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Biofuel co-products as livestock feed - Opportunities and challenges

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<strong>Biofuel</strong>s: their <strong>co</strong>-<strong>products</strong> <strong>and</strong> water impacts in the <strong>co</strong>ntext of life-cycle analysis 48740 00035 000FIGURE 4Domestic production of DGSThous<strong>and</strong> Metric Tons30 00025 00020 00015 00010 0005 0000USDA Marketing YearDistillers Grains Corn Gluten Feed Corn Gluten MealSource: RFA, 2011.TABLE 2United States distillers grain market size <strong>as</strong> DDGS on an <strong>as</strong> fed or sold b<strong>as</strong>is (Arora, Wu <strong>and</strong> Wang, 2010)Animal typeGCAU(10 6 units)Feed per GCAU (1)(tonne/unit)DGS inclusion(%)Potential DGS usage at different market penetration levels(×10 3 tonne)50% 100%Dairy 10 4.0 (2) 20 4 020 8 041Beef 20 2.2 20 4 236 8 47240 8 472 16 943Swine 26 2.2 10 2 821 5 642Poultry 31 2.2 10 3 278 6 556Total market size (3) 18 591 37 181Notes: GCAU = grain <strong>co</strong>nsuming animal units. (1) Includes energy <strong>feed</strong>s (i.e. grains), oilseed meals, animal-protein <strong>feed</strong>s, grain-protein <strong>feed</strong>s <strong>and</strong> otherby-product <strong>feed</strong>s. Excludes <strong>feed</strong>ing of distillers grain because of data unavailability. No roughage (i.e. alfalfa hay) is included. (2) Corrected on the b<strong>as</strong>isof the <strong>feed</strong> <strong>co</strong>nsumption report by Anderson et al., 2006, <strong>as</strong>suming an annual <strong>feed</strong>ing period of 300 days <strong>and</strong> a <strong>feed</strong> DM <strong>co</strong>ntent of 85.5%. Representsthe maize <strong>and</strong> soybean meal portion of the diet. Total <strong>feed</strong> per dairy-GCAU is 8.21 tonne/year. (3) 40% inclusion for beef.TABLE 3Properties of maize ethanol <strong>co</strong>-<strong>products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>co</strong>nventional animal <strong>feed</strong>s on a dry matter b<strong>as</strong>isAnimal <strong>feed</strong> <strong>and</strong> other<strong>co</strong>-<strong>products</strong>Dry matter (%) Crude protein (%) Fat (%) Low heating values (MJ/kg)Maize 85.5 8.3 3.9 18.7Soybean meal 87.8 50.1 1.4 18.5DDGS 89.2 30.8 11.2 20.2WDGS 30.0 36.0 15.0 20.2 (3)d-DGS (1) 92.3 34.0 2.7 20.2 (3)HP-DDG (2) 87.5 48.6 3.4 20.2 (3)Maize gluten <strong>feed</strong> 89.4 23.8 3.5 18.5Maize germ 90.6 17.2 19.1 NAMaize oil — — — 17 (4)Notes: (1) De-oiled DGS. (2) High-protein dried distillers grain. (3) Assuming low heating values equal to DDGS on a DM b<strong>as</strong>is. (4) Assuminglow heating value equal to soybean oil.monog<strong>as</strong>tric animals (swine, poultry). DGS-fed monog<strong>as</strong>tricanimals have not exhibited superior performance.The in<strong>co</strong>rporation of technologies such <strong>as</strong> maizefractionation <strong>and</strong> maize oil extraction have enabled theproduction of new, higher-value <strong>co</strong>-<strong>products</strong> that mayenter the market <strong>and</strong> change the <strong>co</strong>-product mix. These<strong>co</strong>-<strong>products</strong> include high-protein dried distillers grain(HP-DDG), maize gluten <strong>feed</strong>, maize germ, de-oiled DGS

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