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SealesWinslow plan nationwide business in purchasing and developing new feed mill
30 May 2012, 13:36 GMT
SealesWinslow, a New Zealand animal feed company, has expanded its its Ashburton and Waikato operations by purchasing from Inghams the closed feed mill and grain storage facilties in... More »
30 May 2012, 13:36 GMT

Integrated Stock Feed’s (ISF) has opened its new feed mill in Moree, NSW, after more than 3 years of planning and with an investment of over $8 million for land, equipment, research and... More »

Milne Agrigroup plan to invest an amount which could exceed $20 million AUD to construct a brand-new compound feed mill for the manufacture of stock feeds, after the sale of its landmark Welshpool... More »
New Zealand -- New jobs will be created and purchasing power increased in the Ashburton District with the sale of shares in Winslow Feeds and Nutrition to farmer co-operative Ballance... More »
S.Waikato, NZ -- A malfunctioning heating unit is being investigated as a possible cause of a fire that destroyed part of a large animal food production plant near Putaruru yesterday.... More »

New Zealand -- Fonterra has defended its use of palm kernel by-products in it's cattle feeds, in response to angry protests by Greenpeace concerning with the environmental impacts of the farming... More »

Tassal a leading Australian Atlantic salmon farmer recently completed trials with Skretting to compare feeds with lower levels of fishmeal with conventional feeds.
Results showed no... More »

Skretting, the world's largest fish feed company, is considering building a new feed mill in New Zealand to meet the rising feed demands from the expanding aquaculture and fish consumption in the... More »

China may set up large pork and chicken operations in Australia as it strives to keep up a burgeoning demand for meat among Chinese consumers.
Paul Meggison and Roy Robertson, speakers at... More »

Australia - All grain and pulse markets are softer this week. Milling wheat for export has eased the most with prices falling $7 a tonne in Victoria and South Australia and as much as $11 a tonne... More »

New Zealand - A stock feed company has been fined $125,000 in the Auckland District Court after pleading guilty to eight charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act.
The Commerce Commission... More »

Australia - The results of a controversial animal feeding study on genetically modified crops are expected to be made public by the middle of next year.
The $92,000 study was commissioned... More »

Australia - Canadian giant Viterra, who aquired Australia's ABB Grain in September, have just signed a new stock feed deal with the port of Geelong. Asciano-owned operator GeelongPort announced... More »

Weston Cereal Industries, a division of George Weston Foods, commenced a review of the Tamworth (New South Wales, Australia) operation as part of sweeping changes to ensure the continued... More »

Australia - South Gippsland dairy farmers Peter and Catherine Hanrahan have seen big improvements in the performance of their heifers over the past four years.
Their heifers are better... More »