Purdue researcher pioneers method to predict nutrient quality in dried distillers grains

In Indiana, Purdue researcher Klein Ileleji has developed a technique for predicting the amount of nutrient content in dried distillers grains, which will increase the ease of marketing the grains to farmers who use the nutrient-packed grains as a supplement for cattle diets.
Ileleji and his team developed a series of 36 ratios to accurately model [...]

September 23, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Concerns rise over antiobiotics concentrations in dried distillers grains

In Kansas, Agweek is reporting that the FDA is finding antibiotics contamination in numerous samples of dried distillers grains. The antibiotics are used by ethanol manufacturers to control the development of harmful bacteria and can increase ethanol production rates by up to five percent – or 50 million gallons across the entire US ethanol production.
However, [...]

June 08, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

US Grains Council says DDGs exports up 6 percent in early 2009

The U.S. Grains Council announced that distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) exports rose 6 percent in the early 2009 compared to 2008, from 598,000 tons to 634,000 tons for January and February. For all of 2008, the US exported 4.51 million tons of DDGS, up from 2.36 million tons in 2007, primarily to Mexico, [...]

May 15, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 1

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers to develop a standard for Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS)

In Michigan, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) announced a project to develop a standard for Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS).
DDGS are a co-product of the ethanol and distillery industries. ASABE is recognized worldwide as a standards developing organization for food, agricultural, and biological systems, with more than 225 standards currently [...]

March 04, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Distillers grains “lip smacking good stuff” that cattle “knock each other aside” to get to: report

In North Dakota, the Bismarck Tribune profiled the use of distillers grains from the Blue Flint Ethanol plant, which are used at a feedlot operation in Oliver County near Hannover. The DDGs are selling at $74 per ton, comparable to other protein additives. “It’s priced right at the ballpark with everything else,” feedlot operator Josh [...]

January 12, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

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