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Petfood manufacturer executive discusses importance of USDA

In a recent webinar series, Paul Hughes, an executive with petfood manufacturer Nestle Purina PetCare, discussed the importance of the US Department of Agriculture in the petfood industry, amid concerns over budget cuts for the department. Hughes provided an analogy relating the importance of an umpire in the game of baseball to the importance of USDA in providing information to the commodity market, on such things as petfood ingredients.

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Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

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Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

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Petfood experts target key opportunities and challenges

It’s probably no surprise that when Petfood Industry asked experts from throughout the world for their insights on the industry’s key opportunities and challenges, they identified many more challenges. After all, our industry is facing a number of difficult issues now, with more on the horizon. But these experts also listed plenty of opportunities to continue to grow and innovate.

Petfood experts from throughout the world targeted difficult issues our industry is facing, along with opportunities to continue to grow and innovate.

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Corn crop increases, along with wheat prices

The global corn harvest may set another record this year, with a 9% increase in yield over the 2011 crop, itself a record, according to Dr. Joseph Glauber, chief economist at the US Department of Agriculture. The rise in the global crop is being driven by an almost 20% increase in the US harvest, he said.

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Give peas a chance

Dr. Gary Lynch, PhD, senior project coordinator of technical sales for Roquetter America Inc. explains the benefits—including the crop's sustainability—of the yellow pea in his Petfood Forum presentation, Ingredients From the Yellow Pea: Pet Food Applications.

New Zealand eel exported to US for novel petfood protein

Researchers in New Zealand are calling for petfood companies to stop exporting eel to the United States to be used as a novel protein source in petfoods. One local petfood company, Addiction Foods, exports a range of gourmet petfoods to the US and other markets, marketing them as hypoallergenic or "earth-friendly."

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Get 'green' with the ingredients in the petfood bag

As petfood manufacturers and marketers, our industry is constantly asking the question, "What are consumers looking for in the bag?" And the answer to that question is relatively simple: pet parents want to be able to scrutinize your product's ingredients and they want to know several key things about them.

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Petfood Forum China 2012 online registration now open

Online registration is now open for China's first petfood conference, Petfood Forum China 2012, which will be held October 12 in Shanghai, co-located with Pet Fair Asia. Taking place at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Petfood Forum China offers pet industry professionals with the latest on pet nutrition, petfood ingredients, processing and packaging technologies, and new product development processes from leading petfood consultants, manufacturers, suppliers and academicians.

AFIA to host Liquid Feed Symposium in September

The American Feed Industry Association’s Liquid Feed Committee will host the 42nd annual Liquid Feed Symposium, September 12-14, at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Colorado, USA. The program educates and promotes the agricultural liquid supplement industry, with speaker presentations, research funding, achievement recognition and the Liquid Feed Symposium Trade Show.

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Effects of omega-3 fatty acids in cockatiels

Although dietary omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids have been extensively studied in poultry, they have not yet been prospectively investigated in psittacines despite potential benefits for preventing and treating atherosclerosis, osteoarthritis and other chronic disease processes. This study investigated the incorporation of dietary n-3 fatty acids into red blood cells (RBC) and determined the effects of supplementation of psittacine diets with fish or flax oil on plasma lipids and lipoproteins in the cockatiel.

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How beta-mannanase affects digestibility of canine diets

This experiment evaluated the effects of including the enzyme β-mannanase in dog diets based on poultry by-product meal (PBM) or soybean meal (SBM). The second objective was to evaluate three methods for determining energy and nutrient digestibility values in diets fed to dogs: total fecal collection (TFC), use of acid-insoluble ash (AIA) or crude fiber (CF) as a marker.

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American Feed Industry Association holds spring meeting

Nearly 60 members of the American Feed Industry Association’s board of directors met to discuss issues of mutual concern and make their concerns known to legislators during the annual spring meeting near Washington, D.C., USA. On May 16, board members visited Capitol Hill and members of Congress to publicize the association's positions on proposed legislation that would impact the feed and feed ingredient industry.

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Advances in functional petfood ingredients

Since the term “functional food” was first used in Japan in the 1980s, food science and nutrition knowledge have progressed from identifying and correcting nutritional deficiencies—improving life expectancy—to designing foods that promote optimal health and reduce risk of disease—improving wellness and the quality of life, said K.B. Kore, PhD, assistant professor with the College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry at Navsari Agricultural University in India.

For new functional benefits in petfoods, prebiotics from sources such as garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, sugar beets and bananas can be combined with probiotics like Lactobacilli or Bifidobacteria to create synbiotics.

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