Grain Quality for Feeding Livestock Purdue Agriculture喂养牲畜的普度农业粮食质量.pptVIP

Grain Quality for Feeding Livestock Dale M. Forsyth Department of Animal Sciences Purdue University What does Grain Quality MEAN? Grain Trade Test weight Level of foreign material Color Fines broken kernels Moisture Animal feeding Level of energy Level of protein, lysine Availability of nutrients Grain Quality Factors Let’s look at some of them from each point of view Foreign Material To the Food Manufacturer, Importer-Exporter, or elsewhere in the grain trade: Very important that corn be all corn To livestock: Depends on what the foreign material is. Foreign material If a truck previously ca