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Animal Nutrition Views: Page 28
Animal Nutrition Views
ESPN 2019: First impressions, part 1, the venue
In 2017, when I participated at the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN) in Tarragona, Spain, I complained about several things, but this year, after having spent a great week at ESPN in Gdansk, Poland, I have nothing but praise to heap on the organizers.
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Let us ban everything that causes climate change, for a change
That ruminants belch and produce methane that changes the climate on a global scale is a stretch for me, but if that holds true and we are in the path of curtailing beef production, may I suggest we ban tourism as well because such activity increases carbon dioxide production.
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If everything is going to ‘taste like chicken,’ why pay more?
Now that ASF is going to raise the price of pork meat, will consumers accept that or go for equally tasty chicken?
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Where will feed prices go if ASF bonanza materializes?
Why isn’t anybody talking about feed prices in terms of a global ASF catastrophe (or opportunity, depending from where one sits)?
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ESPN and planning for the future
If you plan on attending the 22nd European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN) at Gdansk in Poland in a couple of weeks, here’s a piece of advice, free of charge: Make a plan.
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Is there a Plan B for ingredients sourcing in face of ASF?
Imagine that the African swine fever (ASF) virus gets out of control.
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Should we still source feed ingredients from ASF-hit regions?
Is it possible for African swine fever (ASF) virus to be transmitted through feed? The answer is yes, and this is not news.
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Why mega farms use in-house nutrition expertise
Creating or reviewing a nutrition program for a mega animal producer is rather a different exercise compared with working for a feed/nutrition supplier or any other animal producer.
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Buying the latest technology and the thrill of spending money
A friend of mine wants to buy a robotic milking machine because he is gadget friendly and enjoys new technology. The size of his milk cow herd is not large enough to justify such expense, but he is going to do it, just because he wants to.
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Why large farms do not buy many animal feed additives
The most common complaint of nutrition suppliers (additives mostly) is that they cannot get (easily) into large (mega) farms. It appears to them that such mega producers prefer to use simple nutrition programs without much in terms of added (modern) nutritional supplements. There are many reasons why such large operations prefer simple nutrition programs, and some are offered here for discussion.
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Talk to a geneticist before you find a nutritionist
A larger animal has larger maintenance needs that need to be taken into account when calculating efficiency.
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Are you still fighting for the wrong cause?
Miracles happen, people change. But these two things have yet to materialize in the animal nutrition business in which I have been engaged in for the past 30 years, under any and all roles I have played. I write this blog having specific people in my mind, and they are not coming from just one company or even one continent, but these comments apply to all of us.
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