Are you feeding your animals quality ingredients? Read these blogs to find out
August 27, 2020
Quality ingredients are key for your livestock. With our equipment, you can expect nutritional advantages for soy meal, extruded corn and other end products. The process matters, and…
Author: Dave Albin
One Great Ingredient Allows Formulations With Other, Cheaper Ingredients: Can This Save Me Money?
August 20, 2020
Did you know that you get insight into someone’s psyche when they select ingredients and use them to formulate diets. No, really, you do. I’ve written about how…
Author: Dave Albin
Improved Cysteine Digestibility in Poultry with High-Shear Dry Extrusion of Soy
August 6, 2020
Amino acids that make up proteins are critically important in any diet. Typically, in order to build proteins, all amino acids are needed. Commercial diet formulations often focus…
Author: Dave Albin
MORE EVIDENCE OF PROTEIN OVERFEEDING: QUALITY INGREDIENTS ARE THE KEY!
June 25, 2020
The amino acids contained in dietary proteins are essential nutrients. Without them, humans and animals don’t last long. While required for life, it’s also important to have balanced…
Author: Dave Albin
Near-Term Ingredient Problem: DDGS Shortage Solution
April 23, 2020
It’s not every day that a 0.1-micron-diameter virus, invisible to the naked eye, comes along and changes the world. This is all the more fascinating when it’s not…
Author: Dave Albin
CRACKS IN THE COMMODITY GRAIN SYSTEM
April 2, 2020
We’ve covered in past blogs the challenging harvest conditions for grains and oilseeds in several parts of North America during harvest 2018. The increased likelihood of damage when…
Author: Dave Albin
MORE RESIDUAL OIL DOESN’T ALWAYS EQUAL MORE ENERGY FOR GROWTH
March 12, 2020
Last year, I wrote a blog series which concluded that choosing ingredients with more high-quality residual oil in the meal could add many benefits to your formulation program. …
Author: Dave Albin
INGREDIENT PRICES RISE AND FALL, BUT QUALITY AND CONSISTENCY ENDURE
March 5, 2020
When formulating diets for animals, some things are more lasting than others. There will always be a finite list of quantity-limited ingredients to choose from, and it is…
Author: Dave Albin
PROTEIN FUNCTIONALITY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN, AND DOES IT MATTER?
November 28, 2019
How functional are your proteins? How do you know? Does it matter for what you’re doing? These are questions we get asked from time to time, and while…
Author: Dave Albin
High-Shear Dry Extruded Soy Meals Fed to Dairy: What Happens to Milk Fat?
November 14, 2019
In dairy production, the total amount of milk produced each day per cow is important, but it’s really the components, milk fat and protein, that are the most…
Author: Dave Albin
Is Silicon an Essential Nutrient? Implications for Processing
October 10, 2019
It’s well known that dozens of nutrients are essential for health and well-being. Deficiency symptoms of many nutrients have been well-documented over the years. The shocking outcomes of…
Author: Dave Albin
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 5, Recommendations
October 3, 2019
This is part 5, and the final post, in the blog series on why higher fat diet formulations are beneficial and should be used to feed animals. The…
Author: Dave Albin
Quality Amino Acids from Protein are Essential for Life
September 19, 2019
I have an old book on my shelf called “Protein-Calorie Malnutrition”. I don’t even know where I got it, but I think it was being given away as…
Author: Dave Albin
Total Lysine Is Not Related to Digestible Lysine in Commodity, Hexane Soybean Meal
September 5, 2019
I often write on the Insta-Pro blog about the importance of quality measures for all ingredients – it’s very difficult to conduct a least-cost diet formulation that’s worth…
Author: Dave Albin
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 4, What Comes Along with the Fat?
August 29, 2019
This is part 4 in the blog series on why higher fat diet formulations are beneficial and should be used in your program. For review, here are the…
Author: Dave Albin
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 3, Structural and Functional Changes
August 15, 2019
Higher fat diets are typically beneficial from an efficiency and performance point-of-view, as I wrote about in part 2 of this blog series. Often, the total amount of…
Author: Dave Albin
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 2, Effect on Intake and Performance
July 18, 2019
I wrote part 1 of this blog series on the benefits of higher fat diets in which I defined typical dietary fat ranges for a variety of species. …
Author: Dave Albin
Evidence of Soybean Divergence: What Does It Mean?
May 16, 2019
One of the grand narratives you may have noticed on the Insta-Pro blog relates to oilseeds, grains, and their final ingredient forms exhibiting more differentiation than is often…
Author: Dave Albin