Quick answer: India has stopped selling soybean meal abroad this year. Nobody banned anything. Domestic rates simply outran what any overseas buyer was willing to pay, with export offers moving from about USD 475 per tonne to nearly USD 695 FOB inside a few weeks. Traders cancelled roughly 25,000 tonnes of contracts and started importing instead.

Poultry feed economics in 2026 have made every protein and energy decision sharper. Soya DOC has stayed expensive through the season, maize demand from ethanol distilleries has firmed up grain prices, and margins in broiler and layer operations have not stretched to absorb all of it. DDGS sits in an unusual spot here. It carries

Quick answer: Broiler starter feed is the high-protein ration fed from about day 7–10 through day 21. It carries 21–23% crude protein and 3,000–3,150 kcal/kg ME. Branded starter currently sells at ₹34–52 per kg, or ₹1,700–2,600 for a 50 kg bag, going by marketplace listings this September.  That sits at the top half of the

Quick answer: ₹1,250 to ₹2,300 for a 50kg bag, with the real market clustered at ₹1,500 to ₹1,900. That’s ₹30 to ₹38 a kg. Phase-specific bags reach ₹2,500. The spread has almost nothing to do with branding and almost everything to do with what maize and Soya DOC cost on the morning the batch was

Quick answer: India has stopped selling soybean meal abroad this year. Nobody banned anything. Domestic rates simply outran what any overseas buyer was willing to pay, with export offers moving from about USD 475 per tonne to nearly USD 695 FOB inside a few weeks. Traders cancelled roughly 25,000 tonnes of contracts and started importing

Quick summary: September 1, 2026 brought two milk price stories that made national headlines for very different reasons. In Mumbai, the Mumbai Milk Producers’ Welfare Association raised its wholesale buffalo milk rate by ₹9 per litre to ₹102/litre — the steepest single hike in the association’s 70-year history. On the same day, Tamil Nadu’s government