1. FeedAC Procedure Outline for Obtaining Feed Information for the Database
2. FeedAC Policy - Sample Acquisition by Feed Commodity Focus Groups_Final
  2a. Supplement 1 for Sample Acquisition by Feed Commodity Groups
  2b. Supplement 2 for Sample Acquisition by Feed Commodity Groups
3. Request to the Corn Grain Commodity Group

The Board of Directors invites you to renew or initiate your Sponsorship/Membership in FeedAC for 2009. Please take a moment to read this year's Sponsorship/Membership Invitation and review the Application. As you will read, much has been accomplished and we are committed to working aggressively to build on our progress to date.

The following is an email response FeedAC received in regards to questions it had surrounding the NRC series.

Hi Chuck, (FeedAC Executive Director)

The Nutrient Requirements of Animals Series is not dead, but unfortunately it is not in the best of health either!

As you probably know, the series was supported for many years by ongoing funding from USDA-ARS with supplemental funding from AFIA. That funding was discontinued about 7 years ago and we have been unable to find replacement funding. Support for the Small Ruminants and Horses reports was pieced together from a mixture of government, private, industry, and internal NRC funding, but the funds were barely adequate to complete the studies. We have approval to revise the Fish Report and have a little funding, but not enough to start the study.

We know that reports for all the major species (poultry, swine, beef, and dairy) are becoming dated and would like to get them revised, but it is all contingent on funding from somewhere and so far nobody has been willing/able to provide the funding.

Austin

Austin J Lewis, PhD
Program Officer, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
National Academies, Washington, DC
(402) 483-1685

FeedAC is a membership-based organization whose membership is comprised of sponsors (companies, organizations and feed testing labs) and individual members (both paying and collaborator members). Each sponsor, depending on its sponsorship level, is allowed up to a maximum number of individual members.

FeedAC relies on its sponsors and members for financial support, guidance, leadership, and the day-to-day activities of sample collection and feed analysis. To accomplish its mission and goals in a timely manner, it is important that the consortium increase its membership base and garner the participation of all that are interested in animal production, feed analysis and nutritional models.

If you are not currently a sponsor or member, and wish to find out more information about sponsorship or membership, please contact FeedAC at (217) 356-2426 x130 or FeedAC@assochq.org.

Many of FeedAC's member companies are supporting and/or speaking at the following nutrition conferences:

2009 ADSA-CSAS-ASAS Joint Annual Meeting
July 12 – 16, 2009
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://adsa.asas.org/meetings/2009/

2009 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days
July 21 – 23, 2009
Crave Brothers Farm
Waterloo, Wisconsin
http://www.dodgefarmtech.com/

42nd Annual Convention of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners
September 10 – 12, 2009
Omaha, NE
http://www.aabp.org/meeting/

World Dairy Expo
September 29 – October 3, 2009
Madison, WI
http://www.worlddairyexpo.com/gen.home.cfm