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Blue Level Technologies VHS rod point level sensor

BlueLevel Technologies Inc.

Blue Level Technologies's VHS rod point level sensor is an extension unit that has an AC/DC universal power supply, low density detection capability to as lightweight as 3.12 pounds per cubic foot, and all stainless steel wetted part construction. It uses piezoelectric technology to create harmonic vibrations in the absence of material, and is dampened when material is present using sensor relays.

Brand Insights

BioZyme Showcases Quality with AO-Biotics® EQE and Expanding Brand Portfolio

BioZyme Inc.

Innovative postbiotic AO-Biotics® EQE delivers economic benefits in layers while BioZyme upholds excellence across its brands.

Laboratory Products and Services

Ivy Animal Health Elanco HeifermaX

Ivy Animal Health Elanco HeifermaX is an easy-to-use liquid premix. It increases weight gain, improves feed efficiency and suppresses estrus (heat) in feedlot heifers.

Nutriad Sanacore

Nutriad offers Sanacore range for animal health and performance. Sanacore products help to reduce the prevalence of bacterial and necrotic enteritis in animals, the company says. According to Nutriad, the products are designed to have an effect on gut morphology, nutrition and pathogenesis of intestinal disease.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition Micro-Cell LA 1 Gram

Lallemand Animal Nutrition US

Lallemand Animal Nutrition offers Micro-Cell LA 1 Gram. Micro-Cell LA 1 Gram is a strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus BT-1386, which colonizes the lower gut of beef cattle, fed all type of rations and competitively inhibits certain bacterial strains, according to the company.

China releases amended animal feed, feed additive regulations

China's amended Management Regulations on Feed and Feed Additives were released November 15 and will be implemented beginning May 1, 2012. The amendments include a series of bans against behaviors with the potential to cause human harm, such as raising animals with the use of Ministry of Agriculture-banned and other materials.

Class action lawsuit brought against AgFeed Industries

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired the stock of AgFeed Industries Inc. between March 16, 2009, and August 2, 2011, according to reports. The complaint alleges that AgFeed made materially false and misleading statements regarding the company's financial health and in particular relating to its animal nutrition business.

Meriden Animal Health Phyconomix

Meriden Animal Health's Phyconomix is a ready-to-use range of products designed to fulfill the nutritional requirements of growing shrimp and fish larvae. The company says Phyconomix eliminates the need to produce algae within the aquaculture hatchery.

Formulation and Process Control

Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition ROC program

Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition's Ration Options for Consultants program is designed to help nutritionists and dairy producers replace high-cost commodities without compromising production. Through the ROC program, consultants work with the company's Dairy Technical Services team to lower ration costs by eliminating high-priced feeds, such as corn and cottonseed, and replace the nutritional value with alternative ingredients.

Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition Energy Booster Mag

Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition offers Energy Booster Mag. The product is an energy-dense, rumen-inert fat supplement with dietary magnesium and a melting point of 159 F for warm climates, according to the company.

Feed Mill Management

Europe feed equipment manufacturer acquires feed mill dealer

Europe animal feed machinery and equipment producer Skiold A/S has acquired 50% of Australia's Vacuum and Milling Solutions. Since 2008, VMS has sold and supplied feed mills and ancillary equipment from Skiold to farmers and stockfeed industries in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and the Pacific Islands.

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Energy Efficiency

Kansas State offers basic, advanced feed manufacturing courses

Kansas State University’s International Grains Program will be hosting Basic and Advanced Feed Manufacturing courses Sept. 26 through Oct. 7, 2011. The courses are geared toward feed mill owners, managers, supervisors, merchandisers and maintenance personnel as well as managers of livestock, poultry and agriculture facilities.

Feed Mill Management

JBS United, DeKalb Feeds partner on feed manufacturing

JBS United and DeKalb Feeds have entered into a joint venture, Central Nutrition Services LLC, focusing on manufacturing livestock feeds and nutritional supplements for both JBS and DeKalb and their customers throughout the Midwest. The venture takes advantage of an existing Frytown, Iowa, mill facility which DeKalb acquired in September 1996, and which has never been fully utilized.

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