US universities bring out DDGS dietary calculating tools
Several US universities are developing distiller’s dried grains with soluble calculators (DDGS) to help farmers weigh the costs, the National Hog Farmer reports.
Distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are figuring highly in US pork producers’ dietary supplements for their herds, by some estimations at 5 million tonnes.
Replacing corn with the byproduct of the ethanol process cost effectivly requires time and calculation.
To help with that step, several midwestern universities offer free, online calculators to aid the decision-making process when figuring out the potential cost savings from using DDGS at varying levels.
South Dakota State University as an online calculator where producers can enter their own ingredient costs in the colored cells on the site, and the calculator shows the most economical outcome.
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