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03 September 20263 min reading
EU drought alert: Maize imports projected to top 26 million tons
Relentless summer heatwaves across Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe have severely damaged forage reserves and summer crops, triggering an acute feed supply deficit. The European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) warns that the block's maize import needs could surge past 26 million tons, urging Brussels to enact emergency crisis mitigation measures and suspend pending regulatory hurdles to avert widespread supply disruptions.
01 September 20263 min reading
Türkiye launches second ‘grain corridor’ diplomacy as Black Sea crisis mounts
While Russia and Türkiye celebrate near-record domestic field yields, escalating security risks and paralyzed shipping lines in the Azov-Black Sea basin are choking global agricultural trade. Facing surging raw material costs and stalled contracts, Turkish grain and feed industries are urging an immediate diplomatic intervention, just as Ankara unveils a new framework plan to restore safe maritime passage.
31 August 20262 min reading
Russia passes 100-million-ton harvest milestone amid mounting Black Sea export bottlenecks
Russia’s ongoing grain harvest surpassed 100.5 million tons in late August 2026, up 12.5% year-on-year, driven by strong yields across key growing regions. However, escalating security tensions in the Azov-Black Sea basin and Ukraine-related shipping disruptions are creating severe logistics bottlenecks, preventing high production volumes from translating smoothly into global market supply.
31 August 20261 min reading
TMO initiates wheat sales via TMEX to regulate grain market as harvest season wraps up
Following the near-completion of the 2026 crop purchasing campaign, Turkish Grain Board (TMO) has officially transitioned to its market stabilization strategy. Starting 1 September 2026, the state grain board will offer its licensed warehouse stocks on the Turkish Mercantile Exchange (TMEX - TÜRİB) without buyer restrictions.
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17 August 20266 min reading
Türkiye mycotoxin assessment (2026 Q1): Fusarium threat concentrates on the western line
Kartal Kimya, a leader in feed additive sector, presented its critical Türkiye mycotoxin map for the first quarter of 2026. While co-contamination was detected in 70% of the samples, the Aegean (74%) and Marmara (68%) regions stood out as the highest-risk areas. The company’s holistic proactive approach offers producers a powerful decision support model by preventing performance losses that remain hidden in the field.
17 August 20263 min reading
Historic export record secures global second place for Turkish milling technologies
Sevda Kayhan Yılmaz, President of the Machinery Exporters’ Association (MAİB), announced that Turkish milling machinery manufacturers have secured the second global position by achieving a historic export record of $331 million within a $2.6 billion global market. Yılmaz emphasized that the IDMA Istanbul stands as the most powerful driving platform to showcase the Turkish machinery sector’s technological superiority and crown this outstanding global success.
13 August 20266 min reading
Heat stress in poultry and practical mitigation strategies
As climate change intensifies global temperatures, heat stress poses a growing threat to poultry health, gut integrity, and overall productivity. Understanding the physiological mechanisms—from respiratory alkalosis to compromised immunity—is key to implementing effective housing and nutritional mitigation strategies that safeguard flock performance.
27 July 20268 min reading
UN’s joint report: Over a quarter of the world faces food insecurity
Despite minor statistical declines in hunger figures, a joint UN report underscores a lingering structural crisis affecting over a quarter of the global population with more than half of Africa’s population facing food insecurity. As animal-source foods represent the largest cost driver for healthy diets in severely impacted regions, the strategic role of efficient feed and livestock supply chains becomes ever more vital.
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11 August 20266 min reading
Turkish feed industry makes a bold move into Africa: First strategic target to be Cape Town
TÜRKİYEM-BİR President Ülkü Karakuş announced that thanks to their mega-partnership with IDMA and IAOM MEA, they will be bringing Turkish feed technology to South Africa. With the 36. IAOM MEA Conference & Expo taking place on November 23–26, 2026, as the first concrete milestone of this collaboration, Cape Town is set to become the industry’s strategic African route.
24 July 20265 min reading
The Turkish milling industry is definitely in the right direction!
Speaking exclusively to Feed Planet to evaluate the insights from the IGC Grains Conference in London, IGC Director Arnaud Petit details how squeezed market margins are reshaping global planting choices and accelerating the shift toward AI-driven logistics. Highlighting global dynamics from paperless trade corridors to gene-editing tools, Petit also underscores Turkey’s strategic evolution from flour export dominance to a high-end milling technology hub as a major value-added success.
21 July 20265 min reading
Anis Alam on how ARASCO bypasses the Hormuz crisis and eyes Africa
Speaking exclusively to Feed Planet between London Grain Week and IDMA Istanbul in June, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions, Anis Alam, GAFTA Council Member and Chief Grain Procurement Officer at ARASCO, reveals how the Middle Eastern giant is mitigating rising logistical costs, managing vessel diversions to the West Coast, and why the global feed industry is eyeing Africa as its next strategic breadbasket.
17 June 202611 min reading
A new era in feed formulations: The industrial transformation of methane into sustainable protein
Converting natural gas and biogas into high-quality single-cell protein, U-Loop® reactor technology offers a powerful alternative to fishmeal and soy protein concentrate in the global feed industry.
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11 August 20265 min reading
Hidden threats in the henhouse – how controlling endotoxins keeps breeders productive
Endotoxin stress poses a hidden threat to poultry breeder operations, quietly undermining shell quality, hatchability, and overall profitability. Commercial field trial results reveal how a holistic nutritional approach can reduce mortality by up to 37% and safeguard genetic potential where every egg counts.
20 July 202611 min reading
The Bosphorus is the Hormuz of global agri-commodities
The major gathering of the grain and feed industry, IDMA Istanbul 2026 Exhibition, took place at the Istanbul Expo Center from June 25 to 27. During the fourth session of the concurrently held ‘IDMA Global Grain and Milling Forum,’ the feed sector was analyzed on global, regional, and national scales. Featuring high-level panelists, this critical session addressed key strategic topics ranging from global supply crises and new EU environmental regulations to Turkey’s biosecurity sensitivities and the practical realities of livestock production.
01 July 202611 min reading
Global milling and feed tech titans converge at 11th IDMA Istanbul
Bringing together thousands of professionals from over 120 countries for its 11th edition, IDMA Istanbul, the global summit for grain, feed, and pulses technologies, united the industry under one roof. Laying the groundwork for a massive $1 billion business volume, this monumental organization transformed into the global collective think tank for food supply security through its concurrent international forum, macro-strategies, and high-level producer alliances.
16 February 202615 min reading
Global animal nutrition industry between risks and opportunities in 2026
Geopolitics, regulation, animal health risks, and cost pressures are setting the tone for animal protein and animal nutrition markets in 2026. This market outlook explores how these forces are reshaping production, trade flows, feed economics, and sustainability strategies across global supply chains.
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11 August 20268 min reading
Energy efficiency in the feed industry: Sustainable and low-cost production strategies - 2
In this second installment of our three-part guide focusing on energy efficiency and low-cost manufacturing in feed mills, we examine the pelleting and conditioning processes, which account for the largest share of total energy consumption. Through empirical case studies, we analyze how technical parameters ranging from efficient steam conditioning and direct-drive presses to die-roller optimization and ration pelletability can yield improvements of 10–25% in electrical consumption and 5–25% in press throughput capacity.
11 August 20262 min reading
From theory to the field: Maximum efficiency, minimum cost in pelleting and conditioning
We are zeroing in on pelleting and conditioning lines, the most energy-intensive stages in feed mills. In the second installment of our guide series authored by industry veteran Mustafa Yılmaz, we present concrete field solutions ranging from steam utilization to die-roll optimization and ration structure that can slash electricity consumption by 10–25%.
21 July 20266 min reading
Strategies for reducing the “Farm-to-Fork” carbon footprint in sustainable livestock and feed production
In the delicate balance between food security and the climate crisis, the livestock sector and its lifeblood, the feed industry, stand at a critical turning point. By addressing the entire supply chain extending “From Farm to Fork” with a holistic approach, from regenerative agricultural practices in the field to green steps in logistics, and from energy efficiency in feed mills to next-generation smart additive technologies that increase digestibility in the ration, reducing the carbon footprint in animal production is no longer a commercial preference but an ecological imperative.
21 July 202610 min reading
Energy efficiency in the feed sector: Sustainable and low-cost production strategies - 1
Energy consumption, which constitutes the largest operating expense in compound feed production after raw material costs, has become the most critical agenda item for feed mills in line with narrowing profit margins and carbon emission targets. In these facilities where electrical and thermal processes are intensively carried out, correct engineering optimizations to be implemented in grinding and pelleting lines, which hold the vast majority of total energy consumption, both unlock the door to sustainable production and radically reduce operating costs.

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03 September 2026 3 min reading

EU drought alert: Maize imports projected to top 26 million tons

Relentless summer heatwaves across Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe have severely damaged forage reserves and summer crops, triggering an acute feed supply deficit. The European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) warns that the block's maize import needs could surge past 26 million tons, urging Brussels to enact emergency crisis mitigation measures and suspend pending regulatory hurdles to avert widespread supply disruptions.

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Drought forces farmers to abandon canola fields

Insufficient rainfall delayed canola germination, forcing many producers in Tekirdağ, Turkey to switch to wheat and sunflower.

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Drought poses growing threat to Turkish agriculture, warns Bayraktar

Şemsi Bayraktar, President of TZOB, warned that natural disasters are damaging agricultural production and that the risk of drought is increasing.

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EU drought alert: Maize imports projected to top 26 million tons

Türkiye launches second ‘grain corridor’ diplomacy as Black Sea crisis mounts

Russia passes 100-million-ton harvest milestone amid mounting Black Sea export bottlenecks

TMO initiates wheat sales via TMEX to regulate grain market as harvest season wraps up

Türkiye mycotoxin assessment (2026 Q1): Fusarium threat concentrates on the western line

Historic export record secures global second place for Turkish milling technologies

Heat stress in poultry and practical mitigation strategies

UN’s joint report: Over a quarter of the world faces food insecurity

Turkish feed industry makes a bold move into Africa: First strategic target to be Cape Town

The Turkish milling industry is definitely in the right direction!

Anis Alam on how ARASCO bypasses the Hormuz crisis and eyes Africa

A new era in feed formulations: The industrial transformation of methane into sustainable protein

Hidden threats in the henhouse – how controlling endotoxins keeps breeders productive

The Bosphorus is the Hormuz of global agri-commodities

Global milling and feed tech titans converge at 11th IDMA Istanbul

Global animal nutrition industry between risks and opportunities in 2026

Energy efficiency in the feed industry: Sustainable and low-cost production strategies - 2

From theory to the field: Maximum efficiency, minimum cost in pelleting and conditioning

Strategies for reducing the “Farm-to-Fork” carbon footprint in sustainable livestock and feed production

Energy efficiency in the feed sector: Sustainable and low-cost production strategies - 1

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EU drought alert: Maize imports projected to top 26 million tons

Drought forces farmers to abandon canola fields

Drought poses growing threat to Turkish agriculture, warns Bayraktar