NEWS 20 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2024 Eurofins Agro Testing Wageningen, a laboratory specializing in forage, feed, soil, water, manure and compost analysis, announced an international collaboration with trinamiX, a developer of cutting-edge biometric and mobile NIR spectroscopy solutions. The collaboration aims to optimize forage analyses without the need to send samples to a laboratory. The partnership brings together Eurofins Agro Testing’s expertise in state-of-the-art analysis, its global network of laboratories and extensive knowledge of the agri-food industry with trinamiX’s technology to offer on-the-spot analytics in a fraction of the time it takes for a traditional sample to be analysed. Hans Martin, Managing Director Eurofins Agro Testing Wageningen, emphasizes that its customers rely on best-in-class laboratory services to run their businesses profitably and sustainably. Combining this analytical data with trinamiX’s technology is the best way for the industry to improve livestock health and productivity. According to the companies, the collaboration is set to revolutionise the way feed suppliers, nutritionists, and farmers capture feed data to enable more accurate nutrition management. Bringing trinamiX’s technology and Eurofins Agro Testing’s analysis together in this partnership is set to provide high quality analysis with the flexibility to provide data and insight anywhere in the world. Read more>> Eurofins and trinamiX join forces for feed efficiency A University of New England controlled cattle study found the methane yield was slashed by 81 per cent when trial cattle had access to water troughs dosed with Rumin8’s methane reducing livestock supplements, indicating a new tool is emerging to help cattle farmers who rely on grazing production systems to lower their methane emissions. Delivery of Rumin8’s water-based formulation to cattle through water troughs opens up opportunities to reduce methane emissions from cattle in either remote, rangeland operations, or those with few animal handling touch points, such as pasture/ grass-based cattle production systems. At any one time 96% of the cattle population in Australia, the United States, Brazil and New Zealand graze grass. There are currently no methane-reducing additives commercially available for these cattle. “We are very pleased with these results as they build on the significant trial data set that Rumin8 has generated with a range of formulations in a variety of production systems over the past three years," says David Messina, Rumin8 Chief Executive Officer. “With so many cattle grazing grass around the world, the 81 per cent methane yield reduction achieved through water-based delivery was truly exciting, both in terms of addressable market and the positive climate impact this has the potential to create." Read more>> New Study: Water supplemented with Rumin8 reduces methane by 81%
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