Japanese feedstuff manufacturer cuts corn in animal feed

Chubu Shiryo Co Ltd, a leading Japanese feed stuff manufacturer, has started making some animal feed with less corn as the price of corn continues to rise, a company official said on Monday. According to Reuters, the official said that the move will not immediately affect the volume of Japanese corn imports, though this could change when the company starts reducing corn volumes in a broader range of feeds.

Chubu Siryo started feed shipments for egg-producing chickens this month, with the use of corn cut from 50 percent to 30 percent, the average mix in compound feed for chickens in Japan, the official said. It plans to extend the move to feed used for pigs as well, although the official declined to set a time frame for this. The company increased the proportion of alternatives, primarily corn meal and wheat bran, without damaging the nutrition quality, helped by a processing technology the company has developed to improve the cost of processing feed from meal, he said. Read more...

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