Shrimp on low fishmeal diets may see improved weight gain, digestibility and feed conversion when supplemental protease, carbohydrase and organic acid salts are added, say researchers.
Addressing new research questions, diversifying products and expanding production are some of the focus areas for stakeholders seeking to expand the role of insect ingredients in feed.
Adding a blend of clove, eugenol, thymol and vanillin oils to the diets of feedlot-raised cows may improve animal performance and feed intake without antibiotic use, say researchers.
Niels Alsted has just retired from Danish fish feed manufacturer, BioMar. In total, he spent 45 years in the aquaculture sector. He talked FeedNavigator through his career, which started in 1974 on a small trout farm in Denmark.
A new partnership and data collection efforts are among the details Tyson is sharing about the steps it is taking to address production practices for the feed ingredients it uses.
Arbiom, a developer of non-food biomass processing technology, announced last month that it had successfully produced tonnage quantities of its high protein feed ingredient derived from wood at a combined 80,000-L industrial fermentation scale, with partners...
Supplementing Nile tilapia diets with vegetable choline may support fish growth and performance along with providing clues to how that response is triggered, say researchers.
SweetPro Feeds is expanding its product line with a dried, high protein and fiber fermented feed ingredient after buying and refurbishing a new drying facility.
Animal production practices, including feed and additive use, and sustainability efforts are increasingly of interest for consumers globally, finds Cargill.
Absent sufficient domestic production, the US organic feed industry relies heavily on imports - a situation causing some industry members to support expanding domestic production with educational outreach.
In late 2017, we reported on an Irish project, Newtrients, involving the capture of essential nutrients from dairy processing wastewater to grow duckweed as a novel feed protein. Some 13 months on, we hear from the project leader as to the targets met...
Fermenting soybean meal may improve digestibility, antioxidant capacity and immune response when the alternative protein replaces fishmeal in farmed Japanese seabass diets, say researchers.
Piglets facing an immune challenge from E. coli may see an improvement to gut health and immune functioning from algae-derived β-glucan in their feed, say researchers.
Pizzeria by-product may support tilapia growth and development while lowering feed costs for producers using biofloc production systems, say researchers.
A focus on new technologies for animal production, environmental conservation and crop growth is leading South Dakota State University to invest $46.1m in a new precision agricultural facility.
Tropical forage legumes may provide a cost-effective alternative to the use of soybean meal and sorghum silage in feeds for dairy cows, while supporting milk production, say researchers.
Combing a cow’s own genetics with strategies that target changes in her rumen flora may be able to reduce methane emissions more effectively than by only selecting for low methane-emitting cows, according to a study from Denmark.
A dogwood-based feed additive may boost nutrient digestibility and provide a similar immune response to in-feed antibiotic use for feedlot cattle on a high grain diet, say researchers.
New trading partners, diversified markets, easing political tensions and developing regulations are among the topics US feed industry members are watching as the sector moves into 2019.
Trade uncertainty, expanding export markets, trade deals and preparing for Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) inspections were among the top considerations for the feed industry this year.
Fermented feeds are underused in broiler nutrition, compared to practice in the pig sphere, and further research is required to exploit such feed as a viable source for chickens, concluded the authors of a newly published review.
White Dog Labs is locating its upcoming commercial-scale production facility for its alternative feed ingredient derived from single-cell proteins in Nebraska, says CEO.
Danish company, ENORM, has been awarded a grant from the government to establish the country’s first industrial insect production site, based on the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) .
Feed additives with immunostimulant properties may provide a survival boost to farmed fish facing a disease challenge and improve biomass, say researchers.
Products containing biotic substances from plants – phytoalexins – that reportedly show beneficial properties for animals, and novel encapsulation technologies to protect those active substances are ID4FEED’s unique selling propositions (USPs), says the...
Swapping in-feed antibiotic use for functional oils may support the weight gain, performance and meat quality of feedlot raised cattle, say researchers.
KnipBio’s single-cell protein feed ingredient may allow farmed trout to meet or exceed growth and feed conversion rates set using other alternative proteins or fishmeal.
Aarhus University’s Knud-Erik Bach Knudsen, leader of the work package on alternative protein feed ingredients and real-time characterization under the Horizon 2020 backed Feed-a-Gene project, was presenting on achievements to date of that work at EuroTier...
Cow nutrition, especially in the dry period, in the last three months, seems to be of high importance for the ability of the calf to deal with pathogens, to respond properly to vaccines and to deal with feed ingredients, said Dr Hans-Joachim Schuberth...
Cargill, which has a strategic partnership with Irish technology start-up, Cainthus, to bring its groundbreaking AI technology to dairy farms across the world, said it would be accelerating the commercial deployment of the visual tracking system from...
Lowering protein levels and increasing fermentable carbohydrates in concentrates fed to dairy cows on pasture may boost nitrogen use efficiency and reduce emissions into the environment, say researchers.
Chelating propionic acid with calcium may boost the growth, feed efficiency and survival rate of farmed silver catfish facing disease challenge, say researchers.
The second International Sorghum Congress took place on 7-8 November 2018 in Milan, Italy. The event looked at how sorghum could compete with other cereals both in terms of profitability for farmers and economic and nutritional interest for users in both...
Beta Hatch is scaling up production of its insect-based protein feed ingredient along with carrying out continuing research to lower production costs with the aid of $630,000 in National Science Foundation funding.
Dispatches from the Cornell Nutritional Conference
Almost all classes of nutrients can act like hormones, and some feed additives may need to be reconsidered in terms of their role in signaling, says researcher.
Blended functional oils boost milk fat production, support dairy cow production during heat stress and could provide producers an alternative to ionophore use in diets, say researchers.
Colonization of gut microbiota in mammals during early life is vital to host health. Further understanding of the dynamics of intestinal microbial colonization in piglets via dietary interventions may possibly contribute to better piglet performance.
Improved understanding of refeeding and compensatory growth response in raised Arctic charr may provide new ways to enhance the growth of farmed fish, say researchers.
Supplementing dairy cow diets with DHA and choline may be a way to address fatty liver disease, stemming from a new understanding of fatty acid nutrition and the bovine lipidome.
Dispatches from World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
A study shows combining an anti-coccidial vaccine and a product containing three probiotics and one prebiotic had a positive impact on the zootechnical performance of broilers, and the coccidiosis lesion scoring after the experimental induction of coccidiosis,...
Supplementing dairy cow diets with chitosan may boost feed efficiency and increase milk levels of unsaturated fatty acids, however, also adding whole raw soybeans as a dietary fat source generates negative effects, say researchers.
