Feed Mills Case Studies
Business Activities That May Qualify
- Integrating operations with FDA, Animal Drug Availability Act and other regulations
- Improving mill processes to eliminate cross contamination of ruminant by-products into cattle feed
- Attempting to reduce rework of feed
- Maintaining formulation control
- Creating process improvements due to lean manufacturing or ISO-compliance or other production efficiency efforts
- Implementing good manufacturing practices for premix and medicated feed as outlined in codes and federal regulations
- Introducing changes to integrate horizontal or other mixers
- Making improvements to fat storage and handling
- Making changes to production to reduce regulated emissions
- Increasing absorption of feed
- Gaining efficiency in the pre-processing steps and the final feed manufacturing line
- Innovating the process of cleaning materials of sand, dust, and weeds
- Maintaining pellet quality such as changes to formulation, particle size, conditioning, die specifications, and pellet cooling
- Innovating with changes to mash, including ingredients, time spent in the conditioner, quantity and quality of steam, and adequacy of mixing
- Making changes to mill to handle both clean and infested grain simultaneously while maintaining identity of all feed grain and seed so segregation can be maintained
- Creating process changes to integrate screen, sieve-type or disc mill to remove weed seeds to meet a zero tolerance
- Improving dd hammermills and attrition mills to reduce weed seed contamination
- Gaining efficiency in steam heating to assure a constant mass temperature
- Changing and spurring innovation aimed at:
- Increased bulk density
- Less bridging/hang-up in bins
- Less dust
- Reduced ingredient segregation
- Less feed waste
- Increased nutrient density
- Improved palatability
- Increased nutrient availability
- Decreased microbiological activity
- Integrating of post grinding systems
- Implementing wastewater treatment systems
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Annual Revenue: $183 Million
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R&D Tax Credits Realized
Annual Revenue: $80 Million
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