Swapping soybean meal for insect meal may offer poultry producers a way to improve sustainability and limit facilities environmental footprints, say researchers.
Last week saw Olam International inaugurate its new poultry feed mill, hatchery and poultry farm in Kaduna State and its new integrated poultry and fish feed mill at Ilorin in Kwara State, in Nigeria.
Secondary plant compound producer, EW Nutrition, says animals will indicate when all is not well and such signals should be analyzed carefully to determine the multiple parameters undermining performance.
Expansion projects by the three largest poultry groups in Saudi Arabia will see an 8% hike in broiler meat output there against 2014 levels but the production costs involved, especially feed, remain high, said the latest USDA GAIN report on the Saudi...
The team behind an industry and academia collaborative project claims they have pinpointed seven potential biomarkers for gut barrier failure in broilers – an outcome that could support the hunt for effective antibiotic alternatives in poultry production.
Biotechnology firm, BRI, said trial work, both in India and the US, is showing the efficacy of its xylanase feed enzyme , Xylamax, in terms of improving feed digestibility and uptake in broilers fed a corn-soy diet.
French poultry production businesses must invest at the farm level and increase scale via mergers and acquisitions at home and abroad or lose further ground to the competitive German, Dutch and Belgian producers, who, using more efficient models, are...
Whilst the poultry feed industry is still getting its head around the concept of phytase ‘super-dosing’, AB Vista has come out with the results of a new study which advocates combining phytase super-dosing with a single-enzyme xylanase.
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