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Alltech California serves producers and farmers in California and Nevada.
California is a leading agricultural producer in the U.S., reporting $45 billion dollars in agricultural cash receipts. It is the leading producer of dairy, fresh produce and nut crops.
Nevada’s range livestock, like sheep, equine and beef cattle account for most of the state’s agricultural output. Cereal and hay crops are also grown throughout the state.
Alltech Belarus opened in 2005. With our core business now well established, our focus is now on the development of our on-farm presence.
Alltech Lienert Australia provides customers with innovative, highest quality products and services from feed formulation to the development of complete nutritional programs, and biosecurity products – all supported by outstanding customer service. Our team of qualified animal nutritionists design premixes and feed formulations tailored to meet customer’s specific requirements in a range of sectors including livestock producers, commercial feedmills and resellers in Australia, Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Alltech Armenia was established in 2006 and is located in Yerevan, Armenia's capital city. From the outset, Alltech Armenia has endeavoured to improve profitability and performance for our customers with a particular focus on the poultry industry.
The process of using and implementing third-party-verified products can be daunting. For clarity and ease of use, Alltech has several products supported for use in organic, non-hormone-treated cattle in no-antibiotic and no-animal-byproduct systems. For more information on these products, and for the documentation to support their use in organic production, please contact us via the submission form at the bottom of the page. This information is applicable to the U.S. only.
OMRI Listed®: The Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) is a non-profit organization that reviews agricultural inputs to assess their suitability for use in organic settings. For more information, please refer to the OMRI website.
Alltech currently has the following products listed with OMRI:
*This product is available for sale as Brazil origin only.
Excluded methods/non-GMO: For more information, please refer to the National Organic Program, which is organized by the USDA.
Alltech products supported with the excluded methods/non-GMO documentation:
Non-Hormone-Treated Cattle (NHTC): The NHTC program is a USDA-approved, non-biased, third-party audit that verifies the source, age and non-hormone-treated status of cattle. NHTC-verified cattle qualify for export to the European Union and many other markets.
Alltech currently has the following products approved for NHTC:
No Antibiotics, No Animal Byproducts: The phrase "no antibiotics added" may be used on labels for meat or poultry products if sufficient documentation is provided by the producer to the agency demonstrating that the animals were raised without antibiotics. Animal byproducts are products commonly used as feed ingredients that are derived from unused parts of other animals — for example, meat and bone meal, feather meal and/or manure, eggs and hatchery waste. Feeding animal byproducts is prohibited under the label “no animal byproducts.”
The following Alltech products are currently approved for No Antibiotics, No Animal Byproducts:
Alltech utilizes IMI Global to provide NHTC and No Antibiotic, No Animal Byproduct product verifications.
With the continued rise of feed ingredient costs, there is increasing pressure to be as efficient as possible in animal diet formulations.
Alltech True Check™ is a flexible analysis designed to stimulate the digestive systems of poultry and swine, providing a prediction of nutrient release from the feed. It allows us to quantify the benefits of adding enzymes and determine the best enzymes for individual feeds. This means we can help formulate feeds that will have the most benefit for the animal while reducing inputs and environmental impact.
How does Alltech True Check work?
Alltech True Check stimulates digestion using a system that replicates each stage of the digestion process. The feed is ground and diluted, then goes through different phases in which enzymes matching endogenous production, pH, temperature and time are carefully adjusted to mimic the crop, gizzard and small intestine of a chicken, or the stomach and small intestine of a pig. After this process, the samples are analyzed for phosphate, reducing sugars and alpha amino nitrogen.
How can the analysis help optimize feed formulation?
Analysis of free phosphates demonstrates the conversion of phytic acid into a digestible form. A higher free phosphate level indicates more phosphorus available to the animal. The use of enzymes to increase phytic acid hydrolysis reduces the need to add mineral sources of phosphorus to the diet and minimizes excretion of unabsorbed phosphorus into the environment.
Animal feed includes fiber, which is largely composed of non-starch polysaccharides found in plant cell walls, such as cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin. Non-starch polysaccharides are composed of sugars but are not easily digested by monogastric animals. Enzymes can be used to help convert the longer polysaccharides into digestible sugars, measured as reducing sugars, allowing increased energy availability to the animal.
Free amino nitrogen analyzes the amount of protein being converted into digestible free amino acids. Increasing protein release from feeds allows for lower crude protein formulation in diets. Reducing dietary crude protein is crucial to reduce excretion of nitrogen into the environment and can also improve animal health.
By simulating the digestive process in the lab, Alltech True Check provides a fast, effective screening method for novel diet formulations and enzyme additions. Use of Alltech True Check can reduce wasted nutrients, increasing production efficiency while also minimizing the environmental impact of animal production.
What is Alltech IFM™?
Alltech IFM is an in-vitro fermentation model for beef cattle and dairy cow rations that simulates rumen fermentation and allows producers to receive a customized report assessing a ration’s digestibility and potential for optimal rumen function. Alltech IFM is a nutritional tool used by farmers and feed manufacturers to screen individual ingredients, formulate rations and make informed decisions on the quality of feed or total mixed rations (TMR).
Why use it?
By using Alltech IFM, we can identify barriers to rumen fermentation, formulate rations based on nutrient availability and help to reduce energy losses and feed wastage.
Nutritionists rely on nutritional models and chemical feed characteristics to formulate diets. However, this information is static and does not provide a complete evaluation of nutrient availability. Alltech IFM is a dynamic diagnostic tool that measures the digestion of feed in the rumen in real time. This allows us to get a comprehensive view of feed digestion as opposed to a snapshot from a single point in time.
How does it work?
Feed samples are incubated using rumen fluid and a buffer system to mimic natural rumen fermentation in the animal. Feed samples can include concentrates, fresh forages, silages or total mixed rations (TMRs). As digestion progresses, volumes of fermentation gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide, are continuously monitored using an automated system.
Combined with a measurement of digestibility provided by Alltech IFM, we can calculate the amount of energy lost as methane and methane emissions per animal.
How Alltech IFM can be used:
Alltech IFM locations
Submitting a sample
For information on how you can submit a sample to one of our Alltech IFM labs, please contact your local Alltech office.
