With prices skyrocketing for regular feed raw materials, feedmillers and farmers are becoming increasingly interested in alternative ingredients. In the Netherlands, a lively industry was developed in valuing by-products from the food industry. Re...

The impact on meat quality of fatty acids in pig feed is not so well-known. Recent research has shown that feeding pigs a diet with sunflower oil instead of beef tallow altered the fatty acid composition of tissues without affecting various charac...

Dietry fibre is an important feed ingredient in animal production. Many different fractions of fibre components, like hemicelluloses, pectins and lignin, influence the digestive process. Lignocellulose made from fresh wood is a relatively new feed...

With the recent explosion of grain prices, factors affecting meat production have changed. Pig producers have to choose between optimal growth and efficiency at a higher cost, or slower growth using local, cheaper feedstuffs.

 

For several reasons, prices for animal nutrition have gone up drastically over the last months causing many pig producers all over the world and especially Europe to face difficult times. In this two-episode series, pig management expert and Pig...

Pigs are highly sensitive to Mycotoxins and economic losses are consequently very important. Even if diagnosis is difficult, preventive solutions do exist to avoid mycotoxicosis. Using modified clay is one of these solutions.

Trials with nucleotides in piglet feed over the last couple of years revealed a wide range of positive effects on the animals’ health and results during weaning. Causes and effects are presented here.

For several reasons, prices for animal nutrition have gone up drastically over the last months causing many pig producers all over the world and especially Europe to face difficult times. In this two-episode series, pig management expert and Pig P...

Recent developments in nutritional technology have found that many feed materials have more than one function alongside their nutritional role. These functional feeds – known as smart foods in human nutrition – can improve the value of the overall...