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Fontanelle, IA | Since you actually have “played along” and been sincere.
Depending upon your level of secrecy, I’d encourage you to research /take advantage of any “free” tours of actual feed mills/feed companies so you can see how feed is made.
Everything after that, from a protein side, is a matter of protein source availability and protein cost per unit of protein. The most readily available protein sources “here” in Midwest USA are corn gluten byproducts from ethanol plants or soybean meal from a bean crush plant and possibly cottonseed meal from the South out of cotton gins. You can take protein “ingredients” and mix them together with other fiberous byproducts and press them into pelleted forms to prevent animals from “sorting” out the individual ingredients. Pellets are convenient but their cost of manufacture (steam pressing) is much higher. If you have lots of critters, you typically have big storage bays to take full semis of bulk, raw, byproducts that you dump into mix wagons with hay, silage, energy dense feeds from cereal grains, straw, other afterfeeds
I’m close on details but not guaranteeing I’m 100%. | |
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