Co-Products

Bacardi executive takes up the reins at Scottish whisky to feed protein player

16-Feb-2021 By Jane Byrne

Former Bacardi UK operations director Iain Lochhead has been appointed chief executive of Horizon Proteins, a biotech that transforms underused co-products from whisky distillation into nutrients for the aqua and animal feed industries.

Moist diets at an early age stimulate feed intake in broilers, finds research

06-Feb-2020 By Jane Byrne

Feeding young broilers moist diets may boost GIT and immune development, says a leading Dutch poultry nutrition expert.

Irish firm champions use of wet feed co-products as it secures large US deal

10-Dec-2019 By Jane Byrne

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.

Special Edition: Feed Sustainability

ForFarmers seeks next generation ideas on circular farming

18-Nov-2019 By Jane Byrne

Twelve Netherlands-based students are working for ForFarmers on a sustainability case in relation to circular farming over the next few weeks as part of a Dutch initiative called the Sustainable Business Challenge.

Sows could benefit from novel oilseed cake tested in grower pigs

07-May-2019 By Jane Byrne

Swedish researchers looked at feeding a novel feed resource, Lepidium cake (LC), to grower pigs, saw that it was a palatable feed, and that it did not seem to cause the animals any detrimental health effect.