March 15, 2018
In order to meet consumer demand for antibiotic-free (ABF) protein, there has been a growing demand for antibiotic alternatives or natural feed additives to promote growth. Extruded stabilized…
February 22, 2018
It’s important to have an open mind. However, it’s easy to fall into a pattern that’s comfortable and repeatable, until one day, what you’re doing doesn’t make nearly…
February 15, 2018
In the world of animal nutrition, people like me create complete diet formulations that will strive to achieve some end goal with animals raised for food production. In…
February 8, 2018
In my first blog on stabilized rice bran, I discussed its ability to be used in broiler diets with up to 12% inclusion, without negatively impacting growth and…
January 25, 2018
One of the questions we get asked the most, in the Latin American market, is how many applications our extruders can produce. When investing in Insta-Pro equipment, this…
January 18, 2018
In October, Belen Cisneros, Sales Manager in South America, wrote a blog explaining the benefits and effects of extruding rice bran, which is a by-product of the rice…
January 11, 2018
Our Portable Ingredient Analyzer (PIA) tool uses NIR technology to provide on-the-spot quick analysis of soy products. Additionally, units can be calibrated to add other grains. Our inventoried…
December 28, 2017
In other parts of this blog series, energy has been an important topic. From discussing how dietary fiber and fat levels affect energy in poultry diets, as well…
December 21, 2017
Improving nutrition of children and women will help your economy grow. This means you need to invest in systems infrastructure, health services, nutrition education that reaches everyone, including…
December 14, 2017
Coincidentally, I spent World Children’s Day (November 20th) reading the Global Nutrition Report. The report discusses the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 2.2 which aims to end all…
December 7, 2017
We often discuss the dairy industry and how we fit into helping it. For example, here are topics we have focused on in the Insta-Pro blog: Importance of…
November 30, 2017
This is the fifth blog I’ve written as part of the evaluating ingredients series which provides tips for evaluating the relative value of ingredients. This series gives knowledge…
November 22, 2017
At Insta-Pro, some of the more interesting products that we have extruded are; turkey and broiler mortalities, by-products from slaughter facilities, radiator stop leak, ground mink carcasses, centrifuged eggshell, ground fish parts, municipal…
November 16, 2017
In my 27 years of working with Insta-Pro and its unique high shear dry extrusion technology, I have been witness to some rather interesting projects. The majority of them…
November 9, 2017
As mentioned in our previous blog on rice bran, rice is cultivated in every continent of the world except Antarctica. In total, there are more than 100 countries…
October 26, 2017
In previous blogs, we have discussed how our process for stabilizing rice bran is effective and efficient for feeding livestock and other applications, including food. When considering the…
October 19, 2017
In part 4 of the How to Evaluate Ingredients series, I’m switching back to poultry. Parts 1 and 2, focused on poultry and how changes in the levels…
September 28, 2017
For part 3 of how to evaluate ingredients, I’m switching over to ruminants. In parts 1 and 2, I focused on poultry and how changes in the levels…
