Just two years ago a feed company in the Shandong province of China started importing distiller's dried grains with solubles from the U.S. The U.S. Grains Council says it's an astonishing success story. Grains Council Manager of International Operations Dan Keefe says the Shandong Zhonghui Group has adopted DDGS in their rations as fast as any feed mill the council has seen worldwide. The company is now using near-maximum levels of the ethanol co-product in their poultry and swine feed rations and have plans to increase current levels.
According to Keefe this company is one of the largest, single U.S. DDGS importers in China, purchasing 200,000 tons per year with plans to import at least 240,000 tons in the 2010 fiscal year. Keefe says the company's long-term goal is producing three million tons of feed on a yearly basis.
Within their poultry operations, Keefe says the company is currently feeding DDGS at 6% to 8% inclusion rates and 10% to 15% in their swine feed rations, depending on growth stages. He says they want to increase the rates for poultry use and save money on feed, but are limited by problems related to their use of a domestically constructed pelleting machine. The Council plans to work with them to resolve the pelleting issues and to support exports of corn to China for all the private sector feed mills and livestock.
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