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…
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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…
Nutrition is the Key
November 7, 2019
Prior to our September workshop at our headquarters in Grimes, Iowa I had taken a group from Russia for an ExPress® plant tour and a visit to a…
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…
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…
LYSINE TO PROTEIN RATIO: AN INDICATOR TO ESTIMATE HEAT DAMAGE IN PROCESSED INGREDIENTS
September 26, 2019
When following instructions is easy, things are done well. For instance, when baking a cake for the first time, you follow a recipe to be exact regarding what…
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…
Sterilization is one of the key functions of dry extrusion
September 12, 2019
Recently, I was contacted by one of our customers who has been successfully producing shaped feeds with our MS3000 Model medium-shear dry extruder for a number of years.…
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…
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…
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…
Research Behind Success. Part I: Poultry
July 25, 2019
For many years, Insta-Pro International has been a global leader in the development of processing technologies for food and feed, providing value-added innovations according to market needs. This…
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. …
VEGETABLE VS ANIMAL PROTEIN FOR POULTRY: TO VEG OR NOT TO VEG
July 4, 2019
The poultry industry is undergoing changes based on consumers demand for transparency. The most common trends, highlighted here. One of the trends mentioned, an all vegetarian diet claim,…
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER: STERILIZATION OF CONTAMINATED FEED THROUGH HIGH-SHEAR DRY EXTRUSION
June 20, 2019
In the last five years, two endemic viruses – Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus – were introduced to North America and resulted in a…
Reactive lysine: A Test for Soybean Quality
June 11, 2019
Lysine is the first limiting amino acid in diets for swine and second limiting for poultry. It is used as a reference to adjust the content of other…
SUCCESSFUL ANTIBIOTIC-FREE PRODUCTION: ADD VALUE TO A NUTRITION PROGRAM
June 11, 2019
With more consumers and governments pushing to reduce use of antibiotics in livestock production, several challenges have come to light. Antibiotics have been used for many years to…
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…
