Lallemand Animal Nutrition develops, produces and markets high-value yeast and bacteria products.
08/12/2025
Efficient fibre digestion is a key driver of performance in beef systems.
Here are three reasons why it matters:
🌾 Better utilisation of forage
⬆️ Improved feed efficiency
📈 Increased daily liveweight gain (DLWG)
Rumen microbes drive digestion, but they can only perform at their best in the right environment.
By helping to keep rumen pH stable and improving fibre breakdown, the rumen-specific live yeast Levucell SC creates an optimum rumen environment, in turn supporting herd performance and profitability.
04/12/2025
Our team have been very busy throughout November, with events and farm visits filling up our diaries.
November was a month of several key industry events including:
- National Pig Awards🐷
- George Veterinary Group Pig Fair 🩺
- AgriScot 🐮
- BFREPA 2025 🐔
It was wonderful to catch up with familiar faces and meet new ones - thank you to everyone who stopped by!
We also enjoyed hosting -Nutrition at our Malvern plant, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the work which assures the quality of our UK-manufactured silage inoculants and other bacterial products. 🔬
25/11/2025
Winter feeding will require a careful balancing act this year! 🐄
When adjusting winter rations to account for this year’s variable forage quality, be mindful – sudden changes can imbalance the rumen, impacting both cow health and production. 📉
To help mitigate this, implement changes gradually and add the rumen-specific live yeast, Levucell SC.
This live yeast optimises rumen function, boosts feed efficiency, and helps cows get the most out of the forage you have. 💪
22/11/2025
Do you know the exact nutrition you're supplying to your cows? 🐄
Regular forage analysis is key to understanding the quality of your silage. 📊
Once your clamps are open, test them monthly – and whenever there are any cut or clamp changes.
It’s all about knowing what nutrients are available in your silage so you can adjust rations with your nutritionist or adviser, where needed, to keep everything running smoothly! 💪
16/11/2025
At Crumhaugh Farm in South Lanarkshire, the Baillie family has had great success in supporting calf growth rates by investing in their youngstock housing and feeding strategy.
They ensure each heifer has the best start by feeding a Calf-Vantage Starter pellet, which contains the protected rumen-specific live yeast, Levucell SC TITAN, alongside calf milk replacer.
Gavin Bailie explains: “We’ve been feeding this pellet for about 10 years now and mainly started using it to help achieve higher growth rates in our baby calves.
“We feel it's a great complement to the milk replacer we use, and our calves are generally a higher weight and in better condition at weaning.”
10/11/2025
Some of the team went up to the Lallemand Animal Nutrition UK & Ireland Distributors Conference last week, looking at the ways in which yeast can support gut health and digestion 🐄🐔🐑
Thank you for hosting us 🙂
05/11/2025
October has been a busy one for the Lallemand Animal Nutrition team! 🚜🍂
Highlights have included...
🌽 On-farm forage sampling with award winners - admiring their superb high-starch maize treated with Magniva Maize Elite
🌱 A day out in Devon for the Multi-Species Swards event
✈️ Hosting international colleagues in the UK - taking them to check out varied silage mixes in Somerset and cutting-edge dairy tech in mid Wales
🏆 Rounded off with a prize-winning day at the !
We’re looking forward to what November has to offer.
28/10/2025
A brilliant day at the Welsh Dairy Show for our RBM for Wales, Anwen Jones, and our RBM for Ireland, Bryan Buckley. 🐄 🌟
Our Bara Brith and Welsh cakes went down very well with customers old and new 😀 and the luck of Irish was with us as we took home the award for Best Indoor Show Stand! 🏆
Another highlight of the day was presenting winners of the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs stockjudging competition, which we were proud to sponsor, with their well-deserved trophies. 👏 👏
Big thanks to the judges and all who visited us today.
28/10/2025
Many farmers are facing challenges with variable silage quality this year.
Gethin and Eleri Gibbin, who milk 350 autumn-calving cows at Drefach Farms in Carmarthenshire, use Levucell SC Rumignition, a three-in-one yeast farm pack, to help cows adapt. 🐄
Feeding the combination of rumen-specific live yeast, hydrolysed yeast and yeast cell wall at 40g/cow per day last winter helped maintain consistent milk production in spite of seasonal fluctuations, Gethin explains. ✅
“Because we’re feeding wholecrop and maize, we’ve been using it as an insurance policy to mitigate potential mycotoxin threats,” he says.
“Cows are healthier and performing well, and dung consistency has improved.”
27/10/2025
Photo-worthy clamp! 📸
Farmer Gerald Watkin at Henllys Farm has been crimping grain for many years and treating it with Magniva Platinum Crimp. Swipe to see this year’s crimped wheat and barley as well as our RBM checking out this fantastic clamp 🌾
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End of the 19th century: Lallemand was founded in Montreal by a young immigrant from Alsace: Fred Shurer. Since his name was difficult to pronounce for his fellow citizens, he was nicknamed “Lallemand”, which is the French for “the German.” He kept the name and gave it to the company. In 1923, Fred started producing baker’s yeast in the Préfontaine Street plant in Montreal, which is still in operation today, to supply the North American baking industry.
1952: The Chagnon family purchased Lallemand, moving the company forward from a baker’s yeast producer to a major player in the development and production of specific yeast and bacteria strains, serving markets such as baking, beer brewing, oenology, spirits, biofuels, plant care, food, human health, pharmaceuticals, and animal nutrition. The company practically grew from yeast to become a global leader in microbial fermentation.
Today, Lallemand is globally present with more than 30 yeast and bacteria production plants. With more than 4,000 employees around the world, the group has an active business presence on all five continents.
…to a leader in animal nutrition and well-being
Lallemand entered the animal nutrition sector in the late 1980s, with the production of bacteria for silage inoculants and probiotics, first in Europe, with the acquisition of the first bacteria plant of the group in France (Aurillac) in 1988. Then, in North America with the acquisition of Milwaukee bacteria plant dedicated to animal nutrition in 1998.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition was born!
From the early days, Lallemand Animal Nutrition was driven by science, establishing its first long-lasting research partnership with INRA team in Clermont-Ferrand dedicated to ruminant research in 1989 and growing its network of research partnerships ever since.
Today, Lallemand Animal Nutrition employs more than 400 people across all continents and is a key player in forage preservation and the nutrition and well-being of ruminants, swine, poultry, aquaculture, equine and pets.
Some milestones in animal nutrition innovations
1995: Registration of ruminant and monogastric specific probiotic strains in Europe
1996: First bacteria for forage aerobic stability application (buchneri NCIMB 40788; Biotal)
2008: First patented microencapsulation technology for live yeast (Titan)
2009: First probiotic bacteria strain authorized in the EU for aquaculture
2016: First formulated multi-strain yeast fractions product
2018: First positive biofilm product developed for the animal environment
