Evaluating Protease Enzymes

Regardless of where you are in the world, feed is a top cost in animal agriculture production. In an effort to reduce cost, producers may use less of top quality feedstuffs or use more of less costly, alternative raw feed with nutrients that are less accessible to the animal. Enzymes are made to unlock nutrients in feed but measuring enzyme effectiveness can be complex. This results in a challenge for producers and nutritionists. After all, how can you know how much to feed your animals if you don’t know how much nutrition they are getting from the raw feed? In this article, Executive Technical Services Manager for South Central Asia Dr. Koushik De explains how using nutrient matrix values can help evaluate enzyme performance to ensure you’re getting the most out of your feed additives and your feed.