There is no doubt that we are living in challenging times.\u00a0 With recent events around the world and uncertainty in the marketplace, day-to-day decision-making is tough.\u00a0 One of the things to consider in daily management is the supply chain management of ingredients coming into your operation.\u00a0 In recent news, we have seen that the ethanol industry has been hit hard by the excess global supply of oil and gas inventories.\u00a0 With that being said, U.S. ethanol companies are idling back production.\u00a0 What that means to us is less availability of DDGS feed.\u00a0 What can we replace DDGS with?<\/p>\n
One thing to consider is Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn. Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn is a highly digestible, high-quality, value-added product that can be used in a variety of ways.\u00a0 Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn works well in dairy rations to stimulate microbial protein as well as to reduce the overall need for ground corn, steam-flaked corn or DDGS.<\/p>\n
Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn is a fairly simple process.\u00a0 Ground corn is processed through a uniquely designed high-shear extruder.\u00a0 Once it exits the cooking barrel it will enter a cutter head to cut the corn into smaller discs or puffs. Then the Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn is ready for cooling and transport to the storage area.<\/p>\n
The finished Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn will be a more consistent product compared to DDGS.\u00a0 In addition, Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn has better gelatinization compared to regular ground corn (25% gelatinization for ground corn compared to Insta-Pro\u2019s Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn with 91% gelatinization).\u00a0 This means greater use of starch for animal nutrition needs.<\/p>\n
As always, please consult with your nutritionist first when considering any changes in diets.\u00a0 If you have any questions about Hi-Gel\u2122 Corn or our equipment that processes it, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact us or our nutrition team at Insta-Pro.\u00a0 We would be glad to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is no doubt that we are living in challenging times.\u00a0 With recent events around the world and uncertainty in the marketplace, day-to-day decision-making is tough.\u00a0 One of the things to consider in daily management is the supply chain management of ingredients coming into your operation.\u00a0 In recent news, we have seen that the ethanol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":10487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7180],"tags":[8482,1642,1587,8483,8965],"class_list":["post-13847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutritionandtechnologies","tag-ddgs","tag-extruded-corn","tag-extrusion","tag-ground-corn","tag-hi-gel-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n