11/04/2024
New Business Forms, New Technologies, and New Developments | The Successful Conclusion of the 2024 China Feed Amino Acids and Feed Raw Materials Implication Symposium (16th)
The 16th China Feed Amino Acids and Feed Raw Materials Implication Symposium, hosted by the Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (CAAV) and undertaken by Beijing Boyar Hexun Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd., was held successfully in Beijing on March 29th, 2024.
The experts and scholars at this symposium delved into the theme of “New Business Forms, New Technologies, and New Developments”, engaging in deep discussions on various topics such as feed industry production, raw material supply and consumption, the application and development of the Net Energy (NE) system, the value assessment in small varieties of amino acids, and the future direction of the amino acid industry.
Advancing the Four Major Actions of Reduction and Replacement, Cultivating New Productive Forces in the industry involves several key steps: First, to lay a solid foundation for feed resource development; Second, to promote low-protein daily rations in livestock and poultry breeding; Third, to explore and utilize new protein feed resources through a pilot action; Fourth, to increase forage yield and reduce grains consumption.
Additionally, industry management services also require corresponding transformations. By focusing on overall grain safety, innovating market development vitality, establishing a standardized industry development order, and considering stakeholders’ demands, legality, compliance, and scientific practices in management measures and systems, we can collectively drive the industry towards healthy and high-quality development.
Lowering protein level in daily rations while meeting animals' ideal amino acid requirements is a cost-effective way to optimize production costs and minimize nitrogen loss in farm animals.
Furthermore, utilizing NE-formulated rations, which account for the heat loss during excess nitrogen recatabolism and excretion, can further reduce crude protein levels. Precise animal nutrition relies on digestible amino acids, ideal protein patterns, and NE system applications, although refinement of related addition standards is still necessary. At present, achieving precise nutrition in aquatic feeds requires ongoing work, with every step forward leading to significant efficiency improvements.
The shift from traditional to diversified animal feed formulas is ongoing with the full integration of fermented amino acids in livestock and poultry rations being particularly crucial. To reach the “bean-less target” in rations, the continuous introduction and application of various small varieties of amino acids will be essential in the future.
In the past few years, the continuous promotion and application of low-protein daily ration formula, combined with large fluctuations in bean pulp prices, adjustments in feed ingredient consumption structures, and increased consumption of non-conventional feed raw materials, have paved the way for deep amino acid utilization. With the pullback of bean pulp prices, the use value of feed amino acids will decline, posing a challenge to the whole industry but also presenting new development opportunities for the amino acid application market.
There is still significant room for improvement in the comprehensive promotion of application technologies. For example, dynamic and accurate databases of raw materials are critical for optimal use of amino acids; big variances still exist in low-protein daily ration formulas and the use of diversified raw materials across different livestock species and enterprises; feeds and breeding are facing trade-offs between feed efficiency and overall profitability.
The evolution of amino acids, feed, and the breeding industry will progress towards dynamic and precise directions in the aspects of production and application, emphasizing profit maximization through technological innovations. Collaborative efforts between upstream and downstream industry players are crucial for expanding application areas and exploiting application value, thus enhancing the sustainability and stability of production and profitability across the industrial chain.
