Antibiotic-free Production

Feed Additives

Animal health efforts reduce need for antibiotics

Focusing on disease prevention and good nutrition can promote animal health, therefore reducing the need for antimicrobials.

Animal Feed Manufacturing

3 unexpected ways to reduce antibiotic use

Decade-long program finds that producers sometimes overlook simple fixes when trying to reduce antibiotic use.

Feed Additives

Study: Yeast may help improve early piglet growth

Piglets may grow faster in the first days of life if nursing sows are fed yeast-based feed additives, research finds.

Feed Additives

ABF production requires closer look at gut health

Cases of an imbalance in the microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract have become more common as the use of antimicrobials is reduced.

Animal Nutrition

Specialty corn could help prevent necrotic enteritis

A new corn variety developed by Penn State researchers could reduce the incidence of necrotic enteritis and cut deaths by almost one-fourth.

Animal Health & Veterinary

Researchers look to the past for antibiotic alternatives

Naturally occurring enzymes could serve as alternatives to antibiotics — if scientists can find a way to mass produce them.

African Swine Fever

PODCAST: Poultry, feed producers show some optimism for 2022

Jackie Roembke, editor in chief of WATT Feed Brands and Feed Strategy magazine, discusses the results of the 2022 Poultry Nutrition & Feed Survey.

Feed Additives

Yeast may offer alternative to antibiotics, zinc in pigs

A study comparing zinc and yeast feed additives found pigs fed the yeast alternative performed as well as those fed zinc.

Feed Additives

5 popular antibiotic alternatives for ABF production

Out of the many products that are available for use as antibiotic alternatives in livestock and poultry, a few stick out as the most popular.

Feed Additives

Increased zinc in broiler diets may boost immune response

Using organic forms of zinc in broiler diets may help prepare the immune system to fight infection, a study suggests.

Antibiotic-free Production

PODCAST: Is there a new normal in consumer protein-buying trends?

Chris DuBois, senior vice president, Americas protein practice leader at IRI, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the way consumers buy animal protein products.

Feed Additives

4 tools to combat necrotic enteritis without antibiotics

Probiotics, prebiotics, phytogenics and enzymes can prevent clostridial disease in antibiotic-free broiler diets.

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