Order by: Title | Author | Publication date | Views | Rating

Animal Production, Consumer Demands and the Role of the Feed Industry in Japan
Dietary life of the Japanese people has changed enormously over the past 50 post-war years. The protein/fat/carbohydrate (PFC) calorie supply ratio in Japan, as of 1995, is 13.6:29.5:56.9 (FNRA, 1997). This is ...
Author: TOSHIAKI SUZUKI and YOHKO KASHIMA - Research Center, Nihon Nosan Kogyo K.K., Tsukuba, Japan (C...
Publication date: 08/02/2007    Rating:    Views: 2121

Water activity as a tool for predicting and controlling the stability of pet foods
‘Food safety’ was one of many buzz phrases for 2005. As 2006 rolls forward, we can see that the attention focused on the safety of food is here to stay. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires that pe...
Author: R.A. TIMMONS (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 07/23/2007    Rating:    Views: 1752

Quality Control in Feed Manufacturing
Feed manufacturers are often forced by circumstances to focus on short-term concerns such as: How many tonnes were produced this week, how many customers do I have, or how much down time did I have this week? W...
Author: Frank T. Jones (Courtesy of Avitech Animal Health Pvt. Ltd.)
Publication date: 07/13/2007    Rating:    Views: 1822

Manufacturing a Quality Premix
A premix is a mixture of vitamins, trace minerals, medicaments, feed supplements and diluents. It is a value added solution for feeds with sustainable safety and quality.The premix industry is charged with the ...
Author: Avitech Animal Health Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date: 06/28/2007    Rating:    Views: 2964

The new energy crisis: food, feed, or fuel? Will ethanol displace gasoline or simply take food off our plates and feed from our animals? How can new technologies help?
Can anything be more exciting, or more challenging, in our industry today than the competition for grains? Should food, feed, or fuel get first priority? In a global feed industry of some 700 million tons of ma...
Author: T. PEARSE LYONS - Alltech Inc., Nicholasville, Kentucky, USA
Publication date: 06/25/2007    Rating:    Views: 1684

Embrace the challenges of the animal feed industry
Animal agriculture has undergone remarkable change and growth during the past few decades, and it will continue to change in the coming years to meet higher demand for low-cost, healthy and convenient products....
Author: PETER R. FERKET (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 06/22/2007    Rating:    Views: 1159

Properties of food that may modulate canine and feline behaviour
Though most human-pet relationships are fulfilling, each year a substantial number of animals are abandoned by their owners or relinquished to animal shelters (Podberscek, 1997; Marston and Bennett, 2003). The ...
Author: G. BOSCH, B. BEERDA, A.F.B. VAN DER POEL and W.H. HENDRIKS (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 06/21/2007    Rating:    Views: 411

Towards better aquafeeds and feeding management practices in Southern Africa
South African aquaculture production, though limited in its contribution to Africa's and global production, has shown a significant increase over the past few years. Total production and value has increased fro...
Author: Lourens de Wet and Dirk van der Linde (Courtesy of AFMA Matrix)
Publication date: 06/20/2007    Rating:    Views: 695

Judging pellet stability as part of pellet quality
Feed is too expensive to waste, so pellet quality has an economic value. There are a number of excellent methods to objectively measure and record the quality of pellets during the manufacturing process. This i...
Author: Rainer Löwe (Courtesy of AFMA Matrix)
Publication date: 06/19/2007    Rating:    Views: 1916

What will the future bring for feed manufacturers?
Any attempt to predict the future should be based on sound assumptions and counting the variables into the projection to get a feeling where we are heading and what the drivers are that may determine the factor...
Author: Erich Erber and Maria Wechselberger (Courtesy of AFMA Matrix)
Publication date: 06/14/2007    Rating:    Views: 1064