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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 responsibility of manufacturing a high quality premix consistently, efficiently and economically. Its main objective is to deliver the micro ingredients in a manner desired by the consumer. Premixing has progressed from the simple hand mixing of several ingredients to...
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1. Raw Material 1.1 The main raw material to obtain Poultry Meal is mainly chicken viscera, to which other by-products such as chicken carcass can be added in small quantities to improve consistency, especially during pressing process downstream. Table 1 indicates how many by-products are generated depending on the number of chickens...
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Greetings All, I’m new to the forum and appreciate the wealth of knowledge here. I’m looking into single-cell protein (SCP) produced from methanotrophs or microalgae for animal feed applications and am curious about any practical considerations from the feed mill side. Beyond nutritional or toxicity questions, I’m wondering if anyone has encountered operational challenges with these ingredients—such as issues with machinery handling, potential...
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Registration is now open for the American Feed Industry Association’s (AFIA) annual Pet Food Conference (PFC), happening Jan. 28, 2025, in conjunction with the International Production &...
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ARLINGTON, Va. – The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) has released its latest annual update , summarizing its efforts to advance a...
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John Boney (Penn State University) comments on nutrient segregation, feed quality, pellet degradation, and on-farm feed sampling methods, in this Engormix interview....
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Dejan Miladinovic (Head of Centre for Feed Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) offers his vision for the future of feed mills. He comments on automation, data optimization, real-time monitoring, smart sensors, and sustainability, in this Engormix interview....
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DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM A principal goal of nutritionists is to provide birds with a balanced diet that maximizes production at the least cost. Meat bird performance is maximized when feeding pelleted diets (Patton et al., 1937; Hussar and Robblee, 1962; Jensen et al., 1962). However, the nutritional value of feed presented to birds in feed pans throughout the house may not align with diet formulation due to mixer uniformity, feed line length, pellet degradation, and subsequent...
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Dejan Miladinovic (Head of Centre for Feed Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) explains how this gap impacts pellet quality, energy efficiency, and roller and die wear, in this Engormix interview....
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INTRODUCTION In recent years, the emergence of new products for human and animal consumption has intensified, which could be produced exclusively through the extrusion process. In particular, those produced with high levels of protein, derived from pulses, known as plant based. Several products of this type now available in supermarkets imitate pieces of meat, whether analogous to steaks or fillets, whether chicken, beef, fish, or even imitating seafood. The upper layer of fish...
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The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) has taken another step toward advancing sustainability within the animal food industry with the release of new industry sustainability materials . Representing both U.S. and Canadian industry members and stakeholders, these resources, developed in collaboration with the Context Network and...
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I.INTRODUCTION Both overheating and underheating affect the nutritional value and quality of SB (Karr-Lilienthal et al., 2004). Undercooked SB results in an excessive concentration of antinutritional factors, such as TI, decreasing the intestinal activity of pancreatic proteases. In contrast, excessive heat treatment results in a Maillard reaction that reduces nutrient digestibility (Araba and Dale, 1990). Thus, the objective of this study was to investigate the contributions of...
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Nelson Ruiz (Nelson Ruiz Nutrition LLC) A set of 24 solvent extracted commercial soybean meal (CSBM) samples, which corresponded to the same lots of CSBM used in the field, were evaluated. The CSBM were from different origins (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Trinidad & Tobago, U.S.). The objective herein was to evaluate the relationship between KOH protein solubility (KOHPS, a measurement of overprocessing) and trypsin inhibitor activity (TIA, a...
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The chemical extraction of edible oils with hexane as a solvent is the most widely utilized process in the industry for high production applications, over 500 tons per day. The top three oilseeds by production volume are soybean, rapeseed/canola, and sunflower respectively. Prior to extraction, these oilseeds are subjected to a number of preparation steps aimed at making oil recovery as efficient as possible in the extractor while minimizing operating costs. One...
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4.1 Introduction The metabolism of most nutrients in domestic dogs and cats is similar to that in other mammals (Baker and Czarnecki-Maulden 1991). Thus, the qualitative dietary requirements of dogs and cats for most nutrients [e.g., amino acids (AAs) that are not formed de novo in animal cells] are similar to those for omnivores (e.g., humans and pigs). However, dogs and cats have a relatively short digestive tract (He et al. 2024) and have evolved to have some unique feeding...
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Rendering involves repurposing animal co-products that would otherwise be discarded. It converts the parts of a meat animal we choose not to eat into stable, usable materials such as fuel, pet food, and livestock feed, creating a highly sustainable alternative. Below, learn more about products made from rendered materials in detail. You can discover...
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Short Answer: Rendering is Recycling It’s a process that repurposes co-products(also called by-products) that would otherwise go to waste from the “meat we don’t eat.” By rendering specific materials that many North American consumers would consider inedible, such as certain fats, bones and proteins, renderers provide...
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ARLINGTON, Va. – The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) is excited to announce the launch of its blog, IFEEDER Fodder . For nearly 15 years, IFEEDER has been at the forefront of advancing understanding and trust in sustainable feed and pet food supply chain through research and education. The IFEEDER Fodder blog will serve as a platform for industry professionals,...
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Engineer Josef Barbi, President of ESE & INTEC, discusses a holistic approach to functional animal nutrition solutions, Midland ADN Group ...
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