In an increasingly ‘noisy’ antimicrobial marketplace, Irish biotech start-up Auranta, which won the New Frontiers category in the Irish Times Innovation Awards last month, found robust scientific evidence is the key to ensuring its plant extract-based...
A researcher in the Czech Republic has been examining chicken and pig gut microbiota with special emphasis on the identification of chicken gut microbiota bacteria that restrict Salmonella and Campylobacter colonization and pig microbiota bacteria that...
Swiss biotech, GNUbiotics, has signed a manufacturing agreement with Evonik Nutrition and Care, whereby the German specialty chemicals group will manufacture its milk oligosaccharide product, branded as AMObiome.
A meta-analysis of Asia-based research indicates that fermented feed ingredients such as soybean meal or rapeseed meal boost the growth performance of weaner and grower pigs, while fermented feed additives promote pig’s growth at all stages.
Gut health is one of the three pillars of research at Alltech’s European Bioscience Center in Dunboyne, in Ireland. The other two pillars are trace mineral and crop science research.
β-mannanase supplementation in feed may increase the diversity of birds’ microbiota, and, following a disease challenge, support broiler’s intestinal health, researchers say.
Adding yeast as a protein to salmon feeds may improve fish growth, production and feed intake even during the transition from freshwater to saltwater environments, researchers say.
Adding β-glucan to the diets of farmed trout may support weight gain, fish performance and feed efficiency while reducing symptoms of enteritis, say researchers.
Abandoning sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) makes no sense if replaced by therapeutic doses in medicated feed, says a Danish expert.
Work to build a new feed technology center at the University of Illinois is seeing in-state support from Illinois-based ADM and AGCO, which provided $2.5m in funding and 200,000 bushels of grain storage, respectively.
Adding supplemental zinc may boost piglet growth and oxidative status, while supplemental arginine in feed has a limited influence on oxidative status or piglet growth, say researchers.
The use of protected benzoic acid feed in piglets in a zinc oxide (ZnO) replacement trial involving four mid-sized commercial farms in Spain resulted in a reduction in medication costs and improvement in performance, said Novus International, Inc.
