March 5, 2008

Kemin announces second European tour

Kemin Industries Inc., provider of health and nutritional solutions, has announced its second European meeting in April.

The event, which will be held in collaboration with Charles Schwab from the University of New Hampshire in the US, will take place in 6 countries around Europe, with the aim of further extending scientific knowledge and showing practical economic benefits achieved from amino acids.

The company points that balancing diets for amino acids continues to increase in the US and Europe. However, the increase in the rate of implementation, as measured largely by sales of protected methionine (Met), has been tied largely to differences in milk prices and feed costs with adoption being slowest when feed costs are high and prices for milk and milk protein are lower.

Schwab will explain that even when milk prices have been at their lowest, long-term financial benefits could be realised by balancing for amino acids.

Lyndon Davies of Kemin said that Schwab, who is widely recognised for his research on amino acid nutrition of dairy cattle, has made over 100 presentations at dairy nutrition conferences and workshops in the last 10 years on the application of advances in amino acid and protein nutrition for more efficient use of feed protein for milk production.

In addition to Schwab, every conference will have well known local speakers from Research Centres, Universities or the industry, Davies said.