{"id":1642,"date":"2014-07-24T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:14:00","slug":"corn-is-not-a-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instapro.spinuhost.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/corn-is-not-a-commodity\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn is Not a Commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corn is one of the most important crops in the world.\u00a0 In 2009, <a title=\"Quantity of Production - Corn\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corn#Quantity\">more<\/a> corn (by weight) was grown than any other grain \u2013 production around the world was greater than 800 million tons.\u00a0 In the US and many other parts of the world, the <a title=\"Breakdown of Corn Usage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corn#U.S._usage_breakdown\">majority<\/a> of corn is used as livestock feed.<\/p>\n<p>Livestock rations, for swine and poultry especially, rely heavily on corn and its by-products.\u00a0 This is because corn is palatable by all major production animal species, easily digested and complements other major ingredients, such as oilseed meals, when balancing diet formulations to optimize performance.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, corn is one of the most important <a title=\"Commodity: Corn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/commodity\/Corn\">commodities<\/a> in the world \u2013 <a title=\"Commodity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodity\">meaning<\/a> that it is treated as similar, or the same, no matter who produced it.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, corn provides a large percentage of the <a title=\"Food Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food_energy\">dietary energy<\/a> to the animal.\u00a0 Most of the energy from corn is <a title=\"Nutrient Content of Major Staple Foods\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corn#Comparison_to_other_staple_foods\">supplied<\/a> as starch, and a small fraction as oil.\u00a0 As I have written in a blog\u00a0<a title=\"&quot;Energy In, Performance Out&quot; \" href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2013\/06\/18\/energy-in-performance-out\/\">before<\/a>, formulating a diet with information on energy content and requirements is important in order to maintain or enhance animal performance and efficiency, while minimizing cost.<\/p>\n<p>This information on energy is often assumed and is rarely evaluated.\u00a0 The problem with this was highlighted recently in a study describing normal variation in <a title=\"Metabolize Energy in Poultry Nutrition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/1308333?uid=3739640&amp;uid=2129&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=70&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=21104140722567\">metabolizable energy<\/a> contents of corn sampled around the US (Campasino et al., 2014).\u00a0 The corn samples varied by 195 kcal\/kg in apparent metabolizable energy (AME) content when fed to broiler chickens.\u00a0 During personal communications with one of the authors, it was revealed to me that differences in the moisture contents of the corn samples were believed to be mainly responsible for differences in AME.<\/p>\n<p>So, 195 kcal\/kg may not seem like much, but consider the following <a title=\"Comparing Various Soybean Protein Products for Broilers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soymeal.org\/sm_poultry\/subuhamhandcoworkers02.html\">data<\/a> taken from broilers fed corn \/ <a title=\"Insta-Pro Extruders\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/products-services\/extruders.html\">extruded<\/a> full-fat soy diets after 21 days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Presentation1c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1691 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Presentation1c.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation1c\" width=\"533\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Slide2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Presentation2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1679 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Presentation2.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation2\" width=\"531\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corn is 55-70% of typical broiler diet formulations.\u00a0 So, normal variation in AME values, determined using corn from around the US, could easily reduce broiler growth performance and feed efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written before (see <a title=\"GMO Corn for Ethanol: Incoming Raw Materials Plans More Important Than Ever\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2014\/06\/05\/gmo-corn-for-ethanol-incoming-raw-materials-plans-more-important-than-ever\/\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"Perhaps More Important Than Ever to Make Quality Food Products\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2013\/12\/17\/perhaps-more-important-than-ever-to-make-quality-food-products\/\">here<\/a>) about the importance of incoming raw materials programs for every operation.\u00a0 In addition, using processing techniques, such as extrusion, to <a title=\"Corn Extrusion for Better Broiler Performance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2013\/05\/28\/corn-extrusion-for-better-broiler-performance\/\">liberate as much energy that is possible<\/a> from a feed ingredient can attenuate normal variability.\u00a0 This is especially important for the broiler industry, which is <a title=\"Antibiotic-Free Chicken Production - The Chick-Fil-A Effect on Broiler Production\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2014\/04\/15\/antibiotic-free-chicken-production-the-chick-fil-a-effect-on-broiler-production\/\">built on uniformity<\/a> to allow for the 71 million plus tons of chicken meat <a title=\"Broiler Industry Statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broiler#World\">produced every year<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>So, corn was <a title=\"Commoditization\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commoditization\">commoditized<\/a> long ago, but to conclude, this is not necessarily the case.\u00a0 Simple testing, including moisture, and accumulating this data over time, will help determine the actual, inherent value of each batch of corn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Campasino, A., T.A. Wickersham, H.V. Masey O\u2019Neill, and J.T. Lee. 2014. Effects of nutrient variability in corn associated with geographical location and xylanase inclusion on energy utilization. Personal Communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn is one of the most important crops in the world.\u00a0 In 2009, more corn (by weight) was grown than any other grain \u2013 production around the world was greater than 800 million tons.\u00a0 In the US and many other parts of the world, the majority of corn is used as livestock feed. 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