Category: Agriculture
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Rabobank expects milk supply growth to slow as costs rise. Processors face tighter product allocation and margin pressure.
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Aarhus researchers have advanced offshore sugar kelp cultivation at scale. Processing demand now becomes the commercial test.
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Soil Capital’s European farm dataset suggests regenerative practices reduced drought-related yield losses, giving food manufacturers a sharper data point on raw material resilience and sourcing risk.
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Longer contracts are becoming supply-chain infrastructure. Lidl GB has committed £500m to British berry sourcing over five years, giving growers more certainty as cost, labour, and climate pressure persist.
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Packaged former foodstuffs are moving further into feed systems. Trotec’s LIFE F3 project has added capacity, expanded recycling routes, and opened a replication path in Poland and Spain.
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Fresh produce packing needs speed without product damage. ULMA Packaging UK will showcase VFFS technology with Venturi air-assisted handling for leafy salad and delicate produce applications.
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Garden Biopharmaceutical has appointed Denkavit Ingredients as exclusive distributor for feed additive vitamins across Europe, strengthening routes to market for animal nutrition products used in livestock production.
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VIV Europe 2026 closed its 25th edition in Utrecht with nearly 15,000 professional visitors, 461 exhibitors, and a new biannual cycle for the feed-to-food sector.
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Newcastle disease outbreaks across continental Europe are renewing biosecurity pressure on poultry producers and processors, with disease risk adding complexity to protein supply planning.
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Mondelēz International’s R&D agenda is bringing together regenerative agriculture, cocoa resilience, packaging materials, start-up collaboration, and process efficiency as manufacturers face tighter supply, cost, and sustainability pressures.