Commercially produced probiotic strains may provide more support than those found indigenously, but indigenous strains may outperform the use of a non-supplemented diet, say researchers.
Supplementing poultry diets with a blend of organic acids and essential oils may improve birds' intestinal functioning and provide an alternative to antibiotic use, say researchers.
Early nutritional programming via the maternal diet could be the key to the development and growth of piglets, whereas there is no benefit to supplementing post-weaned piglet diets with feed additives, say researchers.
Norwegian scientists make the “unexpected” discovery that the addition of a fish bone mineral hydrolysate to salmon feed can increase pink flesh pigmentation, producing fish that is potentially more attractive to consumers.
Adding some types of brown seaweed to shrimp diets may support shrimp through challenges from white spot disease and improve digestive capacity, say researchers.
Burned rangeland and pasture, lost cattle and replacement feed are some of the challenges that producers in California are facing from in-state wildfires.
Scientists from Wisconsin-Madison University want to identify what causes spurred growth in yellow perch exposed to predator attacks, with the view to ultimately developing a feed supplement.
Nutritional programming may help farmed yellow perch adapt to soybean meal-based diets as adults and support growth production while maintaining fertility, say researchers.
Summer has not been a quiet season for many companies and organizations in the animal feed and agricultural industries. Several have seen the arrival of new faces, while a few others have said farewell to longtime employees.
High protein soybean meal for aquaculture could soon be a commercially reality, as US biotech company Amfora embarks on a program to apply its patented gene editing technology to develop crops with an enhanced protein content.
Adding coarse grains or supplements are some tools that poultry producers can use to support a healthy ecosystem within birds during early development, says expert.
Compared to alfalfa-only silage, blending red clover and alfalfa may support silage quality by limiting protein degradation, boosting lactic acid levels and lowering pH, say researchers.
Animal nutrition research, company expansion and the construction of a new global innovation facility are among the projects Devenish Nutrition is undertaking with financial support from the EIB, says CEO.
Farmed fish feed supplemented with β-glucan binding protein based zinc oxide nanoparticles may support fish survival in the face of a disease challenge and boost fish growth, say researchers.
Supplementing shrimp feed with a novel probiotic strain may improve shrimp growth and weight gain along with inhibiting some pathogenic bacteria, say researchers.
Taurine supplementation may boost plant protein use in place of fishmeal in the diets of juvenile carnivorous fish and support fish growth performance, say researchers.
Developing feed additives to reduce virulence in pathogenic bacteria and new product development are some of the research priorities for Amlan International.
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Would it not be nice to produce L-Met in a safer way – without HCN – while utilizing the abundant industrial side product CO2? Yes, say a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Microbial protein production, driven by renewable hydrogen, and coupled with carbon capture, could be an interesting ‘out of the box’ solution as a protein source for food and feed that warrants further exploration, finds a new paper.
The type of iron supplement used in the diet of pregnant pigs may improve blood parameters, organ weight and iron nutritional status for piglets, say researchers.
The dominant factors governing polybrominated diphenyl ether congeners (PBDE) concentration in Atlantic salmon fillet are uptake via contaminated feed and fish growth, finds a study.
Low- and high-tannin faba beans may support turkey gut health and provide a locally grown alternative feed ingredient to the use of soybean meal for turkey producers, says researcher.
Dairy cattle pelleted feeds made with carinata meal may provide more protein than diets made with conventional protein meals like canola meal, say researchers.
Special Edition: Lowering the carbon footprint of feed
Novel proteins can replace soybean products in European poultry diets while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and arable land requirements for feed provision relative to conventional diets, finds a study.
A team of researchers from the University of Alberta examined the transfer of arsenic (As) from feed additives through the production of chickens into poultry litter.
The Brazilian aquaculture technology firm, Fisher Piscicultura, has been developing a round, floating production tank to feed and raise tilapia in an effort to reduce feed costs and mortality rates in tilapia production, says executive.
Feed efficiency, fish health and water condition monitoring are all elements of Aquaai Corporation’s new sensing system designed to swim with farmed fish, says co-founder.
Feed crop researchers at the University of Minnesota are seeking to improve producer economic returns and soil and water quality with newly developed feed, food grains and oilseeds, says expert.
Big data is all about the volume and veracity of data but smart data considers whether the data is useful or not for a particular stage in the value chain, says Dr Tomas Norton, based at the Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven in...
A Czech team’s research findings provide insights for the development of next generation probiotics for poultry production in the absence of antibiotics.
Poultry vaccines producer, Ceva Santé Animale, has signed an agreement with Olam Hatcheries Ltd, a subsidiary of Olam International, to further develop poultry production in Nigeria.
Publicly funded spending for feed, agriculture and fisheries research and development is dropping in high-income countries but such research is expanding in developing markets, says USDA.
Canadian Bio-Systems (CBS) has been closely examining the nutritional elements in feed barley in an effort to improve supports for the grain’s use in feed.
Cutting the use of fishmeal for non-carnivorous fish, terrestrial species along with improving the use of alterative ingredients are steps needed to extend the supply of fishmeal through 2050, says researcher.
Improved feed and feed ingredient research and faster nutritional trials are some of the reasons Cargill researchers have designed a dual-stream artificial rumen.
The use of Allium hookeri (AH) root could boost the weight gain of broilers and support antioxidant production without the use of antibiotics, say researchers.
KnipBio is planning to examine how its novel protein feed ingredient interacts with other diet components and is able to improve fish gut health and production, says CEO.
The use of AgTech needs to go beyond a focus on the farmer and integrate other parts of the production chain including feed mills and processors, says Robert Walker, CEO of Keenan, the Alltech owned cattle feed machinery business.
