There are signs that China’s vast feed market is beginning to look at natural additives as a means to replace antibiotics, according to Biorigin’s regional chief.
The basic concept of in-ovo feeding is to supplement the amniotic fluid, which is the first meal of a chick before it hatches, in order to provide nutritional input that can help with the development of that young bird towards hatch, says Dr Peter Ferket,...
There is pressure on European pig producers to find alternative feeding strategies in light of the upcoming EU-wide ban on zinc oxide and the growing trend away from the use of antibiotics.
Adding a fish processing waste-derived by-product to farmed catfish diets may boost fish growth, performance and generate a prebiotic effect, say researchers.
DSM reported today [January 29] that it intends to create a joint venture with Nenter in China, which will include all that company’s production and related assets for vitamin E.
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.
Danish producer, Novozymes, reported that sales to the feed industry declined during 2018, as challenging feed enzyme markets, especially in Latin America, put pressure on volumes, including in the fourth quarter.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
DSM said its move to innovate, to extend its eubiotics platform underlines its commitment to support industry’s efforts to reduce the use of antibiotics, as it launches a new poultry targeted essential oils product.
Pig farmers in Northwestern Europe are working under tremendous constraints today, in terms of a shift away from antibiotics usage, the removal of zinc oxide and a reduction in copper inclusion levels. Agrifirm says it was mindful of those developments...
Cargill has been involved in a strategic partnership with phytogenic feed additive producer, Delacon, since July 2017. We spoke to Tarun Keswani, regional director for Cargill’s micro nutrition business in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), at EuroTier...
Austria headquartered plant feed additives producer, Delacon, is looking to tackle post-weaning challenges in piglets with its new plant based product.
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,...
Adding xylanase and mannanase to the diets of young pigs may support gut health and digestion when fibrous coproducts are used in the feed, say researchers.
Use of a yeast-based protein and synthetic amino acids can maintain trout growth when replacing fishmeal, but more work is needed to understand the ingredients role in amino acid catabolism, say researchers.
Poultry feed producers today have multiple options for supplementing birds’ diets with a crystalline form of methionine (Met) including DL- methionine and, more recently, L- methionine, but Evonik says accuracy in supplementation of Met is critical for...
Biomin is in expansion mode. It recently broke ground on a new mineral feed and premix production plant in Austria, while, in November 2017, it increased its capacity in the fast-growing Chinese market with the opening of a production plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu...
A study confirmed the yeast species, Yarrowia lipolytica, in combination with a probiotic - a mixture of Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis - is highly suitable for feeding piglets.
Botanicals company, Nor-Feed, and SONAS, a research unit of Angers University based in western France, have launched LabCom FeedInTech, a joint laboratory for the close study of plant based feed additives.
DSM and Novozymes have co-developed a new enzyme product, branded as Balancius. The feed ingredient is designed to remove bacterial cell debris from the animal’s gut, helping to optimize nutritional absorption and digestibility.
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.
Adding some types of brown seaweed to shrimp diets may support shrimp through challenges from white spot disease and improve digestive capacity, say researchers.
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.
Developing feed additives to reduce virulence in pathogenic bacteria and new product development are some of the research priorities for Amlan International.
A review, published under the Antibiotic Stewardship Program of the UK's National Pig Association (NPA), indicates significant progress has been made by the UK pig sector in reducing and refining antibiotic use over the past two years.
A Czech team’s research findings provide insights for the development of next generation probiotics for poultry production in the absence of antibiotics.
German producer, Phytobiotics, launched a new flavor and sweeteners line – Miracol - at VIV Europe in Utrecht for use in in all animal species and at every stage of life.
Heidi Hall, technical manager for swine at Anpario, outlined at VIV Europe 2018 in Utrecht last month how acid based eubiotics help regulate the microbial population of the animal’s gut.
Improved feed and feed ingredient research and faster nutritional trials are some of the reasons Cargill researchers have designed a dual-stream artificial rumen.
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 feed ingredients with melanoidins may not have negative effects on the production of farmed rainbow trout and may support fish digestion and performance, say researchers.
Irish biotech company, MicroSynbiotiX Ltd, says it is making significant progress around proof of concept of its edible vaccine system, showing that it can use microalgae as an oral delivery platform to vaccinate farmed juvenile fish.
