In the rush to improve zootechnical performance, good feed doesn't end with formulation, but advances in feed technology can be somewhat overlooked. Feed Mix went back to school, where Nutreco's Marleen Vrij demonstrated how small changes make big differences.

Sometimes, when new developments are made, our vocabulary does not have words to define these. So new words are created. Amandus Kahl have further developed the processes of hygienising, preconditioning and pelleting and completed it with a new process – and a new name – "interstage dosing".

How do you get from where you are to where you want to be in the management of your dairy farm? That is more or less the scope of Heemskerk Feed Services in their approach to the dairy farmer. They recently expanded their activities into on-farm feed milling by purchasing a mobile feed mixer from manufacturer Tropper in Ausria.

The outcome is not yet clear, but this plant will be ready when the market asks for tailor-made products. Multi-flexibility is the key word for Jan Janssen of Dutch feed compounder SaWeCo and initiator of a unique cooperation between feed mill equipment manufacturers.

In the rush to improve zootechnical performance, good feed design doesn't end with formulation. Advances in feed technology are somewhat overlooked. Previous Feed Mix editor Sarah Mellor went back to school, where Nutreco's Marleen Vrij demonstrated how small changes make big differences.

A new, special and efficient feedmill with maximum synergy through the logical combination of animal feed and wood pellets has been built in the Voralberg region of Austria. The basic idea came from Vorarlberger Mühlen- und Mischfutterwerke (VMM) at the end of the last century. Tebodin did the engineering and harm Klein has the story.

Around 200 people from all over Europe gathered in the Congress Centre of Nantes (Western France) March 8th to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tecaliman, the only animal nutrition centre in France. In addition to a roundtable devoted to feed homogeneity, this day was also the occasion to assess a European program driven by Tecaliman. Philippe Caldier reports for Feed Tech.

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