31 dec 2006

Ruminal acidosis can be prevented by controlling the ph in the rumen of cows. Meal frequency appears to be an important factor in regulating rumen ph. A recent study showed that supplementation of live yeast significantly increases the frequency of ...

01 aug 2006

Research continues to show increasing benefits of feeding yeast culture products to beef and dairy cattle, swine, poultry and horses, as well as fish and shrimp. As the restrictions on antibiotics get tighter, producers are looking for ways to manag...

01 aug 2006

Mannan oligosaccharides derived from the outer cell wall of selected strains of yeast have been widely researched over the past 13 years and their potential to improve growth performance, liveability and health has been demonstrated in many trials. ...

01 apr 2006

Mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) are ideal for attracting and attaching pathogenic bacteria. Laboratory testing, however, showed that different forms of MOS showed enormous differences in efficacy. Kyle Newman explains how the efficacy can be quantified...

01 feb 2006

The idea of taking into account parameters such as the costs and benefits of a natural biological activator (live yeast) in formulation models is fairly new and sounds an exciting concept; as more research centres and companies follow suit, a new gen...

01 apr 2005

Despite the fact that antimicrobial growth promoters are at risk globally and their benefits will soon be lost to European production, there is no reason why the experience and expertise that these additives generated should be lost with them. A safe...

01 oct 2004

In the last issue, Ruud Bremmers waved goodbye to the old EU feed regulations and welcomed in the new. Here he gets ready for the implementation of the new rules, whose details are aimed at transparency, safety and clarity.

01 apr 2004

For a number of years now, there have been groups dedicated to educating the world about the benefits of yeast in diets for ruminants, but until recently, their efforts were hampered by a relative lack of knowledge about why it worked. In the backgro...

01 aug 2003

The benefits of mannanoligosaccharides in diets for pigs and poultry are many-fold and appear more subtle as each new paper is published. Studies in broilers and turkeys have shown that the beneficial effects on intestinal morphology and humoral immu...

01 apr 2003