ENVIRONMENTAL
Agri-King and the Environment
Environmental concerns are
becoming a top priority to the farming community and
Agri-King has stepped forward to assist the farmers
in becoming better stewards of their land.
In Dairy and Beef
Silo-King®, our premier forage and
grain treatment, ensures greater digestibility. Improved
nutrient digestibility increases available energy for
rumen bacteria and milk production and may reduce the
amount of feed required to produce milk. Less feed fed
results in lower manure production and thus less phosphorus
and nitrogen which is a major environmental concern.
In Swine
The dawning of the antibiotic era in animal
agriculture brought successful growth promotants and
therapeutic feed additives to the farm. After over 50
years of antibiotic use, however, we now realize that
low-level feeding of antibiotics will increase the population
of single and multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Therefore, many antibiotics are no longer effective
against certain strains of bacteria.
There is now a move to return some aspects
of animal agriculture and human medicine to the pre-antibiotic
era. Several years ago, Agri-King's research scientists
began exploring effective alternatives to emerging antibiotic
resistance issues. This led to the development and release
of Agri-King's direct fed microbial feed additives for
livestock. These direct fed microbials in return, have
spawned a new awareness in the critical role microbes
and microbial nutrition play in maintaining animal health
and decreasing pathogens associated with food born illnesses
at processing. Furthermore these direct fed microbial
products do not contribute to antibiotic resistance
in pigs, cattle, or humans.
These products have been shown to enhance
the population of beneficial bacteria in the gut while
significantly reducing the harmful pathogenic population.
