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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

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

Pet food scare - When will it stop?
Everyday I receive around 50 news alerts about the massive pet food recall in my email box. Most of them are the same though, but it is obvious that this subject is currently the hottest item in the North American online commodities. Although it ...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | tuesday 08 may 2007

Scares and emotions
The pet food industry cannot be compared to the livestock feed industry for many reasons, but one important distinction that stands out may be the level of emotion involved. And this is just the thing that makes the pet food industry an interesti...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | wednesday 21 march 2007

Bright future for bacteria
In this blog I want to touch on the area of probiotics a little bit more. The concept of probiotics and the use of these products as feed additives has been developing since the late 1970's, but has become more popular in animal feed since the ba...

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | wednesday 28 february 2007

Working with the new rules (1)

One of the recent polls on this website was: The costly and time consuming new EU 'Feed Additive Regulation (1831/2003)' makes it impossible for small companies to compete on the feed additives markets.

Author: Emmy Koeleman  | friday 26 january 2007

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