Chinese feed group favours DDGS

Two years after first purchasing US DDGS, the Shandong province feed company, located northeast of Beijing, now uses near-maximum levels of the ethanol co-product in its poultry and swine feed rations and plans to cookerincrease their current levels.

“Shandong Zhonghui Group has adopted DDGS in their rations as fast as any feed mill we have seen worldwide, pushing the limits in their diets with reasonable regard for feed quality and safety,” said Dan Keefe, US Grains Council manager of international operations.

Keefe was recently in China where he met with representatives from the feed company.

“This is an ideal case of market development work. This company attended USGC seminars, experimented with the feed, visited the United States to tour the plant and began buying DDGS in 2008 only to have fully adopted it to near-maximum levels in their rations within two years.”