Animal Feed Technical Articles
Article published the August 17, 2017:
For several decades, Insta-Pro International has been well known around the world for dry extrusion, which we invented in the 1960’s.Dry extrusion was invented to process soybeans, and over the years, thi...
Article published the August 10, 2017:
Introduction
Corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) is a rich source of protein and amino acids (AA) for pig feed (Stein and Shurson, 2009b). However, the high variation in DDGS AA composition and...
Article published the August 10, 2017:
The use of molecular techniques focusing nucleic acid probes is revolutionizing characterization of microbial evolution and ecology, thus presenting a better understanding about the seat of various disease ende...
Article published the August 4, 2017:
Introduction
The work of Dr. Mike Allen, Michigan State in the late 80’s, measuring NDF digestibility of different corn silage hybrids, initially resulted in much controversy. There was much resistance t...
Article published the July 27, 2017:
Article published the July 27, 2017:
To deal with mycotoxin problems, there must first be an understanding of the fungi which produce them, their growth parameters and interactions with crops. Mycotoxin control is both fungus specific and ...
Article published the July 21, 2017:
In this industry, we talk about protein a lot. This is because it helps evaluate the value of an ingredient or diet. The type of protein we are talking about though is “crude protein”, which is a ro...
Article published the July 13, 2017:
Soybean meal has long been considered an outstanding source of supplemental protein in diets for livestock and poultry. In fact, soybean meal is sometimes referred to as the "gold standard" because other protei...
Article published the July 13, 2017:
Introduction
Enzymes have been used in livestock production for more than 20 yrs, especially in diet containing cereals with high levels of soluble non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) such as wheat, oats,...
Article published the July 7, 2017:
Introduction
Pressed sugar beet pulp (PSBP) is frequently ensiled in plastic bags and represent a valuable feed component of feed rations for ruminants. However, its high susceptibility to fungal infestation d...