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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.

The 19th International Feed Regulators Meeting in Foz do Iguaçu brought together more than 80 global leaders and regulatory officials to align trade and safety frameworks. High on the agenda were strategies for scaling sustainable circular feed ingredients and leveraging animal nutrition to reduce reliance on antimicrobials across the global livestock chain.

The European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) and the Brazilian Feed Industry Association (Sindirações) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deepen cooperation between two of the world’s major feed-producing regions. The agreement focuses on feed safety, biosecurity, sustainable production, and facilitating trade under the newly applied EU–Mercosur Partnership Agreement.

The European Commission has adopted its first-ever Livestock Strategy alongside a comprehensive Protein Action Plan, aiming to lift the EU's self-sufficient protein share to 35% over the next decade. While European feed federations FEFAC and FEFANA welcome the dual framework, they urge policymakers to expand their strategic focus toward critical vulnerabilities in specialty feed ingredients and micro-ingredients.

Europe’s feed industry is calling for a dedicated EU Protein Plan and stronger safeguards for feed supply chains, warning that dependence on imported proteins and feed additives could undermine food security.

FEFAC market experts forecast continued stability in the EU compound feed production market for 2026. The total industrial compound feed production in the EU27 is expected to reach 152 million tonnes, marking a marginal decrease of 0.06% compared to 2025.

COCERAL, FEDIOL and FEFAC say the European Commission’s latest EUDR Simplification Package fails to provide the legal certainty and practical simplifications needed by operators across agricultural supply chains.

As poultry feed production climbs to 49.9 million tons to officially unseat the pig sector as the EU’s primary segment, the industry must simultaneously grapple with a staggering 17.18% production crash in the Netherlands triggered by aggressive environmental mandates.

Europe’s feed industry is highly dependent on third countries, above all China, for the supply of vitamins and amino acids essential to animal nutrition.

Leading European feed and livestock organizations urge the European Commission to introduce a ‘stop-the-clock’ mechanism for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), citing legal uncertainty and unrealistic compliance timelines that threaten downstream operators and integrated supply chains.

The European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) has released the fifth edition of its Feed Sustainability Charter 2030 Progress Report, highlighting progress made across five core sustainability ambitions.

FEFAC and leading agri-food organizations in Europe have called for the swift conclusion of negotiations on the regulation of New Genomic Techniques.