Agricultural waste biomass generated from agricultural production and food processing industry are abundant, such as durian  peel, mango peel, corn straw, rice bran, corn shell, potato peel and many more. Due to low commercial value, these wastes are disposed in landfill, which if not managed properly may cause environmental problems. Currently, environmental laws and regulations pertaining to ...

agricultural waste biomass generated from agricultural production and food processing industry are abundant, such as durian  peel, mango peel, corn straw, rice bran, corn shell, potato peel and many more. due to low commercial value, these wastes are disposed in landfill, which if not managed properly may cause environmental problems. currently, environmental laws and regulations pertaining to ...

A study was conducted to determine 1) the effect of a dietary direct-fed microbial (DFM) on turkey poult performance, 2) the effect of a DFM on a Salmonella challenge, and 3) the effect of feed processing on the efficacy of the dietary DFM. Day-of-hatch Large White female poults were placed in 2 rooms in 2 Petersime batteries per room. Twelve pens of 7 birds each were used in each battery (24 p...

Feed was first pelleted in the US in the early 1900’s. All commercial broilers & turkeys are fed feed that has been pelleted, a process which has not really changed much over these many years. In fact, the exact economic benefit may not be well defined. Feed mills exist today as part of all integrated operations, and are thought of as a necessary, major cost center. Most have worked hard to red...

eighteen female, neonatal brown swiss calves (39.5±1.2kg) were randomly divided into three treatment groups to investigate the effect of physical processing of diet on weaning age and some blood metabolites. treatments were included: mash starter (m), pelleted starter (p) and heterogen of mixture moisturized, rolled barley and corn. (h). diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous. there were no...