05/03/13: World grain supply; pig feed formulation; Melbourne grain exports on the up

There were only 67 days of grain supply in the world in January, says former World Bank president Robert Zoellick. The remark was made during a speech at the Forum for the Future of Agriculture conference which takes place today in Brussels, Belgium. Don't worry if you're not there, the event is being streamed online.

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Canola, cottonseed, and sunflower products can replace soybean meal in diets fed to pigs, but they contain less protein and energy according to research conducted at the University of Illinois, USA. To determine if it makes economic sense to use them, producers need to know the concentrations and digestibility of the nutrients they contain. To help them make the decision, University of Illinois researchers examined amino acid digestibility for these products.

"Soybean is by far the biggest oilseed crop in the world," said Hans Stein, professor of animal sciences. "But canola, cottonseed, and sunflowers are grown in areas where soybeans can’t grow. When the oil is taken out of the seed, meal is left over, as with soybean meal.”

His team looked at amino acid digestibility in both intact canola seeds and canola meal, as well as in cottonseed meal, intact sunflower seeds, dehulled sunflower meal, and sunflower meal with hulls, on which there has been little recent digestibility research. The study included soybean meal for comparison.

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It's been a bumper month for grain exports at Emerald Grain’s Melbourne Port Terminal. The grain handling facility has reported its strongest month of exported since it opened in 2000. During February, more than 185,000 tonnes of grain passed through the facility and on to eight destinations across Asia and Africa including China, Japan and Mozambique.

Glen Collision, general manager storage and handling, Emerald Grain said the record month was thanks to improved efficiencies across Emerald’s supply chain. “Emerald has a long-term lease of two locomotives which transport grain quickly from Emerald’s storage sites in New South Wales and Victoria and through to the port.”

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English: Close up of blooms on a canola plant near Yorkton, Saskatchewan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Chinese research study enzymolytic soybean meal

At the Henan University of science and technology, a study was carried out to investigate the effect of enzymolytic soybean meal on growth performance, nutrient digestibility and immune function of growing broilers. The trail set up was a total of 336 female Cobb chicks at one day old were randomly allocated to 4 treatments with 6 pens per treatment and 14 chicks per pen. 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.

Vietnamese and Swedish researchers work together

Vietnamese and Swedish researchers studying the influence of particle size and multi enzyme supplementation of fibrous diets on total tract digestibility and performance of weaning (8–20 kg) and growing (20–40 kg) pigs. The study was to see the effects of particle size and enzymes effect on growth and performance. The experimental diets were based on maize, fish meal, full fat soybean, soybean meal soybean oil and (cassava residue, CR and sweet potato vines, SPV) CR or SPV. 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.

Vietnamese - Swedish joint research into multi enzymes in fibrous diets for pigs

Vietnam and Sweden are jointly studying the influence of particle size and multi enzyme supplementation of fibrous diets on weaning (8-20 kg) and growing (20-40 kg) pigs. The aim was to evaluate the effects on growth performance. The experimental diets were based on fishmeal, maize and full fat soybean meal, soybean oil and cassava residue, CR and sweet potato vines, SPV. 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

Meghna to make soybean meal

A Bangladesh commodity giant will make soybean meal in an attempt to cater to demands of the local feed mills mostly dependent on the import of raw materials to make feed for poultry, fish and cattle.

Meghna Group of Industries says it is setting up an oilseed crushing mill to extract edible oil and soybean meal used by the local feed mills at nearly 100,000 tonnes per month. More than 80 percent of the total requirement for the soybean meal, the second most used item after maize to make feed, is met through imports from India, feed industry insiders say. 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

Fermented soybean meal may replace fish meal in piglet diets

A new study has suggested that fermented soybean meal and enzyme-treated soybean meal may replace fish meal in weanling pig diets. “The price of fish meal has exploded and is causing producers to search for new options for weanling pig diets.

Pigs are traditionally fed diets containing relatively large amounts of animal proteins such as fish meal from weaning up to 18 kg when they can digest traditional soybean meal,” said Hans H. Stein of the University of Illinois.

The fermentation and enzyme treatment process helps remove some of the anti-nutritional factors found in traditional soybean meal and other compounds that are not easily digested by young pigs. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

New soybean meal sources good fish meal alternatives

Two new sources of soybean meal are capturing attention throughout the country. University of Illinois research indicates that fermented soybean meal and enzyme-treated soybean meal may replace fish meal in weanling pig diets.

“The price of fish meal has exploded and is causing producers to search for new options for weanling pig diets,” said Hans H. Stein, U of I professor of animal sciences. “Pigs are traditionally fed diets containing relatively large amounts of animal proteins such as fish meal from weaning up to 40 pounds when they can digest traditional soybean meal.”

The fermentation and enzyme treatment process helps remove some of the antigens found in traditional soybean meal and other compounds that are not easily digested by weanling pigs. Stein said these new sources of soybean meal may be the answer producers are looking for to keep costs down without sacrificing digestibility of important amino acids. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.