Source: Sean Pratt, The Western Producer, October 5, 2017
Feed expert says grain companies and feed mills have different ways of calculating protein
Rex Newkirk is constantly fielding calls from farmers and feed companies wondering why their wheat is being assigned a higher protein level at the feed lab than it is at the grain elevator.
The chair in feed processing technology at the University of Saskatchewan says the two sectors have different ways of calculating protein with the upshot being that feed mill values are 9.6 percent higher than grain company values.
