3.Cargill, Incorporated

Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation which is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Cargill was founded in 1865. Some of Cargill's major businesses are trading, purchasing and distributing grain and other agricultural commodities, such as palm oil; trading in energy, steel and transport; the raising of livestock and production of feed; and producing food ingredients such as starch and glucose syrup, vegetable oils and fats for application in processed foods and industrial use. Apart from this Cargill also has a large financial services arm, which manages financial risks in the commodity markets for the company.

Cargill has been in the animal feed business for more than 120 years. They have animal feed products for Beef, swine, aquaculture, dairy, poultry and additives categories. Key brands under animal feed category are: Cargill, Diamond V, EWOS, Nitrena, Provimi and Purina.

Cargill’s beef cattle feed products are used by cow/calf producers and feedlot operators. Cargill offers products like Ranger® Limiter, Vigortone®, Fescue EMT® Mineral Defense,  NutreBeef® Cattle Feeds, Right Now® Minerals, Cattle Grazers® Mineral and All-Weather® Technology under this segment. Cargill offers products like Cinergy™, Prohacid™, Proviox™, Enzae™, Nectarom™ and Notox™ under swine nutrition.

Under aquaculture feed and nutrition, Cargill focuses on three main species mainly in 12 leading markets. In Norway, Chile, Scotland and North America their main focus is on Salmon. Tilapia in China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, while Shrimp in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ecuador, India and Mexico. Cargill offers products like NutriTek®, Proviox™, I.C.E ™ and Notox™ under the segment dairy nutrition. Under Poultry nutrition, Cargill offers following products like Biacid™, Provimax®, Proviox™, Enzae™ and Notox™.

4. Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, United States, its main focus is on the dairy industry, was founded in 1921 by representatives from 320 cooperative creameries as the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association. Land O'Lakes has approx.. 10000 employees working in 50 states and 50 countries. The company’s main business activities are Agricultural Products, Food Manufacturer, Foodservice, Animal Feed and Nutrition, and Ag tech. Land O’Lakes, Inc. reported net sales of $14.9 billion and net earnings of $255 million for the year ending December 31, 2018, compared with net sales of $13.7 billion and net earnings of $365 million in 2017.

Land O'Lakes has 100 patents for animal feed innovations. Land O'Lakes has revenue of USD 4 billion in FY 2018 from its dairy and animal feed business. In Kenya, Bidco Land O’Lakes is completing construction of an upgraded feed manufacturing facility to be commissioned later in 2019, enabling higher quality and new to market value-added animal nutrition products. In South Africa, Mexico and Canada, their international Crop Inputs partners are leveraging Winfield United’s world-class capabilities and portfolio of proprietary products.

And in China, they continue to partner with Nestle at the Dairy Farming Institute to work with the largest commercial dairies on feed and forage while exploring Joint Venture options.

1. PMI Nutrition International LLC – Feed additives producer
2. Purina Animal Nutrition LLC – Manufactures animal feeds and supplements for Horse, Dairy, Cattle, Backyard Poultry, Swine, Goat, Rabbit, Sheep, Show, Fish, Game Bird, Deer, and Exotic animals.
3. Mazuri Exotic Animal Nutrition (e-commerce portal for animal feeds) is owned by PMI Nutrition International LLC, a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes, Inc.

5.Wen's Food Group

Guangdong Wens Foodstuffs Group is an agricultural leading and privately owned enterprise located in Xinxing County, Guangdong Province. The company business segment includes livestock breeding, food trading, animal health care products, agriculture and animal husbandry machinery, food processing, organic fertilizer, vegetable cultivation, and investment and finance. Wens    Foodstuffs    Group    (WFG) has around 34,581 employees and 129 wholly-owned or held controlling subsidiaries that operate nationwide.  Guangdong Wen’s is one of the strongest players in the animal feed market in China and have reported having produced 25 million tons in 2015. Soy is a commonly used ingredient in animal feed.

By the end of 2011, the company’s total assets were estimated at 17.4 billion RMB, with 30.9 billion RMB in annual sales, and profits of 4.9 billion RMB. And by end-Jun. 2012, the company’s total assets were estimated at 17.8 billion RMB, with sales at 14.9 billion RMB and profits at 1.1 billion RMB in the first half of 2012 (Wens, 2012).

Wens initiated the “company and farmer” agricultural model that is now widely used in China. In this model, the company provides a contracted farm household with chickens, feedstuffs, and medicines.

6. Muyuan Foodstuff Co.Ltd.

Muyuan Foodstuff Co., Ltd breeds pigs. The Company breeds boars, commodity pigs, and other pigs. Muyuan Foodstuff also produces animal feed products. Pork production is the sole focus for Muyuan Foodstuff Co. Ltd., established in 1992. Muyuan Foods Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates in the hog industry in China. It is also involved in feed processing, pig breeding, and commercial pig raising activities that include commercial pigs, piglets, and swine's; and slaughtering and processing, as well as pig husbandry activities.

7. BRF S.A.

BRF S.A. is a Brazilian company, which is the result of the merger between Sadia and Perdigão, two food companies in Brazil. BRF has over 30 brands in its portfolio, among them Perdigão, Sadia, Paty, Dánica, Qualy, and Bocatti. BRF products are sold in over 150 countries, in all five continents. More than 100 thousand employees are working with the company. BRF owns more than 50 factories in eight countries: Argentina, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Thailand, and Turkey. Over 13 thousand integrated producers work daily on the field to supply fundamental ingredients of the food produced by the company: poultry and domestic pig. In the FY 2018, BRF has a net revenue of R$ 34,529 million.

Under BRF, BRF nutrition is the new business unit which mainly focuses on animal nutrition. BRF nutrition processes about 1.5 billion poultry and 9.8 million pig per year.

Under animal nutrition they have three categories:

1. Aqua Nutrition - They have developed a large portfolio of ingredients to serve the Aquafeed market. They have ingredients such as Oils from animal origin, Animal Meals and Hydrolyzed Proteins rich in protein and highly digestible. Their customized ingredients per specie guarantee an amino acid profile superior to the one required by the animal, facilitate the formulation of the feed and increase its performance.
2. Pet Nutrition - Their ingredients for PetFood are a rich source of protein and naturally palatable, favouring increased appetite for the feed. Pet nutrition portfolio composed of Hydrolyzed Proteins, Meals and Oils of animal origin. 
3. Piglet Nutrition- Under piglet nutrition they have developed ingredients to improve the nutrition and performance of pigs, such as Hydrolyzed Proteins, Meals and Oils of animal origin. In addition to the nutritional benefit, their hydrolyzed proteins have hypoallergenic activity and their high digestibility makes this ingredient highly recommended for piglets, thus facilitating feed consumption by the animal.

8.Tyson Foods Inc. 

Tyson Foods, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is into processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork. The company has a broad portfolio of products and brands including Tyson®, Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, and Ball Park®, among others. At Tyson Ingredient Solutions, the company uses the parts of chickens to make high-quality ingredients that go into animal feed, pet food, human food, and other specialty products. All of their protein conversion facilities are certified under the Animal Protein Producers Industry (APPI) code of practice and the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) Safe Food/Safe Feed certification.

Under Animal feed nutrition Tyson has different product offerings for a companion animal, Aquaculture and Agriculture.

• Companion animal: Dried chicken cartilage mix (A natural source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Mechanically separated chicken (MSC), TopNotes flavors for animal nutrition, chicken by-product meal, chicken meal, Chicken Fat, 
•Aquaculture: Golden Hydrolyzed chicken feather Meal, Chicken by-product meal, and chicken fat.
•Agriculture: Poultry and livestock feed products like Golden Hydrolyzed chicken feather Meal, chicken blood meal, Hydrolyzed chicken feather Meal, Chicken by–product meal and chicken fat.

9. ForFarmers N.V.

ForFarmers (Lochem, the Netherlands) is an internationally operating feed company that offers Total Feed solutions for conventional and organic livestock farming. With sales of approximately 10 million tons of feed annually, ForFarmers is one of the strongest players in Europe. The company is operating in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, and the United Kingdom. ForFarmers has approximately 2,700 employees and 40 production facilities. In 2018, the turnover amounted to over € 2.4 billion.

ForFarmers is strongly into the development and production of compound feed and complementary feed for livestock farmers. The core activities of the business are the production and transportation of feed as well as the supply of innovative Total Feed solutions consisting of (feed) products, advice, and tools. The product portfolio of ForFarmers varies from the compound feed, young animal feed and specialized feed to moist co-products, loose raw materials, seeds, and fertilizers. The advice relates to all aspects of feed, livestock farming, and business development. Tools include programs, products, and services with which farmers can set business objectives, and monitor and benchmark results. In FY 2018 the total feed market in the United Kingdom was 2.903 million tons (Revenue Euro 662 million), in The Netherlands 4.549 million tons (Revenue Euro 1153 million) and in Germany/Poland/Belgium it was 2.569 million tons (Revenue Euro 665 million).

10.Nutreco N.V.

Nutreco N.V. is a Dutch producer of animal nutrition, fish feed, and processed meat products. It has about 100 production facilities in more than 30 countries. The company was founded in 1994 after a Cinven-backed management buyout of the feed and nutrition division of BP Plc. Nutreco employs over 12,000 people in 37 countries with net sales of € 5.9 billion in 2018. Its two global company brands Skretting (aquafeed) and Trouw Nutrition (animal nutrition) have sales in over 90 countries. Nutreco is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SHV Holdings N.V., a family-owned multinational with net sales of € 20.1 billion in 2018.

Under Skretting brand, Nutreco offers aquafeed products for atlantic salmon, whiteleg shrimp, black tiger shrimp, rainbow trout, sea bass, sea bream, tilapia, atlantic cod, catfish, coho, lumpfish, barramundi, amberjack, cobia, halibut, meagre, red drum, red sea bream, sole, turbot, tuna and zebrafish.

Under Trouw Nutrition brand, Nutreco offers animal feeds under the following sub-brands: