Water is one of the most important feed ingredients in the diet. Clean water improves the animal’s performance and acidifying drinking water may even suppress bacteria that have a negative influence on performance. But there’s more to acidifying the...

01 nov 2005

Ammonia emission is one of the critical environmental gases that French farmers have to reduce. In an experiment under French conditions the use of benzoic acid was tested to see if it could reduce ammonia emission in pigs.

01 oct 2005

Together with legislation to reduce on-farm levels of salmonella, the EU's ban on antibiotic growth promoters will intensify pressures to rethink pig nutrition and herd health management. Feed enzymes represent a key element when working towards a st...

01 aug 2005

What should an effective feed additive do? Establishing the goals of new additives should be the first step in their development. Then it's a case of filling in the gaps. But is this easier said than done? Sarah Mellor went to Noordwijk aan Zee in th...

01 jun 2005

Feed formulation should take into account the amount of substrate available for the microflora and can partly compensate for the negative effects of the ban on antibiotics. Other alternative additives can then be incorporated, say Paul Bikker and Pie...

01 apr 2005

No one would dispute that safeguarding the benefits of antibiotics for treatment of human diseases is paramount. But is banning on their use as growth promoters a wise move? What can Europe expect now? And what can we do to smooth the transition? Sar...

01 apr 2005

Kicking off what will be a biennial event, Sarah Mellor joined nutritionists from around the globe in the picturesque setting of Salzburg, Austria for the first world nutrition forum. Not content to confine themselves to ingredients and additives, th...

01 dec 2004

In this column, swine nutritionist Dr Ioannis Mavromichalis reviews recent research on pig nutrition and feed technology of practical importance to the global feed industry: Chickpeas – Rice protein concentrate – Pantothenic acid – Bacillus for finis...

01 dec 2004

Pigs and poultry have difficulties digesting the non-starch-polsaccharides found in cereals. Enzymes can chop these long chain structures into smaller bits. Xylanases seem to be the right enzymes to do this job.

01 dec 2004

Various parts of the yeast cell have been demonstrated to have beneficial effects in livestock performance. Now a unique processing method that yields the cell wall and contents can be linked to specific pathogen control measures.

01 dec 2004