Corn with More Energy Makes More Milk
July 31, 2024
If you have followed Insta-Pro for any length of time, you understand the importance we place on dietary energy, the useable energy by animals for productive purposes, and…
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How Hi-Gel™ Corn Improves Diet Formulations
July 17, 2024
Often used as a source of energy in a diet formulation, the starch of corn is broken down into glucose in the intestine (glucose is the most common…
Key Components in Quality Feed Ingredients
June 12, 2024
When it comes to livestock farming, the adage “you are what you eat” couldn’t ring truer. Quality livestock feed lays the foundation for healthy animals and, consequently, high-quality…
Hi-Gel™ Corn – Particle Size for Broilers
April 10, 2024
Hi-Gel™ corn, the product of high-shear dry extrusion from Insta-Pro, is an improved version of the commodity ingredient. Corn starch in this ingredient is thoroughly gelatinized (90% or…
Maximizing Corn Ingredients
April 3, 2024
In recent years, we’ve invested more in and researching the promising applications of our high-shear dry extruded corn ingredient, Hi-Gel™ corn. Materials that are high in starch have…
Quality Extrusion Supports Sustainable Food Aid
February 7, 2024
Welfare relief programs worldwide play a crucial role in providing food assistance to those affected by negative political situations and war zones, forcing them to flee their homes.…
Part 2: Evaluating Ingredients in Poultry
January 17, 2024
In part 1, I discussed the effect of dietary crude fiber level, or the amount of indigestible carbohydrates, on metabolizable energy content of a broiler diet. As the level…
Part 1 – Evaluating Ingredients in Poultry
January 10, 2024
There are many choices when formulating diets for food animals. Understandably, least-cost formulation programs are used to quickly determine how to meet certain nutrient requirements, different for each…
Top Blogs of 2023: Don’t Dehull Your Soybeans
December 13, 2023
To finish off an exciting and productive 2023, we want to share with you one of our most viewed and most shared blogs of the year! Don’t…
Rumen Degradable Protein for Dairy: Great Ingredients Have It, Too!
October 18, 2023
The dairy nutrition industry is obsessed with rumen by-pass protein ingredients, and to be fair, there are good reasons for this obsession. We, too, are interested in this…
More Acetate Equals More Milk Fat: Ingredients for Milk Components
October 4, 2023
Dairy producers get paid in two main ways – by producing a greater milk volume, or by producing more milk components. Milk protein and milk fat are these…
High-Shear Dry Extrusion: Reliable Measurements and Results
September 6, 2023
When operating extruders from Insta-Pro, we talk extensively about processing temperature in the final cooking chamber, as an important quality control point. Achieving an appropriate extrusion temperature is…
High-Shear Dry Extrusion: Another Tool for the Miraculous Broiler Industry
August 2, 2023
It’s not hyperbole to call the chicken meat industry, commonly referred to as the broiler industry, miraculous. I’m not explicitly referring to anything that producers of chicken meat…
Using High-Shear Dry Extrusion to Liberate Calories: Processing Energy for Ingredient Energy
May 3, 2023
The use of high-shear dry extrusion – a technique developed, improved upon, and expanded around the world over decades, by Insta-Pro International – hinges upon a few basic…
New Information on ExPress® Soy Oil: Part 2 – Animal Results
March 8, 2023
In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed how there are only small compositional differences between soy oils despite being produced with different equipment and processes. Also,…
New Information on ExPress® Soy Oil: Part 1 – Composition
March 1, 2023
I’ve long been interested in this area of animal nutrition – the area of using fats and oils strategically in formulations. I’ve conducted animal research that runs along…
Hi-Gel™ Corn with Insta-Pro Extrusion: Tips for Use in Formulations
February 15, 2023
If you’ve followed us here over the past few years and weeks, you have read how Insta-Pro International has been developing high-shear dry extrusion procedures for extruding corn…
The ExPress® Process for Soy Meal – The Right Choice for Poultry
January 11, 2023
Poultry nutritionists have choices when assembling diets for poultry producers. If you’ve spent much time here on our blog, or the website in general, you are aware of…