Tag: Nutritional science/management: Page 46

Dairy Cattle

Combination of palmitic, stearic acid promote milk production

Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition recently launched a campaign, “C16 + C18: Cows Need Both.”

September 24, 2014

Dairy Cattle

Lallemand offers tips to avoid fall slump in dairy cow production

Dairy cows commonly fail to reach their full production potential during the fall. This is often caused by an abrupt change from old corn silage to freshly cut forage or recently fermented corn silage.

September 24, 2014

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Nutrition business marketing: Innovative ideas, commercialization

Let’s continue talking about marketing in the nutrition business, being about additives or supplements, and the issue of developing new products.

September 15, 2014

Poultry

Additive technology improves alternative feed ingredient performance

Feed additive producers are researching ways to help poultry producers deal with the challenges of using high-fiber raw materials.

September 10, 2014

Swine

Feeding Vitamin E enhances meat quality

Vitamin E can reduce meat deterioration and color changes by combating the effects of lipid oxidation when it is included in animal feed.

September 8, 2014

Formulation & Nutrition

Six steps to reduce feed cost in Chinese formulas

China is facing soaring feed prices, and these six steps can help maintain costs at near-reasonable levels.

September 5, 2014

Formulation & Nutrition

Updating feed formulas to optimize cost

I recently reviewed the nutrition program of a local farm, and I was immediately struck by two aspects resulting in lost profitability.

August 27, 2014

Poultry

Trial shows benefits of phytase superdosing, xylanase in broilers

Trial results from a University of Berlin study have confirmed the benefits of combining phytase superdosing with a high-efficacy single-enzyme xylanase.

August 22, 2014

Feed Ingredients

Whey: A valuable feed ingredient that can be replaced

Good quality whey is a valuable ingredient that can define quality in piglet feeds, but, as any other ingredient, it is not indispensable.

August 20, 2014

Formulation & Nutrition

Failure, success of Chinese piglet feed formulas based on whey

As the Chinese pig industry becomes more intensive, western-type feed formulas are being used increasingly as a means of sustaining a high level of performance.

August 4, 2014

Feed Mill Management

Layer feed production: Barley suffers from roller milling

A recent study was conducted with layer feed to determine the influence of method of cereal grinding on layer production and egg quality.

July 28, 2014

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DDGS energy can be predicted from simple chemical analyses

Assigningan energy value to DDGS of variable oil concentration in poultry diets requirescareful planning; start with this prediction equation.

July 28, 2014