Peter BestPeter Best is a consulting editor for Pig International and can be reached at [email protected].From the Author - Page 3Feed Mill ManagementWorld Feed Panorama: Expensive grain slows industry expansionShared Growth Beyond Crisis was a slogan adopted for the G20 Summit of world government leaders held in South Korea in November 2010, but it would serve equally well to describe the trend in global feed production over most of the past 12 months. Where 2009 had undoubtedly been difficult for feed manufacturers in many countries, there was a recovery of volumes and of optimism in 2010 - until fears resurfaced in the later part of the year about the price of grain.PoultryNew directions for near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy in the feed industryFive decades have passed since the earliest attempts to assess cereals by spectral analysis and the first predictive equations were derived from reflectance spectra. It is already more than 40 years ago that research showed how to employ spectroscopy in estimating the quality and digestibility of forages for feeding to ruminants.Previous PagePage 3 of 3