The 6th Practical Short Course Aquafeed Euro-Asia will take place on 23 and 24 October in Istanbul, Turkey.

On 14 October, Wouter Hendriks gave his inaugural address as the new professor of the animal nutrition char group of Wageningen university and research centre, the Netherlands. The direction he wants to take is clear: more fundamental research and more research in petfood and nutrigenomics. “It is all about increasing efficiency,” according to Hendriks.

 

In 2007, Feed Mix Magazine celebrates its 15th anniversary, so, time to look back! We have asked industry experts from several fields what they  think are the most important, memorable, interesting and important insights in animal nutrition since 1993.   

Dietary fibre is of interest to both science and industry, and yet despite growing awareness of its benefits to health and nutrition, intakes remain below the recommended level.

The IFF course "Fundamentals and new developments in feed-compounding technology" will be held from 16 to 20 June 2008 in English language at Braunschweig-Thune, Germany.

India is among the countries having highest livestock and poultry population in the world. The industry is keen on improving productivity in order to increase yields and profitability.

It is not the individual skills that determine the quality of the final outcome, but the collaboration and skilled use each individual that leads to an optimum result. It is like with soccer. One can have fantastic players that perform outstanding on the international platform, but if they cannot perform together as a team the results will be likewise. A similar move is to be developed in the feed industry on the information technology level, but is the industry ready?

Mathieu Castex, a final year PhD student at IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) in Nouméa, New-Caledonia, was awarded Young Researcher of the Year during New- Caledonia "Doctoriales 2008".

ABN’s Sherburn mill is the first compound feed mill in the UK to be recommended by the British Standards Institute (BSI) for accreditation to BS OHAS 18001, the International Health & Safety Standard.