Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and China Agricultural University have launched a research program to confirm that a portion of the corn in cattle rations may be effectively replaced with a mix of corn processing co-products and corn stover the stalks, cobs and leaves left on farmers' fields after the harvest. ADM will fund the two-year research program, and ADM researchers will work with Dr Shengli Li, a world-renowned professor of dairy science at CAU, to conduct a series of feeding trials at CAU as well as cooperative trials with large dairy farms in China."We at China Agricultural University are pleased to join with ADM to help investigate the potential to reduce dairy farmers' cost-per-head, and to preserve valuable grain for higher-value uses," said Li. "A growing and increasingly prosperous Chinese population is eating diets higher in animal protein, and driving higher demand for grain in the country. ADM is keenly interested in […] making better use of the grain the world already grows today, and by finding high-value applications for biomass such as corn stover," said Ismael Roig, ADM vice president and president, Asia-Pacific. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers. To get your copy of 'PPLAPP' click here.
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