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Mycotoxins remain one of the most persistent and complex challenges facing global livestock and feed production. Produced by naturally occurring molds, these toxic compounds can contaminate crops before harvest, during storage or throughout feed manufacturing, often without obvious visual signs.
Grain imports are an essential part of the Asia-Pacific feed landscape. As regional feed production continues to expand, imported corn, wheat, barley, and their byproducts have become central to meeting demand across poultry, swine, dairy, and aquaculture systems. Alongside the benefits of scale and availability, however, comes a persistent challenge that feed manufacturers and nutritionists across the region know well: mycotoxin risk.
In 2025, a substantial portion of livestock feed in Asia is sourced from grains imported from Europe, North America, Canada and Latin America. The productivity, health and overall performance of livestock are heavily reliant on these raw materials, which include corn, wheat and barley.
Knowledge is power when it comes to effectively managing the dynamic challenge that mycotoxins pose to the productivity of even the best-run livestock operations. Since they are both invisible and odorless, the task of detecting these unwanted toxic compounds relies upon a range of specialist detection methods, each possessing its own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to deploying it in a mycotoxin control program.
Yeast cell wall extract (YCWE) has been shown to effectively mitigate the impacts of mycotoxins on animal health and performance. Recent meta-analyses highlight its role in improving productivity, sustainability and profitability across both poultry and pig production systems.
In modern livestock farming, a robust biosecurity program is crucial for ensuring healthy animals and safe food production. Feed safety is a vital component of biosecurity management. Feed and feed ingredients have been identified as key transmission vehicles for pathogens such as Salmonella spp.
Hypocalcemia is a common metabolic disorder of periparturient dairy cows particularly affecting high producing pluriparous animals. As the end of gestation approaches, calcium demands start to increase due to the final development of the fetal skeleton and the initiation of the synthesis and accumulation of maternal colostrum.
Scientists renowned for their research on mycotoxin risk management in livestock shared insights on how mycotoxins affect the bottom line of dairy cow operations during the Selko Feed Additives global webinar "Multi- pronged Approach to Mycotoxin Risk Management in Dairy Cows."
The important role of feed palatability in livestock animals, and particularly young animals, is reflected in their sensitivity to the smell and taste of feed, which influences their feeding behaviour. These feeding experiences are dependent on formula, processing, and the freshness and stability of raw materials, making palatability a science demanding discipline and creativity.
Poultry feed contamination due to mycotoxins is one of the major threats to the growing poultry industry. Surveillance of different mycotoxins, including aflatoxin, is very important to control economic and health hazards associated with these toxins. Studies reporting aflatoxin levels in poultry feed are limited. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the occurrence of total aflatoxin in poultry feed.
The study of the effects of nutrients on genome functioning, in terms of gene transcription, protein levels, and epigenetic mechanisms, is referred to as nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomic studies in farm animals, as distinct from rodents, are limited by the high cost of keeping livestock, their long generational distance, and ethical aspects.
Selko, the Feed Additives brand of Trouw Nutrition, is sharing research exploring the use of different trace mineral sources, mineral absorption and bioavailability when used in dairy cows and cattle feeds.
In beef cattle production, requirement of feed to produce kg of beef is higher than other species, so considering more effective nutrient utilization is key for sustainability. Also, prevention of some disease is important. We introduce our unique micronutrients for utilization.
Among feed-derived antioxidants, selenium (Se) was shown to have a special place as an essential part of 25 selenoproteins identified in animals. Organic Se, in the form of selenomethionine (SeMet), has been reported to be a much more effective Se source when compared with mineral forms such as sodium selenite or selenate.
Contentious issues in calf rearing include milk feeding practices and single versus group housing. The current study was performed on a high producing 170 Holstein cow dairy farm, to investigate the impact of nutrition and housing on growth and reproduction. Heifer calves (n = 100) were allocated in birth order to one of two commonly used management strategies. All calves received 3�4 litres of dam specific colostrum within 6 hours of birth.
Many researchers have shown the positive effects of elevated levels of pre-weaning nutrition in dairy calves on growth, health, fertility, future lifetime production and culling rate. Trouw Nutrition's LifeStart research programme follows two groups of calves during their entire productive life. It started in 2014 and is continuing till today.
Due to their immature immune system calves are very susceptible to intestinal and respiratory diseases in the first weeks of life. Challenges, e.g. adverse climate conditions or social stress promote proliferation of infectious agents such as E. coli, Rota and Corona virus and Cryptosporidia resulting in intestinal microbiota imbalances.
Weaning is a necessary husbandry practice in which nutritional, social, physical and psychological stressors are imposed on the beef calf causing alterations in behavioural and physiological responses. The present paper is a review of studies on the influence of weaning stress at housing on beef calves. To date, few studies have examined the effect of weaning on the extended physiological and immunological responses of beef calves and cows.
The digestive tract of calves, as other young ruminants, is particularly sensitive to challenges. Indeed, during the first months of life, their digestive tract undergoes significant and extensive changes as it evolves from its initial monogastric function towards ruminant. Furthermore, early maternal separation, which is common practice, can lead to altered digestive microflora establishment, balance and function.
As the 2020 harvest season gets underway in the northern hemisphere, Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company, is sharing information regarding the challenges posed by mycotoxins in feed ingredients, while highlighting the risks of emerging mycotoxins and masked mycotoxins.
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