Analytical equipment

Tech upgrade lets Cargill offer real-time forage analysis

31-Jul-2017 By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Cargill Animal Nutrition is using a hand-held near-infrared spectrometer and an app to offer instant forage analysis for dairy producers.

Special Edition: Sustainable Sourcing

BioMar piloting a new supplier and raw material evaluation model

28-Jul-2017 By Jane Byrne

Danish fish feed producer, BioMar, is implementing a way of assessing its raw material supply chain that it says will reinforce the sustainability credentials of the ingredients it uses.

Data tool targets reproductive, health, nutritional and wellbeing status of dairy cows

06-Jul-2017 By Jane Byrne

A new modular cow monitoring program is said to allow dairy farmers to make data-driven decisions for maximized productivity.

Compliant NI feed firms can expect fewer inspections

23-Jun-2017 By Jane Byrne

Feed businesses in Northern Ireland (NI) who participate in and comply with feed assurance schemes – FEMAS, TASCC and UFAS – can look forward to fewer inspections and less sampling, reported UK feed trade group, the Agricultural Industries Confederation...

New feed assessment tool focused on NSPs

20-Jun-2017 By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Canadian Bio-Systems’ feed analysis tool is said to help producers determine the presence of non-starch polysaccharides in monogastric feed.

UK anticipates more ‘forensic approach’ to feed safety audits

08-Jun-2017 By Jane Byrne

UK feed and agribusiness industry representative group, the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), has changed the company it uses to endorse and audit its feed safety scheme.

Neovia urges industry partners to make Farm of the Future project a reality

26-May-2017 By David Anderson

French nutrition group, Neovia, is calling on feed companies and other agriculture partners to involve themselves in its Farm of the Future project, as it looks to develop a new way of livestock farming for the future.

Greening the animal feed sector: carbon footprint database development

20-Apr-2017 By Jane Byrne

A project to benchmark the environmental impact of feed, under the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI) initiative, is gathering steam.

New climate data assessment tools for US grain farmers

20-Apr-2017 By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

A university-led team has developed a set of tools to make climate data and information more accessible and useful to feed producers, says manager.

Dairy cow workshops: Cargill aims to bring theory alive

07-Apr-2017 By Jane Byrne

Phosphorus control, a pertinent issue in the Dutch dairy sector right now, was one of the areas Cargill zoomed in on a recent education initiative involving Dutch feed millers. 

Testing feed grain moisture in developing countries

24-Mar-2017 By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Feed and grain moisture monitoring may be getting easier for producers in developing nations with a combined project from Kansas State University and the USDA.

Understanding mode of action of antibiotic resistance

21-Mar-2017 By Jane Byrne

Biomin wants to gain greater insight into how replacement of in-feed antibiotics by certain feed additives can reduce the presence of antibiotic resistance genes.

Understanding whole farm nutrient balance said to be key to emission reduction

28-Feb-2017 By Jane Byrne

UK feed advisers are increasing their knowledge around how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on farms.

Special edition: Asia Pacific Feed Developments

Asia Pacific: FAO championing use of locally available feed resources

27-Feb-2017 By Jane Byrne

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is carrying out development work in relation to livestock feed in the Asia Pacific region.

EFSA funds project evaluating mycotoxin co-occurrence risk analysis tools

24-Feb-2017 By Jane Byrne

An EU wide feed and food mycotoxin project has been awarded a €375K grant under an EFSA initiative.

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What is needed to reduce the inflammation of the gut in birds?

21-Feb-2017 By Jane Byrne

Find out during our online webinar next week where we discuss ways to boost the intestinal health of poultry, a critical aspect of welfare and productivity. 

Reports from IPPE

AB Vista: NIR tools can reduce losses linked to feed ingredient variability

14-Feb-2017 By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

NIR technology is moving beyond analysis of traditional components such as fibre and protein to include measurements of phytate, energy and reactive lysine, says AB Vista.

Nutreco challenge – which feed innovations have made the grade?

10-Feb-2017 By Jane Byrne

Dutch feed group, Nutreco, said it has selected 10 finalists for the closing phase of its Feed Tech Challenge event this month in the Netherlands. 

What does a coughing pig reveal?

02-Feb-2017 By Jane Byrne

Is precision livestock farming (PLF) still a utopian dream or does agribusiness see such tools as potentially transformative?

'Political in-fighting has taken priority over the economic realities' - UK feed group aghast at Brexit plans

17-Jan-2017 By Jane Byrne

An EU divorce without single market access or customs union membership poses a huge threat to the UK food and agriculture industries, says agribusiness trade group.

‘Nutritional programming key to optimal use of marine ingredients in EU aquaculture’

03-Jan-2017 By Jane Byrne

A five-year EU project has concluded European farmed fish species will still hit nutrition and growth targets with only minimal levels of fishmeal and fish oil in diets based on plant ingredients. 

Special Edition: Existing and emerging feed risks

New EU rules to boost food and feed safety one step away from adoption

21-Dec-2016 By Jane Byrne

The legislative process is nearly complete for the revised EU rules on official controls of food and feed safety, with the regulation likely to be published in March next year.

Special Edition: Existing and emerging feed risks

Crisis-sparked research generates digital tools for feed and food safety

19-Dec-2016 By Jane Byrne

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has developed software to estimate the transfer of certain environmental contaminants in feed to milk, eggs and pork.

Special Edition: Existing and emerging feed risks

Inorganic arsenic, arsenolipids, iodine – tracking future feed controls

19-Dec-2016 By Jane Byrne

A risk assessment of arsenolipids, which are lipid-soluble arsenic-containing compounds present in marine oils, is urgently needed, says a researcher. 

60 second interview: Using tech in feed formulation, mill management

13-Dec-2016 By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

In a new series on feed careers, we caught up with Bruce Feist, managing director of Format Solutions regarding his current role, how he how he arrived at where he is today and his perspective on the world of feed manufacturing.

EuroTier 2016 in Pictures

21-Nov-2016 By Jane Byrne

EuroTier 2016 showed the animal nutrition and production industries are booming, with record numbers of visitors filing into the fair.

Danish group invests in aqua feed research facility in Chile

BioMar looks to bolster expertise in functional fish feeds

13-Oct-2016 By Jane Byrne

BioMar is to acquire 30% of a feed research center in Chile, in a move the Danish fish feed company says will allow it to focus on the development on functional feeds and fish welfare.

EFSA wants you! Call to feed and food stakeholders to enlist

26-Sep-2016 By Jane Byrne

EFSA is urging all relevant bodies that are active at EU level and are keen to support the Authority’s work in feed and food risk assessment to register as official EFSA stakeholders.

Special Edition: Gut Health

Cargill aiming to model the effect of antibiotics

02-Aug-2016 By Jane Byrne

What is the current strategy of Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN) in terms of boosting animal immune development, disease resistance and performance?

Feed Innovation

Irish start-up wants to digitize the feed industry

28-Jul-2016 By Jane Byrne

Contomply is an Irish firm with a new web-based application directly targeting the feed industry. 

Regulator looks to shore up feed safety in Scotland

18-Jul-2016 By Jane Byrne

Gaps in official feed controls in Scotland need plugging, and without a system overhaul the risk of a feed safety incident occurring is high, says Food Standards Scotland (FSS). 

France’s Avril Group looks to Brazil for feed additives growth

21-Jun-2016 By Jane Byrne

MiXscience , which is the animal nutrition division of the Avril Group, has formed a “strategic alliance” with Brazilian feed additive and premix player, Salus Group, to leverage the continuing growth in the livestock sector in the Latin American powerhouse.

Reports from AMC PIX conference in Australia

Field to fork: NIR technology has ‘real future’ in feed

13-Jun-2016 By Kacey Culliney

NIR technology has a strong future in complex feed chain analysis, far beyond simple quality control checks, claim industry experts.

Alltech confirms buy-out of Irish machinery firm Keenan

25-Apr-2016 By Jane Byrne

Alltech is to acquire Irish equipment manufacturer, Keenan Systems, following a due diligence exercise it carried out earlier this month. 

WHO and FAO want feed industry data to help manage E.coli risk

25-Apr-2016 By Jane Byrne

Two UN bodies have initiated a global call to solicit data in order to help them provide scientific advice to guide the development of appropriate Codex standards or guidelines on pathogenic E.coli.

What will poultry production look like 10 years from now?

22-Apr-2016 By Jane Byrne

We caught up with Mario Penz, Cargill’s poultry expert and futurist, to find out.

Dairy calves: Nutreco tries to decode higher nutrient intake response

18-Apr-2016 By Jane Byrne

Nutreco's Trouw Nutrition is relying on metabolic profiling and gene expression studies to examine the mode of action of its early calf feeding approach, LifeStart.

EU initiative comes up with ‘smart’ way to tackle mycotoxins in crops

12-Apr-2016 By Jane Byrne

A four-year, €5m backed EU project is looking to create a cloud-based platform that provides real-time, customized advice about mycotoxins in order to achieve crop contamination reductions of between 20 and 90%. 

Applause for EFSA inclusion of metabolite risk in mycotoxin review

07-Apr-2016 By Jane Byrne

EFSA has found the current Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of the mycotoxin, zearalenone, in food and feed should be maintained at the previous level of 0.25 µg/kg BW per day. 

Poultry feed analysis shows production most at risk from DON

11-Mar-2016 By Jane Byrne

Deoxynivalenol (DON) constitutes the most common mycotoxin threat to poultry, said Biomin, as it released its 2015 mycotoxin survey this week.

Amino acid digestibility analysis of soybean meal now available to feed industry

21-Feb-2016 By Lynda Searby

Developments to AusScan Online, Aunir’s web-based spectroscopy calibration tool, mean the pig feed industry can now analyze soybean meal to obtain SID (standard ileal digestible) values for all essential amino acids.

Warning about Spanish maize mycotoxin load

08-Feb-2016 By Jane Byrne

A survey by Nutriad on the 2015 Spanish corn crop, conducted immediately post-harvest, raises questions about the quality of the grain. 

Cargill buys UK feed formulation software firm

17-Dec-2015 By Jane Byrne

US agribusiness giant, Cargill, in a continued drive to expand its animal nutrition business, has acquired UK feed and food formulation technology provider, Format International.

Be proactive not reactive on mycotoxin testing, says Alltech following US survey

03-Dec-2015 By Aerin Curtis

The 2015 fall North American harvest report from Alltech suggests that cattle producers ought to test feed for mycotoxin levels before use.

Animal scientists look to enhance a pig-specific precision feeding system

01-Dec-2015 By Aerin Curtis

International researchers are looking to refine a multiphase-individual precision pig feeding system to make it more efficient for use with breeding-finishing pigs, sows and broilers.

Special Edition: Precision Feeding

Predictive models and ingredient interaction insights will change precision nutrition science: Alltech

30-Nov-2015 By Jane Byrne

Is radical restructuring of industry standard feed formulation models required to take precision nutrition to the next level?

Low mycotoxin load in wheat in the UK and Ireland, finds survey

26-Nov-2015 By Jane Byrne

The 2015 Nutriad wheat mycotoxin survey concludes that this year’s harvest of wheat in the UK and Ireland is of very good quality in terms of mycotoxin contamination.

Special Edition: Precison Feeding

US dairy farmers using precision tools to track milk yield, mastitis and milk components

26-Nov-2015 By Aerin Curtis

As precision farming technology has improved, there has been greater take up in the US dairy sector but the numbers investing in such tools still remain fairly low, says an animal science expert.

Special Edition: Precision Feeding

‘We want to nail down the architecture of feed efficiency’ – EU funded research aiming for more sustainable pig and poultry farming

24-Nov-2015 By Jane Byrne

Reducing access to phosphorous and methionine in chickens shows feed efficiency gains later on finds the EU funded project, ECO-FCE.

FDA foreign supplier rules find support and censure from AFIA, NGFA

17-Nov-2015 By Aerin Curtis

New rules from the FDA to verify the safety of foreign foods and feed products imported and intended for use in the US see a mixed reaction from feed industry organizations.