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Agrotech, Company News, Digital Technologies, World

Through this partnership, AgVision will seamlessly integrate its grain accounting software solutions into Barchart’s elevator-branded Marketplace mobile apps and online grower portals

Barchart, a commodity data and technology leader trusted by over 600 agribusinesses representing over 2,000-grain facilities, and AgVision, a leader in agribusiness software for grain, feed, fertilizer, inventory and retail accounting, have together announced a new partnership that will enable agribusinesses to make stronger relationships with their growers.

Through this partnership, AgVision will seamlessly integrate its grain accounting software solutions into Barchart’s elevator-branded Marketplace mobile apps and online grower portals.  This integration will facilitate secure real-time access to critical producer data, including scale tickets and contracts, delivered directly to growers’ mobile phones.  This provides growers with the information they need to enhance their decision-making capabilities, ultimately leading to improved operational efficiency and profitability.

In addition to empowering growers with streamlined data access, Marketplace apps and online grower portals help streamline agribusiness workflows by connecting seamlessly with cmdtyView – the leading merchandiser desktop solution – through market analysis and intelligence, offer and hedge management, communication tools, and grower data.

Through this partnership, AgVision will seamlessly integrate

Company News, Oilseeds, World

The completed expansion will give local farmers greater market access and a better user experience including faster and more efficient unloading times

Cargill has completed an expansion and modernisation project at its integrated soybean crush and refined oils facility in Sidney, Ohio. The upgraded facility, which came online in September, will help Cargill better serve farmers and meet the growing demand for soy products across food, feed and renewable fuel markets.

The project nearly doubles the previous crush capacity at the facility, providing greater market opportunities for area farmers and feed customers by creating demand for soybeans and offering greater access to soybean meal and hulls. Additionally, customers will have an improved on-site experience, as they will be able to more quickly and efficiently receive soybeans and load out products.

“We’re proud to make this investment at our Sidney facility. We’ve been in business for 45 years here, and we appreciate the long-standing relationships with local farmers, food and feed customers, and the local community,” said Justin Rismiller, U.S. Crush Soy Commercial Leader for Cargill. “This has been a complex project, as we continued to run the existing plant during construction. Thanks to our dedicated team, we can provide a state-of-the-art facility to better serve our customers and the community for generations to come.”

The Cargill crush facility originally opened in 1978, with the refinery added a decade later. Today it serves as a vital link between soybean farmers in the region and customers both nearby and around the globe. The upgraded facility is among several of Cargill’s efforts to modernise and increase capacity across its North American oilseeds network.

The completed expansion will give local farmers

Agrotech, Company News, India, Machinery – Post-harvesting

Bühler India will begin producing a wider variety of core product portfolios for the grain milling, food, feed, and advanced materials industries

Swiss technology group Bühler celebrates the 30th anniversary of establishing its business in India and announces the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities in the country. In the coming months, Bühler India will begin producing a wider variety of core product portfolios for the grain milling, food, feed, and advanced materials industries, addressing the demands of a flourishing domestic market and customers abroad.

The decision to expand investments in the country is another milestone in Bühler Group’s long and fruitful relationship with India. It is a journey that started 30 years ago when Bühler India was founded in Bengaluru in the presence of the then-Swiss Ambassador to India and Bühler’s then-CFO, Philipp Müller. Over this time, Bühler India has become one of Bühler Group’s leading global technology centres with manufacturing infrastructure, research and development teams, application centres and training facilities. Bühler India, which employs 600 people today, manufactures high-quality grain and food processing equipment for customers across the country and abroad. In future, it will further expand its core product portfolio for the feed and advanced materials industries. Bühler India’s business has been growing by more than 10 per cent over the past three years.

In August 2022, Bühler India took a major step in expanding its local production by manufacturing Sortex colour sorters. This move enables the grains and food industries in the country to have easy access to this key technology, which contributes to food quality and safety. The company also provides retrofitting and refurbishing services for existing Sortex machines.

Bühler is taking its business in India to the next level by expanding the range of products it manufactures to include equipment for the country’s growing milling industry. The company has already started the production of its Square Plansifter Areniter MPAV, a key component in the flour production process that sifts and sorts grist and flour in wheat, rye, maize, and durum mills. Other core machines such as purifiers and roller mills are also in the pipeline and scheduled to be available to customers in 2024. Bühler India will continue to expand its core product portfolios going forward to include the feed and advanced materials industries.

With this plan, Bühler India aims to strengthen its position as a leading provider of state-of-the-art solutions for the grain milling industry. Currently, Bühler India’s 32,000 square meter premises in Bengaluru comprise the company’s headquarters, a manufacturing hub, and an Application & Training Center (ATC) which covers multiple industrial applications. The ATC provides a platform for customers to conduct product and equipment trials, optimise processes, and conduct training across all operational levels – for mill proprietors, managers, and operators.

“With these new solutions produced in India, customers will benefit in multiple ways: shorter delivery times, increased supply chain efficiency, and an improved CO2e footprint for their equipment,” says Johannes Wick, CEO of Grains & Food at Bühler Group.

Prashant Gokhale, Managing Director, Bühler India, says: “We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Bühler India with a strong business case. We plan to invest about CHF 21 million (INR 200 crores) over the next 2 to 3 years to support the success of our customers in the region and overseas. It will accelerate new business opportunities and create new jobs, while contributing solutions to address global challenges such as food security and food safety. This investment is not only about growth; it is about combining Bühler’s state-of-the-art technologies with local expertise to offer the most sustainable processes and solutions to our customers.”

Bühler India will begin producing a wider

Agrotech, Climate, Company News, Finance, Start ups, World

CH4 Global will meet the growing global demand for enteric methane mitigation solutions in animal agriculture

CH4 Global, Inc., a climate tech company on the path to radically reducing GHG emissions in animal agriculture, announced it has raised $29 million in Series B funding. The company will use the funds to build and validate the CH4 Global EcoPark, an aquaculture and production facility that will make CH4 Global’s signature product, Methane Tamer, at scale.

This round, led by DCVC, DCVC Bio, and Cleveland Avenue – with participation from other investors with a strong interest in climate change – brings the total raised to date to nearly $47 million. It also underscores market demand for safe, viable solutions to vastly reduce enteric methane from ruminant livestock.

When added to cattle feed, Methane Tamer—which uses red seaweed (Asparagopsis)—reduces the animal’s methane emissions by up to 90% while also reducing the feed energy lost to methane emissions. With the development of its CH4 Global EcoPark, the company is poised for expansion in key markets and with key partners throughout all six inhabitable continents.

This is a key development in the fight against climate change. The 1.5 billion cows on the planet produce more than 150 million tons of methane annually — the largest single source of methane globally. At more than 12 billion tons CO2-e per year (at an average of 100 kg methane/cow), this is a larger GHG output than from the US, the EU, and India combined. Moreover, the UN cites methane as over 80 times more impactful than CO2 on global warming over the next 20 years.

“We are receiving massive interest from governments, food producers and farmers of all sizes, fueling our sense of urgency that we must act now to avoid a climate tipping point. The pressure is on with new regulations and the desire to produce at a measurably lower impact. What we’ve developed at CH4 Global is what we call a CH4 Global EcoPark, which enables low-cost growth and processing of Asparagosis.” said Steve Meller, PhD, co-founder and CEO, of CH4 Global. “We are formulating our unique feed supplement product, Methane Tamer, to meet the specific needs of each cattle market segment, starting with feedlot operations, beef and dairy, as well as for grazing dairies. Eventually, we will also formulate for remote and generally unattended cattle around the world.”

“CH4 Global’s secret sauce is its product, plain and simple: the feed additive it has expertly formulated stands apart from other seaweed-based offerings,” said John Hamer PhD, Managing Partner at DCVC Bio and a member of the CH4 Global board of directors. “DCVC Bio is thrilled to back Steve and his exceptional team: they are ready to scale up a critical solution to climate change.”

CH4 Global will meet the growing global

Acquaculture, Animal Health, Live Stock, Sustainability

Artemia is widely used as live feed for farmed fish and can thrive in highly saline water

The Artemia4Bangladesh project, initiated by WorldFish, introduced Artemia or brine shrimp pond culture in the Cox Bazar region of Bangladesh to address the issue of poor fish productivity. The region, which produces 95 per cent of the salt in Bangladesh, only provides minimal income to around 1.5 million people employed in the industry.

Artemia is widely used as live feed for farmed fish and can thrive in highly saline water. It contains essential nutrients, such as over 50 per cent protein, essential amino acids, and fatty acids that are crucial for child development. This makes it a potential food source for people as well.

The project established around 150 farms and trained 1,500 farmers on Artemia pond culture, homestead aquaculture and vegetable gardening, and shrimp, tilapia, carp, and mola aquaculture. These interventions allowed farmers to supplement their income from salt production by selling Artemia to local shrimp hatcheries, nurseries, grow-out farms, and fish, shrimp, and crab producers. As a result, their income increased by up to 400 per cent.

WorldFish also developed recipes to introduce Artemia into the local diet. For example, Artemia kebabs are becoming popular in the area as an alternative to meat kebabs, and an Artemia omelette was created as a healthy option to support nutrition for women and children. These recipes were demonstrated with tastings to more than 200 salt-farming families.

Artemia not only provides an alternative source of income and nutrition for the community but also helps them adapt to the impacts of climate change. As water salinity increases, the coastal community’s agriculture and aquaculture productivity decrease. However, Artemia’s resilience to high salinity and temperatures ensures stable incomes for farmers in the face of climate change.

Artemia is widely used as live feed

Agro chems – Pesticides, Agrotech, Company News, World

The column’s proprietary phase allows effective separation of anionic and cationic pesticides using a single column, fast conditioning, and delivers robust analysis.

Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announced the launch of Luna Polar Pesticides HPLC column which features a proprietary phase that effectively separates cationic and anionic pesticides from un-derivatised food, feed, air, and water samples, fast conditioning, and delivers robust ionic pesticide analysis.

The Luna Polar Pesticides HPLC column is designed to help resolve the most common challenges food safety analysts encounter daily: robust determination of analytes due to matrices complexity and polarity, lengthy process due to the high number of injections needed for column conditioning, time-consuming sample preparation due to the need for derivatisation, and the need to use separate columns (and systems) to determine both anionic and cationic pesticides from a sample. 

The Luna Polar Pesticides HPLC column’s versatile selectivity allows the separation of cationic and anionic pesticides from underivatized samples on the same column. The fully porous particle morphology of the column allows for high sample loading. Its unique selectivity provides high retention of polar analytes, fast equilibration, can be used in positive and negative modes, and offers 100 per cent aqueous and organic stability. The particles’ pore size of 100 Å has proven to be optimal for pesticide analysis, and the 8 per cent carbon load delivers a great balance of polar and nonpolar retention. 

Collaborative studies done with renowned laboratories and experienced food analysts demonstrate the robustness and versatility of Luna Polar Pesticides. Dr. Giacomo Napolitano, Lab Manager at Lifeanalytics S.r.l., stated “The Luna Polar Pesticides significantly reduced analysis time thanks to its fast re-equilibration! This column has improved our polar pesticides analyses.” 

The new Luna Polar Pesticides HPLC column is available in different sizes to fully suit analysts’ needs: 30 x 2.1mm, 50 x 2.1mm, 100 x 2.1mm, 150 x 2.1mm, and 150 x 3.0mm. The column is compatible with the SecurityGuard ULTRA cartridge for column protection.

The column's proprietary phase allows effective separation

Agrotech, Company News, Foodgrains, World

Through its Market+ Source sustainable crop program, Indigo Ag will use its proprietary measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities to help CGB quantify the emissions factor

Indigo Ag, announced a program with Consolidated Grain and Barge Co., a subsidiary of CGB Enterprises, Inc. and a leader in the grain and transportation industries, designed to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainably grown crops sourced by CGB.

Through its Market+ Source sustainable crop program, Indigo Ag will use its proprietary measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities to help CGB quantify the emissions factor for the grain they purchase from farmers using more sustainable farming practices. These grains would be purchased at a premium and ultimately sold to CGB customers looking to decarbonise value chains, including food and beverage companies, ingredient companies and regenerative and sustainable fuel producers.

Indigo’s proprietary MRV capabilities use the highest scientific standards to quantify environmental benefits for companies participating in the Market+ Source program.

“As corporations look to achieve their Scope 3 emissions targets, the ability to quantify the environmental impact of sustainable practices with a high degree of certainty is critically important,” said Ron Hovsepian, president and CEO of Indigo Ag. “We are excited to work with companies like CGB who are demonstrating leadership in the industry by committing to help farmers make more money through the adoption of sustainable practices while reducing emissions in the ag value chain.”

“At CGB we are driven to connect value-added solutions to our upstream farmer producers, while simultaneously meeting the evolving needs and quality characteristics of our downstream consumer,” said Eric Slater, President and CEO of CGB Enterprises, Inc. “Through our work with Indigo, we are excited to expand upon and connect value-added production practices at the farm level that would promote sustainability within the grain, feed, and food supply chains.”

Through its Market+ Source sustainable crop program, Indigo

AgroPolicy, Dairy, India, Live Stock, Sustainability

The program was designed to help farmers gain a better understanding of the latest practices and techniques

As part of Aazadi Ka Amrit Mahostav, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying organised the awareness Programme ‘Pashudhan Jagruty Abhiyaan’ under the campaign on Inclusive Development.  Information on various Schemes and Programmes of the Department especially on  Entrepreneurship, Vaccination and other beneficiary-oriented schemes the Department were explained through the Common Service Centres network by holding 2000 village-level camps across the Aspirational Districts. Varsha Joshi, Additional Secretary, CDD chaired the meeting. Attendees were given complete information about schemes and veterinary services, as well as how to apply on the scheme portal through the CSC itself. Around 1 lakh farmers joined the awareness Programme virtually from Common Service Centres.

Joshi interacted with the farmers during the program. Her insights and expertise proved invaluable in helping the farmers gain a better understanding of the various aspects of animal husbandry and dairy farming. Realigned schemes of DAHD are helping in creating rural Entrepreneurship and creating better livelihood opportunities for unemployed youth and livestock farmers in the poultry, sheep, goat, piggery, feed and fodder sectors paving the way towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat, she said during her opening remarks.

The program was designed to help farmers gain a better understanding of the latest practices and techniques in animal husbandry and dairy farming, thereby improving their livelihoods. The impact and success of the schemes were explained with the help of presentations and videos.

The program was designed to help farmers

Acquaculture, Animal Health, Company News, Sustainability, World

The two companies are currently working on the next generation of halibut feed

Nordic Halibut has signed a three-year contract with halibut feed supplier Skretting. The agreed collaboration ensures stability and predictability for feed supply to cover the Company’s growth plan phase 1 of 4.500 tonnes of HOG production in 2026.

Nordic Halibut has worked closely with Skretting over several years to develop sustainable products with precise nutrition that are specialised for halibut. The two companies are currently working on the next generation of halibut feed.

We at Skretting are pleased about this long-term collaboration with Nordic Halibut. We have extensive experience with halibut feed, and now we will use our nutritional knowledge together with our extensive efforts for sustainability so that we can develop tomorrow’s halibut feed to be even more sustainable, says Martin Davidsen, sales manager at Skretting Norway

Nordic Halibut strives to sustain a high level of performance in the company’s ESG areas and to establish ambitious ESG targets to maintain sustainable production and local uplift communities. It is advantageous that the Skretting production facility is located at Averøy, near Nordic Halibut’s core production hub at Nordmøre contributing to minimising supply risk and reducing the environmental impact of transportation.

We believe that long-term cooperation is fundamental to achieving sustainable development. Working closely with Skretting will help us optimize the feed so that we can offer a premium quality product with a minimal footprint. Their ambitions in terms of quality and sustainability reflect ours. Therefore we choose to enter a new three-year partnership that ensures sufficient high-quality feed supply towards our production targets in 2026, says Edvard Henden CEO.

The two companies are currently working on

Company News, Live Stock

The acquisition combines Cargill’s global network and deep expertise in animal nutrition technologies with Delacon’s pioneering knowledge and market experience in phytogenic feed additives

To support feed customers in this growing space, the world’s leading agribusiness company Cargill has announced that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Delacon, the globally leading expert in plant-based phytogenic additives.

“After a successful five-year partnership, Cargill and Delacon will build upon their combined deep history and long-term commitment to scientifically driven, sustainable customer solutions focused on animal health, feed efficiency, and performance,” said Adriano Marcon, Cargill animal nutrition president.

The acquisition combines Cargill’s global network and deep expertise in animal nutrition technologies with Delacon’s pioneering knowledge and market experience in phytogenic feed additives, a category that uses a broad range of herbs, plants and their extracts, such as essential oils, to improve livestock and aquaculture performance and promote animal health.

Markus Dedl, Delacon’s chief executive officer, shared his insights, “It is my responsibility to assure the frame for Delacon’s future growth, developing our ability to thrive, and taking phytogenic expertise to the next level. The acquisition will enlarge Delacon’s scope for future innovations and make phytogenic feed additives more available globally. Together, Cargill and Delacon will accelerate the pace of innovation and drive strategic, long-term growth.” 

With the addition of Delacon’s plant-based phytogenic products, Cargill is further committed to research, innovation, sustainability and collaboration in the digestive and immune health space.​

The acquisition combines Cargill’s global network and

Animal Health, Finance

The funds will be utilised to support the growth momentum of the Company

Provet Pharma Private Limited, headquartered in Chennai, one of the fast-growing animal health care companies in India, raises an undisclosed amount from N+1 Capital, one of India’s largest revenue-based growth capital funds. The Company will be using this fund to support its expansion plans of all its operating verticals. Devansh Shah, Bilanz Capital Advisors is the advisor to the deal.

With its highly regarded leadership, business strategy and execution capability, the Company has managed to achieve its mark in the Animal Healthcare industry. Despite the micro and macro level challenges in the recent years, the Company has been growing by an astonishing CAGR of more than 40 per cent while its EBITDA margin is outpacing the revenue growth by growing more than 90 per cent CAGR.

Speaking on the fundraising, Dr Muthu Selvan, Co-founder and Managing Director of the Company, said that the Indian Animal Health Care industry is growing at a CAGR of around 10 per cent and the Company is focusing majorly on the products well suited to dynamic market requirements. He also highlighted the fact that the industry is shifting towards the usage of non-antibiotic feed additives and the product portfolio of the Company has been already built to ride on this shift with more innovative and conceptual products in the pipeline. 

“Provet has built a strong sales and distribution network pan India since its inception. It is a preferred partner to many mid to large firms in the poultry and aquaculture space. The Company’s products are well established in the industry. We are impressed by the Company’s growth potential and are excited to partner with Provet,” said Ashish Singla, Managing Partner, N+1 Capital.

The funds will be utilised to support