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Aquaculture

De Heus launches phase two of Vietnam aqua feed factory

De Heus is opening the US$8 million expansion of its aqua feed factory in Vinh Long, Vietnam, which will increase the factory's capacity from 30,000 tons a year to 100,000 tons a year and help strengthen the company's position in the aqua feed market. The upgrade will serve the growing aquaculture market in the Mekong Delta and produce feeds for pangasius, tilapia, snake head fish and fingerling, according to De Heus.

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Animal Nutrition

Using vegetable proteins in pig and poultry feed

As animal proteins are increasingly being removed from animal feeds, vegetable-based feeds are becoming more popular. However, vegetable-based feeds are a particular challenge for the micro-flora of the gastrointestinal tract of pigs and poultry in that they have high fiber content and contain plant proteins that are generally digested less easily than animal proteins.

Poultry

2013 poultry nutrition survey offers mixed views

Members of the poultry feed industry continue  to wrestle with high grain costs while simultaneously working to increase profits and meet consumer demands for “no”—no antibiotics, no hormones, and no animal byproducts in animal feed. The results of this year’s WATT Nutrition and Feed Survey reflect those challenges.

Poultry

Let me introduce you to our poultry wastewater treatment department

Wastewater treatment is no longer the out-of-sight, out-of-mind department in the poultry industry. Poultry companies are investing heavily in wastewater treatment facilities and shining a light on their excellence.

Dairy Cattle

How to formulate better ruminant diets

The total protein in feed ingredients used for ruminants is partitioned between the rumen-degraded protein and rumen-undegraded protein. Values are often assigned to protein ingredients on the basis of the rumen-degraded protein that they yield.

Feed Additives

DSM completes acquisition of nutritional supplements company Tortuga

Royal DSM, a global life sciences and materials sciences company, has completed the acquisition of Tortuga Companhia Zootécnica Agrária, a nutritional supplements company with a focus on pasture raised beef and dairy cattle, for a total enterprise value of about €440 million (US$575.8 million). The acquisition was announced in August 2012.

Poultry

Cargill’s third-quarter profit falls 42 percent

Cargill's fiscal third-quarter net income, which the company said was hurt by higher feed costs for its meat processing businesses, fell 42 percent, according to the quarterly report released on April 9. For the quarter ended February 28, the agribusiness company earned $445 million, down from $766 million in the same period in 2012.

Beef Cattle

Agriculture firm H.J. Baker & Bro. acquires Brazil animal nutrition companies

International agriculture firm H.J. Baker & Bro. Inc. has announced it has purchased Rumiphos Industria e Comercio de Sal Mineral e Racoes located in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The firm has also acquired Mineral Fanton Industrial e Comercio Ltda., located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a producer of free choice minerals for beef cattle, and feed for cattle, horses and sheep.

Swine

The global question: Which pig nutrition program is right?

When it comes to pig nutrition, we all understand that feed represents about 60-70 percent of costs of production in the production of pigs. With the present position around the world for feed commodities and raw materials in general, this is probably higher in many countries now with no end to the pressure in sight.

Animal Nutrition

Alternative animal feed protein sources: faba beans, lentils

Faba beans (Vicia faba) is a legume related to the garden beans (those beans consumed by humans). There are two major types of faba beans: those from white-flower varieties and those from colored-flower varieties.

Poultry

UN lays foundations for more drought resilience

A top-level United Nations conference has, for the first time, laid the foundations for practical and proactive national drought policies to increase resilience to the world's most destructive natural hazard. The high-level Meeting on National Drought Policy marked the first globally-coordinated attempt to move towards science-based drought disaster risk reduction.

Poultry

Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act resurfaces

New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter has once again introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act.

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