Times Change Through Technology
April 27, 2022
To account for a growing population and high demand, animal producers are searching for cost-efficient, nutrient-dense ingredients to use in their animal feed without sacrificing their revenue. Along…
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Increase Milk Production in Dairy Cows
April 20, 2022
A challenge many producers face with their dairy cows is deciding which ingredients to feed them. Is it possible to improve the performance of dairy cows using the…
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…
TSP – A Profitable Plan For Our Future
December 15, 2021
As the population of the world increases, so too does the quantity of food necessary to keep everyone fed. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the world…
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…
Do Not Assume All Extruders/Mechanical Pressing Systems Are Equal: Make A Difference Choosing Proper Soymeal For Animal Feeding
November 24, 2021
It is well known that the ability of animals to fully utilize the nutrient content of soybeans depends on the method of processing to deactivate antinutrients and add…
Insta-Pro High-Shear Dry Extruded Ingredients In Cornell University Dairy Nutrition Database
November 10, 2021
Formulating diets for dairy cows is challenging for a few reasons. Mainly, everything the cow consumes enters the rumen, which is a massive microbial fermentation vat that alters…
Protein: Value Driver For Ingredients
October 27, 2021
We often get asked about ingredient value: What makes an ingredient worth more? How do you get more of what you’re making into a formulation? Given that high-shear…
4 Reasons You SHOULD Extrude Maize
October 14, 2021
A poultry producer in East Africa phoned last week with a question: “Should I extrude maize?” “Will extrusion reduce mycotoxins?” he asked too. He buys maize that is…
Growth Where It Counts – Keep More Nitrogen In Your Birds Via High-Shear Dry Extrusion
September 30, 2021
Recently, we completed a study at Iowa State University that indicated the many benefits of using Hi-Gel™ Corn versions of commodity ingredients, namely corn and soybean meal. You…
Soy Hulls Are Prebiotics – Why You Should Keep Them
September 16, 2021
The issue of dehulling as a part of soy meal production is a frequent topic of conversation, we previous addressed why hulls should remain with the meal. This…
Bringing Out The Best In Full-Fat Soybean Meal
September 9, 2021
There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the world. A few countries that have been hit hard by the pandemic are…
New Research Will Help Africa’s Soybean Farmers
September 2, 2021
Africa’s economies are growing. More people are joining ‘the middle class’ and spending more money on better food for themselves and their children. Demand for poultry, eggs, milk…
Not All Processes Add Equal Nutritional Value to Soymeal
August 26, 2021
There is a common misconception about the differences among processing technologies for soybeans and how processing conditions affect the quality of soymeal. Recently, I was asked about the…
Are Your Animals Getting All They Can Out of Corn?
July 22, 2021
On LinkedIn a few years ago, in a post, I asked “Have we gotten all that we can out of corn?” I also said that we intended to…
Alternative Formulation Strategies Need Great Ingredients
July 15, 2021
Producers are always trying to lower input costs, and when 70% or more of these costs relate to feed, it’s not surprising that various strategies are examined to…
