Tag: Nutritional science/management: Page 49

Poultry

Adisseo, China Feed Industry Expo foster China-France relations

For the tenth year, animal nutritioncompany Adisseo attended the China Feed Industry Expo, held in Shenyang, China.With more than 40,000 visitors, the expo is China's largest trade fair foranimal feed.

May 9, 2014

Swine

Animine country manager for China hired

Animine has appointed Dr.Zhang Yonggang as its new country manager for China. The hiring of Yonggang ispart of Animine’s commitment for the Chinese launch of HiZox, a potentiated formof zinc oxide for piglet diets.

May 6, 2014

Feed Ingredients

Anti-viral feed ingredients

One of my best customers asked me last week if there is anything we can add to pig feeds to make sure exposed animals will not get infected by the PED virus. Obviously, this is someone in the U.S., where pig producers are looking into anything that can help, given no cure or vaccine is currently available.

May 6, 2014

Feed Additives

Antioxidative potential of phytogenics

Antioxidants are natural substances that can protect an animal organism from harmful influences by preventing oxidation reactions, termed as oxidative stress. The antioxidative properties of phytogenic feed additives may provide such benefits when included in feed.

May 1, 2014

Poultry

Evonik invests in biotechnology company Algal Scientific

EvonikIndustries is investing in the technology startup Algal Scientific Corporation,Northville, Mich. Evonik is part of an investors’ consortium that is investingmore than US$3 million in Algal Scientific.

April 28, 2014

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Feeding heat-stressed broilers

Now is the perfect time to discuss how to reformulate diets for heat-stressed broilers. Like every year, and before the long heat waves of high-summer hit, certain nutritional intervention strategies should be employed to alleviate the negative effects of heat stress on feed intake.

April 24, 2014

Feed Mill Management

DSM Innovation Award to be presented at AquaVision 2014

The DSM Innovation Award will again be presented at AquaVision 2014. This special award honors transformative innovation within the aquaculture industry. The winner of the DSM Innovation Award will be announced on June 18, day two of AquaVision. The recipient will also receive a prize of EUR10,000 (US$13,827).

April 14, 2014

Poultry

Chr. Hansen reports revenue increase for 2nd quarter

Chr. Hansen has reported a strong second quarterfor fiscal year 2013/14, highlighted by revenues of EUR182 million (US$253) and10 percent organic growth. The animal health and nutrition company alsoreported revenues unchanged from the first half of the previous fiscal year atEUR353 million (US$490 million).

April 10, 2014

Feed Additives

Distillers corn oil: An alternative energy source for swine producers

As producers move away from animal fats as a supplemental energy in their diets toward all-vegetable sources, they are weighing the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing alternative sources such as distiller’s corn oil (DCO). That move, however, comes with higher feed costs.

April 8, 2014

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Formulating pig diets: A funny story about net energy

A few days ago, Peter Best sent me a note about Sweden changing to the net energy system in formulating diets for pigs. Along with my natural reaction, “it was about time,” it also reminded me of a funny but highly educational experience I had several years ago.

April 8, 2014

Poultry

NSP efficacy and value highlighted at Inspire forum

The 2014 Inspire: Non-starch Polysaccharide (NSP) Forum, drew to a closeApril 3 with the focus switching firmly to the impact of exogenous feed enzymesdietary NSPs. The session opened with a detailed look at how NSP enzymes varyin key characteristics relevant to animal feed by Dr. Kim Langfelder from ABEnzymes.

April 4, 2014

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Inspire forum attendees learn of dietary NSPs’ pros and cons

Presentations from industryand academia highlighted both the negative and positive effects of dietary NSPson nutrient utilization and health in pigs and poultry at the Inspire: Non-starchPolysaccharide (NSP) Forum, held at Pitlochry, Scotland.

April 3, 2014