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Animal Feed Manufacturing

Korean farmers hit with high feed prices

Korean farmers have recently been hit by rising animal feed prices, and a fall in beef cattle prices caused by an oversupply of homebred cows. The number of Korean beef cattle rose to 2.92 million in 2009 and has now reached 3.3 million, the result of a 2008 mad cow disease outbreak that caused consumers to turn to Korean beef, increasing the number of Korean livestock farmers involved in cattle breeding.

Brand Insights

Rethinking calf nutrition: 5 reasons to embrace vegetable proteins in CMRs

Hamlet Protein

Discover how enzyme-treated soy protein like Hamlet Protein’s HP 100 offers a sustainable, cost-effective alternative to traditional milk proteins in CMRs.

Rethinking calf nutrition: 5 reasons to embrace vegetable proteins in CMRs

Foreign crop farmers may help rescue US poultry profitability

Foreign crop farmers' response to a 200% increase in the price of corn is having a predictable effect on total world production. Next year, corn production outside the U.S. is likely to reach 600 MMT, a 100 MMT increase. The resulting impact on the world price of corn next year is predictable but might surprise U.S. crop farmers.

US chicken producers applaud sunset of ethanol subsidy, but wary of final GIPSA

The sunset of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and import tariff and the publishing of USDA’s long awaited Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration final livestock marketing rule are significant developments that will have major impacts on the U.S. broiler industry.

PFI – The Poultry Federation of India

The Poultry Federation of India is the voice of the Indian poultry industry. Serving producers and processors of chicken, turkey, quail, squab and egg products, the PFI provides a united voice for the industry with government, media and the general public.

Europe organic poultry producers win reprieve from tighter feed rules

Europe’s organic poultry producers will not have to change the way they feed birds come January 2012, as had been proposed by the European Commission. The commission had intended for the organic poultry industry to grow a large proportion of feed from their holding or region and wanted to implement a 100% organic diet for poultry.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition Micro-Cell LA 1 Gram

Lallemand Animal Nutrition US

Lallemand Animal Nutrition offers Micro-Cell LA 1 Gram. Micro-Cell LA 1 Gram is a strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus BT-1386, which colonizes the lower gut of beef cattle, fed all type of rations and competitively inhibits certain bacterial strains, according to the company.

Efficient feed conversion vital to pig producers

Efficient feed conversion is the most important economic trait in pig production, according to geneticist Ed Sutcliffe, who spoke at a recent Northamptonshire Quality Pig Producers’ Association meeting. Producers record numbers born and have a reasonable idea of growth rate, while backfat is measured for them when finished pigs are slaughtered, said Sutcliffe, but none of these is as important as feed conversion rate.

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Missouri turkey feed diet may save producers money

The Missouri Ideal Turkey Protein diet, a formula based on the exact nutrient requirements of turkeys, may save producers about $30 per ton of feed, according to Jeff Firman, a University of Missouri Extension poultry scientist. The protein-based diet, which focuses on adjusting the amino acids in the turkeys' diet, helps reduce overfeeding and brings down costs by not wasting nutrients, said Firman.

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Poultry performance improves over past decades

Bird performance in the commercial poultry industry has shown a staggering improvement over recent decades. Modern broilers weigh about 2.5 kg at 39 days, with a live-weight feed conversion ratio of 1.6 kg of feed per kilogram of body weight gain.

Feed Mill Management

Distillers’ grains substituting for more corn, soybeans in feed

On average, between crop years 2006/2007 and 2010/2011, 1 metric ton of distillers' grains (DDGS) produced for animal feed by U.S. ethanol plants substituted for about 1.22 metric tons of corn and soybean meal combined, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These findings may result in a net increase in DDGS in animal feed, as over time the amount in beef cattle feed declines but the share in dairy cattle, swine and poultry feed increases, according to the report.

Laboratory Products and Services

Trouw Nutrition International Rumenac

Trouw Nutrition International

Trouw Nutrition International's Rumenac is a four-step ruminant feed evaluation system for more efficient rationing in dairy cows. The system evaluates rumen fermentation as well as the supply of aminogenic, ketogenic and glycogenic nutrients.

Meriden Animal Health Phyconomix

Meriden Animal Health's Phyconomix is a ready-to-use range of products designed to fulfill the nutritional requirements of growing shrimp and fish larvae. The company says Phyconomix eliminates the need to produce algae within the aquaculture hatchery.

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