Sterilization is one of the key functions of dry extrusion
September 12, 2019
Recently, I was contacted by one of our customers who has been successfully producing shaped feeds with our MS3000 Model medium-shear dry extruder for a number of years.…
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Total Lysine Is Not Related to Digestible Lysine in Commodity, Hexane Soybean Meal
September 5, 2019
I often write on the Insta-Pro blog about the importance of quality measures for all ingredients – it’s very difficult to conduct a least-cost diet formulation that’s worth…
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…
Die Open Area and How to Use It
August 22, 2019
When creating shaped products such as fish or pet food, an important consideration when making various sized products is the die open area. Once a stable extrusion process…
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 3, Structural and Functional Changes
August 15, 2019
Higher fat diets are typically beneficial from an efficiency and performance point-of-view, as I wrote about in part 2 of this blog series. Often, the total amount of…
What is degumming?
August 8, 2019
The ExPress® process yields a high quality, highly nutritious oil that can be used as an energy source for many different animals. The value of crude ExPress® oil…
Benefits of Pre-Grinding
August 1, 2019
Many customers ask us if they should crack the soy before extrusion because they have been told by other extruder manufacturers that with “their extruder” they don’t need…
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…
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 2, Effect on Intake and Performance
July 18, 2019
I wrote part 1 of this blog series on the benefits of higher fat diets in which I defined typical dietary fat ranges for a variety of species. …
New vertical counterflow cooler
July 11, 2019
Cooling is a very important step in the processing of oilseeds & grains. Sometimes, a customer might not appreciate how critical it is to the total process. In…
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,…
FROM BIG IDEAS TO SUCCESS
June 27, 2019
When I started to work at Insta-Pro, I met Dr. Nabil Said, former Vice-President of Extrusion Technologies. He developed new extrusion applications and pioneered the use high-shear dry…
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER: STERILIZATION OF CONTAMINATED FEED THROUGH HIGH-SHEAR DRY EXTRUSION
June 20, 2019
In the last five years, two endemic viruses – Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus – were introduced to North America and resulted in a…
Continuous Improvement
June 13, 2019
Great companies are always finding ways to better themselves to improve their product, process or their services. Commonly known as continuous improvement, it can be broken down into…
Reactive lysine: A Test for Soybean Quality
June 11, 2019
Lysine is the first limiting amino acid in diets for swine and second limiting for poultry. It is used as a reference to adjust the content of other…
SUCCESSFUL ANTIBIOTIC-FREE PRODUCTION: ADD VALUE TO A NUTRITION PROGRAM
June 11, 2019
With more consumers and governments pushing to reduce use of antibiotics in livestock production, several challenges have come to light. Antibiotics have been used for many years to…
Perfect is the enemy of good
May 23, 2019
On a daily basis, we hear about people’s desires to create processing plants. These can be for food or feed and are always delivered with the best of…
Evidence of Soybean Divergence: What Does It Mean?
May 16, 2019
One of the grand narratives you may have noticed on the Insta-Pro blog relates to oilseeds, grains, and their final ingredient forms exhibiting more differentiation than is often…
