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The role of the consultant: a liaison between producers and feed companies
Nutrition consultants have been a fact of life in the dairy and beef feedlot sectors of animal agriculture for a long time. In those enterprises where profit margins are slim and production response to feed for...
Author: STEPHEN G. JACKSON - Bluegrass Equine Nutrition, Versailles, KY, USA (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 08/21/2007    Rating:    Views: 418

Formulating Feed for Broiler Performance
Every year the marketing age of broilers decreases by an average of 0.75 days for the same performance. This trend is likely to continue in the same direction for the coming years. Nutrition plays a vital role ...
Author: Dr. K. R. Gunasekar (Courtesy of Avitech Animal Health Pvt. Ltd.)
Publication date: 08/10/2007    Rating:    Views: 3275

Bacterial Developments: their Implications for Silage Production and Aerobic Stability
The silage fermentation is predominantly a lactic one brought about through the activities of lactic acid bacteria found naturally on the crop ensiled. These bacteria ferment sugars into varying amounts of lact...
Author: MICHAEL K. WOOLFORD - Alltech UK, Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK (Courtesy of Alltech Inc.)
Publication date: 08/07/2007    Rating:    Views: 662

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

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

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

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: 1065

Are by-products of the primary (human) food industry questionable sources of nourishment for our pets?
Possibly one of the most frequently voiced consumer lores around commercial pet food is that pet foods are made from waste.There is a human trait, which leads to most people seeking employment in areas that int...
Author: Barry Hundley (Courtesy of AFMA Matrix)
Publication date: 06/12/2007    Rating:    Views: 439

Use of soya in aquafeeds
Aquaculture is the fastest growing segment of livestock production worldwide, growing in large part because production is switching to more intensive, higher input systems. The main input is feed, which offers ...
Author: Lourens de Wet (Courtesy of AFMA Matrix)
Publication date: 06/11/2007    Rating:    Views: 732