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1977
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In recent years, many countries have seen trends towards specialization and enlargement of production units and transition to industrialized livestock farming technologies. New technologies are being prepared for feeding and industrialized feed production. The production of artificially dried feeds, including pellets and wafers, is going up continuously. The production of such feeds allows to cut nutrient losses to half and even one third as well as to accomplish mechanization and automation of feed production and feed distribution. Wider use of finished feeds in pelleted and wafered form, hence, will be instrumental to more requirement-oriented feeding and to maximizing livestock production. Perennial forage grasses are the most important raw materials for wafer and pellet production in the majority of countries. However, annual crops, the tops of fodder and sugar beet, straw, and industrial waste products (pulp etc.) are also used. Activities are in full swing at various levels in the USSR, USA, France, Denmark, FRG, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other countries, with the view to improving the production of artificially dried feeds and the equipment required. Efforts, in this context, include the preparation of complex harvesting equipment, automatic flow lines, drying plants, as well as better formulas for finished feeds in wafered and pelleted form.
Citation
Smurygin, M A., "Trends of Development in the Production of Artificially Dried Feeds" (1977). IGC Proceedings (1977-2023). 14.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1977/plenary/14)
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Trends of Development in the Production of Artificially Dried Feeds
In recent years, many countries have seen trends towards specialization and enlargement of production units and transition to industrialized livestock farming technologies. New technologies are being prepared for feeding and industrialized feed production. The production of artificially dried feeds, including pellets and wafers, is going up continuously. The production of such feeds allows to cut nutrient losses to half and even one third as well as to accomplish mechanization and automation of feed production and feed distribution. Wider use of finished feeds in pelleted and wafered form, hence, will be instrumental to more requirement-oriented feeding and to maximizing livestock production. Perennial forage grasses are the most important raw materials for wafer and pellet production in the majority of countries. However, annual crops, the tops of fodder and sugar beet, straw, and industrial waste products (pulp etc.) are also used. Activities are in full swing at various levels in the USSR, USA, France, Denmark, FRG, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other countries, with the view to improving the production of artificially dried feeds and the equipment required. Efforts, in this context, include the preparation of complex harvesting equipment, automatic flow lines, drying plants, as well as better formulas for finished feeds in wafered and pelleted form.
