Tag: Nutritional science/management: Page 31

Poultry

Novel growth promoters replacing AGPs in poultry feed

AGP replacement increasingly defines the global poultry market. From a performance perspective, several feed additives available today can effectively serve modern poultry production and generate profits.

May 13, 2016

Dairy Cattle

Climate change increasing heat stress in dairy cows

Environmental and nutritional modifications can be implemented to address the challenges of heat stress. The main goal of nutritional management during heat stress is to maintain a healthy rumen function while providing optimal nutrient supply to limit the negative energy balance situation.

May 13, 2016

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Understanding vitamin stability in animal feed premixes

During feed manufacturing and storage, oxidative conditions often arise that may reduce vitamin stability. Unless vitamin destruction is prevented or compensated, animal performance may be reduced depending on severity and duration of imposed vitamin deficiency.

May 11, 2016

Feed Production by Region

Camlin Fine Sciences acquires Dresen Quimica

Camlin Fine Sciences (CFS) has acquired a majority stake in Dresen Quimica S.A.P.I. de C.V., Mexico, to cover Central America and Andean States. CFS acquired a 65 percent stake in Dresen and its group companies, a leading player in the Mexican food and feed blends business.

May 6, 2016

Poultry

Achieving dietary electrolyte balance for broilers

The balance of dietary cations and anions is in close relationship with broiler performance, affecting metabolism quite differently than individual ions.

May 4, 2016

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Insects show ‘huge’ potential as protein feed ingredient

The potential for using insect protein as a source of animal feed for pigs, poultry and fish in the European Union was described as “huge” at a recent conference organized by PROteINSECT in Brussels.

May 3, 2016

Feed Additives

Study shows how to reduce methane emission from ruminants

An international team of researchers has explained how a new compound works to reduce the environmental impact of ruminant animals by cutting the production of the greenhouse gas, methane.

May 3, 2016

Home

How Peter made money with an updated feed program

Small savings can often lead to great profits. This is a real case, but with altered names, that demonstrates the point of how important feed cost is on overall profitability.

May 3, 2016

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Joe’s pigs compensated the wrong way

One day, Joe stormed into my office and handed me a copy of a research paper, asking why a scientific journal would publish "rubbish" like that. Obviously, something went wrong.

April 26, 2016

Poultry

Phenolic compounds in animal feeds

Phenolic compounds have attracted a great deal of research interest in human nutrition and medicine during the last decade. Nevertheless, animal nutrition still lagged behind in recognizing phenolics as an interesting field of potential feed additives.

April 20, 2016

Dairy Cattle

How feed efficient is your dairy cow?

After years of research by Wageningen UR Livestock Research, Dutch dairy farmers can now find out the feed efficiency of the offspring of the country’s dairy bulls. This will help the farmer boost profitability from milk production, and contribute to more sustainable production of animal proteins to feed a growing world population.

April 15, 2016

Latest News

Nutriad Technical Symposium held in Brazil

Nutriad hosted its third annual Technical Symposium in Florianopolis, Brazil, on March 30. At the event, new insights and novel solutions for gut health, feed intake and mycotoxin control were introduced.

April 14, 2016