{"id":21274,"date":"2018-06-19T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=21274"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:33:54","slug":"assessing-particle-size-and-the-cost-of-grinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/assessing-particle-size-and-the-cost-of-grinding\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Particle Size and the Cost of Grinding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: <\/strong>Danilo Sotto, Tom Scott, and Denise Beaulieu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication: <\/strong>Centred on Swine, <em>Winter 2016 Volume 22 Number 2<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that particle size reduction improves feed efficiency in all stages of production. Studies at Kansas State University have identified a recommended average particle size for corn-soybean meal based diets. Information regarding particle size in wheat is limited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This study focuses on particle size in wheat with regards to feed efficiency to improve animal performance and income for producers by improving understanding of particle size under regional conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through utilizing a hammer mill it can be estimated that grinding barley from 850 to 550 um would cost between $0.65-$1.05\/mt. Assuming that for every 100um the feed efficiency is improved by 1.3% it is estimated that a net savings of $7.80\/pig in total feed cost can occur by reducing the particle size to 300 um.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As flowability is a concern when grinding particles finely it is suggested that finding the optimum balance between wheat and barley could address this issue as wheat is more flowable than barley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Assessing-Particle-Size-and-the-Cost-of-Grinding.pdf\">Assessing Particle Size and the Cost of Grinding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Danilo Sotto, Tom Scott, and Denise Beaulieu Publication: Centred on Swine, Winter 2016 Volume 22 Number 2 Summary: Studies have shown that particle size reduction improves feed efficiency in all stages of production. Studies at Kansas State University have identified a recommended average particle size for corn-soybean meal based diets. Information regarding particle size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21307,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21274\/revisions\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}