How Does It Work? 7 Blogs You MUST Read Before Buying
August 13, 2020
Our equipment has to work in tandem to create high-quality ExPress® soymeal. With all of the moving parts involved in the ExPress® process, it can get a bit…
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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…
SUPPLY CHANGE DISRUPTIONS DUE TO COVID-19: RISK MITIGATION WITH HIGH-SHEAR DRY EXTRUSION
April 23, 2020
As resources are being diverted to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions – increased demand for ground transportation, manufacturing diversion away from traditional agriculture, and global…
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…
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…
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…
HIGH-SHEAR DRY EXTRUSION EFFECTIVELY REDUCES PHYTATE-PHOSPHORUS
January 9, 2020
Phosphorus is an essential mineral that serves many important functions in the animal body and is required to support optimal maintenance, body growth, reproduction and development of bones.…
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…
Utility of Dry Extruded Shapes
October 4, 2018
When you think of shaped feeds, typically, pelleted diets, pet foods, and fish feeds come to mind. These are complete diets that provide all nutrients in a convenient…
To Dehull or Not To Dehull
August 9, 2018
This is an unending topic for us – should I dehull my soybeans before high-shear dry extrusion and mechanical oil pressing? We’ve covered it before on our blog…
Super Pre-Starters: Clean Soy Concept and Some Basic Math
July 26, 2018
There is no substitute for getting animals off to a good start. What happens early on in the growth phase sets the stage for later performance. I attended…
Importance of Quality Dry Extrusion in Nutrition Aid Programs
June 14, 2018
Welfare relief programs are in place around the world to help those who desperately need food. Typically, these are people caught up in negative political situations and war…
What resources have you overlooked? – Testing New Ingredients in R&D Part II
November 22, 2017
At Insta-Pro, some of the more interesting products that we have extruded are; turkey and broiler mortalities, by-products from slaughter facilities, radiator stop leak, ground mink carcasses, centrifuged eggshell, ground fish parts, municipal…
What resources have you overlooked? – Testing New Ingredients in R&D Part I
November 16, 2017
In my 27 years of working with Insta-Pro and its unique high shear dry extrusion technology, I have been witness to some rather interesting projects. The majority of them…
By Products – Stabilized Rice Bran
October 26, 2017
In previous blogs, we have discussed how our process for stabilizing rice bran is effective and efficient for feeding livestock and other applications, including food. When considering the…
Adding Value by Processing Locally Grown Ingredients
October 12, 2017
I recently visited Sri Lanka to participate in Lanka Livestock, a regional agricultural trade show. Our booth attracted numerous new prospects interested in extrusion technologies as well as…
Properly-Processed ExPress® Soy Meal Maintains High Digestibility & Greater Metabolizable Energy
May 18, 2017
We invented the high-shear dry extrusion process and have sought to optimize it over the years through research—much of which has been detailed here on the blog. In a…
Farming “Hotspots” Quantifiably Turning Country Air into City Air
October 27, 2016
If you’ve ever traveled by a large animal farm, chances are you’ve encountered the smell of ammonia. Excess nitrogen from protein in feed which is more than required…
