Properly dosing your phytase demands that you know the phytate content of your feed. That is the main take away from this video of All About Feed chats with IFF.
Franco Mussini, Technical Lead North America and Janet Remus, Senior Technical Director North America, both working at Danisco Animal Nutrition & Health, IFF, delve into the mitigation of a key antinutrient. Phytate is often present at higher levels then feed producers realize. However, this negative can be turned into a positive as a higher phytate level gives us more opportunity to take advantage of phytate phosphorus. Using phytase, producers are able to unlock the hidden value within the feed ingredients.