All news articles for August 2020

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Vitamin and amino acid price tracker

Next six weeks will be decisive for feed additive prices

By Jane Byrne

Markets are slowly returning from summer holiday season, and as there are no upcoming major trade fairs, and limited business travel, professional feed and food additive buyers and sellers are looking for a new playbook for their negotiations and deal...

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Project aims to plug holes in feed pelleting process knowledge

By Jane Byrne

A public-private collaborative project led by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is looking to understand the fundamentals of feed pelleting to support the use of more fibrous co-products, thus further enhancing the sustainability profile of the...

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KnipBio says its SCP meal has benefits for RAS production

By Jane Byrne

KnipBio reports that fish fed a diet containing 5% of its KnipBio Meal (KBM) – a single cell protein - had significantly lower levels of geosmin and methylisoborneol (MIB), the compounds responsible for creating off-flavors in RAS-raised fish.

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Supporting the dairy cow’s immune system

By Lynda Searby

Large scale on-farm studies involving over 1,200 herds across the US and Europe are said to demonstrate the ability of a nutritional supplement from Phibro Animal Health to help dairy cows maintain a healthy immune system.

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Study: limiting amino acids controls pig growth

By Lynda Searby

Kansas-State University researchers confirm that emergency diet strategies adopted by swine producers to slow the growth of pigs during the Covid-19 crisis are safe and effective.

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Prototyping technology taps into microbiome modulation potential

By Lynda Searby

A hydrolyzed brewers’ spent grain ingredient with prebiotic properties is the first commercial product to come out of Embion Technologies’ rapid prototyping platform, and 80 more products with microbiome modulation potential are waiting in the wings.

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Seaweed trumps maize as biofloc substrate

By Lynda Searby

Scientists in Mexico have discovered that kelp is a better nucleation site than maize meal for developing biofloc, producing fish with a higher end weight and a lower feed conversion ratio (FCR).

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Eubiotics helping to ‘maintain normal’ in livestock production

By Lynda Searby

The use of eubiotics is on the rise in the feed industry, with growing interest in “maintaining normal” in livestock production systems, consumer preference for natural products and scientific advancements driving take-up, according to DBC Ag Products....

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IFFO sees positive trend for global fishmeal output

By Jane Byrne

June this year saw significant marine raw material production, well above the average for output that month during the years, 2011- 2019, said the IFFO, the marine ingredients organization, in a report this month.

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People on the Move: August 2020

By Jane Byrne

We track hires and retirees over the past month in feed, premix and additive companies as well as people taking on roles in feed related associations.

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Cargill: ‘Our goal is to be the leader in beef sustainability’

By Lynda Searby

Announcing its involvement in a new grasslands restoration project launched with Burger King, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and ranchers within the Northern Great Plains, Cargill has said its goal is to be “the leader in beef sustainability”.

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Austria's Delacon enters aqua market

By Jane Byrne

Delacon is looking to bring along a full phytogenic solution to aquaculture practices. It is entering the sector with a premixture, branded as Syrena Boost, that, it says, targets gut performance and productivity.

Key learnings from Covid-19 for the EU feed sector

Key learnings from Covid-19 for the EU feed sector

By Jane Byrne

To prevent challenges such as disruption to food supply chains from a pandemic like Covid-19 or other public health sanitary crisis, a key learning for the EU feed manufacturing sector is to have permanent crisis management capacity in place - at company...