The Department of Farm Animal Nutrition at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences has this year organised an international symposium on animal nutrition for the twentieth time. The Symposium has initiated 30 years ago by Prof. Laszlo Babinszky, as being the head of the Department of Animal Nutrition at the legal predecessor, with the aim that Hungarian specialists should be able to familiarise themselves with the latest research results from home and abroad so that they might be able to apply them in their everyday practical work. It was also important to host a forum where specialists from Hungary and other countries – researchers, lecturers and spe-cialists from practice – can gather regularly and exchange their opinions and experi-ence in the various fields of animal nutrition science.
Presentations at the International Symposium on Animal Nutrition focus on Innovation in farm animal nutrition and food production. The keynote speakers introduced some present and foreseen trends in innovation activity and strategies developing in practice to consider how animal feeding and nutrition can contribute to the solution of this challenge.Besides the plenary presentations, further presentations were also given, and in this proceedings, all papers presented in the Symposium are published.

• Innovation in swine nutrition research: past, present and future. pp. 11-33.
• Reducing dependency on antimicrobials naturally, for profitability and sustainability in modern broiler production. pp. 34-39.
• Insights into calf feeding for optimal future productivity. pp. 40-46.
• A tejelő tehenek takarmányozásának új aspektusai, innovatív takarmányvizsgálati megoldások. pp. 47-67.
• Innovációk az élelmiszer-feldolgozásban. pp. 68-79.
• The effect of a fermented herbal feed suplement ont he digestion of horses. pp. 83-88.
• Nutrition of hungarian police dogs. pp. 89-93.
• Evaluating chemical composition of pig faeces based on different diets using Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS). pp 94-100.
• Különböző genotípusú tojótyúkok tojásminőségének vizsgálata kifutós tartásmódban. pp. 101-105.
• Repcealapú bendővédett zsírkiegészítés hatása holstein-fríz tehenek tejzsír zsírsav-összetételére. pp. 106-110
• Pecsenyekacsák hízási teljesítménye korai metioninkiegészítés esetén. pp. 111-116.
• A talpfekély kialakulása és a takarmányozás közötti kapcsolat. pp. 1117-121
• Potential effect of dietaryfumonisins on the colonization of lactobacilli in the gut and fecal microbiota of weaned pigs. pp. 122-127.