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: Animal Nutrition (Emmy Koeleman)

Emmy Koeleman was born in Uithoorn, which is around 8km from Amsterdam and very close to the famous flower market in Aalsmeer.
Despite having grown up with the main horticultural area in the Netherlands on her doorstep, her interest lay in agriculture.
In 1996, she began a BSc degree in Animal Husbandry at the Agricultural College in Delft. And then went on to complete an MSc in Animal Science at Wageningen University, where she completed her thesis at its department of Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology.
Since graduating from Wageningen in 2002, Emmy has worked with a variety of companies involved in agricultural publishing. In 2003, she took up a position at Reed Business, initially as editorial assistant for the magazine Pig Progress, but since 2005 as editor of Feed Mix and co-editor of Feed Tech.

Blogs

Future changes in the global dairy sector

"We have come a long way", said Erich Erber, founder of Biomin in his opening speech at the World Nutrition Forum. He continued: "But there is more to do, especially in current times where issues such as: the price of feedstuffs, the world popu...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | wednesday 05 november 2008

Organic pet foods

Fuelled by pet food scares – such as the melamine issue – and more luxury lifestyles for pet owners, more and more people are buying natural and organic foods for their cats and dogs.

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | wednesday 08 october 2008

Popular Panga

We have a great food programme on the Dutch television - "The food diggers CIA". The tv hosts go on a hunt to find out w here a certain product comes from, what is in it and what the claims on the labels mean? During the l...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | monday 25 august 2008

Animal friendly feeding

Today's animal production is changing. Consumers are increasingly aware of the process of food production, which is directly reflected back in the policies that are formulated by the agricultural ministers. Animal welfare is one of those topics...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | tuesday 08 july 2008

Getting more out of feed!!
With the pressure of elevated feed prices, the search is on to remain profitable in the animal production industry. This all has to do with being more efficient! We can look at the animal itself, and focus on animals that are able to get more ani...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | thursday 17 april 2008

2008: The Year Of Sustainability

In my first blog for the New Year I will start with a topic which I think will be totally 2008! It has been buzzing around for years, but I feel that the coming year will be marked by real measures, transparency and agreements regarding…Sust...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | wednesday 23 january 2008

Got (no) milk?

Oil is not the only product on the market for which record prices have to be paid. With the increased dairy demand in (primarily) Asia and the rising costs for animal feed, milk is also trading at record highs at the moment. According to the Fo...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | tuesday 18 december 2007

The F word
We all know the frequently used phrase: "from farm to fork" right? But I think we are missing another important F word here: finance. If we want to cover the whole food chain in one sentence, we have to include the money part. Even more so now wi...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | thursday 08 november 2007

Garlic – healthy, but pricy!
The common cold, flu, acne and high cholesterol levels can all be cured, it is claimed, by one thing, GARLIC!! So if it is good for humans, why not for animals?

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | monday 13 august 2007

What to do with meat and bone meal?

As the annual incidence of BSE in Britain is now regarded as being at an acceptable level, the time seems right to re-introduce the use of meat and bone meal in animal diets. That is, according to some government officials. However, the possibl...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | friday 08 june 2007

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