AAFCO meeting notes, age-specific pet foods and Blue Buffalo were subjects of Petfood Industry blogs and feature columns in September 2019.
Petfood Industry contributors wrote 10 blogs and columns about canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), China’s pet food trends, U.S. pet food sales and other topics.
Pet food product development goes in cycles, shaped by human food trends, market demands and pet owner concerns. With grain free, irony plays a role, too.
Pet food sales in the grain-free and condition-specific categories are rising in China, while packaging, marketing and pet technology grow more sophisticated.
Canine DCM has been a hot pet food topic for the past year. Let’s look deeper into the latest FDA investigation update and if veterinary bias may play a role.
As cat ownership increases and pet owners become more particular, trends familiar in the dog space showed up at SuperZoo 2019 in the cat products market, too.
Concerned about grain-free pet food’s possible link to DCM, dog owners have turned to not only veterinarians and pet food brands, but also to retailers.
Blue Buffalo was once the pet food darling of pet specialty, but before and since being acquired by General Mills, it has moved more to mass and e-commerce.
New federal pet food spending data for 2018 now show a decline. A bright spot is that younger pet owners are growing in number and spending more.
Tim Wall covers the dog, cat and other pet food industries as senior reporter for WATT Global Media. His work has appeared inLive Science, Discovery News, Scientific American, Honduras Weekly, Global Journalist and other outlets. He holds a journalism master's degree
from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a bachelor's degree in biology.
Wall served in the Peace Corps in Honduras from 2005 to 2007, where he coordinated with the town government of Moroceli to organize a municipal trash collection system, taught environmental science, translated for medical brigades and facilitated sustainable agriculture, along with other projects.
