Animal feed prices in Bangladesh have climbed nearly 7% since early August 2026, driven by sharp rises in corn, soybean meal and rice bran costs. Feed mills say they are still absorbing losses despite two price increases, while poultry farmers are cutting production and protests have erupted in several districts.
Skretting Vietnam has soft-launched a dedicated Aquaculture Feed Validation Farm designed to support structured feed research and product validation across fish and shrimp species, with potential reach across Southeast Asia and the company's global innovation network.
A Penn State University study published in Poultry Science found that a broiler chicken's age has a far stronger influence on its resistome than dietary additives such as antibiotics, probiotics, or essential oils, lending support to further investigation of antibiotic alternatives in poultry production.
Ethical Seafood Research (ESR) has partnered with Kenyan tilapia producer Rio Fish on a 24-month collaboration to improve fish welfare standards, introduce welfare monitoring tools, develop better slaughter practices, and pursue Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification — with the aim of extending those practices to Rio Fish's network of more than 1,500 farmers.
India and the Netherlands have agreed to set up an Indo-Dutch Centre of Excellence on Dairy Training at CEAH, Bengaluru, following a bilateral ministerial meeting that also covered animal nutrition, antimicrobial resistance, vocational training for farmers, and the exchange of a veterinary health certificate for live horse exports.
Cargill is investing more than USD 130 million over two years to expand and modernise poultry processing, feed production, grain storage, and farming infrastructure in Thailand and the Philippines, targeting rising global demand for high-quality protein.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition has launched SMART GROWS, an integrated young-ruminant programme combining milk replacers, nutritional supplements, microbial solutions, bedding and farm-management support to improve calf health and resilience from birth through weaning.
Japan's Dainichi Corporation is competing in the F3 Fish Farm Challenge 2025–2027, raising red seabream from juvenile stage to harvest on a diet free of marine-animal ingredients. The company is using soy protein concentrate and black soldier fly meal as principal alternatives, has invested in ingredient supplier Protenga, and is trialling AI-assisted feeding alongside hand feeding to optimise performance.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board's final assessment of the UK's 2026 cereal harvest shows winter wheat averaging 6.9 t/ha — about 11% below the five-year average — while spring barley and oats also fell well short of benchmarks. Oilseed rape was the sole standout crop, yielding roughly 19% above its five-year average. AHDB warns that some arable farmers are now facing a second or third successive difficult harvest.
Chilean aquaculture authorities have told parliament that land-based sanitary trenches could be used to dispose of salmon mortalities if the current El Niño climate event causes a catastrophic harmful algal bloom, an approach reserved only for the most extreme scenarios and aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2016 sea-dumping crisis.
The second day of the Compound Livestock Feed Manufacturers Association (CLFMA) of India's 67th National Symposium in Mumbai brought together policymakers, industry leaders, scientists and farmers to address feed security, artificial intelligence, veterinary capacity and government-industry collaboration in India's animal-agriculture sector.
Norway set a new all-time record for weekly salmon exports in week 38 of 2026, shipping 43,800 tonnes, yet the spot price still managed a marginal increase. Farmed cod exports also surged year-on-year, with volumes and values running well ahead of 2025 levels.