September 28, 2022
An interesting thing happened when soy oils were used to fry food in USDA testing – the oils behaved differently when they were derived from different processes. One…
September 14, 2022
The high-shear dry extrusion process, followed by mechanical pressing for oil extraction, is a decades-old, globally accepted set of equipment and processes. Oilseeds, most commonly soybeans, are used…
September 7, 2022
Back in 2013, in the very first blog I published on the Insta-Pro website, I wrote about how extrusion processing, especially high-shear dry extrusion from Insta-Pro, was a…
August 31, 2022
We’ve previously discussed high-shear dry extrusion of corn and how this process can be used to form highly-gelatinized starch that is quickly degraded in the rumen. Among other…
August 3, 2022
With every ingredient, there is a certain total amount of nutrients and energy. Based on the composition and total weight of each ingredient, there is simply a point…
July 20, 2022
The ExPress® process, using equipment and know-how from Insta-Pro International, is unique; but why does this matter? First, it does not involve the use of chemicals, like solvents…
June 29, 2022
The ExPress® process, using equipment and know-how from Insta-Pro International, is unique and results in the production of a novel version of soy meal. Given that feeding trials…
June 1, 2022
As part of our continued efforts to fully understand and optimize processing with our equipment, often used to make better versions (like ExPress® soy meal) of commodity ingredients,…
April 13, 2022
Insta-Pro blog readers will understand the importance of dietary energy, that which is usable by animals for productive purposes, and that processing, and especially high-shear dry extrusion, can…
February 16, 2022
The process makes the product. Structure predicts function. All ingredients are not created equal. Remember these axioms – I recently blogged about how one relatively simple, seldom considered,…
January 19, 2022
There’s nothing magical or supernatural about putting together a formulation for consistent animal performance. What’s happening is simply supplying the right amounts of individual nutrients and energy for…
December 22, 2021
As the costs of feeding animals are easily the biggest ongoing expense for food animal producers, it makes perfect sense to use measurements and metrics to get the…
December 8, 2021
There are many methods of evaluating ingredients for animal feeding. This is important because the composition and characteristics of the ingredients that make up a complete diet affect…
November 10, 2021
Formulating diets for dairy cows is challenging for a few reasons. Mainly, everything the cow consumes enters the rumen, which is a massive microbial fermentation vat that alters…
October 27, 2021
We often get asked about ingredient value: What makes an ingredient worth more? How do you get more of what you’re making into a formulation? Given that high-shear…
September 30, 2021
Recently, we completed a study at Iowa State University that indicated the many benefits of using Hi-Gel™ Corn versions of commodity ingredients, namely corn and soybean meal. You…
September 16, 2021
The issue of dehulling as a part of soy meal production is a frequent topic of conversation, we previous addressed why hulls should remain with the meal. This…
July 22, 2021
On LinkedIn a few years ago, in a post, I asked “Have we gotten all that we can out of corn?” I also said that we intended to…
