Here, each co-product feed is described in words and figures, allowing the reader to distinguish between grains and supergrains, peeled potato and potato peel, steep liquor and spent wash.
A range of background information provides additional reassurance: how sugar beet fields are audited to ensure good farming practice; how potatoes are chopped and cooked to improve both their nutritional value and safety; how the extraction of sugar and starch from grain leaves feed materials that are richer sources of energy and protein. Guidance on feeding and storage is provided with cautionary notes for the farmer, and pointers to the factory where improved practices can enhance feed quality.
Co-product Feeds is a book that will be of value, interest and benefit to farmers, nutritionists, legislators, students and others involved in the feed industry.
Contents
- Introduction: definition of feed
- Products and by-products
- Co-products and wastes
- EU list of feed materials
- Quality assurance and codes of practice
- Quantification and geographical distribution
- Industries and their co-products
- Apple pressing
- Baking and confectionery
- Brewing and malting
- Citrus and tropical fruit processing
- Malt and grain distilling
- Milk processing
- Potato processing
- Starch and gluten extraction
- Sugar beet processing
- Others