In the current environment of high energy costs, how can feed producers make quality feed without extended conditioning times and without risking poorly conditioned meal leading to blockages and increased mill maintenance?
Bühler sees higher demand for consultancy services in relation to reducing energy consumption at feed plants in European markets, particularly over the past few months.
To what degree is energy efficiency a priority for US feed mills today? We spoke to Gary Huddleston, director of feed manufacturing & regulatory affairs, American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) to find out.
With escalating energy prices, uncertainty in gas supply and the need for feed mills to be sustainable, the focus on lowering energy consumption in the industry has never been higher but energy savings in the plant should not be at the expense of the...
As rising gas and electricity costs pressure feed mill profitability in many markets, feed compounders are looking to maintain maximum feed plant capacity, lower the total costs of ownership of their processing plants, and optimize use of resources to...
Northern Ireland headquartered firm, Devenish, has partnered with speciality chemicals company, Perstorp, to launch a new moisture management technology designed to help animal feed mills to improve milling efficiency.
An event focused on innovation in feed processing technology aims to provide a vehicle to enhance cooperation between industry and research institutions.
An alliance has been announced between Dinnissen Process Technology, Bolster Investment Partners and the Triott Group owned Ottevanger Milling Engineers.
The University of Illinois says its new $20m Feed Technology Center with state-of-the-art processing and NIR technology will “move the entire industry forward” in terms of feed technology and animal nutrition.
Enhancement of co-products with microbial proteins, improvements in protein digestibility and novel cell wall rupture techniques are among the important directions for future research, according to two feed technology luminaries.
Specializing in process equipment and feed mill design and manufacture, Dutch companies, Wynveen International, and Ottevanger Milling Engineers, part of the Triott Group, are to be integrated as one company from the start of next month.
Cargill, in a virtual event today [January 11], opened its new premix animal nutrition facility in Lewisburg, Ohio. The build represents a US$50m investment from the company.
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...
A new US based research paper suggests that sequencing of feed during manufacturing reduces Salmonella-positive contamination within animal feed and on manufacturing surfaces, particularly after the second batch or with the use of chemical treatments.
The EU feed sector has noted significant improvement of the COVID-19 outbreak triggered EU ‘Green Lane’ system over the past week, said FEFAC. However, it is still not business as usual throughout the feed supply chain, other obstacles remain.
Feed millers need to start demanding more coarse substrates from suppliers for their pelleted piglet diets, said Francesc Molist, manager, research and development, Schothorst Feed Research in the Netherlands.
In the latest instalment of Feed Matters, FeedNavigator’s podcast series, we talk to Steven Read, chief operating officer, ForFarmers UK, to hear how the company is navigating a trading landscape utterly changed by the outbreak of COVID-19 globally.
The global demand for insect protein is increasing rapidly, said German separation process specialist, Reinartz, which is active in the development of machinery for the efficient extraction of proteins from insect larvae.
Precision assessment of feed, additives and ingredients along with the examination of products for unwanted contaminants has a role to play in feed safety.
A wet and delayed feed crop harvest season in the US is being punctuated with reports of fires in grain dryers; however, there are ways to help prevent incidents and reduce the cost of drying, says industry expert.
Ireland’s Specialist Nutrition has signed a five-year deal, worth €135m, with US-based Attis Industries to supply by-products from that producer’s corn ethanol plant as sustainable feed to local farmers.
TeleSense is creating a grain monitoring system – Cellular SensorSpear – that controls feed grain moisture and temperature post-harvest, with a focus on grain in transit or stored outside.
To streamline feed mill, grain and flour mill design and construction along with expanding services in the western US, Bühler Group and Halverson Company are establishing a partnership.
Quality Roasting invests $12m in soy processing facility in Michigan, US, as part of a joint venture to strengthen and expand the company’s dairy feed market reach.
Perdue AgriBusiness acquires organic, non-GMO oilseed crush, production facilities from the financially troubled specialty producer, Hart AgStrong LLC to expand company production of specialty feed and food ingredients.
Co-Alliance and Farmer’s Grain & Feed Co. are in the start up phase and turning on their joint venture feed mill in Indiana following more than a year of construction.
In a response to an article from Sugarich procurement director, Paul Featherstone, on the risks of reintroducing swill feed into the EU, published on FeedNavigator earlier this month, Martin Bowman, policy and campaigns manager at environmental campaigning...
Fresh off a feed milling project in Northern Ireland, Binary Consultants, a specialist in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, exhibited at the VICTAM trade show in Cologne last month in a bid to attract more business from feed mills based in...
A set of new, online tools is aimed at making information about nutritional components in cattle feed and the economic value of feed or feed ingredients more accessible to livestock producers.
Instead of two separate events, which would not be in the interest of attendees or exhibitors, VIV and VICTAM have decided to combine their trade shows, which were both planned for Bangkok in Thailand, in the early part of 2020.
Market diversification, feed production and research into valued added processing of soy were some of the drivers for setting up a new soy crush and biodiesel production facility in Minnesota.
Clextral gave us the low down on fish and shrimp feed production trends behind extrusion equipment innovation at the Cologne feed processing show, VICTAM, earlier this month.
The iGrain hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) app was developed to make it easier for grain managers in feed mills and other milling operations to utilize CO2 monitoring technology and to get definite answers regarding grain quality condition....
Despite the remarkable progress made in poultry nutrition over recent decades, a researcher claims the broiler industry, by increasing the dietary nutrient densities in order to lower FCR, has progressively disregarded the original goals of pelleting.
Spray dried porcine plasma (SDPP) producer, Darling Ingredients, continually runs tests to ensure virus inactivation through processing of that ingredient.
Fermentation of plant-derived proteins can enhance food safety, improve protein digestibility and beneficially affect the intestinal microbiota and animal health, says Jürgen Zentek, professor at the Institute of Animal Nutrition, the Free University...
Two days into Victam International 2019 in Cologne, the evident trend on the show floor was the domination of aqua feed and pet food processing innovation, with feed machinery manufacturers citing growth and higher margins in both sectors as the rationale...
A paper detailing the research done into alternative processes for the production of expeller soybean meal (SBM) from European grown soybeans and trials done in broilers in the UK has just been published.
