Abstract: A compound animal feed suitable for long-term preservation is disclosed. The feed is constituted by a mixture including a product chosen from wet cereals such as wet maize grain, maize grain meal or mash, maize cob meal or mash or their mixtures, which product is ground to a degree of fineness suitable for direct feeding to animals; molasses suitable for use in animal husbandry; and oil or fat suitable for use in animal husbandry, the feed mixture having a pH value less than 4.Preferably this pH value is obtained by treatment of the fine ground product with phosphoric acid.Also disclosed is a process for the long-term preservation of wet cereals by treatment thereof with phosphoric acid or other suitable acids until a pH less than 4 is reached, and then combining the treated cereals with molasses and oil or fat.