Industry Trends

April 2020

See what has been happening in Asia’s animal feed and health industries over the last weeks. What are experts and industry magazines talking about?

What has been happening?

Banana meal in aquaculture feeds, pigs thrive on protein from clover grass, online animal feed sales in China due to coronavirus, and more. Find out what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Banana meal provides novel alternative in select aquaculture feeds
FeedNavigator

Waste bananas can be used to replace the use of some corn meal in the diets of farmed tambaqui without hindering feed digestibility or fish growth, researchers say.
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Pigs thrive on protein from clover grass
Animal feed news

Experiments carried out at Denmark’s Aarhus University have demonstrated that green protein extracted from clover grass is a very useful diet for pigs. That applied to both pig welfare, growth, feed use as well as meat quality and taste.
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Jump in online animal feed sales in China due to coronavirus
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E-commerce sales of animal feed have risen in the past few weeks in China, according to Alibaba’s Taobao marketplace, as reported by Reuters.
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Use of silicon supplementation in broiler chicks can increase bone strength
FeedNavigator

Looking at ways to support broiler chick performance, Dr Emily Burton, associate professor in sustainable food production, Nottingham Trent University, talked about, among other strategies, the role of silicon in supporting bone development post hatch at YAN20.
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The feed additive that's reducing phosphorous emissions
TheFishSite

How the addition of OptiPhos, a phytase enzyme, to extruded feed can significantly reduce emissions of phosphorous from the aquaculture sector.
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Researchers look to develop probiotic mixtures based on microbiota transfer between hen and chick
FeedNavigator

Ivan Rychlik, who is based in the Veterinary Research Institute, in Brno in the Czech Republic, was talking around the idea of next generation probiotics for poultry at the FeedNavigator Summit 2020: Young Animal Nutrition in Amsterdam, earlier this month.
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Aquafeed sector set for DHA-rich GM canola
TheFishSite

A unique strain of omega-3-rich canola, which is designed for uses including replacing fish oil in aquafeeds, is due to be available in the US in the second quarter of the year.
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Study assesses optimal weights for smolt transfer
TheFishSite

Problems with sea lice in salmon farms are making it increasingly cost-effective to on-grow smolts past 100g in land-based systems, according to a new study.
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Converting food waste into poultry feed
Animal feed news

Food Recycle is an Australian start-up tackling the global problem of food waste by converting it into poultry feed.
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Predicting and preventing bivalve production declines
TheFishSite

Rapid declines in mollusc production are predicted to occur within the next decade for some nations, due to climate change and ocean acidification (CC-OA).
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Effects of polysaccharide from fermented wheat bran on growth performance, muscle composition, digestive enzyme activities and intestinal microbiota in juvenile common carp
Aquaculture Nutrition

The present study evaluated the effect of dietary polysaccharide from fermented wheat bran on growth performance, muscle composition, digestive enzyme activities and intestinal microbiota of juvenile common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Four diets supplemented with 0 (D0), 1.0 (D1), 2.0 (D2) and 4.0 (D3) g/kg fermented wheat bran polysaccharide (FWBP) were prepared.
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Wastewater aquaculture given clean bill of health
TheFishSite

Eating fish that have been farmed in treated wastewater does not to pose a threat to human health, according to a new study.
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Citrus pulp boosts piglet fecal consistency, gut health
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Adding citrus pulp to weaned piglet diets improves fecal consistency and, when added to a low-protein feed reduces the growth of coliform bacteria in the hindgut post weaning, say researchers.
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Deep concerns over cleaner fish strategy
TheFishSite

New research suggests that cleaner fish are nine times less effective at removing sea lice from salmon in pens surrounded by lice skirts, possibly due to the increased depth the salmon swim at in such pens.
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Chinese researchers develop vaccine to protect pigs against ASF
FeedNavigator

There is renewed hope that a robust control mechanism against African swine fever (ASF) in pigs could materialize soon.
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How to grow the ultimate mullet
TheFishSite

Grey mullet should be fed diets containing 30 percent protein to achieve the best results in terms of growth and metabolism, according to new research.
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Coronavirus: How will reduced feed costs impact global dairy market dynamics?
FeedNavigator

Rabobank, looking at trends to watch for in global dairy markets in Q2 and Q3, says as the coronavirus is weighing on the global grains and oilseeds markets, and that factor, coupled with weak global demand, in particular in China, along with trade and supply chain disruptions, could see feed costs could go lower in many dairy exporting regions, fuelling milk production growth above current expectations.
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World Aquaculture Society postponed by six months
TheFishSite

The World Aquaculture 2020 (WA2020) conference, which was due to take place in Singapore in June, has been rescheduled to December 14-18, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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Formulation of a new sustainable feed from food industry discards for rearing the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus
Aquaculture Nutrition

The lack of suitable feeds for echinoculture has led to use natural resources already widely exploited by human activities. To move towards a higher sustainability of echinoculture, this study proposes a sustainable feed for Paracentrotus lividus. Two experimental formulations were obtained using discarded endive (Cichorium endivia) leaves and anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) industry discards in different proportions, and agar as a binder.
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