The Australasian Milling Conference 2012

The Australasian Milling Conference (AMC) is the leading conference for feed and flour millers held biannually in Australia. In May 2012, the 12th conference will be held, with this drawing delegates from Australia, New Zealand and countries in the South Pacific and South East Asia.

The conference provides a strong technical milling program together with trade displays and social functions. Make sure you set the conference date in you diary and register to attend as a delegate, trade exhibitor or sponsor. 

The 2012 Australasian Milling Conference is being combined with PIX (Poultry Information Exchange) conference. PIX is the premier Australasian poultry industry conference. For more information about PIX go to www.pix.org.au.

Bunge buys Saskatoon canola protein developer

A Saskatoon company developing canola protein ingredients for the feed sector, with an eye on the food and cosmetics markets, is the newest subsidiary of US agrifood giant Bunge. Bunge announced Wednesday it has bought the assets and patents of privately-held MCN BioProducts for an undisclosed sum.

Those assets include MCN's processes for converting de-oiled canola and rapeseed meals into "nutritionally dense protein concentrates" as potential replacements for fish meal and/or other vegetable protein concentrates in pet, livestock and aquaculture diets. The products MCN had been moving toward commercialisation include CanPro IP insoluble protein concentrate, CanPro SP soluble protein concentrate, CanPro FP fiber protein and CanSugar, a soluble sugar concentrate.

Vietnam Animal Feed Association sees increased investment

According to the Vietnam Animal Feed Association foreign investment firms have been pouring money into and expanding animal feed production. The domestic animal feed market is expected to see demand of 18-20 million tons by 2015 and 25-26 million tons by 2020. US-invested Cargill Vietnam in March added two factories to its nine existing feed production facilities, increasing total capacity to 1 million tons per year, accounting for 10 percent of the local market.

“Recent investment in animal nutrition is a sign of our continued commitment to fostering the economic growth of Vietnam,” said Cargill CEO Greg Page. Last year, CP, a Chinese animal feed producer operating in Vietnam, announced it would build six additional factories by 2014 while another Chinese firm, New Hope, confirmed it would construct six more. Read more ...

NGFA Issues Preliminary Recommendations

The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) has issued its preliminary recommendations for safeguarding the sanctity of customer funds in the aftermath of the MF Global Inc bankruptcy.

"The demise of MF Global has shaken the confidence of many futures market participants concerning the safety of segregated customer funds," the NGFA said in letters this week to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). "We believe these preliminary recommendations are essential to begin reestablishing confidence among futures market participants and to help safeguard customer funds."

But the NGFA said that while its initial recommendations will help enhance reporting, transparency and accountability in handling customer funds, they represent only first steps that can and should be implemented quickly.  Read more ...

Hormel Foods subsidiary Mountain Prairie LLC to build new mill

A subsidiary of Hormel Foods, Mountain Prairie LLC has obtained a building permit from Bent County to build a new feed mill for its sow operations. The company has hired Mill Tech Services (Sterling, Colorado, USA) for the construction. The mill will have the capability of an annual production of 40,000 tons with a computerised batching system and a state-of-the art air handling system. All the ingredients will be received by truck in bulk. The facility will need approximately 20 semi loads of grain per week for their operations at that location. Read more ...  

'Sustainability Vision 2020' published by Nutreco

Global animal nutrition and fish feed company Nutreco has issued its Sustainability Vision 2020. Making sustainability an integral part of everyday business will ensure Nutreco can contribute to the Feeding the Future challenge: feeding nine billion people sustainably in 2050.

The Nutreco Sustainability Vision 2020 is organised in four areas:
    1.    Ingredients: creating a sustainable base for feed;
    2.    Operations: ensuring our own house is in order;
    3.    Nutritional solutions: enabling the farmer and animal to perform best;
    4.    Commitment: involving people in the Feeding the Future challenge.
Each area sub-divides into three practical themes. For example,
    •    ingredients includes sustainable sourcing,
    •    operations includes reducing environmental impact in our own operations,
    •    the area nutritional solutions e.g. includes animal & human health, and
    •    commitment includes employee and stakeholder engagement.
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Italian- Portuguese cooperation in medicated premix

Portuguese veterinary laboratory Vetlima and the animal nutrition and health factory of Doxal Italia have signed a Know-How Transfer Agreement, by which Vetlima is entitled to use the Bi-Modal Protection (BMP) technology, for the local manufacturing of an innovative form of Doxal’s medicated premix Oxitetravet BMP (based on Oxytetracycline).

“ We are proud that another European Veterinary Laboratory has decided to use our original BMP technology,” said Mauro Veneroni, Doxal’s Chief Executive Officer. “Since several years, companies from various EU countries, like Germany, UK, France and Spain, have been adopting our novel technique, for their production of medicated premixes and feed additives.” Read more ...

Packing system enhancement for Wynnstay Feed

Chronos BTH recently secured an order to enhance a Richard Simon supplied automatic feed packing system to enhance the speed of the existing packing system at the Llansantffraid Mill of Wynnstay Feed Division in Powys, Wales, UK. Wynnstay Feed Division is a major supplier of animal feeds and nutrition products for all species of livestock in Wales, the Borders and Midlands.

The company purchases a lot of home grown ingredients and has feed sales in excess of 300,000 tons of compound and blended feeds, which are supplied from five locations. At the Llansantffraid Mill two Richard Simon supplied UBM weighers and Computapak II controllers were used to pack a range of animal feed pellets into bags and Big Bags. Read more ...

San Miguel food company breaks new ground

Ground breaking ceremony

The largest owned feed milling firm in the Philippines, the San Miguel Foods Company has held a groundbreaking ceremony at Villanueva town, where its 15-hectare plant will be established. Norman A Ramos, the firm’s vice president and general manager, said "the company has found a niche in Villanueva and hoped to provide employment opportunities and push further development in the industrial town of the province". Ramos also said "once the plant is operational by 2013, not less than 300 personnel would be hired locally, ranging from lowest to highest positions". Read more ...

Costa Rica new fish feed factory getting ready

A new feed plant in Costa Rica is going ahead according to schedule and its expected to be in operation during May 2012. Together with plant BioMar will open a new research and trail facility for the development of tilapia diets. The new factory has been designed to the highest quality and technical standards, it will be the most modern and efficient plant in the region.  

The BioMar Group, which is this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, will, with the new factory, introduce the technologies and processes which have made BioMar to one of the most important global suppliers of high quality fish feed in the Central American region. The factory will be able to efficiently supply fish farmers in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, and other countries in Central and South America. Read more ...

Animal feed protein demand falls in Russia

A market report "Analysis of feed protein market in Russia," prepared by analytical agency BusinesStat, indicates that during the period from 2007 to 2011 the demand for animal feed protein in Russia decreased by two percent from 184,000 tons to 180,000 tons. From 2007 to 2008 there was an increase of 13.9 percent which at the time was the highest growth in ten years. The main reason for the growth was an increase in the volume of exports, 19 percent compared to 2007. However, during 2009-2011, there was a significant decline in demand for animal feed protein, mostly due to an increased demand for feed protein substitutes. The main competitors being soy and sunflower meal, and fish meal. Read more ...

New feed premix plant to be built by ADM Alliance Nutrition

ADM Alliance Nutrition announced it will build a feed premix plant in Effingham, Illinois (USA), they have said that the new facility will be built to the highest standards in safety and will have enhanced controls and processes. "As animal feed safety regulations evolve, this new facility will position Alliance Nutrition at the forefront of the industry, with one of the most advanced premixing facilities in the world," said Chuck Loefer, general manager, Pet Food Premixes and Specialty Blending. Read more ...

ForFarmers No 1 in Europe after takeover of BOCM Pauls

ForFarmers has taken over UK based food group BOCM Pauls for €85 million ($112.872 million) and is now the largest feed producer in Europe. The contract between the two companies was signed yesterday March 28. The price of purchase is based on an enterprise value after deducting a provision for deficits of the pension fund and a deferred payment of the net proceeds of property for development. Read more ...

Two companies of the Roullier group face lawsuits

The French farmers union of Brittany have instigated a lawsuit against two companies of the group Roullier who was convicted in 2010 for anti-competitive practices with phosphates for animal feed. "Two French companies belonging to the group Roullier, CFPR and TIMAB, took part in the cartel and was fined nearly €60 million (US$79.6 million) The end users of phosphates incorporated into the animal feeds, the farmers, were the victims of this agreement. "

"Given the importance of livestock in our area, the FRSEA of Brittany has decided to pursue legal action against TIMAB and CFPR order to recognize the crime committed by these companies against Brittany livestock breeders". Read more ...

UK University receives £300,000 research grant in Agriculture

Harper Adams University College was awarded a research grant of £300,000 ($479,689.161) to support a number of research projects and a scholarship scheme in the field of agriculture. One of the awards £45,000 ($71,953.374) will fund a three year PhD studentship looking at the ‘effect of macro nutrients and phytase on mineral digestibility and immunology in weaned pigs’.

The funding for this has come from AB Vista and Primary Diets and £45,000 ($71,953.374) came from the Silcock Fellowship for Livestock Research. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has pledged £75,000 ($119,922.29) towards research that will conduct an ‘independent systematic review of impact of on-farm mitigation measures for delivering an improved water environment’. Read more ...

New trout fish feed mill to be opened in Jammu and Kashmir, India

In the most northern state of India, Jammu and Kashmir they achieved a record high of all time in fish production they produced 19,800 tons and now have plans to open a first of its kind trout fish feed mill (TFFM) by April 2012 at an investment of Rs10 crore (€1.5 million).

The Manasbal trout feed mill would be operational by April 2012 to boost trout production in the state and ensure availability of feed to the government and private fish farms, Minister of State for Fisheries Ajaz Ahmed Khan said. He said the plant will be equipped with latest machinery procured from the Netherlands for which the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) has provided 90 percent funds.

North Sioux City plant expanded by Nutraferma

Nutraferma the American animal feed producers has just completed a multimillion dollar expansion to its North Sioux City facility. Nutraferma finished a 19,000-square-foot (1,765m2) addition to its plant in the Flynn Business Park. Five new employees were hired at the complex, raising total employment to 17. Additional capacity will be added this summer.

The North Sioux City facility before expansion

Company officials said more production capacity was needed to supply increased global demand for Nutraferma's flagship product, Pepsoygen, a soy-based protein fed to pigs, poultry, and aquaculture.
 The plant also manufactures a unique direct-fed microbial, called Natufermen, and will be introducing other new products this year. "We're excited to have this additional capacity online to service our expanding market. We're pleased that we were able to complete this phase on time and under budget," said Doug Douthitt, vice president of operations. Read more ...

China to put more money in to grain production

The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said that if oil prices raise further, that the government will offer farmers more in the way of subsidies for grain production. He went on to say that the agricultural subsidies would be increased gradually.

His comments were made during an inspection tour of central China's Henan province, China's largest wheat producing area. Wen said earlier this month that China aims to spend CNY1.23 trillion (US$195 billion) on its agricultural sector this year, which is an increase of  CNY186.8 billion  (US$29.5 billion) compared with 2011. Read more ...

Agreement on GM crops cannot be agreed upon by EU ministers

Environmental ministers from the European Union were in Brussels to debate a Danish compromise with the hope of breaking the deadlock in the approvals for genetically modified (GM) crop. but governments failed to agree to a proposition to let them individually decide whether to grow or ban GM plants.

genetically modified (GM) crops

“There were some countries saying that the time is not right for Europe right now, that Europe wasn’t ready,” Danish Environment Minister Ida Auken said after the meeting. The Danish compromise plan proposed companies seeking EU approval to cultivate a GM crop to not market the product in countries that do not want to grow it, in return for approval to grow the crops in others. Read more ...

Ukraine to create large corn-soybean belt based on US corn belt

The Ukraine Minister of Agricultural policy and food (Minagroprod) has started a program that will create a large corn-soybean belt, that will increase land used to five million hectares for corn and 2-2.5 million hectares for soybean. This will almost double the production of these crops.

“Minagroprod initiated a fundamental change in the structure of main crop production in the Ukraine, aiming to grow crops more in line with the climatic conditions of our country,” said Nikolay Bezugly, deputy minister of Agricultural Policy and Food, at the recent Forum "Agribusiness in Ukraine", organised by the Adam Smith Institute.

"Ukrainian science has developed the concept of a corn-soybean belt in the forest-steppe part of Ukraine based on the  Corn Belt in the USA", said  Bezugly. Read more ...

Ukraine's KZM industries acquires Brice Baker Group

KMZ Industries in the Ukraine has acquired the key assets of UK-based Brice Baker Group’s grain storage and processing business, namely the automated Bradbury production lines and all intellectual property rights for Brice Baker silos and dryers, including the renowned Law-Denis grain dryers.

This acquisition is in line with KMZ Industries strategic development plan to significantly enhance its product offering and expand production capacities in order to accommodate increasing market demand for storage and processing equipment, maintain its leadership status in Ukraine and strengthen its positions in CIS region. Read more ...

GMO policy in the Ukraine has been tightened

Over the last few years in the Ukraine the policy concerning GMOs has been tightened, back in 2007 about 50 percent of products in the Ukraine market contained a GMO, while in 2008 this number had reduced to eight percent. Now in the Ukraine only five percent of all products contain GMOs, said Vladimir Semenovich, director of Ukrainian experimental food research center at a recent press conference.

Ukraine, however, continues to struggle against the GM-production, and in accordance with new rules regulating product labeling, it is planning to abandon the current definition of products containing GMO as products where the proportion of GMO exceeds 0.9 percent. The US and Canada strongly oppose the new definition one reason for this is the effect that the new rules will have on export of products. Read more ...

Mexico's agricultural community suffers worst drought in 70 years

According to Julio Hernandez, who directs market development programs in Mexico for the US Grains Council, the effects of the drought that Mexico is suffering will be felt for two to three years at least. How this will affect its demands for feed grains is hard to assess, but Ignacio Rivera, the country’s undersecretary for rural development predicted it will lower corn production for the current year to only 19.8 million tons, compared to 21.1 million tons in the 2010/11 calendar year. Current grain shortages could push Mexico’s imports this year above 9.5 million tons of corn and sorghum above 3 million tons, Hernandez said.

“In an attempt to minimise these losses with replanting, the government sent additional water from the reservoirs. Now Mexico is suffering because it doesn’t have enough water in the reservoirs for this year’s crop.” While crop losses are likely to create more demand, the drought-related losses in the livestock sector are a potential offset. Mexico’s ministry of agriculture estimates that 60,000 cattle have died and an additional 89,000 have been culled by producers. Read more ...

Research in the Netherlands has established an experimental design

Schothorst Feed Research based in the Netherlands has established an experimental design to answer the growing demands from suppliers of feed additives to determine the effects of their products on health and fertility. “We installed special feeding units on each farm, integrated with the on-farm data collection and have intensive contact with these farms.

SFR is responsible for data and process control to guarantee a correct execution of the experimental protocols”, states Dr Wilfried van Straalen, senior dairy nutritionist.“The co-operation with these farmers enables us to perform experiments with 700 to 800 dairy cows under practical conditions, with high producing herds”. The first experiment started in the fall of 2011. Read more ...

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Soy based feeds shows promise in aquafeed research

The US Soybean council (USSEC) announced their feed trail results that attain a major goal for sustainable marine fish aquaculture: producing farmed marine fish with a wild fish in/farmed fish out (FIFO) ratio of less than 1:1. Over the past five years, US soybean farmers have sponsored a series of feed trials for farmed marine fish to test the use of soy ingredients as a replacement for fishmeal and fish oil.

Recent trials conducted by Kampachi Farms in Hawaii, collaborating with the University of Nebraska, have produced farmed carnivorous fish with a FIFO ratio of 0.89:1. "We're very excited with this research and the promise it holds for the future of aquaculture," said Michael Cremer, USSEC's Technical Director for Global Aquaculture. "Soybeans are particularly rich in nutrients that produce healthy and safe farmed fish, and unlike wild resources, can scale up to help aquaculture meet increased demand for seafood." Read more ...

Research into alternatives proteins in aquafeed

rainbow trout

Aquaculture research is studying the effects of replacing fishmeal with blends of alternative proteins in the United States on growth performance of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), and early or late stage juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). The purpose of the research was to evaluate alternative proteins as replacements. Nine experimental diets in which protein blends replaced 63 percent, 82  percent  or 100 percent of fishmeal in the formulation (20, 10, and 0 percent fishmeal) were fed to rainbow trout (initial weight 19.5 g) for 12 weeks.

 Weight gains of trout fed diets containing the soy protein concentrate-based blend and the fishmeal control diet were similar, except at the 100 percent fishmeal replacement level, and significantly higher than that of trout fed diets containing the other blends. The soy protein blend and another based on wheat gluten meal were modified slightly and evaluated in early stage Atlantic salmon juveniles (initial weight 5.5 g). Read more ...

German pig farms reopened after animal feed issue

The pig farms that had been closed due to the discovery of the antibiotic chloramphenicol in animal feed, have since been opened. The investigation of the prosecuter against the perpetrators of Memmingen Allgäu dairy is still ongoing. At the firm human error is supposed to have led to the contaminated feed. At the end of January, the authorities had found residues of the banned antibiotic chloramphenicol in urine of pigs for slaughter and by way of precaution 26 pig farms in Bavaria and in the Ulm region were locked. Read more ...

Feed manufacturing course offered in Canada in April

A Canadian feed technology course planned for April is expected to be of interest to everyone directly involved in the manufacture of the formulation of livestock rations. The Canadian International Grains Institute, in conjunction with the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada, will offer the Course in Winnipeg from April 17 to 19.

“They might be an expert in a particular area but need to have a breadth of understanding in the plant so they can fill in other areas and also understand the full implications of the process or to trouble shoot areas within plant.” Read more ...

Belarus seeks to become self sufficient in protein feed by 2020

By 2020 Belarus hope they will be producing all of their own protein feed and not importing protein components of compound feed. They hope to increase domestic production said Ludmila Yukhnovets, head of the Department of Varieties of Economic Utility of the State Inspectorate for Testing and Protection of Plant Varieties.

According to the statistics, compound production in Belarus is experiencing an acute shortage of digestible protein: for one unit of feed 105 grams of digestible protein is the norm, this is currently 80 grams in Belarus. Annual deficit of protein in feed is filled by purchase of protein  supplements from abroad, costing the country nearly 500 billion rubles (US$ 61.3 million) annually. Belarusian scientists are developing a program designed to increase production of leguminous crops as well as rape by 2½ times. Read more ...

Rolls Royce to build second fish feed ship

Rolls-Royce has won a second order for a vessel from its Environship range to supply fish farms along the Norwegian coast. The vessel has been ordered by Norwegian company Eidsvaag and will operate a schedule to ensure fish are fed at the same time every week, regardless of weather conditions. The gas-powered NVC 401 forage carrier incorporates a variety of features to reduce environmental impact while increasing efficiency.

It will reduce CO2 emissions by up to 40 percent compared with similar diesel-powered ships. Rolls-Royce will supply all the main systems and equipment, as well as the ship design. These include a Bergen C-Series engine powered by liquid natural gas (LNG), a wave-piercing bow and a Promas propulsion system that combines a propeller and a rudder. Read more ...

InVivo and Soufflet sign cooperative contracts with INRA

Malting and feed ingredient specialist Soufflet and France’s largest cooperative InVivo Group have signed a framework agreement with France’s R&D organisation INRA to strengthen their scientific collaborations. On 29 Februari Jean-Michel Soufflet, Soufflet Group President, and Marion Guillou, President of INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research), signed a framework agreement for a period of five years to increase scientific collaboration in three areas: nutrition, health, animal feed and bio-protection of cereal crops.

One day later, it was the turn of Patrice Gollier, InVivo CEO, to sign a framework agreement with INRA to promote innovation and strengthen the capacity of farmers and their cooperatives to enrol into sustainable agricultural and food systems developments within their territories. Read more ...

Animal feed will overtake ethanol as biggest use for corn

Animal feed is projected to overtake fuel as the biggest use for corn because ethanol demand is slowing while farmers produce a record crop. The BGOV Barometer shows the proportion of the harvest going to ethanol in the year ending August 31, 2013, is forecast to fall to 35 percent of the corn crop from 40 percent this year, according to US Department of Agriculture data.

Animal feed will again be the largest use of the grain, after being overtaken by ethanol in 2011 and 2012, potentially quelling lawmaker demands to repeal federal biofuel subsidies that they blame for squeezing corn supplies and pushing up food costs. Read more ...

Conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics to be held in Kosice, Slovakia

An international science conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics (IPC2012) will be held in Kosice, Slovakia from June 12 to 14.  It is the goal of IPC2012 to further explore the potential of already used and novel probiotics by disseminating current insights and new approaches in probiotic and prebiotic research.

The conference program will focus on current advances in the science and research of probiotics, prebiotics and their present and future role in maintaining health and preventing diseases. IPC2012 aims to highlight evidence-based benefits as proven in clinical trials and scientific experiments.

Webpage: www.probiotic-conference.net
Contact e-mail:  info@probiotic-conference.net

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Indonesian feed company launches feed for sheep and goats

Wirifa Sakti part of the Evialis group located in Surabaya, East Java, has launched a feed for sheep and goats. Although the business of sheep and goat in Indonesia is not becoming an integrated industry yet, the population of sheep and goat is growing from year to year, especially in Java.

Recently in Jombang, East Java, PT Wirifa Sakti launched Ovilis, a pellet feed for fattening of sheep and goat, and Protelis-Ovi, a pellet feed for dairy goat, both supplied in 25 kg bags. According to Priastoetie, Marketing Manager of PT Wirifa Sakti, these feeds are not to substitute 100 percent forage in sheep or goat diet. “It is only about 10 percent of total diet,” she said. Read more ...

Professor Mari Smits appointed first holder of chair

Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, has created a chair Intestinal Health of Animals. Dr Mari Smits (1951) was appointed to the first holder of this chair, and was made professor at the university’s Animal Sciences department. The university hopes to expand its international position in the field of intestinal health.

Professor Mari Smits

A healthy gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) is an important precondition for preventing intestinal infection – which is in turn relevant in the ongoing battle to reduce usage of antibiotics and environmental damage. Prof Smits’ focus will be the synergy between intestinal epithelia, feed components and micro-organisms in the GIT. It is hoped that a better understanding of this synergy will lead to the development of new strategies for animal gut health management. Read more ...

Argentine biotech firm along with US company aims to break Monsanto market dominance

US-based Arcadia Biosciences and Argentine biotech firm Bioceres have teamed up together in an attempt to break Monsanto market dominance. This new joint venture aim to introduce a host of new transgenic soybean seeds into Argentina which is potentially a lucrative market for genetically modified seed makers. The South American farming powerhouse is the world's third-largest soybean exporter and ranks No 2 in corn exports.

The two companies have already invested about US$120 million (€91.278 million) to develop seeds that will combine transgenic traits for resistance to the herbicide glyphosate with drought tolerance and increased nitrogen and water use efficiency. Another US$20 million (€15.213 million) to US$40 million (€30.426 million) will be spent over the next four or five years to gain regulatory approval for the seeds in key markets, including other South American nations, the US, China and India. Read more ...

AFIA and Kansas State Distance Education Program – deadline extended

AFIA along with the department of grain science and industry at Kansas State University has again partnered to offer another distance learning education program. “AFIA 501-Fundamentals of Feed Manufacturing” was developed by the feed technology group in Kansas State’s department of grain science and industry. The program will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of feed manufacturing. The benefits of e-learning, a new method of delivery, and mobile learning technologies have proven beneficial in many industries.

The five-week course, offered completely online from March 12 - April 13, 2012 (please note the new dates), is US$499 (€377.3) for AFIA members and US$685 (€517.9) for non-members. Course size is limited to 50 participants. There are still a few spaces available, please register right away. Registration will close Thursday, March 8.

Registration is available at www.afia.org under “Upcoming Events.” For more information on the Distance Education Program, contact Brandi Miller at bmmiller@ksu.edu 

Spanish scientists develop octopus dry feed

A team of professors and researchers from the School of Agricultural Engineering and Natural Habitats (ETSIAMN) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) developed artificial dry food to feed octopuses reared in captivity. Proponents of the initiative aim at producing octopuses for the aquaculture field in a "low cost" way in order to help increase the supply of this cephalopod on the market.

Octopus gained weight having extruded dry food (Photo stock File/FIS

Under the guidance of professors Ana Tomas and Miguel Jover, Institute of Animal Science and Technology, the group managed to create a feed similar to the food eaten by octopuses, but with a different texture and ingredients: fish meal, krill meal and gelatine, among other products. Read more ...