Animal Nutrition News
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Vytelle Awarded For Global Sustainability
Today, the Business Intelligence Group named Vytelle a Sustainability Leadership Award winner in the 2022 Sustainability Awards program. The Sustainability Awards honor those people, teams and organizations who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice or overall mission. The global cattle industry is facing what Vytelle calls the triple challenge. Farmers are facing a ...
By Vytelle, LLC
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RABDF Scoops Two National Awards for Dairy-Tech Online and Emissions Campaign
The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has scooped two top national awards from the National Association Awards (NAA) for Best Online Event and Best Lobbying Campaign. The RABDF beat off stiff competition to win the Best Online Event for Dairy-Tech Online, which replaced the face-to-face event at Stoneleigh last year due to Covid-19. Dairy-Tech Online was a resounding success, ...
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High Tech Robotic Dairy Field Day on September 22.
University of Minnesota Extension will be hosting a summer field day at Golden Sunrise Dairy, 31328 290 St SW, McIntosh, MN on September 22. Golden Sunrise Dairy is owned and managed by Tim Rolf and his son, Derek. In 2020, they moved into a new high technology, automated cross ventilated barn featuring the latest in dairy technology. Calves are fed on automatic calf feeders. Cows are milked ...
By Lely
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Nutreco enters into two joint ventures with Unga Group to expand footprint in East Africa
Nutreco is pleased to announce that subject to the necessary regulatory approvals it has formed two joint ventures with the Kenya-based, largest feed miller in East Africa Unga Group Plc to meet the growing demand for high-quality protein within the East African region. This partnership involves open-ended, Nutreco-managed joint ventures with two indirect subsidiaries of Unga Group: Unga Farm ...
By Nutreco N.V.
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Is microalgae the sustainable food of the future?
The aquatic ecosystem could give our food chain a helping hand. The demand for food is rising and more sustainable production systems are needed. That’s why Europe is opening up to the algae sector. Humans have been eating macroalgae for a long time, but attention is now turning to their smaller cousins, microalgae, for their nutritional potential. In Pataias, Portugal, the company ...
By Necton SA
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Osborne to unveil new small animal performance testing system at World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, June 9-11
USA - Understanding the correlation between individual animal performance at a young age and performance in the finishing cycle has been lacking within the industry for decades. Historically, methods of testing young, nursery-sized animals has involved individually isolating animals and manual, labor-intensive monitoring of performance characteristics affected by genetics, feed, pharmaceuticals, ...
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Spain: WELTEC BIOPOWER RNG Plant Cuts Carbon Emissions of Dairy Cattle Farm
Currently, German biogas specialist WELTEC BIOPOWER is building a biomethane plant for the Spanish dairy cattle farm Torre Santamaría. Since the first 250-kW biogas plant went live back in 2011, the Catalan family business has been able to cover its entire energy demand from its own residues. The farm in Vallfogona de Balaguer was the first milk producer in Spain to use any residual ...
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The Strongest Calf Accessories on the Market
Agri-Plastics, The Calf Housing Specialist, is proud to introduce calfhutchshop.com, an online shop for calf feeding products and accessories. As third-generation dairymen, the VanBuuren family knows the challenges with raising healthy dairy calves. Rugged Agri-Plastics products are uniquely manufactured to withstand punishing weather extremes along with everyday wear and tear, calf after calf, ...
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BASF and Adifo Software partner on optimizing feed formulation, supporting a more sustainable animal protein production
BASF and Adifo Software launch a new digital solution for the animal agriculture value chain by integrating sustainability analytics powered by BASF’s AgBalance Livestock project into Adifo’s BESTMIX feed formulation software. BASF’s sustainability analytics enable the industry to dynamically assess the life cycle environmental impacts to make animal protein production more ...
By BESTMIX
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Evonik to concentrate MetAMINO production at its three, world-scale, best-in-class hubs
Evonik is to cluster its MetAMINO® (DL-methionine) production at three international hubs (Americas, Europe, and Asia) to maximize economies of scale and utilize robust processes. Evonik to manage all its DL-methionine production from three world-scale hubs in Europe, Americas and Asia. Evonik to strengthen its competitiveness by further improving its cost position. Evonik to ...
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Senators Stabenow, Murkowski Team Up to Reintroduce Bipartisan Food Supply Protection Act
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, reintroduced the Food Supply Protection Act with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to help protect the food supply after the COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on farmers, workers, food banks, and families. “The COVID-19 crisis has continued to ...
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Webcast: How to remain competitive in the face of current and future supply and formulation challenges
Watch the webcast This webinar which has been designed in partnership with Feed Info, examines how to adapt feed supply and production strategies to tackle disruptors like COVID-19 and future unforeseen challenges. For stakeholders from the animal nutrition and feed industry, this webcast provides insight into the different issues that can impact supply and formulation, so that you can better ...
By BESTMIX
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Webcast: How to remain competitive in the face of current and future supply and formulation challenges
This free to attend, 40 minute webinar which has been designed in partnership with Feed Info, will examine how to adapt feed supply and production strategies to tackle disruptors like COVID-19 and future unforeseen challenges. For stakeholders from the animal nutrition and feed industry, this webcast will provide the insight into different issues that can impact supply and formulation, so you ...
By BESTMIX
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DGA Update: USDA Assistance Program Signups Now Open
The USDA has announced Coronavirus Food Assistance Program details. Sign-ups for this program started on May 26 and runs through Aug. 28. There are payments ($16 billion in total) for dairy, livestock, commodity crops, specialty crops and wool. Payments will be prorated at 80 percent upfront and 20 percent later in the year. Organic dairy is expected to be treated, in this context, like any other ...
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Ranking Member Stabenow Introduces Legislation to Protect America’s Food Supply
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, introduced legislation to help protect the food supply after the COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on farmers, workers, food banks, and families. “The COVID-19 crisis has tested the strength of our nation’s food supply chain, creating a ripple effect ...
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CPI Replaces Heat Exchanger at Animal Feed Supplement Manufacturer
Catalytic Products International (CPI) recently completed the rebuild of a CPI QUADRANT SR-13,000 SCFM Recuperative Thermal Oxidizer at a Southern USA animal health and nutrition company for the abatement of odors, VOCs and ammonia from the animal feed manufacturing process. During an annual service visit, the field service technician identified that the primary heat exchanger was showing ...
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MDA Unveils Resources for Livestock Producers/Processors During Pandemic
Editor’s Note: The Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture yesterday announced some initiatives to help farmers during the current pandemic, and we thought these details might be helpful for your farm operation. The information below comes from an April 22 MDA announcement. This and other COVID-19 related resources for farmers are being collected at sfa-mn.org/covid-19-resources-for-farmers. ...
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The impacts of Covid-19 on the animal feed industry
What about the continuity of animal nutrition plants across the globe? It goes without saying that COVID-19 has disrupted the nutrition industries. The measures that have been taken in the past weeks have affected both our personal lives as the way our industry is functioning. These are challenging times that trigger us to look at business continuity on 3 levels: ensuring continuity in the ...
By BESTMIX
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MILAS: Manage international and domestic shipping options wherever you are
As stated in last week’s blog post, it has become increasingly important for companies in the nutritional supply chain to support day-to-day operations from within a home office environment, utilizing the power cloud technology and mobile devices. With this article, we would like to expand on this idea, by shining a light on how to use cloud technology to manage your international and ...
By BESTMIX
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Insect farming: innovation by Amusca and Mavitec
After a period of engineering, building, and testing, Amusca and Mavitec are proud to present the first scalable, mobile Insect Breeding Unit. A revolutionary idea of Dr. Ir. Walter Jansen of Amusca, an expert in insects. His mission: to produce living insect larvae for the production of protein for the poultry and aqua-feed industries. With the Insect Breeding Unit, the enormous potential of ...
By Amusca B.V.
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