Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 4 May 2021

NEWS 28 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2021 Evonik launches feed raw material database with new features FEFAC holds webinar about methane emissions in livestock farming Evonik launched AMINODat® 6.0 feed raw material database as a web application. The database contains over 900,000 analytical results from more than 18,000 samples of more than 500 feed raw materials from all over the world. European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC) held a webinar about managing methane emissions in livestock farming in April. E vonik’s AMINODat® 6.0 is a database for feed raw materials that is up to date at all times and more comprehensive than any other offer avail- able to the feed industry. Based on this database, feeds for livestock can be formulated with even greater precision. Evonik Animal Nutrition has been conducting raw material analyses for decades and supports its cus- tomers with the processed data. These data were pre- viously consolidated and made available every five years in printed form and as an interactive software. With AMINODat® 6.0, they are now available in shorter intervals as a web application. "This means that we can support our customers with updates sev- eral times a year," says Dr. Markus Wiltafsky-Mar- tin, who is responsible for service development at Evonik Animal Nutrition. The analyses are based on raw material sam- ples that Evonik receives from customers all over the world. AMINODat® 6.0 comprises more than F EFAC hosted a webinar on managing methane emissions in livestock farming. The online event was the third of the FEFAC Charter 2030 Webinar Series. The event was supported by the Eu- ropean Dairy Association (EDA) and the European Livestock and Meat Traders & Processors Union (UECBV) to learn more about current animal nutrition strategies to help reduce methane emissions and what it takes to make them fully operational and accessible for all livestock farmers. The webinar was opened and closed by Asger Christensen, EP rapporteur for the EU Commis- sion methane reduction strate- gy. He stressed that a number of solutions exist to reduce the envi- ronmental impact of the livestock sector, in particular, that methane emissions and we cannot accept that reduction of the number of animals is the way forward. He emphasized in this sense the im- portance for livestock farmers to get access to finances to support investments towards more sus- tainable farming conditions. Dr. André Bannink, Wagenin- gen University, set the scene and presented the state of the art in terms of animal nutrition solu- tions, including feed additives, to mitigate methane emissions and methodologies to modelled methane emissions from enteric fermentation taking into account different parameters such as feed intake, feed composition (fat, starch, fibre) and milk yield (in the case of dairy cows).