Be the Sharpest Operator in Animal Protein

Can Decameal Crabwalk into Poultry Feed?

5 min read

Feed is 60–80% of poultry cost. The industry’s default protein stack—soy + (a little) fishmeal—is under pressure from deforestation rules, price volatility, and brand risk. Decameal’s shore-crab protein proposes a new vector: turn an invasive marine pest into a functional, lower-footprint feed ingredient that can both de-risk sustainability exposure and create product differentiation (omega-3s, yolk color, local story).

What Alveo and Royal GD Are Testing In Poultry Diagnostics

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When a poultry producer suspects bird flu, they ship samples to a central lab and wait days or weeks for results. Meanwhile, the virus spreads. By the time confirmation arrives, the outbreak has often exploded beyond containment. The result? $3 billion in U.S. economic losses alone, with 280 million birds dead globally.Alveo Technologies and Royal GD just formalized a partnership that attacks this core structural problem: moving molecular diagnostics from centralized labs to the farm gate, delivering results in under 45 minutes instead of days. This isn't just faster testing — it's a fundamental shift in how animal health operates.

Feed Automation's Interoperability Separates Winners from Laggards

5 min read

Feed automation is accelerating beyond basic sensors toward autonomous decision-making systems. With feed representing 60-80% of production costs, companies mastering interoperability control the industry's most critical profit driver.Wayne Sanderson Farms proves the strategic value: 4-7x annual ROI per monitored bin across 23 facilities while eliminating 80% of feed outages. More importantly, they positioned themselves as technology leaders when margins compress industrywide.

The Bird Flu Vaccine Race Hits Critical Mass

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Six months after Zoetis gained conditional approval, the bird flu vaccine market reveals a $1.8 billion investment scramble where trade politics, not technology, determines winners. The real story isn't who builds the best vaccine—it's who navigates the export-versus-protection paradox that's splitting the protein industry.

Crisis-Driven Adoption Reshapes Livestock Monitoring Economics

The New World Screwworm outbreak has compressed livestock technology adoption from 10-year cycles to emergency 6-month deployments, creating a $1.9 billion economic threat that satellite IoT providers are exploiting to bypass traditional distribution channels. Ceres Tag's Globalstar partnership and aggressive North American expansion represent counter positioning to Merck Animal Health's SenseHub.

Vence's Leadership Transition Signals Passing the Baton of Hardware Integration

Growing hardware divisions inside pharma companies requires fundamentally different leadership DNA than building a startup from scratch.

Optiweigh’s North America Test: Can Weighing Cross the Pacific?

Optiweigh turned in-paddock weighing into a real management tool in Australia and New Zealand. It replaced sporadic yard weights with frequent, low-stress data that drives timing, nutrition, and profit. North America is bigger, more fragmented, and more weather extreme. The prize is also larger. A small penetration in the United States and Canada would equal hundreds or thousands of units in the field.