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Posted 24 October 2007. Forage and Grazinglands. U of M Has ‘One-Stop’ Website for Livestock, Poultry Producers University of Minnesota. www.cfans.umn.edu St. Paul, Minnesota (October 15, 2007)--The ethanol industry is one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. agriculture, and it produces distillers grains by-products used as feed for livestock and poultry.
The latest information on feeding distillers grains by-products to dairy and beef cattle, swine and poultry is available on a one-stop website. It’s the University of Minnesota distillers grains by-products site at www.ddgs.umn.edu. We have been receiving about 3,500 hits per day. A wide variety of ethanol by-products are available to livestock and poultry producers, but they vary widely in nutrient content, quality and feeding value. In addition to research from University of Minnesota scientists, the website has research information and technical publications from several other universities. Corn is the grain most widely used in ethanol production due to its high fermentable starch content, so the majority of information on the website involves corn distillers by-products as livestock and poultry feed. However, some ethanol plants use sorghum, or blend corn with sorghum, wheat or barley based on geographical location, cost and availability of the grains. All of the numerous by-products are different in nutritional value, and have different economic value in various types of animal and poultry feed. More than 12 million metric tonnes of distillers grains with solubles were produced in 2006; industry experts say the figure may increase another 10 to 14 million tonnes in the next few years. The website has an international following; many of the publications have been translated into other languages, including Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish and Taiwanese. Contact: |
