
Since 1990, the sales of antibiotic-free foods have increased at a rate of 20% per year. Consumers continue to reach for foods that are advertised as “no antibiotics ever”, creating increasing pressure on the livestock industry to eliminate antibiotics from production. As with every other consumer trend, the antibiotic-free (or ABF) production shift has hadRead More

New research shows that the pet food ingredient market is growing at an explosive rate. A study performed by Reportlinker.com showed that pet food ingredients as an industry will reach a height of $90.3 billion by 2025 — a 5 percent compound annual growth rate between 2020 and 2025. This type of growth leads toRead More

You may know that Bill Barr & Company has been a family-owned business since it started in 1956. But you may not have gotten to know our long-standing president, Bill Barr – and no, we’re not talking about the U.S. Attorney General. A Leader in Business In 1970, after serving 2 ½ years activeRead More

At Bill Barr & Company, we proudly collaborate with only the most innovative and forward-looking suppliers. It’s one of the ways we strive to raise the bar in animal nutrition. That’s why today we wanted to shine some light on Balchem, a supplier that is consistently pushing nutrition technology forward and working to create high-qualityRead More

The Bill Barr team has always been committed to providing top-quality ingredients to pet and animal food producers. And because of this dedication, we choose our partners carefully. We want to ensure that we’re only representing top ingredient suppliers who are at the forefront of ingredient manufacturing and technology. In this post, we’re going toRead More

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused seismic shifts in every industry across the globe. We’re all navigating uncharted waters, and it can be unnerving at times. But thankfully, our dedicated team continues to pursue excellence while carefully mitigating risk factors through a number of strategies — strategies that we have employed inRead More