Marty Vanier, director of the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center at Kansas State University, explains what would happen in the event of an animal disease emergency.

Iowa State University ruminant nutritionist Lance Baumgard discusses why we need to think differently about the transition period in a dairy cow's life.

As the American Feed Industry Association celebrates the 50th anniversary of its Liquid Feed Symposium, industry veteran Cathy Bandyk, ruminant technical manager for AB Vista, looks back at the early days of the industry and ahead to the future.

Jarrod Kersey of Simmons Pet Food discusses ways to ensure animal health and well-being in the animal feed and pet food industries.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientists Candido Pomar and Aline Remus discuss precision feeding and nutrition for the swine industry.

Marcos Rostagno is business operations leader at Pytobiotics North America, which manufactures and distributes feed additives and organic trace minerals for poultry, swine, ruminants and crops. He talks about how feed additives can be used to mitigate heat stress in poultry.

Feed Strategy Editor Jackie Roembke talks about Feed Strategy’s 2021 Top Feed Companies ranking report. Each year, WATT Global Media’s research team compiles exclusive feed industry insights, including the production volumes and other data points, to populate the database and generate the listing of the largest global feed producers. To capture the most accurate information, the annual analysis focuses on the previous calendar year’s compound feed volumes. In 2020, 140 animal feed manufacturers worldwide reached or exceeded 1 million metric tons of compound feed production.

Jim Sumner is the president of the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council and president of the International Poultry Council. Jim will be a speaker at the 2021 Chicken Marketing Summit in July, where he will discuss export prospects for U.S. poultry as the industry and the country emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global poultry industry adjusts to higher feed costs.

Pieter Steyn, global program manager for raw material quality at Trouw Nutrition, talks about how to keep feed ingredients safe from contaminants such as Salmonella during shipping, and he discusses the Rotterdam model, which was developed at Europe's largest port to manage contamination risk in animal feed.

Dr. Merritt Drewery is an assistant professor of applied animal science in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Texas State University. Her research focuses on the identification of novel feedstuffs to enhance livestock production and, right now, she is examining the use of insects as a feed ingredient for cattle. She also is the project director for the 3eX-Ag program at Texas State, which supports educational activities for underrepresented students in agriculture.