Agricultural producers consistently search for ways to help cows produce more milk. Nature thwarts them, typically with extreme heat. Probiotics can help cows produce more milk and they do so naturally without side effects. So, how do probiotics help cows? Where can you get these helpful substances? Let’s find out in this blog from American […]
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How is Aspergillus Used in Fermentation?
Aspergillus oryzae (A. oryzae) is a filamentous fungus that has been important for over 2,000 years for the production of soy sauce, miso, shoyu, fermented black beans, bean curd seasoning, and vinegar, although modern production of soy sauce uses a closely related microorganism, Aspergillus sojae (A. sojae). A. oryzae also is used to release sugars from rice, sweet potatoes, and […]
How Do You Calculate Feed Ration for Cattle?
One of the largest and most expensive operating costs when it comes to the livestock business is the feed for the animals. This means that in order to make a proper and very profitable animal farm business, feed expenses should be kept to the lowest minimum possible while still feeding the animals adequately and keeping […]
How to Improve Wastewater Treatment
Wastewater management is an increasingly urgent challenge for municipalities, factories, and agribusinesses everywhere. Regulators, shareholders, and the general public demand alternatives to old chemical-based methods of effluent treatment no longer believed to be safe. Custom enzyme formulations combined with microbial inoculation empowers wastewater emitters to reduce environmental impact and achieve environmental goals while simultaneously reducing […]
Why Are Additives Put in Livestock Feed?
A tremendous variety of additives appear in commercial livestock feed. Feed makers add a variety of antibiotics, such as bacitracin, chlortetracycline, erythromycin, lincomycin, neomycin sulfate, oleandomycin, oxytetracycline, procaine penicillin, streptomycin, tylosin, virginiamycin, and the bambermycins to animal feed to increase growth. These antibiotics usually do not prevent any particular animal disease, but they do increase […]