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With Earth's population rapidly building towards eight billion within the next decade, every resource we produce is being stretched thin. Sustainability is becoming more than a simple buzzword of the environmental movement, it's now the prime focus of progress in our world. Though precision agriculture is a concept that has been around for decades, precision feeding is a newer concept. ...
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From managing raw materials (and their fluctuating prices) and precise feeding to regulatory compliance and environmental impact, feed producers face many challenges as they strive to maintain profitability while maintaining high product quality. Global demand for animal protein is rising – what’s your strategy to optimize resources, reduce waste, cut costs, and enhance efficiency? ...
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As a manager in the nutrition supply chain, your primary goals are profitability, competitiveness, and market success. Achieving those goals hinges on making the right business decisions at the right time. But you can only do that if you always have accurate data at your fingertips. So how can software help you ensure optimal decision-making through operational transparency? You want to increase ...
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Heptinstall states that using genetic manipulation and maintaining acceptable EPDs, as well as other traits like carcass quality and feed efficiency, is all a balancing act. “It’s all part of a toolbox,” he says. ...
Cows are ruminants and depend on a consistent ration with high-quality forage. Changes in ration consistency can impact cow performance. ...
Adifo’s BESTMIX software allows nutritionists and formulators to manage and optimize nutrition and cost attributes of feed and ration formulation. By integrating BASF’s sustainability analytics into BESTMIX, customers along the animal agriculture value chain will be able to strategically manage and optimize feed formulation based on ...
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Tami's background in formulating feeds, balancing on farm rations, and working with feed mills and nutritionists in the dairy industry provide her with multiple areas of practical application for Adifo's software. ...
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Tami's background in formulating feeds, balancing on farm rations, and working with feed mills and nutritionists in the dairy industry provide her with multiple areas of practical application for Adifo's software. ...
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This might change over time, over the years, seasons or depending on feed quality and ration - therefore it's not a bad idea to go back to this report once a month and see if your best success period has changed. ...
Victam International, in Colgone Germany, from June 12 - 14, is the ideal moment to drop by and discover Adifo’s BESTMIX and MILAS software solutions. Come by our booth and learn how strategic software helps you compose, produce, market and deliver high quality products at the best price and in the most efficient way. Go for happy customers with software that guides you through your entire ...
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The challenges the feed and food industry are facing are becoming ever more complex. With a continuously expanding world population, we are looking forward with great anticipation and fascination to what the feed industry will look like in 2020, and also in 2050, when population figures are expected to exceed 9 ...
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We are independent dairy consultants with a focus on TMR rations. In the last 20 years DairyTuner has supported dairymen in Europe and the United States. To support dairy consultancy, the sophisticated,’ first of its kind’ DairyTuner weighing system was introduced and developed to manage rations and feed efficiency. DairyTuner is the ...
He thinks more corn will be added back into feed rations, and exports will increase. Domestic demand is flat for soybeans, but exports are very strong, from China, Africa and the rest of the developing world. ...
Benbrook’s research), rely upon pasture and forage-based feeds that improve the balance of omega-6 to omega-3 in whole milk. Although the same concepts could be applied to conventional dairy production, these feeding methods and rations are staples for family farmer organic production. ...
Still used mainly in feed but also in health supplements, Atlantic menhaden are one of the largest U.S. fisheries by weight today. As more pork and poultry producers in the United States and Europe began using inexpensive fishmeal in feed rations, landings of forage fish grew. When the large-scale Peruvian anchovy fishery was launched in ...
Virtually the entire world, including the three largest meat producers—China, the United States, and Brazil—now relies heavily on soybean meal as a protein supplement in feed rations. Promising new livestock and dairy systems based on roughage rather than grain, such as India’s cooperative dairy model, boost both land and water productivity. ...