Week 6

Feed Processing

Forage Processing

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• Baling – tightly tied dried forage wafers
  • Increases density for handling, storage
• Chopping – cutting forages into small pieces
• Aids in mixing with other ingredients
• Can improve intake and digestibility of lower quality forages
• Pelleting – pushing chopped forages through holes to create pellets
  • Usually larger than grain pellets
  • Can incorporate other ingredients for a “complete” feed
• Cubing – making 2” x 2” square pellets
  • Easier to handle than baled hay
  • Fairly expensive and slow, uncommon except for export products



• Drying, dehydration
  • Reducing field losses of forages by artificial drying
  • Usually pelleted as part of process
• Field kernel processing
  • Roller mill on corn silage harvester to crush kernels for better digestibility of starch in corn silage