Re-evaluating trace mineral strategies to support environmental compliance and improve bottom...
Many industry nutritionists follow long established norms by simply selecting an inorganic source of trace mineral to fill the void without taking all the...
Choline is essential and required for everybody
Choline is a biochemical building block and precursor to numerous compounds involved in supporting life. For dairy cattle, choline serves many roles and is...
Managing feed cost with exogenous enzymes in a volatile market
Exogenous feed enzymes enhance digestibility of cereals, grain, legumes and oilseed meals. Each class of feed enzyme is unique, and can be deployed during...
Avivagen announces approval in China, world’s largest commercial feed production market
Avivagen Inc. announced that OxC-betaTM, its oxidized carotenoid-based feed additive product has received approval for use in China. The approval comes as a result...
Weaning piglets without therapeutic zinc oxide: IT’S POSSIBLE AND EFFICIENT!
Using high level of zinc oxide in piglet feeds is no longer a solution in the European Union and antibiotic reduction is more pressing...
ZnO mode of action in piglets: Focus on Zn blood levels,...
Zinc is an essential nutrient that play a crucial role in the body. Zinc deficiency can lead to a reduction on feed intake, increase...
Zero Zinc Ban is nothing new for the French feed industry*
"Zero Zinc” era is nothing new for the local industry in France. Nevertheless, in a period of reduction of antibiotics usage, it is a...
Bile acid – not just another emulsifier
Young animals have quite immature lipid digestion capabilities because their digestive organs may not be fully developed. To overcome this, nutritionists have started looking...
Advantages of using medium chain fatty acids in animal feed
Antibiotics were removed from feedstuffs after EU prohibited them in 2006. This put a lot of pressure on livestock producers to find alternatives to...
The next generation for the phosphates market
Due to the extreme volatility of the actual market situation, and also due to the ongoing reduction in the market supply of feed phosphates,...
