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Mr. Xi, expected to become China's top leader later this year, arrived in a motorcade from the local airport at the home of Muscatine resident Sarah Lande, a former stockbroker; she was a host at a dinner for Mr. Xi when he came to the town in 1985 as a junior Communist Party official leading a Chinese animal-feed delegation.

In Iowa, a Reunion With Old Friends Owen Fletcher 2012

Executives said sustaining price increases to cover higher animal-feed costs was a bigger threat than elevated corn costs, while the sluggish food-service market in the U.S. remained a challenge.

Hormel Profit Rises 15% on Strong Grocery, Turkey Results Marshall Eckblad 2011

European Union officials are set to vote Tuesday on whether to allow trace amounts of unauthorized genetically modified material in animal-feed imports, a move campaigners say could herald a shift in the bloc's attitude to biotechnology.

World Watch 2011

European Union officials approved proposals to allow trace amounts of unauthorized genetically modified material in animal-feed imports, a move campaigners say may signal a shift in the bloc's zero-tolerance attitude toward unauthorized biotechnology.

World Watch 2011

Officials are set to vote Tuesday on whether to allow trace amounts of unauthorized GM material in animal-feed imports, a move campaigners say could herald a shift in the bloc's attitude to biotechnology and would mark a victory for the GM lobby, which has been pushing for a relaxation in the EU's zero-tolerance rules on imports for years.

EU to Vote on Admitting GM Food Caroline Henshaw 2011

Pilgrim's, which has 42,000 employees, was the largest casualty of a similar spike in animal-feed prices in 2008 that combined with wrong-way bets on derivatives contracts that left the company nursing a $1 billion full-year loss and pushed it into bankruptcy protection alongside a host of smaller producers.

Chicken Glut Humbles Pilgrim's Pride Ian Berry 2011

The following year, Mr. Xi led the animal-feed delegation to Iowa.

Heartland Return for Chinese Leader Jeremy Page 2012

Twenty-seven years ago, Mr. Xi, then an up-and-coming official in a pig-farming region in China, led an animal-feed delegation to Iowa.

Heartland Return for Chinese Leader Jeremy Page 2012

Heavy rains have left as much as 60% of Ukraine's wheat exports unfit for human consumption, providing a boon to the animal-feed sector but threatening to push up food prices in countries like Egypt.

Egypt Faces Food Supply Worries Neena Rai 2011

LONDON—European Union officials Tuesday approved proposals to allow trace amounts of unauthorized genetically modified, or GM, material in animal-feed imports, an EU spokesman said.

EU to Admit GM Material in Animal Feed Caroline Henshaw 2011