Recent projects in New England have shown that growing oilseed crops for on-farm biofuel production has the potential to increase the economic viability of farms through diversification. Oilseed meals would net the highest return if sold as a source of protein for a livestock ration, but there have been several barriers preventing the establishment of this market. There are small amounts of loc...

Compound feed and the raw materials used in their production are potential vectors of microbiological contamination food chain. The purpose this study was to microbiologically asses (maize, wheat, soybean meal, sunflower meal), broiler compound (starter, grower, finisher) from a representative mill Romania; contaminants that were analyzed yeasts molds, Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, Clostri...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a probiotic on in situ ruminal DM, OM, CP and starch degradability values some energy protein sources commonly used ruminant nutrition. In study, degradation kinetics fractions dry matter, organic crude protein, 6 different feedstuffs (barley, wheat, corn, sunflower seed meal, cottonseed meal soybean meal) anima...