At Kemin, we understand the challenges of using new seasonal grains. Our New Grain Syndrome Solutions provide an innovative and multifaceted approach to overcoming these challenges, focusing on ensuring optimal performance and carcass quality while preserving nutritional composition. Below, we present how our three-pronged approach helps you achieve optimal grain results.
To ensure optimal results and mitigate substantial profitability losses, our 3-pronged approach simultaneously tackles all three causal agents indicated below. This powerful combination offers an efficient solution to a complex situation.
Problem: Newly harvested grain contains higher levels of non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) than stored grains. Diets high in NSPs increase the viscosity of digesta, forming gel-like substances that hinder efficient nutrient degradation and absorption by endogenous enzymes. This leads to reduced feed intake and compromised performance.
➼ Solution: KEMZYME® PLUS for NSP degradation
This multi-enzyme blend combines various enzymes to ensure the broadest range of NSPs is degraded. By reducing the gel-forming properties of NSPs, digesta viscosity decreases, leading to increased gut throughput and mitigating the negative performance effects of high NSP content.
Problem: Agitation of grain during harvest and grinding activates mold spores, particularly Aspergillus spp., which can produce harmful mycotoxins like aflatoxin. Aflatoxin negatively impacts animal performance, causing reduced feed intake, diarrhea, liver damage, poor reproductive performance, and an increased risk of leaky gut.
➼ Solution: Myco CURB® for mould inhibition
Our powerful mould inhibitor prevents the growth of Aspergillus spp. and thus the production of mycotoxins, which helps maintain the quality and nutritional value of the feed.
Problem: Milling freshly harvested grains causes oxidative reactions, leading to elevated peroxide levels and reduced feed intake and performance.
➼ Solution: PARADIGMOX® for limiting oxidative reactions
This antioxidant effectively reduces peroxide levels, minimizes oxidative damage and protects feed quality.
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A key mechanism in New Grain Syndrome is a primary oxidation reaction triggered by the grinding process. This leads to increased peroxide levels and reduced animal performance due to oxidized feed.
Feeding diets containing oxidized components has consistently shown to reduce feed intake and performance. Moreover, the consumption of oxidized feed increases in vivo oxidative stress, which can have significant negative health effects.
Effectively managing these oxidative processes is crucial to maintaining grain quality and ensuring optimal animal health and performance.
At Kemin, we help you optimize animal performance by controlling critical external factors such as oxidative quality and mycotoxin contamination. Our Customer Laboratory Services provide valuable insights and solutions that contribute to an effective quality management program.
Our Customer Laboratory Services team performs annual studies on the oxidative status of your feed samples. Our comprehensive analysis reveals substantial variation in nutritional and oxidative quality. Regular evaluation of oxidation status is recommended as part of a quality management program.
This includes the evaluation of important parameters such as:
1. Oxidative parameters
2. Nutritional parameters
Various secondary toxic metabolites, known as mycotoxins, produced by fungi or molds, can negatively affect animal health and performance. The seasonal dependent prevalence of mycotoxins in different feeds and feed raw materials makes it very critical for each animal nutrition and health professional to have a mycotoxin evaluation program in place.
Our mycotoxin service portfolio provides comprehensive evaluation and risk assessment, including:
1. On-farm mycotoxin raw material evaluation
2. Profound finished feed laboratory services
3. Mycotoxins today
