Animal feed manufacturing involves the use of a variety of raw materials to produce
compound feeds. The feeds are defined according to certain specifications with regard to
nutritive composition based on specified descriptions for nutritional, hygienic and
physical quality. Together, these specifications require knowledge of a vast number of
different properties of ingredients to optimise processing while maintaining or controlling
nutritional quality for a given feed form. Therefore, concerted action by the
disciplines ‘nutritional science’ and ‘feed science and technology’ may nowadays be
essential for further progress in livestock production.