14, 2012)
The Asian Development Bank says that the amount of rainfall has been increasing in the latter part of 2000 which registered 350 millimetres compared to the usual 275 millimetres in the 1960s and 1970s. According to the ADB, recent extreme r ...
Friday, June 15, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Rainy season weakens feed prices (week ended Jun 7, 2012)
Feed prices are declining and the month of June is generally an off-season for meat production, producers believe that the price lull is only temporary. Feed prices are slightly dropping since the onset of the rainy season. Producers nevert ...
Friday, June 15, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices fall on slow demand (week ended May 30, 2012)
While the tension on meat imports appear to simmer down, another challenge that feed producers has to face is the typhoon season. Although the country is no stranger to storms, stronger cyclones have severely battered the nation that also g ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Philippine Feed Weekly: Feed prices remain unchanged (week ended May 24, 2012)
The government aims to achieve meat self-sufficiency by 2016 by ramping up its meat production nationwide. According to the poultry and hog roadmap prepared by the Department of Agriculture, the meat sector aspires to eliminate barriers to ...

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