Condition of the knife affects pellet quality
The cutter at the outside of the pellet press die is also determining the physical quality of the pellets. Research at Fôrtek in Norway affirms this assumption.

Formulation and quality key in broiler performance
From a series of three, this is the last article on physical qualities of feed. The first article focused on factors affecting feed intake and the economic benefit of improving feed form. The second reviewed means for improving pellet durability. This article will complete the review by focusing on feed formulation and quality control.

CAP: Sorting the facts from the fiction
The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) has played a major role in developing agriculture in Europe. Butter mountains and milk and wine lakes, meat piles and wheat stores, they all have disappeared and a vibrant farming sector across the EU has been developed. Still there are many misunderstandings about the CAP.

Soufflet: A new player on the performance feed market
The French, family-owned company Soufflet is well known within the malting and flour milling business and as such has an indirect relation with the feed industry in selling its by-products as animal feed. Now Soufflet is entering the market of feed ingredients as a new player.

Small gains can produce significant feed savings
Feed costs have risen considerably in the past years, there is no question about that, and the causes have been discussed on many platforms. In this article we will not focus on the reasons for these high feed costs, but rather have a look at what can be done on a practical level and in the short term to get a grip on feeding the most cost-efficient way.

SPACE 2008: Many farmers but less feed technology
As always the annual agricultural exhibition SPACE in Rennes, France can count on over 100,000 visitors. The show is mainly a farmers’ show and feed manufacturing technology is taking up less and less space every year.

Clay minerals to fight footpad lesions
Footpad lesions in poultry are an indication of animal welfare standards. This is because Footpad burns often indicate that the animals are not proper housed and fed. Arno van der Aa explains how clay minerals in the diet can help preventing these painful foot conditions.

Improved stool quality with prebiotics in petfood
Prebiotics in pet food are known to aid the efficiency of nitrogen utilisation in the intestine, resulting in less wastage through ammonia recycling and a more complete digestion of nutrients in the large intestine. In an earlier issue of Feed Tech (12.2 - 2008) the global market for prebiotics in pet food was discussed. In this article Deborah Cross zooms in on the use of prebiotics and their properties for companion animals.

Feed pressure hot item at Nitra exhibition, Slovakia
A member of EU since May 1, 2004, Slovakia is in the heart of Central Europe, bordering Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Ukraine. This merely explains the strong competition existing in the feed and feed additives market. We met the key players at Nitra Exhibition, Slovakia’s main agricultural event, held 21 to 25 August 2008.

Las Camelias eyes Europe for its new feed mill
Being the second largest integrator in Argentina, Las Camelias in Entre Rios province intends to expand its exports of poultry products to Europe. However, production has to comply with European legislation; reason for building a new state-of-the-art feed mill.