Nursery pigs may maintain growth and performance when higher levels of dried distillers grains with solubles are added to their feed if diets are balanced or enzymes are used, says researcher.
The UK government’s 2% biofuel crop cap proposal would be disastrous for bioethanol producers, farmers and the feed sector, says head of government affairs at Vivergo Fuels.
Factors such as direct and indirect land use conversion, higher feed prices and environmental damage are prompting US environmental campaigners, Mighty Earth, and others to demand the EPA reconsider and reduce mandates for conventional, food-based biofuels.
The UK livestock industry is embracing wheat DDGS (distillers dry grains with solubles) as a feed source 18 months after a four-year study confirmed that this co-product represents ‘great value’.
The National Chicken Council is calling for a reduction in the proposed amount of corn-based biofuel to be generated in 2017 and a reassessment of the overall biofuel program.
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule on Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume obligations has generated mixed responses from several feed and crop organizations.
The increase in ethanol production since 2000 has resulted in the ethanol industry moving from being a market for US corn to being the primary user of the grain by 2010, according to a USDA report.
The National Chicken Council (NCC) supports moves to shrink the mandates on ethanol production in the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) as a way to avoid high feed corn prices and inelasticity in the feed market.
The US market for distillers dried grains (DDGs) is not likely to see wild fluctuation even if less ethanol is produced domestically than once expected as a reaction to changes in biofuel policy.
A new Canadian university based research facility that Cargill is backing to the tune of $2.46 million will focus on turning down-graded wheat, durum or corn crops into high quality animal feed.
