Extrusion Not Only Stabilizes Rice Bran – It Makes It Better
April 21, 2016
In previous blogs, we’ve discussed how high shear, dry extrusion from Insta-Pro Intl can be used to stabilize rice bran. As Mayette Ramos, Sales Director for SE Asia,…
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High Temperature, Short Time Extrusion Cooking Preserves Protein Quality
April 7, 2016
The importance of quality ingredients, such as extruded full-fat soy and ExPress® soy meal, are very popular blog topics with our readers. In these blogs, examples are shown,…
Rice Bran: An Invaluable By-Product
January 14, 2016
Other than China & India, top countries in the world producing rice are Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. The most important by-product of rice is rice…
The Big Business of Dairy in Europe
December 3, 2015
Britain’s largest dairy companies, Muller and Arla, are reducing the price they pay farmers for raw milk. Over-production, Russia’s embargo on imports of European food, lower Chinese dairy…
Confinement Swine Production in the US – Quality Ingredients Equal Less Waste
October 29, 2015
I recently watched a segment on the McLaughlin Group, a discussion and debate-style TV program, entitled “A Problem of Poop”. You can see it here (the segment begins…
Benefits of Recycled Seafood Waste
October 14, 2015
A topic that we here at Insta-Pro Intl think about frequently arose once again in a recent article – food waste. It turns out that about 50% of…
Control Your Process, Control Your Temperature
October 1, 2015
I recently participated in an extrusion short course at Texas A&M University. Insta-Pro International regularly gives presentations and performs equipment demonstrations at Texas A&M. While the course focuses…
Soybean Fields Then and Now
August 13, 2015
Warm temperatures forced me to break out my short pants for the weekend and my 9 year old daughter happened to notice an ugly scar on my right…
Chipotle Understands Final Products Are Only as Good as Their Raw Materials
May 28, 2015
Chipotle Mexican Grill recently announced that they had completed their transition, with a few qualifiers, to only using non-GMO ingredients in their food products. Interestingly, many of the…
Why Amino Acid Digestibility Matters
April 16, 2015
Amino acid digestibility has been a popular topic in my past blogs and trade journals as an important measure of protein quality and that higher digestibility is better. However,…
Economics of Feed Formulation for Broilers
April 8, 2015
Poultry nutritionist face a variety of different challenges when calculating the best formulation for feed. In the February 2015 issue of WATT Poultry USA, Gary Thorton discusses a recent…
Producing Animal Proteins in Hot Climates
March 26, 2015
I recently attended a conference in Dubai, and had the pleasure of speaking with people who are working to improve local food and feed production in the region. …
Dietary Energy as Carbs
January 8, 2015
I recently published a blog that examined published data on growth performance of pigs when fed equal amounts dietary energy. I want to go one step further to…
Lessons from Predicting DDGS Quality, Part 2: Prediction Equation
October 2, 2014
In my previous blog, I discussed data from a recent publication on variation in the quality of DDGS (Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles), a by-product of the corn…
Lessons From Predicting DDGS Quality, Part 1: Raw Observations
September 25, 2014
A recent publication on variation in DDGS quality, containing attempts to predict it with equations, has once again highlighted the inherent problems with using this ingredient to support…
Cheap Becomes Expensive in Product Manufacturing
September 4, 2014
Occasionally, we get into a discussion with small extrusion business owners who seek our advice on using proper nutritional requirements and typical ingredients to be used to manufacture quality…
Extruded Soy Can Be Used in Piglet Diets When PEDv from Blood Products is a Concern
May 13, 2014
Recently, swine producers have been dealing with a devastating outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv). As the name implies, PEDv causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, and mortality…
Non-GMO Oilseeds: Another Dynamic Niche Market for Natural Processors
January 7, 2014
As consumers are concerned about the sources of their food, an increasing interest by food companies, oilseed processors, and farm growers for non-genetically grown soybeans has occurred. USDA’s…
