FeedAC Members: Voting is now complete. Thanks to all who voted. Results will be shared in the next monthly update.

• Renewal Sponsorship/Membership packets were mailed on December 6
• Roughly 1200 prospective (new) Sponsorship/Membership/Donor packets were mailed on December 14. Packets include a cover letter, 2008 scope of work, and 2008 application.
• Please be sure to also check out the Presidents Report and the Executive Directors Report for a review of 2007 accomplishments and activities.

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 x30 or FeedAC@assochq.org.

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

World Dairy Expo
September 30 – October 4, 2008
Madison, WI
http://www.worlddairyexpo.com/gen.futuredates.cfm

69th Cornell Nutrition Conference
October 21 – 23, 2008
Doubletree Hotel Syracuse, East Syracuse, NY
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/dm/cnconf/index.html

Penn State Dairy Cattle Nutrition Workshop
November 12 – 13, 2008
Grantville, PA
http://www.das.psu.edu/dairynutrition/education/