NUTRIQUEST has introduced its ILLUMINATE service to the dairy industry. The service offers a database of DDGS nutrient loadings from more than 140 U.S. ethanol plants, which the company says will allow dairy producers to select the highest value sources, maximize use and improve performance and profitability in their herds. “As ethanol plants continue to increase the level of oil extraction from DDGS, understanding how to feed higher levels of DDGS effectively is now more important than ever,” states Ken Purser, general manager at NUTRIQUEST.
ILLUMINATE provides continually updated and validated nutritional reports to NUTRIQUEST dairy customers so they are better able to formulate diets and enhance cost effective animal performance and milk production.“Due to the wide variation among ethanol plants, a DDGS feeding rate of 3lb/hd/day has the ability to produce variation in milk production of over 2 lb/head/day,” said Rob Musser, director of technical sales and services at NUTRIQUEST.
While ILLUMINATE services for dairy is new, NUTRIQUEST says that the ILLUMINATE services process is widely used. It was introduced more than four years ago to U.S. pork producers and today approximately 50 million pigs per year are fed DDGS selected using ILLUMINATE nutrient loadings.
ILLUMINATE was expanded to include broiler, egg and turkey producers 18 months ago and is now widely accepted in the poultry industry. PD
—From NUTRIQUEST news release
