Tag: Nutritional science/management: Page 8

Aquaculture

Institute aims to lead aquaculture research — from Idaho

Moscow, Idaho, may be more than 300 miles from the nearest ocean, but this is where the Aquaculture Research Institute aims to develop sustainable aquafeed and find a means to make aquaculture profitable in the U.S.

June 10, 2019

Animal Nutrition

Drought in India forces producers to chop sugarcane for cattle

Maharashtra officials are asking sugarcane producers to cut their crop in order to feed cattle. The drought-stricken state is running out of fodder and this could be a valuable alternative.

June 6, 2019

Animal Nutrition Views

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.

May 20, 2019

Feed Production by Region

Biotech firm opens first insect meal plant in Ghana

With the view to reducing feed costs for tilapia production and the country’s reliance on imported protein feed ingredients, French-based biotechnology company, Cycle Farms, has launched its first facility for the production of insect meal in the West African country.

May 1, 2019

Animal Nutrition Views

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.

April 15, 2019

Antibiotic-free Production

Are non-antibiotic growth promoters right for your operation?

Perhaps one of the fastest-growing categories of feed additives—growth promotion products that boast antibiotic-like properties—still induces skepticism among academics and some livestock producers. Some antibiotic-free additives do appear to hold promise.

April 13, 2019

Animal Nutrition Views

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.

April 8, 2019

Poultry

Canadian biotech company Avivagen ready to enter US market

The company is looking to expand in the U.S. as antibiotic usage lessens.

April 4, 2019

Home

Larger genotypes not necessarily more efficient

Large parent animals produce large offspring that grow rapidly and efficiently. At least this is the general perception and it is true to a certain point. But it is not the whole truth, because the maintenance needs of large-framed animals are often ignored, or rather expected to be roughly the same across all genotypes, within a given species.

April 1, 2019

Animal Nutrition Views

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.

March 25, 2019

Animal Nutrition Views

First comes nutrition, then come additives

Nothing is wrong with feed additives. In fact, in the right hands, they can be used with tremendous efficiency, like proper tools for the right job. And, this is what additives are: tools for specific jobs, either to solve a problem or enhance a function.

March 21, 2019

Animal Nutrition

Structure, dose affect efficacy of plant extracts in animals

A joint approach between biology and chemistry is required to investigate the effects of plant extracts as potential replacements for antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feeds.

March 13, 2019