Top Blogs of 2024 – Europe’s Need for Organic Ingredients for Poultry
December 11, 2024
Europe is the second-largest organic food market in the world, with retail sales worth over $40 billion each year. There are over 250,000 organic farms in Europe today.…
Author: Michael Martin
Stabilized Rice Bran: An Economical & Nutritional Ingredient for Poultry
January 31, 2024
Rice is cultivated on every continent of the world except Antarctica. In total, there are more than 100 countries that produce rice. Before rice becomes shiny edible rice…
Author: Kathleen Mayo
Europe’s Need for Organic Ingredients for Poultry
January 24, 2024
Europe is the second-largest organic food market in the world, with retail sales worth over $40 billion each year. There are over 250,000 organic farms in Europe today.…
Author: Michael Martin
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…
Author: Dave Albin
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…
Author: Dave Albin
New Year, New You: Poultry Resolutions for a Prosperous New Year
January 3, 2024
As we usher in a new year, poultry producers around the globe have an opportunity to set ambitious goals and resolutions for their flocks. Whether you’re a seasoned…
Author: Eric Hoile
Reduce Layer Diet Costs, But Not Your Egg Production
November 22, 2023
A study conducted by Virginia Tech indicated how ExPress® soy meal (high-shear dry extrusion followed by mechanical oil pressing from Insta-Pro) could be used to improve feed efficiency.…
Author: Eric Hoile
Increase Broiler Weight, Reduce Costs
November 8, 2023
An indication of how high-shear dry extruded ingredients can impact body weight was demonstrated in a broiler feeding trial conducted at Iowa State University. It evaluated the growth…
Author: Eric Hoile
The Expansion of Middle East Poultry
August 30, 2023
The Middle East poultry market is expanding, with the total population of the area reaching over 410 million people. The demand for poultry meat – estimated in 2020…
Author: Michael Martin
Reduce Anti-Nutrients with Extruded Soy for Increased Broiler Digestibility
August 23, 2023
Soybeans contain several antinutritional factors. Thermosensitive antinutritional factors, such as trypsin inhibitors, urease, lipoxygenase, and lectins, are found in several oilseed crops, but are at high levels in…
Author: Kathleen Mayo
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…
Author: Dave Albin
Overview of Poultry Trial Results
January 4, 2023
Insta-Pro has placed an enormous amount of time and resources on research and development. We understand how to produce high-quality ingredients through proper processing, and more than that,…
Author: Eric Hoile
High-Shear Dry Extrusion Shows Great Benefits In Poultry Diets. Read How:
September 24, 2020
ExPress® soymeal and other high-shear dry extruded products provide nutritious and digestible ingredients for poultry. Learn more about the benefits that you can see with poultry using our…
Author: Dave Albin
EXPRESS® SOY MEAL: AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF DIGESTIBLE THREONINE FOR BROILERS
January 2, 2020
In poultry production, it’s important to understand the utilization of amino acids and other nutrients for maintenance, growth, and other functions in the body. Some nutrients can be…
Author: Janeth Colina
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 4, What Comes Along with the Fat?
August 29, 2019
This is part 4 in the blog series on why higher fat diet formulations are beneficial and should be used in your program. For review, here are the…
Author: Dave Albin
Research Behind Success. Part I: Poultry
July 25, 2019
For many years, Insta-Pro International has been a global leader in the development of processing technologies for food and feed, providing value-added innovations according to market needs. This…
Author: Janeth Colina
VEGETABLE VS ANIMAL PROTEIN FOR POULTRY: TO VEG OR NOT TO VEG
July 4, 2019
The poultry industry is undergoing changes based on consumers demand for transparency. The most common trends, highlighted here. One of the trends mentioned, an all vegetarian diet claim,…
Author: Kathleen Mayo
Antibiotic-Free Chicken Production – the Chick-Fil-A Effect on Broiler Production
April 15, 2014
The fast food chain Chick-Fil-A announced that it would only serve chicken raised without the use of antibiotics within 5 years. Chick-Fil-A is the latest food company to…
Author: Dave Albin