Tag-Team for Respiratory Relief
You've noticed the sunshine drifting south. Now you're trading daylight for dark as your days grow shorter and nights grow longer. Listen close and you'll soon hear the telltale sound of migrating geese, their honks filling the airways and ringing in a cooler season. It's a season that also brings vocal sounds from different airways, and if you're on the farm you won't have any trouble hearing it. Pigs coughing or thumping and poultry snicking and raling alerts you to a more threatening season- here it comes- flu season.
Can you SPOT the difference?
The recent heat waves across the SW to the Mid-Atlantic have been wreaking havoc for farmers and homeowners alike. The destructive force of wild fires and the impacts of the drought on crops and lawns has many of us a little on edge.
The irritability we experience from the hot days can also impact our livestock. Pigs too can become irritable during the dog days of summer especially on the finishing floor. As the finishers grow and increase in size, the pen density increases as well. This increase in density per pen coupled with scorching heat can cause your animals to exhibit destructive behaviors not seen in other times of the year.
Melts in Your Mouth, not on Your Brand
…three…two…one, the thundering roar begins, gloriously drowning out the crowd's cheers as the ship strains, lifting her load smoothly skyward. The year is 1982, and the space shuttle's cargo is imperceptibly heavier because the astronauts are bringing something extra. They've picked M&M's as the first candy to blast into space with them. Not a bad choice. No astronaut wants a sticky, gooey, chocolaty mess on his fingers, fouling up his switches and gauges. So the spacemen carry the tasty treats engineered to "melt in your mouth, not in your hands", patented by Forrest Mars, Sr. in 1941. Those spacemen were pressured by G-forces. Today, the feed industry is getting pressured from a different direction.
ASP's Integrated Business Manager
Animal Science Products, Inc. remains one of the world's premier manufacturers and suppliers of quality animal nutritional products through the passionate dedication of its people. A shining example of this passion can be found in Culley Wilson, ASP's Integrated Business Manager. Along with his daily responsibilities of managing our US sales and marketing of packaged good products – as well as developing new opportunities in the Latin Americas; Culley operates a successful waterfowl and black bear hunting guide service in North Carolina.
Back-Fire
Plus
TIRED OF YOUR PIGS CHEWING AWAY AT YOUR PROFITS?
BackFire Plus was recently introduced to the swine industry to support veterinarian interest in oral deterrents. Oral deterrent products are management aids to prevent animals from developing oral vices. Swine naturally use their mouths and noses to investigate their surroundings. Under certain circumstances, natural curiosity turns to aggressive and destructive chewing. Biting pen mate’s tails is a common result of this natural curiosity that should be stopped before it turns destructive. Backfire Plus is not a medication; it is recognizably strong-smelling and distasteful, so it stops oral vices at the investigation stage. Companion animal Veterinarians use similar flavor technologies to stop animals from licking or chewing their skin, bandages, casts, or catheters. Other examples include horses and pigs chewing fences or housing materials, squirrels chewing bird feeders, and raccoons opening trash receptacles.
Contact us for more information.
Richard Xia President of Shanghai Balantek...
Richard Xia, President of Shanghai Balantek Technology Co., Ltd., recently made a visit to Texas and to Animal Science Products' production facilities. This was Mr. Xia's first visit since becoming an ASP international distributor in January of 2010.
During his visit, Mr. Xia was given a tour by Kevin Matter, Operations Manager, of all four of ASP's production areas, as well as its state-of-the-art laboratory used for research, development and quality assurance. Mr. Xia was shown a series of presentations highlighting the quality control processes used in each facility by Ryan Izard, Chief Science/Technology Officer, and Yuxin Shao, Chinese-Asian Interpretive Marketing Assistant.
Additionally, Mr. Xia was given the opportunity to visit one of ASP's customers, Pilgrim's Pride, a U.S. Poultry Production Facility. Here, he experienced an integrated broiler feed mill operation with production in excess of 10,000 tons per week. "I am amazed to see so many tons being manufactured while only requiring five individuals to operate the process. This is very exciting and I believe this to be in the near future for China's feed production facilities," said Xia as he surveyed the operations.
Next, Mr. Xia participated in a tour of a U.S. Broiler Farm and was able to spend the afternoon seeing many aspects of the production facility. Mr. Wendell Goad, Breeder Manager of Pilgrim's in Nacogdoches, Texas, walked Richard through several components of the broiler production facility – including computerized climate-control drinking and ventilation systems, and husbandry practices commonly used in the U.S. market.
As Mr. Xia's trip concluded, Mayor Roger Van Horn of Nacogdoches, Texas, awarded Richard with an official city proclamation which acknowledged him to be an official "Texan."
All of us at Animal Science Products would like to thank Mr. Xia for making the long journey to Texas, and for allowing us to share with him some of what makes ASP an innovator in animal nutrition, the market leader in vaccine stabilization and an integral part of global poultry production.
BRAKKE Consulting & Wells Fargo Financial Commentary
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Animal Science Products, Inc., the global leader in poultry vaccine stabilizers, recently conducted a Best Vaccination Practices Seminar for Merial. The seminar was presented for a portion of Merial's Asian Poultry team, which included management, veterinarians, and technical services personnel throughout the region. There were over thirty people in attendance representing over seven Asian countries. Mr. Ryan Izard, Chief Science and Technology Officer, made the presentation to the Merial team. Mr. Bailey Reynolds, President of Animal Science Products, Inc., commented, "Merial has been a long-standing international distributor of our vaccine stabilizers.
Animal Science Products, Inc., (ASP) the global leader in poultry vaccine stabilizers, recently participated in the VIV Asia 2011 Tradeshow March 9-11, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. ASP presented a Best Vaccination Procedures Seminar for its distributors in the region with participation from seven different distributors, representing nine countries throughout Asia and the Middle East. The focus of the seminar was to educate the distributors using ASP's line of vaccine stabilizers to maximize poultry vaccine performance. The presentation was given by Mr. Ryan Izard, Chief Science and Technology Officer, at the Conrad Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Izard commented on the presentation, "Our goal is to help our distributors communicate to both integrators and end-users how the line of ASP Vaccine Stabilizers safeguard the producer's investment by protecting the vaccine until the bird is inoculated".
ASP Premix Customers
Recently, German consumer protection officials announced the contaminating antibiotic chloramphenicol was detected at a concentration of 32.6 parts per billion in vitamin A/D3 combination beadlets. You have our assurance, that neither our vitamin A, vitamin D3, or combination A/D3 inventory, nor product emanating from our approved suppliers, was implicated in the chloramphenicol contamination.
Animal Science Products purchases vitamins manufactured by responsible multinational European and Asian firms. Because we are committed to doing our part to protect your brand, ASP personnel and independent auditors have also routinely inspected vitamin and trace element production facilities in Europe and Asia. Additionally, we mandate our currently approved vitamin A and D suppliers to certify their products are free from chloramphenicol and other undesirable substances. Their certifications are backed up by test results from external laboratories. We will not purchase from anyone that does not provide these assurances.
Our straight vitamin A, D3 and A/D3 inventory, and therefore any of your premixes specifying these vitamins were protected from the contamination that surfaced in Germany. We appreciate the confidence you have placed in ASP's quality and consistency, and will work to address any further questions you may have.
Introducing the NEW ASPOrder option located in our menu to the left. Contact your sales representative for more information if you are interested in submitting your orders online.
FINACIAL MARKETING STRATEGIES
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China Animal Husbandry Expo (CAHE)
... is the top show specialized in
livestock production (pig, poultry, beef cattle, sheep, grass, machinery, animal
health…). In order to help animal breeders decrease carbon emission, CAAA
cooperate with DLG to create bio-energy exhibition area. 2010 CAHE attracted
70,000 professional visitors, 850 exhibitors from 30 countries and regions. All the
major pig, poultry breeds and companies involved in livestock production were
present at the show.
Located besides the sea in the largest and most developed livestock development Shandong Province, CAHE is an event that livestock professionals can't afford to miss.
At 2011 CAHE，you can find the top 100 pig farms and 100 poultry farms (including broiler, layer, waterfowl, and so on). During 2011 CAHE, CAAA will host Global Pig Forums and 2011 International Bio-energy Summit.
ASP booth numbers are 1066 & 1067
Innovation: The Worst of Times… and the Best of Times
Joe SchmiederIt was in the middle of winter in 1930, the heart of the Great Depression, when Howard Tuthill walked through the cavernous factory thinking about what to do with his family's business. It was eerily quiet as dim sunlight streamed through the narrow rooftop windows onto the grease-laden cast-iron machine tools. Only a couple of people were working at a wooden bench on a small order for cutting-blade parts for one of the local furniture companies. The once bustling factory that manufactured woodworking equipment—saws, sanders, planers, and lathes—no longer had a steady stream of orders coming from the area's premier furniture makers. Everything had slowed to a crawl.
Dismayed, Howard left the factory on the north side of town and walked downtown by the lines of people waiting in front of the YMCA building for some meager portions of food. He watched as the government official scooped up soup and tore off pieces of bread for each needy person. He kept walking and kept thinking. Two seemingly disparate images floated around his mind continuously—sharp saw blades ripping through a thick piece of white oak and a man's hands ripping off pieces of bread from a large, soft-crusted loaf.
"THAT'S IT!" Howard blurted out loud. The dots finally connected.
Howard raced back to the factory to begin developing the first retail bread slicer. Fast-forward to this century, and you will find bread-slicing machines, modernized since those early models, in 80 percent of the supermarkets in the U.S. and most retail foodservice bakeries, such as Panera Bread. Over that same time frame, the Tuthill family passed the business down to the third generation, who continued to diversify the company into bread packaging and labeling.
3 Years Safe
Milestone
Animal Science Products, Inc., the Nacogdoches, TX based animal feeds supplement manufacturer and distributor, is pleased to announce a safety milestone. On November 25th, our employees completed three years working without a lost time or restricted duty injury. This is the second time in our 25+ year history that we have reached that plateau. In addition, on December 31st, we completed a full calendar year without a single OSHA recordable injury, a first for us and a rarity in our industry.
At a recent employee dinner to celebrate the event, Rock Spraggins of Texas Mutual Insurance Co. said "this is a great achievement that shows the level of cooperation between the management of this company and its employees, without which it could have never been done".
Animal Science Products is proud of its continuing commitment to providing a safe and healthy workplace for its employees.
Quality
and Consistency Chart Room
Chart rooms have historically been at the center of successful journeys. Navigators use chart rooms to plot courses and continually adjust their steering to successfully attain their goals. Welcome to Animal Science Products’ Quality and Consistancy Chart Room.
News Letter
Welcome to The Science Quarterly. Our goal with this electronic newsletter is to keep you, our valued customers, informed with highlights taking place here at Animal Science Products. These highlights may include new products, new processes or equipment upgrades that improve product quality.
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