New! GFMT article: FEED FOCUS: Pelleted feed technology for dairy cows

In this article, Amanda Zhou of Allance Machinery, China discusses pellet feed production for dairy cows.

Pellet feed production technology was first introduced in China in the 1930s. Since then, pelleting has become one of the most common techniques in animal feed processing. Pellets had lots of advantages over crumbles, such as less dust, no grading, balanced animal nutrition, enhanced feed intake and easy storage and transportation.

Read the full article here. 

Pellet feed production for dairy cows

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AkzoNobel

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New! GFMT Article: Pellet production

The GFMT article in the spotlight today is on pellet production to save energy, improve feed efficiency and safety.  Murray Hyden of Kiotechagil gives an informative and detailed overview of ways to increase efficiency without cutting corners.  Click on the image to read the text.

Click on the image to read the text.

You can also read more article on pelleting from the GFMT archives. Here are some of the highlights:

• The nutritional impact of pellet binders
• Cost saving methods of pellet production
• Pelleting: the link between practice and engineering

Borregaard LingoTech

Borregaard LignoTech's organisation has over 60 years of experience in specialty chemicals; lignins and lignosulfonates. The company's world-wide network of production facilities and sales offices assures the very best local service and competence where you need it. Click on the image to find out more.

Borregaard LingoTech kindly wrote an article on the nutritional impact of pellet binders in GFMT July/August 2012.

New! GFMT Article: Nutritional Impact of Pellet Binders

The latest issue of GFMT magazine is at the printers and all the content is online.  Over the next few days we'll be posting individual articles on the  blog but you can read the full magazine here. 

First up is the Nutritional Impact of Pellet Binders by Thomas S Winowiski, LingoTech, USA.  Enjoy.

GFMT Article: Conditioning as part of the pelleting process

The GFMT archive article today is conditioning as part of the pelting process.  Harold Schroijen for Van Aarsen International explains the importance for condition at the pre-pelleting stage of production.

English: Extruded feed pellets (Photo credit: Wikipedia)