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Protecting the actives in your premix
The objectives of feed supplementation are to manufacture medicated feeds whose concentration in active ingredients fulfils with two criteria: conformity and homogeneity. Conformity is defined as consistency be...
Author: Eric Bousquet, Technical Manager, Medical Department, Virbac, France.
Publication date: 06/10/2009    Rating:    Views: 599

Utilizing the Growing Local Supply of Distillers Grains
Across the Midwest, ethanol plants (primarily dry mill vs. wet mill process) are being planned and built and existing plants expanded. Today over 98 percent of commercially produced ethanol is used to extend ga...
Author: Robert M. Kaiser, Dairy Agent - University of Wisconsin Extension
Publication date: 12/17/2008    Rating:    Views: 1488

Recent Trends in Gut Health Management
Global agriculture is heading towards challenging times, since the world's population continues to grow at an ever increasing rate. Thus, consumers' demand for sufficient supply of high-quality safe food ...
Author: Tobias Steiner, Product Manager - Courtesy of Biomin GmbH
Publication date: 12/03/2008    Rating:    Views: 1301

Processing Feed Grains
Does Grain Need to be Processed?Although it is possible to feed whole grain to cattle, it is normally processed for a variety of reasons. Reduced separation and sorting of feed It is impossible to mix protein,...
Author: Gary Mathison, Ph.D., Dept. of Agriculture, Food & Nutritional Science, Univ. of Alberta - Alb...
Publication date: 12/01/2008    Rating:    Views: 1178

Improving enzyme resistance to pelleting conditions
Numerous studies on growth and digestibility have demonstrated the benefits of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) degrading enzymes in poultry and pigs, which have led to a wide adoption of feed enzymes in the fe...
Author: KEVIN LIU and PIERRE DALIBARD – Courtesy of ADISSEO France SAS
Publication date: 11/20/2008    Rating:    Views: 1577

Silage inoculants: are they profitable? A case study of wholeplant corn silage
Research on the topic “Profitability in the use of silage inoculants”  in scientific literature shows that many authors (e.g. Vanzant, 2008; Raue, 2006) have already tried to use methods for calcul...
Author: Yunior Acosta Aragón, Technical Manager for Preservatives - BIOMIN GmbH
Publication date: 10/14/2008    Rating:    Views: 1126

Binders: Gelatin as alternative for urea formaldehyde and wheat gluten in the production of water stable shrimp feeds
Shrimp are external masticators, meaning that they chew their feed outside their mouth and will not ingest the feed at once. Shrimp prefer soft pellets. Typically, in semi-intensive farming, s...
Author: Eric De Muylder, Hans Hage and Geert van der Velden - Published on Aquafeed International maga...
Publication date: 09/03/2008    Rating:    Views: 2183

Producing high quality protein concentrates economically
Proteins are the building blocks of living organisms. Together with carbohydrates and fats, they are our main nutrients and indispensable for both human and animal nutrition.Modern protein...
Author: Hosokawa Micron Ltd. - Published on Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine (January 2008) - ...
Publication date: 08/08/2008    Rating:    Views: 1474

New additives in aquaculture - the beneficial effects of dietary organic acids in fish nutrition, with special focus on potassium diformate
It is a well established fact in the field of aquaculture, that the use of antibiotic growth promoters as an in-feed additive for the diets of fish and shrimp may promote growth and feed conversion as well as i...
Author: Christian Lückstädt - ADDCON Nordic AS
Publication date: 07/22/2008    Rating:    Views: 1573

Sugar Syrup - A High Energy Feed Vis A Vis Animal Production
Feeding of livestock is a scientific task to make all the nutrients available for maintenance, production, growth and reproduction. The right selection of ingredients for the optimum level of animal response is...
Author: Dr. P. George Kunju John - Al Khaleej Sugar Co LLC, Dubai
Publication date: 07/03/2008    Rating:    Views: 991