Products

Corn/Maize bran is a by-product of various corn/maize processing industries, including starch and ethanol production, and the production of maize-based foods. While corn/maize bran theoretically consists of the bran coating removed in the early stages of processing, the corn/maize bran sold for livestock feeding is usually a mixture of the bran fraction and other by-products and is, therefore, a very loosely defined product of highly variable composition. In the case of ethanol production, corn/maize bran is defined as the mixture of the bran fraction and distillers solubles. In the starch extraction process, corn/maize bran is usually mixed with steep liquor to produce corn gluten feed. In the production of maize grits by the dry milling process, corn/maize bran is mixed with broken kernels, germ residue after oil extraction, and inseparable fractions of germ, pericarp and endosperm to produce hominy feed.

Corn Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) are a commodity by-product of the distillation process of corn.This process starts with removing the bran by grinding before steeping the grain in water. This results in ethanol and various by-products. The wet cakes resulting from thisprocess are thendried off, resulting in the DDGS feed product. DDGS is a valuable feed ingredient, and has good levels of protein, moderate levels of fat, and lowlevels of fiber. DDGS can be feed to all types of livestock.