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Utilizing the Growing Local Supply of Distillers Grains
Across the Midwest, ethanol plants (primarily dry mill vs. wet mill process) are being planned and built and existing plants expanded. Today over 98 percent of commercially produced ethanol is used to extend ga...
Author: Robert M. Kaiser, Dairy Agent - University of Wisconsin Extension
Publication date: 12/17/2008    Rating:    Views: 1489

Recent Trends in Gut Health Management
Global agriculture is heading towards challenging times, since the world's population continues to grow at an ever increasing rate. Thus, consumers' demand for sufficient supply of high-quality safe food ...
Author: Tobias Steiner, Product Manager - Courtesy of Biomin GmbH
Publication date: 12/03/2008    Rating:    Views: 1302

Processing Feed Grains
Does Grain Need to be Processed?Although it is possible to feed whole grain to cattle, it is normally processed for a variety of reasons. Reduced separation and sorting of feed It is impossible to mix protein,...
Author: Gary Mathison, Ph.D., Dept. of Agriculture, Food & Nutritional Science, Univ. of Alberta - Alb...
Publication date: 12/01/2008    Rating:    Views: 1179

Improving enzyme resistance to pelleting conditions
Numerous studies on growth and digestibility have demonstrated the benefits of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) degrading enzymes in poultry and pigs, which have led to a wide adoption of feed enzymes in the fe...
Author: KEVIN LIU and PIERRE DALIBARD – Courtesy of ADISSEO France SAS
Publication date: 11/20/2008    Rating:    Views: 1580

Mill Automation & Process Optimization
Almost every miller in the world has considered introducing some degree of automation to the cleaning houses, mills and packing plants at some stage and many have been very successful....
Author: Jonathan Bradshaw - Published on Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine (January 2008) - Art...
Publication date: 11/13/2008    Rating:    Views: 1223

Sieves & Particle Size Reduction
The sifter floor tends to be out of sight and out of mind in many flour mills, getting attention only when the mill is stopped. But the sifter floor is just as important as the roller floor and pr...
Author: Jonathan Bradshaw - Published on Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine (January 2008) - Art...
Publication date: 10/15/2008    Rating:    Views: 1432

Silage inoculants: are they profitable? A case study of wholeplant corn silage
Research on the topic “Profitability in the use of silage inoculants”  in scientific literature shows that many authors (e.g. Vanzant, 2008; Raue, 2006) have already tried to use methods for calcul...
Author: Yunior Acosta Aragón, Technical Manager for Preservatives - BIOMIN GmbH
Publication date: 10/14/2008    Rating:    Views: 1127

The floating feed revolution
Tilapia is the second-most important group of farmed fish after carp. It is farmed in at least 85 countries, with the major part of the production coming from Asia (China) and Latin America (Ecuador, Honduras a...
Author: Andritz Sprout newsletter (October 2008)
Publication date: 10/06/2008    Rating:    Views: 2347

Feed Industry: Microwave Moisture Measurement
Keeping moisture at the correct level throughout all stages of processing can be one of the biggest challenges for feed and flour millers.All sorts of factors affect the m...
Author: Melany George (Hydronix Limited) - Published on Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine (Janu...
Publication date: 09/11/2008    Rating:    Views: 1323

Binders: Gelatin as alternative for urea formaldehyde and wheat gluten in the production of water stable shrimp feeds
Shrimp are external masticators, meaning that they chew their feed outside their mouth and will not ingest the feed at once. Shrimp prefer soft pellets. Typically, in semi-intensive farming, s...
Author: Eric De Muylder, Hans Hage and Geert van der Velden - Published on Aquafeed International maga...
Publication date: 09/03/2008    Rating:    Views: 2189