The Board of Directors invites you to renew or initiate your Sponsorship/Membership in FeedAC for 2010. Please take a moment to read this year's Sponsorship/Membership Invitation and review the Application. As you will read in the invitation and the other 6 documents listed below, much has been accomplished and we are committed to working aggressively to build on our progress to date.
Sponsorship/Membership Invitation
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
Following are two email responses FeedAC has received to questions surrounding the NRC series.
Hi Chuck,
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
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April 27, 2009
Hi Chuck,
Last June, I gave you an update on the status of the NRC Nutrient Requirement publications, which you posted on the FeedAC website. Things have changed since then and I think it's time for an new update.
As you know, our most recent reports have been Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats (2006), Nutrient Requirements of Horses (2007), and Nutrient Requirements of Small Ruminants (2007). Since then we have been raising funding for revisions of other reports.
Last year, we initiated a revision of the report on Nutrient Requirements of Fish (1993). The committee held its first meeting in February and will complete the report in two years. The report will address the considerable advances in aquaculture during the last two decades and will include shrimp as well as the major fish species.
We are currently putting together funding to revise the Nutrient Requirements of Swine (1998). We have commitments for most of the funding and expect to initiate this project sometime this summer.
Once the swine project is underway, we plan to start fundraising for a revision of Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle (2000).
Austin
Austin J Lewis, PhD
Senior Program Officer, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
National Academies, Washington, DC
(202) 281-5822
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.
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