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Dairy Cattle

Protecting dairy feed from mycotoxins

Keeping dairy feed free of mycotoxins is a challenge. However, there are some ways to stop mycotoxins from being passed on to milk.

Brand Insights

Fermentation That Fuels Animal Resilience and Performance

BioZyme Inc.

Building Resilient Animals from the Inside Out - AO-Biotics® with its star brand AO-Biotics® Amaferm® offers proven microbial innovation and decades of fermentation expertise. 

Antibiotic-free Production

Lowering poultry feed formulation costs with phytogenics

For decades, broiler producers have tended to use high-density diets to feed their stocks and seek the highest possible profitability. But, with increasing feed prices, the entire production process is searching for alternatives to conventional feeding programs based on high-nutrient poultry diets to increase profitability.

Animal Nutrition

Getting piglets to eat more feed

Providing feed to suckling piglets is getting more attention for various reasons. Litter sizes are increasing while average birth weight is decreasing, so additional feed intake is needed to obtain maximum growth of piglets.

Animal Feed Manufacturing

US fed cattle prices reach record levels in first quarter

U.S. fed cattle prices traded at record levels in the first quarter of 2012, with an average year-to-date price of $1.26 per pound and a peak price of $1.30 per pound in the first week of March, according to Rabo AgriFinance's Quarterly Beef Outlook. Cattle on feed numbers remain strong, with a 1 percent to 3 percent increase over 2011.

Feed Additives

Emerging issues in swine nutrition

Using alternative ingredients in order to lower feed cost is now common practice in swine diets. However, now the challenge is to strike a balance between cost and quality.

Poultry

Competitive export scenario emerging for poultry producers

Following a profitable 2011 in their export business, U.S. poultry producers face a new question in 2012: Will the reentry of Thailand to the market for raw poultry in the EU ignite increased competition among poultry exporters in the U.S., Brazil and Thailand? Very likely, the answer is yes.

Poultry

Indústria avícola mundial prevê maior rentabilidade em 2012 com um crescimento marginal

A Nutrição WATT 2012 e Pesquisa de Alimentação mostra otimismo aumentou de rentabilidade, mesmo quando confrontados com os preços dos grãos elevados ea volatilidade dos preços.

Poultry

ANAVIP – The Panamanian national poultry producers’ association

The Panamanian national poultry producers’ association, ANAVIP, was established in 1973 to support the Panama’s poultry industry. Membership currently comprises 11 companies working across poultry meat and eggs.

Poultry

Chicken producers seek improvements in trade

It has been well documented just how important the chicken industry is to the vibrancy of the whole U.S. economy. But the industry’s growth potential, and thus its economic potential, is in gaining increased access to foreign markets.

Poultry

International Production & Processing Expo introduces logo

The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, American Feed Industry Association and American Meat Institute have introduced the new International Production & Processing Expo logo. The International Production & Processing Expo is serving as the umbrella name for the co-location of USPOULTRY’s International Poultry Expo, the American Feed Industry Association's International Feed Expo and the American Meat Institute's International Meat Expo.

Swine

Focusing on the local feed market in Thailand

For many people connected with the Thai livestock industry, Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP group) and BetaGro are considered the key players. They have substantial market share in Thailand, plus both companies are expanding abroad.

Poultry

Haiti is aided by more than US chicken

My trip to Haiti to see the distribution of donated U.S. chicken showed that the earthquake disaster has brought out the best in scores of people.  Said one, “I am going to help these people.” The other responded, “What do you think you can do?” The pledge to help was audacious when weighed against the vast need, but Mike Welch of Harrison Poultry did help, and others joined in and the reverberations are still being felt.

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