Recent Advances In Animal Nutrition - 2008

Ruminants

• Impact of energy balance on metabolic changes and reproductive tissues; consequences for ovarian activity and fertility in dairy and beef cattle
• Opportunities for online monitoring of health and performance in dairy cows
• Improvement of forages to increase the efficiency of nitrogen and energy use by ruminants
• Improving feed efficiency in cattle with residual feed intake

Biosecurity and food safety

• Safety in the food chain: biosecurity and coping with disease outbreaks
• Campylobacter: farm strategies for control
• Bacteriophage intervention to reduce campylobacter contamination in poultry

Developments in the industry

• Global supplies and trends in commodities
• Developments in the Russian livestock industries: implications for European producers and the feed industry

Non-ruminants

• Using InraPorc to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus excretion
• Gut health, microbiota and immunity
• The role of fibre in gut health

Biofuels and co-products

• Biofuels and the animal feed sector: how bio-refining crops can make better use of land to
  meet our needs for feed and low carbon biofuels
• Nutritional and economic value of co-products from biofuel production
• Variability of quality in biofuel co-products
• Use of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) co-products in commercial pig feeding programmes
• The use of enzymes to improve the nutritive value of co-products
• Impact of biofuel co-products on carcass quality

Poster abstracts on co-products

List of Participants

Index