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With corn production estimated at a record 61-63 million tonnes for MY2025/26, delayed harvesting due to high grain moisture and waterlogged fields is curbing near-term export flow, while soybean meal demand from the global feed industry continues to underpin oilseed trade.
The government of Cameroon intends to implement, starting in January 2027, a three-year action plan to restructure the local wheat sector, with a total estimated amount of approximately US$53.8 million.
Global output would still fall 29 million tonnes short of the prior season's record, and El Niño conditions now underway add uncertainty to southern hemisphere harvests later in the year.
Fuel-driven cost pressures are pushing aquafeed prices up 7-10% even as a seasonal supply glut drives shrimp prices to record lows in the Mekong Delta.
Feed-sector demand is set to push corn consumption to 10.4 million tonnes in MY2026/27 even as domestic production falls, driving a 15% upward revision in import requirements.
Grain imports are an essential part of the Asia-Pacific feed landscape. As regional feed production continues to expand, imported corn, wheat, barley, and their byproducts have become central to meeting demand across poultry, swine, dairy, and aquaculture systems. Alongside the benefits of scale and availability, however, comes a persistent challenge that feed manufacturers and nutritionists across the region know well: mycotoxin risk.
In 2025, a substantial portion of livestock feed in Asia is sourced from grains imported from Europe, North America, Canada and Latin America. The productivity, health and overall performance of livestock are heavily reliant on these raw materials, which include corn, wheat and barley.
This study was conducted to investigate the synergistic effect of exogenous multienzyme and phytase on growth performance, nutrients digestibility, blood metabolites, intestinal microflora, and morphology in broilers fed corn-wheat-soybean meal diets.
Livestock and poultry feeds and its raw materials are susceptible to fungal/mold colonization. Major plant-based animal feed raw materials around the world include maize, wheat, broken rice, millets, soybean meal, sunflower meal, rapeseed meal, rice bran, wheat bran, and DDGS.
Fusarium and Aspergillus mycotoxins are often considered the most common and critical mycotoxins in grains and feed. However, Alternaria fungi, where the most predominant is A. alternata, have also a large presence in wheat, sorghum and barley, and have also been reported to occur in oilseeds such as sunflower and rapeseed, tomato, apples, citrus fruits, olives and several other fruits and vegetables (EFSA, 2011).
The success of Asian livestock production hinges on the quality of key grains — corn, wheat, and barley — imported from around the world.
