Using Better Corn – Get What You Can
August 3, 2022
With every ingredient, there is a certain total amount of nutrients and energy. Based on the composition and total weight of each ingredient, there is simply a point…
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With the Right Process, Don’t Dehull Your Soybeans
July 20, 2022
The ExPress® process, using equipment and know-how from Insta-Pro International, is unique; but why does this matter? First, it does not involve the use of chemicals, like solvents…
Why You Should Formulate with ExPress® Soy Meal
June 29, 2022
The ExPress® process, using equipment and know-how from Insta-Pro International, is unique and results in the production of a novel version of soy meal. Given that feeding trials…
Better Soy Meal for Layers – Same Egg Production, More Feed Efficiency, Lower Diet Costs
June 1, 2022
As part of our continued efforts to fully understand and optimize processing with our equipment, often used to make better versions (like ExPress® soy meal) of commodity ingredients,…
Liberate More Energy from Corn & Get More Milk
April 13, 2022
Insta-Pro blog readers will understand the importance of dietary energy, that which is usable by animals for productive purposes, and that processing, and especially high-shear dry extrusion, can…
Bigger Equipment, Same Quality, More Nutrition
February 16, 2022
The process makes the product. Structure predicts function. All ingredients are not created equal. Remember these axioms – I recently blogged about how one relatively simple, seldom considered,…
Sound Mechanisms for Improved, Consistent Performance
January 19, 2022
There’s nothing magical or supernatural about putting together a formulation for consistent animal performance. What’s happening is simply supplying the right amounts of individual nutrients and energy for…
Relative Feed Value (RFV): When Is It Meaningful?
December 22, 2021
As the costs of feeding animals are easily the biggest ongoing expense for food animal producers, it makes perfect sense to use measurements and metrics to get the…
Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN): How Useful Is It?
December 8, 2021
There are many methods of evaluating ingredients for animal feeding. This is important because the composition and characteristics of the ingredients that make up a complete diet affect…
