THE GLOBAL MILLER | March 2011
Tight money may trim crop subsidies
Congress may push idle cropland back into production or get rid of a US$5 billion-a-year subsidy to grain, cotton and soybean farmers when it overhauls US farm law, a House committee chairman said on Wednesday. Lawmakers will have billions of dollars less to spend on the so-called farm bill than in 2008, Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas said. "There will be some stuff that falls off the table" as priorities are set for funding. Interviewed at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit, Lucas used the 32 million-acre Conservation Reserve, which idles fragile cropland, and the US$5 billion-a-year "direct payment" as examples of items that could be hit by fiscal austerity or become a target in wide-open House debate. Read more ...
March 23, 2011
Agricover Group new distributer in Romania
AB Vista a Global supplier of animal feed ingredients, has announced that Agricover Group as its new distributor in Romania. The Bucharest based Agricover is to distribute the entire range of new generation yeasts, enzymes and micro-ingredients manufactured by AB Vista across the whole of this important Eastern European market. Read more ...
Pancosma expands in Thailand with new offices
With the recent success of Pancosma Russia in Moscow in 2010, the Swiss feed additives manufacturer has opened offices in Thailand. Their new offices based in Bangkok will be the base for an enlarged sales and marketing organisation to service all Thai territories. According to Kim Son Doan (Asia & Oceania Sales Manager), the new Thai offices will create better support to the local distributors. Pancosma has been working locally with Thai distributors Nuevotec for more than 20 years. Read more ...
China Continues to recall meat products following banned feed additives
Supermarkets across China are still recalling meat products over the last few days and removing them from shelves following the discovery of a banned feed additive found in pork products. Meat products branded as Shineways in English that were processed by the Henan-based Jiyuan Shuanghui Food Co Ltd were found last week to contain clenbuterol, a chemical that is dangerous to humans. Read more ...
DLA Group/Raisio sign feed procurement agreement
Two of Scandinavia’s largest grain product organisations, Denmark's DLA Group and Finland's Raisio have agreed to work together on feed ingredient procurement. DLA coordinates wholesale trading activities for 31 cooperative and privately owned raw materials companies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic States, while Raisio is Finland's largest industrial grain processor, operating also in the UK, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Baltic countries. The two companies have agreed to cooperate mainly in the procurement of feed raw materials and other production inputs. They will also explore opportunities for cooperation in Eastern Europe and plan to set up a working group to explore these possibilities. Read more ...
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