Animal Feed Additives & Ingredients: Page 104

Partnership tackles antibiotic-free poultry production

As the landscape of the poultry industry undergoes a major shift toward “post antibiotics” production, a new partnership has emerged to help producers make this transition successfully and profitably, while upholding high standards of animal health and welfare.

Church & Dwight acquires Agro BioSciences

Church & Dwight has acquired Agro BioSciences Inc. for $75 million plus a contingent payment of up to an additional $25 million based on business performance.

Antibiotic-free Production

Panel: Judicious use of antibiotics necessary in animal ag

There is a consensus in the animal agriculture and veterinary communities that supports the judicious, legal use of antibiotics to prevent, control and treat disease.

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Mycotoxin Management

Infographic: Biomin’s World Mycotoxin Survey

For its World Mycotoxin Survey for the first quarter of 2017, Biomin conducted more than 14,000 analyses on 3,715 finished feed and raw commodity samples from 54 countries from January to March 2017.

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Organic trace minerals: Getting the most out of phytase

Phytase inclusion in monogastric animal diets is commonplace in the industry today, primarily driven by its ability to release phytate-bound phosphorus (P) from cereal-based feed ingredients.

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Mycotoxin Management

Biomin: Mycotoxin threats rise worldwide

Corn, soy and finished feed saw a rise in mycotoxin contamination levels in the first quarter of 2017, with deoxynivalenol (DON) the most prevalent mycotoxin, according to Biomin’s Mycotoxin Survey.

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A new approach to improving feed conversion

Production performance can be significantly increased by feeding more bioavailable trace minerals to animals. This has been confirmed by numerous poultry and swine studies on hydroxy trace minerals.

Be prepared for ban of ethoxyquin in EU

The choice of trace minerals doses and sources interacts with oxidation kinetics in premixtures. Some studies have shown that non-water soluble sources of zinc and copper like HiZox and CoRouge, two products from Animine, can prevent vitamin degradation.

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Using cassava as a global livestock feed ingredient

Cassava is a plant that is very tolerant to poor growing conditions as it can be cultivated in regions suffering from poor soil, droughts and even frequent plant diseases.

Animal Nutrition Views

Alternative proteins in layer feeds: What does it take?

There is plethora of alternative feed ingredients that could be used in layer diets, but lack of knowledge often causes an opportunity to be lost.

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Lupins: an alternative protein source for poultry, pigs

Anti-nutritional factors have long worked against lupins as a common feed ingredient; however, new varieties, such as sweet lupin, are proving to be a valuable protein and amino acid source in pig and poultry diets.

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FAO broadens reach of antimicrobial resistance plan

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has announced it is to address the issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in five more countries, as the result of a US$3.3 million funding commitment from Russia.

FAO project TCP/BYE/3401: Emergency assistance to control the African Swine Fever outbreak in Belarus. Objectives : to assist the veterinary services of Belarus to timely and effectively respond to ASF introduction, rapidly and efficiently control

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