NEWS 10 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2024 ADM shares LCA results of its plant extract-based feed additive ADM performed a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for XTRACT 6930, a plant extract-based feed additive for monogastric animals. LCA is a method to evaluate and quantify the potential environmental impacts throughout the supply chain of a product or service. Notably, ADM compiled LCA results of XTRACT 6930 use on broiler operations within four global regions: Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America. According to the company's statement, these results suggest that XTRACT 6930 is a useful tool to mitigate the environmental footprint of the broiler meat sector. Use of ADM’s feed additive has demonstrated a reduction by at least 1.9% of the carbon footprint of live broilers, and at least 2.8% reduced carbon footprint of broiler meat production*. In other words, 1 kg CO2 eq. spent using XTRACT results in savings of 75 kg CO2 eq. in live broiler farming and a savings of 100 kg CO2 eq. in broiler meat processing*. Additionally, XTRACT 6930 has shown a negligible influence on the environmental footprint of broiler feed. “ADM is proud to be first in the animal nutrition sector to present such robust and reliable LCA data in the plant extract-based feed additives category, externally verified for use on four continents,” said Pierre-Joseph Paoli, President of Growth and Marketing for ADM’s animal nutrition business. “With rising demand to mitigate the environmental impact of our industry, LCA is a necessary step to understand how a single feed solution can have a measurable impact along the entire value chain.” Read more>> Intraco and trinamiX collaborate for mobile feed analysis Intraco Ltd, a leading exporter of premixes and concentrates from Belgium and part of Group DC, and trinamiX GmbH, one of the leading providers of mobile spectroscopy solutions and subsidiary of BASF, announced their collaboration for mobile feed analysis. The aim of this partnership is to give Intraco and its distribution partners the opportunity to analyse the nutrient composition of feed with trinamiX Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution - a robust, handheld spectrometer, which comes together with a mobile app and customer portal. This solution enables the feed advisors of Intraco’s distributors to assess raw materials and final feed in real time and advise local farmers to ensure that livestock is fed nutritionally balanced and cost-effectively. Having a comprehensive understanding of the nutrient content in animal feed is essential for ensuring the quality of animal diets. This is particularly crucial due to the varying nutritional needs of livestock at different stages of life and health conditions. Moreover, as raw materials change, it becomes necessary to regularly modify the diet. Traditionally, feed advisors and farmers had to depend on standard nutritional values or undergo time-consuming laboratory analyses. However, according to trinamiX, with its mobile NIR spectrometer, a wide range of finished feeds, cereals, oilseed and expeller meals, extraction meals and byproducts, as well as forage, can be analysed within seconds. Read more>>
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