Top Blogs of 2024 – Maximizing Corn Ingredients
December 18, 2024
In recent years, we’ve invested more in and researching the promising applications of our high-shear dry extruded corn ingredient, Hi-Gel™ corn. Materials that are high in starch have…
Author: Janeth Colina
Consistent, Quality Ingredients Are Key
August 7, 2024
In commercial animal production, the primary goal is to enhance feed efficiency due to the significant and continuous feeding expenses. That’s why providing the necessary nutrients to meet…
Author: Janeth Colina
Corn with More Energy Makes More Milk
July 31, 2024
If you have followed Insta-Pro for any length of time, you understand the importance we place on dietary energy, the useable energy by animals for productive purposes, and…
Author: Dave Albin
Hi-Gel™ Corn Used with ExPress® Soy Improves Broiler Feed Conversion
July 24, 2024
The poultry industry measures feed conversion ratio (FCR) – the relationship between kg of feed consumed compared to kg of body weight gain – as a performance indicator…
Author: Janeth Colina
How Hi-Gel™ Corn Improves Diet Formulations
July 17, 2024
Often used as a source of energy in a diet formulation, the starch of corn is broken down into glucose in the intestine (glucose is the most common…
Author: Dave Albin
Part 2: Hi-Gel™ Corn for Swine – Particle Size
April 24, 2024
In the previous blog covering the use of Hi-Gel™ corn for nursery diets, pigs demonstrated that there were no differences in growth performance when ground corn was substituted…
Author: Janeth Colina
Part 1: Hi-Gel™ Corn for Swine
April 17, 2024
Corn is the most common cereal grain used to supply dietary energy to swine diets. This is due to the starch content in corn is approximately 60 to…
Author: Janeth Colina
Hi-Gel™ Corn – Particle Size for Broilers
April 10, 2024
Hi-Gel™ corn, the product of high-shear dry extrusion from Insta-Pro, is an improved version of the commodity ingredient. Corn starch in this ingredient is thoroughly gelatinized (90% or…
Author: Dave Albin
Maximizing Corn Ingredients
April 3, 2024
In recent years, we’ve invested more in and researching the promising applications of our high-shear dry extruded corn ingredient, Hi-Gel™ corn. Materials that are high in starch have…
Author: Dave Albin
Building a Smarter Food System
February 28, 2024
Ensuring global food security is not easy and a challenge that is being worked on by many businesses, governments, and NGOs around the world. For years, Bill Gates…
Author: Michael Martin
Progress Is An Investment
February 21, 2024
Since the development of civilization, people have invested in the development of science and technology. The accumulation of capital and knowledge led to agricultural and industrial revolutions. The…
Author: Eric Hoile
Summary of ExPress® Oil Benefits
March 29, 2023
Here at Insta-Pro, we pride ourselves in helping our customers by investing in continued product research and providing this information and new equipment to help them rise above…
Author: Dan Sturzenbecker
Unique Benefits of Using ExPress® Soy Oil as Main Energy Source in Broiler Diets
March 22, 2023
Due to an average 6.4% inflation hike, protein prices are at an all time high. Just like consumers, feed manufacturers are also trying to counter the effects of…
Author: Kathleen Mayo
New Information on ExPress® Soy Oil: Part 2 – Animal Results
March 8, 2023
In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed how there are only small compositional differences between soy oils despite being produced with different equipment and processes. Also,…
Author: Dave Albin
New Information on ExPress® Soy Oil: Part 1 – Composition
March 1, 2023
I’ve long been interested in this area of animal nutrition – the area of using fats and oils strategically in formulations. I’ve conducted animal research that runs along…
Author: Dave Albin
Hi-Gel™ Corn with Insta-Pro Extrusion: Tips for Use in Formulations
February 15, 2023
If you’ve followed us here over the past few years and weeks, you have read how Insta-Pro International has been developing high-shear dry extrusion procedures for extruding corn…
Author: Dave Albin
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,…
Author: Dave Albin
Innovative Ingredient For Broilers
January 26, 2022
Feed composition is instrumental to the growth of broilers. As discussed in previous blogs, the feed ingredients used for broilers can dramatically alter the speed at which they…
Author: Belen Diaz Cisneros