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Betaine can spare dietary methionine, choline

Betaine is a feed additive with many functions, one of which can confer direct feed savings.

November 5, 2014

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Non-ruminant nutrition: Valine the new sheriff among amino acids

As dietary crude protein is reduced below the threshold of four percentage units, valine starts to become limiting and requires careful monitoring.

November 4, 2014

Poultry

Kemin discusses lipid challenges and opportunities in nutrition

Profitability, through the utilization and impact of nutrients, combinedwith animal health, are two of the most important challenges in today’s animalproduction

November 3, 2014

Poultry

Comprehensive review on electrolyte nutrition for broilers

Research has indicated proper dietary electrolyte balance is essential for broilers.

October 28, 2014

Antibiotic-free Production

Probiotics, controversial additive with a future

When it comes to probiotics, there is a plethora of very distinct products that differ not only in price but, most importantly, in effectiveness.

October 22, 2014

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Herbal amino acids: The truth about the claims

A client asked me to evaluate an herbal source of lysine and I foundmyself explaining again why herbal methionine cannot replace crystallinemethionine.

October 22, 2014

Dairy Cattle

Dietary strategies to optimize rumen efficiency

Improving rumen efficiency allows the producer to gain increased output from less feed, resulting in higher returns and less risk of digestive disturbances.

October 21, 2014

Dairy Cattle

Prepartum DCAD nutrition leads to enhanced transition cow success

How does a prepartum negative DCAD diet strategy improves transition cow health, early lactation milk yield and producer profitability?

October 10, 2014

Swine

Piglets need no more than 25 ppm zinc for optimal growth

A recent study compared sources of organic and inorganic zinc to maximize growth and meet the zinc needs of piglets.

October 7, 2014

Feed Additives

Feed additives, like a good wine

Some of us like an additive because we had good experiences with it. Others vouch this same additive is worthless. Who is wrong, and who is right?

October 7, 2014

Feed Additives

Feed additive studies presented at ESVCN 2014

Studies evaluating the efficacy of Biorigin’s natural ingredients in MacroGard and Selemax were thehighlight in the European Society of Veterinary & Comparative Nutrition event.

October 3, 2014

Dairy Cattle

New feed unit system improves ruminant diet efficiency

The French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) has created a new generation of feed unit systems for ruminants, Systali, to improve ruminant feeding and help farmers to predict animal response to feeding changes.

September 30, 2014