In the coming year, US livestock and poultry producers will face more feed cost inflation than they have in over a decade, challenging their ability to recover after a difficult and volatile 2020, finds a new report from CoBank.
As part of a company focus on meeting product demand in international markets, Hormel Foods is set to stop sourcing pigs raised using, or having been exposed, to the feed additive ractopamine.
Fears about the time that African Swine Fever survives in soy-based feed ingredients are prompting a request for the US Department of Agriculture to limit some feed ingredient imports.