Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

The extraordinary year 2020 has offered few possibilities for meeting collaborators and fellow researchers in scientific symposia. Most of the scientific congresses of the year have been postponed to 2021 or beyond. As a...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

The autumn is the time of harvest. The season brings the discussion and speculation about the quantity and quality of the crops. For an animal farmer, the concentrations of mycotoxins in cereal grains are of special...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R & D Director

The World Antimicrobial Awareness Week starts today and will be held on 18–24 November every year. It’s organized by FAO, WHO and the World Organization for Animal Health and have a slogan of this year “Antimicrobials: handle...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

The third webinar presentation was given by DVM, PhD, Adjunct Professor Claudio Oliviero from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Check my previous blogs for an overview of the other 2 presentations:

"The relevance of gut...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

Adj. Prof. Dr. Peter Kappel Theil from Aarhus University (Foulum, Denmark) addressed in his presentation given at Hankkija's webinar the importance of ensuring enough energy for the sow for parturition and colostrum...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

Professor Filip Van Immerseel from the University of Ghent (Belgium) gave the first presentation in Hankkija’s webinar on 16th October, 2020. In his presentation, he emphasized the role of intestinal health on the...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R & D Director

The yeast hydrolysate product Progut® trains the immune system of young piglets and thus enhances their immune responses under challenge. It has also reduced the fecal shedding of hemolytic E. coli in piglets and reduced...

Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

Sepsis refers to the severe, life-threatening systemic response of a dysregulated immune system to a bacterial infection. If not quickly treated with effective antimicrobials, sepsis most often leads into shock, multi-organ...

Time: October 16th, 2020, 10 am Central European Summer Time 

(11 am Helsinki time)

Today’s animal production is struggling in finding a balance between even higher performance goals, animal welfare, consumer concerns and regulatory pressure. The Nordic...

Dr. Eija Valkonen, Area Sales Manager

Animal welfare has been a hot topic for some time, and many stakeholders have interest in it. For consumers the issue is important and many of us make daily decisions in grocery store based on the animal welfare image...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

Young piglets are highly susceptible to a variety of diseases due to the immaturity of their active immunity and pathogen challenge from the environment. Removal of antibiotic growth promoters and medical zinc from the diets is...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R&D Manager

Bovine rumen is a big warm pot of feed-digesting microbes: bacteria, archaea, yeasts, and unicellular eukaryotes.  Although these creatures are unicellular organisms, they are capable of forming communities with complex...

Dr. Eija Valkonen, Area Sales Manager

Have you observed a plateau in broiler flock’s feed intake? Low feed intake of a broiler flock may be a sign of latent illness and result from disturbance in the gut homeostasis. Typically farmers notice a slowing...

The study recently published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science demonstrates that resin acids of Progres® do not accumulate in edible parts of broiler chicken, and thus pose no safety concerns to the consumers. Although the likelihood of seeing any problems...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

Rearing of young ruminants can be challenging as they are highly susceptible to a variety of diseases due to the immaturity of their active immunity and stresses that can reduce the immune activity during the early phase of...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

Progres® is the only resin acids containing feed ingredient in the market. Because it’s “a new kid in the block”, customers are often asking what is Progres® and its resin acids and how is it produced. A natural plant origin of...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R&D Manager

Consumer safety is of outmost importance to all players of the food chain, Hankkija FFI included. Novel feed materials must not only be beneficial to the farm animals, but they also need to be absolutely safe to the consumers...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

The effect of nutrition on animal gut health and performance is complex and its research requires knowledge from different branch of sciences. Networking with top research institutes, companies and universities with different...

Hannele Kettunen, R&D Manager

According to the principles of circular economy, materials used and produced in industrial processes shall be utilized and recycled as efficiently as possible, and for as long as possible. By-products of industrial processes are...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

Different yeast products such as live yeasts, yeast culture products and hydrolyzed yeasts are widely used in ruminant feeding. Their marketing claims include modulation of rumen fermentation, improved feed efficiency and...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) has announced a new research project to find novel means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dairy production by feeding strategies. The project involves also private companies...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

COVID-19 deaths and antibiotic resistance are connected, states the recent article in Scientific American: "Rather than seeing the two crises as independent of each other, both are symptomatic of the challenges of living on...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

Hankkija’s feed innovation Progres® is a known performance enhancer in calves. The present trial studied the effects of Progres® on the performance and health scores of goat kids. Progres® is a Finnish feed innovation, the...

Dr. Hannele Kettunen, R & D Manager

“No foot, no horse” is an old saying among horsemen. The proverb reflects both the susceptibility of horse feet to injuries and the importance of healthy feet for horses. For poultry producers, the saying could go as “No...

Dr. Shah Hasan, Area Sales Manager

A new study by the National Research Institute of Animal Production (Poland) demonstrated that inclusion of Progres® in sow diets pays back in numbers and health of surviving piglets. This study continued the research, which...

Hannele Kettunen, R&D Manager

The 13th Finnish Gut Day seminar was arranged in Biomedicum 1 at the University of Helsinki on 23rd January, 2020. The yearly seminar, organized by Prof Willem de Vos and Dr. Anne Salonen, offered again an impressive set of...

Text and photos by Markku Pulkkinen

The Padaspekoni Oy piggery has had good experience with Hankkija's sow and piglet feeds containing Progres®. Piglet diarrhea and the need for antibiotics have decreased after Progres® feeds were introduced a year ago. ...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director

Yeast products are widely used in feeding. They can improve animal performance by reducing the growth of pathogenic bacteria and supporting immunity. Although the marketing claims are similar, the product characteristics vary a...

Dr. Shah Hasan, Area Sales Manager 

Hankkija FFI presented its unique hydrolized yeast product Progut® at the Gut Health in Production of Food Animals symposium held on November 4–6, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri. This is one of the leading platforms for...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R&D Director 

Hankkija’s feed division is taking a new step and moving from using the “Suomen Rehu” brand to the “Hankkija Finnish Feed Innovations” brand. By adding the tagline “Finnish Feed Innovations” to the company name, we want to...

Hannele Kettunen, R&D Manager 

Hankkija’s resin acid-based feed innovation Progres® was promoted at the International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology, ISRP 2019. This event, arranged every four years, is the major international, scientific conference on...

Shah Hasan, Area Sales Manager

Large litters can be a mixed blessing in modern pig production. They bring lots of potential but also some management challenges.

COLOSTRUM – A KEY ELEMENT IN PIGLET PRODUCTION

Colostrum plays an essential role in survival and...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R & D Director

Hankkija’s resin acid research was presented by two posters at European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition in Gdansk Poland last week.

In the “Beneficial performance effect of tall oil fatty acids is likely based on the effects...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R & D Director

Due to an increased demand for our new generation yeast, in the end of May we have started contract manufacturing of Progut® in Brazil. The new production site will not only increase the amount of the product available; it...

Juhani Vuorenmaa, R & D Director

The 6th international conference on poultry intestinal health gathered about 750 poultry experts together to Rome last week. It became even more obvious that intestinal health is a very complex phenomenon. It involves several...

One of the main strengths of Suomen Rehu is our unique research network, which offers a synergistic combination of skill sets in microbiology, animal physiology, gut health and animal production performance. By joining forces of top-qualified experts, we are...

VIV Asia is the primary showcase for the agricultural industry in Asia. It was a great pleasure to meet our existing and potential customers at this important event, to share the breakthrough findings of recently published Ghent University research on resin...

Derek Gaffney, Export Manager

The Pinar brand has been synonymous with high quality food in Turkey for decades. As market leader for milk, meat and water products, the famous Pinar logo is highly visible and well respected throughout this beautiful country. ...

Follow Suomen Rehu’s page on LinkedIn! We launched it to provide with the most recent updates about our feed innovations, the events we are participating in etc. - on the go, in real time.

The recent publication of Shah Hasan article adds to the impressive list of scientific publications on Progres®. A study conducted in collaboration with the University of Helsinki demonstrated that Progres® supplementation in the sow late gestation diet...

We are honoured that Shah Hasan (Suomen Rehu / University of Helsinki) will take part as an expert panelist in FeedNavigator’s webinar ESTABLISHING THE MICROBIOTA IN THE PIG (November 27th, 4:00 PM CET (PARIS) / 10:00 AM ET (NEW YORK).

The webinar will...

Jyrki Lehtonen, Area Sales Manager

Progres® is a new product, which has created a lot of interest among feed industry: although being a natural product, it is thoroughly studied scientifically; its efficacy is tested and proven in many animal species, and the...

Jyrki Lehtonen, Area Sales Manager

We have a long tradition of making feed industry innovations at Suomen Rehu. The dynamics of finding solutions for more sustainable animal production and innovativeness in forest industry has been a driving force behind our...

We are very proud that Progres® has been awarded with the Prize for Innovations, which is bestowed biennially by the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland. There are two winners this year – Progres® and a new treatment for Parkinson's disease (Univ. of...

The excitement about Progres® – the revolutionary feed innovation developed by Suomen Rehu/Hankkija – is a great source of inspiration both for our team and for our partners. Thanks to our global research network and the dedicated work of our R&D team, we have...

Juhani Vuorenmaa (Suomen Rehu, R+D Director): We are investing heavily in research to learn more about the modes of action and potential uses of Progres®. In a number of trials active compounds of Progres® have been shown to improve condition and function of...

In the vote organized by the official website of the Netherlands’ Association of veal farmers (VVK) Progres received almost 43% of the votes.

Our distributor Denkavit add Progres® to their milk replacers to support calves’ intestinal health and performance....

Engormix have published a video of Dr. Hannele Kettunen's (Sciandics Oy) presentation “Dietary resin acid composition as a performance enhancer for broiler chickens” detailing some of the remarkable results she has found in the trials with Progres®.

To watch...

Although there are plenty of yeast products available in the feed market, Progut® – our patented hydrolyzed yeast innovation – finds its way to US. There are 3 main reasons for Progut®’s worldwide success: it is unique in its category, there is a lot of...

Shah Hasan (University of Helsinki) has presented results from his recent research regarding Progut® inclusion in late pregnancy diets of sows at Gut Health in Production of Food Animals Symposium (Nov. 13-15, 2017). Read the abstract

Suomen Rehu have recently participated as gold sponsors at the Intestinal Health Scientific Interest Group (IHSIG) 5th Symposium on Poultry Intestinal Health in Bangkok. With internationally renowned speakers and more than 400 delegates from 35 countries it...

With high feed costs, intensifying consumer demands, and increased government regulations, the poultry industry faces a compelling need for new feeding solutions. Academic researchers and industry experts have long agreed on the importance of gut health for...

Today’s animal production faces many challenges. Genetic development of commercial breeds is creating pressure and challenges for existing feeding and management policies. Consumer concerns are affecting the tools and methods available. Antibiotics for humans...

Moy Park, one of the UK’s top 15 food companies and a leading provider of fresh, locally farmed poultry to UK supermarkets, has taken the decision to include Progres® into the diet of all its Turkeys for the Christmas market.

1 million birds will be fed a...

We have received registration for our revolutionary new feed ingredient, Progres® in Russia. Progres® is a natural product from the Finnish Forest which has been proven to improve feed efficiency in broiler and turkey production, development work is ongoing...

Progut Rumen received recognition by being among the prizewinners for 'Best New Product' at the AgriScot Agricultural show in Edinburgh, Scotland in November 2014. The judges were impressed by the recently published trialwork showing improved milk yield and...

In July we presented the findings from our recent Dairy Performance Trial with Progut® Rumen at the Joint Annual Meeting of The American Dairy Science Association, American Society of Animal Science and Canadian Dairy Science Association (JAM 2014).

Derek...

By Olli Anomaa, Product Development manager

The trial mentioned above was made by the Schothorst Feed Research in the Netherlands and the results of that trial was released in 6th European Symposium of Porcine Health Management held in Sorrento, Italy in May...

By Eija Valkonen, Product Development ManagerToday's chickens and turkeys are more susceptible to various infectious and metabolic diseases than ever before. Immunocompetence of birds has decreased and at the same time cell mediated and inflammatory responses...

By Kirsi Niemelä, Technical Manager

In her doctoral thesis entitled, ”Replacement Decisions On Finnish Dairy Farms – Toward Better Economic Performance With Novel Technology And Sustainable Herds” (MTT Science 2013), Anna-Maija Heikkilä argues  that it is...

In a recent dairy cow study carried out on a research farm in Portlaoise, Ireland, Progut® Rumen was proven to significantly increase milk yield and reduce Somatic Cell Score across the herd. Read more.

The objective of the trial was to evaluate the effects of including Progut in a post-weaning diet on piglet performance and immune system response. Read more.

The Animal journal recently published a trial report proving the beneficial effect of feeding Progut Rumen on the immune system of calves.

Read the article here.