Feed Formulation Articles
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Ruminants: The importance of feed analysis
Why is it important to have a high-quality feed? The quality of ruminant feed is directly linked with milk production, animal health, as well as farm performance. As feed costs represent a significant number of the total production costs, it is crucial to ensure feed nutritional values and quality throughout the whole year. Therefore, the intake of superior quality TMR and silages can help to ...
By SOILCARES
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About Petfood: premium consulting using BESTMIX Recipe Management - Case Study
The Italian company About Petfood provides consultancy services to a wide range of players in the animal feed industry. Founder and general manager Davide Galaverna explains: “Both my colleague Diana Vergnano and I graduated with degrees in veterinary medicine from the University of Turin. We built up our expertise in the field and now we’re using it to help producers of raw materials ...
By BESTMIX
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AB Vista: optimal recipes at the lowest cost price thanks to BESTMIX Feed Formulation 4.0 - Case Study
AB Vista is an animal nutrition technology company that provides products and technical services to the global animal nutrition industry. Since its foundation in 2004, AB Vista has grown to become a leading player in feed enzymes and one of the largest suppliers of yeast and natural betaine. The company focuses on four main subsectors: poultry, pigs, ruminants, and aquaculture. AB Vista is ...
By BESTMIX
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Embracing sustainability: a necessity for the future
Embracing sustainability in feed production is no longer a choice but an imperative in shaping the path toward a resilient future. As the world navigates complex environmental challenges, the feed production industry stands at a crossroads, tasked with the responsibility of revolutionizing its practices. By adopting sustainable approaches, this industry can mitigate its ecological footprint, ...
By BESTMIX
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How do you learn to calculate feed?
Nowadays, anyone starting out in feed calculation often does not know where to begin to ensure a good feed is formulated. There are thousands of sources both in literature and on the internet which give advice and recommendations about countless important nutrients and pollutants. What to do as a beginner? To evaluate rations or mixes correctly, you first need to have a very sound knowledge ...
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Hermet Protein for Aquaculture - Case Study
To test the attractiveness and palatability of Hermet Protein for Aquaculture, we formulated and tested a sinking feed for crayfish together with our trial partner. As control, the usual crayfish diet was placed next to the Hermet Protein feed. Both first responses as well as 12-hour observation demonstrated a clear preference for the Hermet Protein diet with no traces left behind, while some ...
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A functional hydrolysate adds value to feeds for omnivorous fish species
Omnivorous fish species are known to be less demanding in terms of nutritional and palatability requirements and yet dietary hydrolysate supplementation greatly improved production yields and margins. Several biological benefits are associated with protein hydrolysates and they have been used in finfish larval and juvenile diets for several decades now, mainly due to their high palatability and ...
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BESTMIX Software supports COFCO`s innovative strategy - Case Study
Industries: Feed Location: China Products: BESTMIX for Feed & Ration BESTMIX Quality Control Animal feed producer COFCO Feed Co Ltd and IT partner Adifo software are proud to announce the start of a long and fruitful partnership. By implementing the professional feed software tools BESTMIX Feed Formulation and BESTMIX Quality Control, COFCO Feed Co is seeking to play out its ...
By BESTMIX
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Vives University College students learn about BESTMIX Formulation as a Service - Case Study
Industries Feed Locations Europe Approximately 30 students at Vives University College are learning about BESTMIX feed formulation as part of their bachelor’s coursework in agro- and biotechnology. In the main subject of agriculture, feed formulation is a regular subject, while in the main subject of agro-industry it is an elective. Isabelle Degezelle, a lecturer in pig ...
By BESTMIX
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Vobra Special Petfoods ready for the future with BESTMIX feed formulation - Case Study
Industries Petfood Locations Europe Products BESTMIX Quality Control In addition to producing its own brands (CaroCroc, CASA-FERA, Impress Your Dog, SANIMED), Vobra Special Petfoods has also been producing high-quality pressed and extruded pet food for many Private Label customers since 1932. Due to the various production processes that Vobra offers (from cold pressing and ...
By BESTMIX
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DBN Group experiences working with BESTMIX Feed Formulation - Case Study
Industries Feed Premix Locations China Products BESTMIX for Feed & Ration Adifo is happy to announce its recent partnership with the Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co., Ltd. Through the installation of the Bestmix Feed Formulation module, the group is looking to further solidify its position as a market leader in the production of feed and feed related products. By ...
By BESTMIX
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Newhope Liuhe aiming for success with BESTMIX formulation software - Case Study
Industries Feed Locations China Products BESTMIX for Feed & Ration Animal feed manufacturer Newhope Liuhe Co Ltd and IT partner Adifo software are celebrating the successful implementation of BESTMIX feed formulation software. Newhope Liuhe started using BESTMIX feed formulation software in 2012. The program enables the entire Newhope group to manage all formulas in a ...
By BESTMIX
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What Affects Fish Feed Pellet Quality?
As an important factor in scaled fish farming and aquaculture industry, fish feed production has the big effect on both fish growth efficiency and fish farming cost. Since the past decades, there has been an obvious increasing in the use of floating fish feed because it is a kind of high-quality environmental-protection fish feed with superior water stability, better floating properties, ease in ...
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Sustainable feed production: How to go about it
How to strategically manage and optimize feed formulation based on nutrition and cost while considering environmental impact The environmental impact of livestock is a pressing issue that requires immediate action. Policymakers, retailers, and consumers are turning their attention towards our industry and demanding a change in the way we produce animal protein. For the industry as a ...
By BESTMIX
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Floating fish feed pellet formulation
Floating Fish feed is feed for fish. Its main ingredients are protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. Protein is an important nutrient for fish and shrimp to survive, and an important component of the body's cells, tissues and organs.The most popular type is extruding fish feed pellet ,which is puffed by floating fish feed pellet machine. The normal growth of fish requires a sufficient amount of ...
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R2 for mitigating the risk of PEDV, PRRSV and SVA - contaminated feed using an animal challenge model - Case Study
Introduction The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) epidemic in 2013 - 2014 caused high morbidity and mortality for hog farmers throughout North America. Animal feed was identified at that time as a risk factor and one of the potential vehicles to spread the viral disease. Feed Energy's R2 line of products delivers essential nutrients to the animal through the feed source and has proven to ...
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Catfish Feed Pellets Production Process
Catfish feed is mainly plant based, but fry and small fry feed contains some fish meal and other animal protein. The main ingredients used in catfish feed usually include soybean meal, cottonseed meal, corn and by-products, and wheat by-products. By the way, fish feed pellet machine is the indispensable equipment to make catfish feed pellets. Catfish Feed Pellets Introduction There are ...
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How to Formulate Fish Feeds with 27 percent Crude Protein using a mincer / Aquaculture
Ingredients Rice bran, Fish meal/Shrimp, Sunflower, Maize germ, Wheat flour and Water Mixing Ratios Mash = Rice bran + Fish meal + Sunflower + Maize germ (9:5:5:1) Pellets = Powder Mash + Wheat flour (10:1) Procedure Mix all the ingredients in appropriate ratios to come up with mash (powder feeds) Mix the mash with wheat flour. The wheat flour serves as a binder Now add a little water ...
By Fishward
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How Much Is Fish Feed Pellet Machine In Nigeria?
To help fish farmers provide balanced fish feed pellets at a bargain price. Fusmar Machinery, as a professional fish feed machine designer and manufacturer, we have launched a series of fish feed machines with reasonable prices and high quality according to the local market conditions, including fish feed extruder, feed mixer, feed crusher, feed dryer/cooler, feed package machine, and so on. We ...
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MILAS: springboard to the future for Vitelia Voeders
The search for an ERP solution that would better meet the needs of today and leave enough space for the possibilities of tomorrow, led animal feed manufacturer Vitelia Voeders to Adifo. The powerful combination of Adifo’s sector-specific ERP flagship MILAS and Microsoft Dynamics 365 turned out to perfectly meet Vitelia Voeders’ demand. The result: a customer ready for further growth ...
By BESTMIX
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