Abstract: A method of producing a ruminant feed includes cereal grain treated with a weak organic acid such as lactic acid, and optionally heated. The ruminant feed is suitable feed for dairy cows which may benefit from increased ruminal pH and increased milk fat production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal feed composition including: (a) 30-98 wt % of vegetable matter; (b) 1-60 wt % of a carbohydrate source; and (c) 1-20 wt % of an inorganic binding agent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means to concentrate, dry and formulate biomaterials such as polysaccharides, gums and related biopolymers, and microorganisms such as cells, spores, and the like from dilute solutions using spent germ and other oil bearing residues. In addition, the spent germ can serve as a carrier for such biomaterials. The sorbed materials are useful in animal feeds.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pet's chew prepared from natural materials of renewable sources. The chew is both edible and biodegradable, and is furthermore both tough, flexible and dimensionally stable, and maintains these characteristics over a much longer time than chew known in the art.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transgenic rice event 17314 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products derived from event 17314. The present invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event 17314 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event 17314. The invention also provides methods related to event 17314.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for increasing the starch content in cob tissues of a plant are provided. The method comprises down-regulating the activity of starch degradation enzymes in a plant. The resulting transgenic plants of the invention have increased starch content in cob tissues. In one embodiment the method involves manipulating a monocot plant to down-regulate the activity of a starch degradation enzyme in cob tissues. The plants are useful for improving the yield of free sugars from plant biomass.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for reducing color and/or unpleasant taste and/or malodor development in a composition comprising at plant material, such a ceral bran, in particular during solubilization processes of the plant material. The invention further relates to optimised methods of solubilization, wherein color and/or unpleasant taste and/or malodor development is controlled. Solubilised plant material, kit of parts, the use of such solubilised plant material, e.g. in food products or bioethanol are also encompassed by the present invention.

Abstract: A poultry feed in the form of weather resistant blocks or logs with the blocks or logs being comprised of ground dry mature sweet corn, water and whole grain.

Abstract: A wild bird feed is disclosed which is comprised of ground dry mature sweet corn, water and wild bird feed.

Abstract: A method of making a gel-type livestock feed includes initially forming a feed mixture by mixing feed nutrient components, water, alginate, and a calcium component insoluble in water or a sequestrate to inhibit the calcium component from reacting with the alginate. Once the feed mixture is formed, the calcium component is solubilized or the sequestrates affecting the reactivity between the alginate and the calcium component is removed such that a gel feed is formed that includes a gel matrix containing the feed nutrient components. The gel feed may then be fed to the livestock. In another aspect of the present invention, piglets are weaned by feeding the gel feed for at least seven days directly after weaning. The gel feed may also include protein derived from blood with or without egg protein.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a maize plant, seed, variety, and hybrid. More specifically, the disclosure relates to a maize plant containing a Cal-1 allele, whose expression results in increased cell wall-derived glucan content in the maize plant. The disclosure also relates to crossing inbreds, varieties, and hybrids containing the Cal-1 allele to produce novel types and varieties of maize plants.

Abstract: A wild bird feed is disclosed which is comprised of ground dry mature sweet corn, water and wild bird feed.

Abstract: A prepared feed for a ruminant is produced by mixing a plurality of ingredients, at least one of which is a forage material. At least some of the forage material acts to enhance digestion of the prepared feed by the ruminant. The digestion enhancing forage material typically comprises one or more of hay, straw, silage and other stalky material, and constitutes in the range of I00 gms to 550 gms per kg prepared feed. The digestion enhancing forage material of the prepared feed comprises fibres of length in the range of 30 mm to 50 mm and has a primary saturation extent in the range of the order of 680 mls to 820 mls water per litre of digestion enhancing forage material, an uncompressed specific gravity of the order of I 00 gms to 220 gms per litre and a first compression specific gravity of the order of 140 gms to 290 gms per litre and a second compression specific gravity of the order of 150 gms to 500 gms per litre.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns finishing rations for increasing the meat quantity of a silage-fed animal, and methods of using the same. In some embodiments, a corn silage produced from a corn variety exhibiting reduced lignin content (e.g., BMR corn) is used to replace conventional silage in a finishing ration. In some embodiments, corn silage produced from a corn variety exhibiting reduced lignin content (e.g., BMR corn) is used to replace grain corn in a finishing ration.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided null-LOX-1 barley and plant products produced thereof, such as malt manufactured by using barley kernels defective in synthesis of the fatty acid-converting enzyme lipoxygenase-1. Said enzyme accounts for the principal activity related to conversion of linoleic acid into 9-hydroperoxy octadecadienoic acid, a lipoxygenase pathway metabolite, which-through further enzymatic or spontaneous reactions-may lead to the appearance of trans-2-nonenal. The invention enables brewers to produce a beer devoid of detectable trans-2-nonenal-specific off flavors, even after prolonged storage of the beverage.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transgenic corn even MON87460, and cells, seeds, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the corn event. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for MON87460 in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of MON87460 event polynucliotides in a sample, and probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of MON87460 in a sample. The present invention also provides methods of breeding with MON87460 to produce water deficit tolerance corn plants.

Abstract: The invention provides transgenic maize event MON 87427 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products derived from event MON 87427. The invention also provides nucleotides specific for transgenic maize event MON 87427 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising nucleotides specific for transgenic maize event MON 87427. The invention also provides methods related to transgenic maize event MON 87427 and to the Roundup® Hybridization System (RHS). The invention also provides a Relative Development Scale useful for monitoring and determining reproductive development in maize that reconciles developmental differences across various maize varieties. This is useful for determining the optimal timing of a treatment regimen in which tassel development stage is an important factor, including various methods in making hybrid seed.

Abstract: A method for modifying poultry products with beneficial fatty acids comprising feeding a fowl with a standard feed in which the animal or vegetable oil blend component of the feed is replaced by, or supplemented with, an oil blend consisting of at least 50% fish oil, canola oil (10-30%), soy oil and/or soap stock (0-40%) and linseed oil (0-30%), at total oil levels added to the feed from about 2.5% up to about 7.0%, calculated based on the final feed composition. The modified poultry products obtained maintain the natural smell and taste. Also described are chicken eggs, chicken meat and turkey meat having increased content of monounsaturated fatty acids and reduced content of saturated fatty acids.

Abstract: A batch of animal feed from a plurality of ingredients is prepared in a mixer/feeder wagon (1) where the ingredients require respective predefined mixing periods during a mixing cycle in the mixer/feeder wagon (1). The mixer/feeder wagon (1) comprises a mixing compartment (14) in which a mixing rotor provided by a paddle mixer (17) is rotatably mounted. Stationary chopping blades (42) mounted in a base (43) of the mixing compartment (14) cooperate with the paddle mixer (17) for chopping fibrous material during the mixing cycle. The appropriate predefined mixing periods required for the respective ingredients are determined in order to avoid over-mixing and under-mixing of the ingredients, and the predefined mixing period is defined as the number of revolutions of the paddle mixer (17) to which that ingredient is to be subjected.

Abstract: The invention concerns a composition based on a mixture of eugenol and cinnamaldehyde, as food additive for feeding ruminants. The composition may be incorporated in a food additive, or a salt block. The eugenol and the cinnamaldehyde may be natural or identical natural constituents. Administering the composition or the food additive increases meat production and milk production.

Abstract: A pet food is provided, comprising a sorbent food body and a fluid carrier comprising a functional ingredient absorbed into the body. The body preferably is relatively moist, having a moisture content for example of from 35% to 60% by weight and firm structure that is resilient under initial biting by a pet animal. Protein content is preferably at least 20% by weight. The sorptivity of the body is increased by depleting the body of a first liquid, for example by causing drying by exposure to a source of dry heat, such as in roasting, grilling, frying and baking. Methods of manufacture are disclosed including providing a sorptive food body, causing the body to take up a carrier fluid containing a functional ingredient and packing the body in suitable packaging. The invention further provides delivery means for delivering a functional ingredient to a pet animal, the delivery means comprising a sorbent food body with the functional ingredient absorbed therein.

Abstract: A method is described for improving the nutritional value of a foodstuff comprising a source of myo-inositol hexakisphosphate by feeding the foodstuff in combination with a phytase expressed in yeast. The method comprises the step of feeding the animal the foodstuff in combination with a phytase expressed in yeast wherein the phytase can be selected from the group consisting of AppA1, AppA2 and a site-directed mutant of AppA. The invention also enables reduction of the feed to weight gain ratio and an increase bone mass and mineral content of an animal. A foodstuff and a feed additive comprising AppA2 or a site-directed mutant of AppA are also described.

Abstract: A shark liver oil chicken feed for reducing cholesterol in chicken eggs and a method for producing eggs that have a lower cholesterol content. The shark liver oil chicken feed comprises of chicken feed and an ounce of shark liver oil that is added to the chicken feed. The method consists of feeding egg laying hens an ounce of shark liver oil daily along with chicken feed. The ounce of shark liver oil is one percent, by weight, of each hens daily chicken feed. The eggs are to be collected on the seventh week from the first feeding of the shark liver oil chicken feed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: A process produces a feed composition for cattle or the like, in particular a fattening feed, wherein conventional feed is intended to be replaced. First a premix (1) of cereal components, fat, molasses, vitamins, minerals and/or other ingredients is mixed and conditioned with addition of steam (7) and water (6) and subsequently fed to a mechanical and/or thermal treatment where the mixture is heated, processed and shaped to form porous lumps.

Abstract: The present invention provides a combination used for absorbing toxins in feed, comprising 1-10% by weight of clay and 90-99% by weight of yeast manna oligosaccharide, wherein the yeast manna oligosaccharide is extract of yeast cell wall which is separated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The biotoxin sorbent product can be used to feed any animals, including livestock, fowls, marine lives and ruminants. When mixing with feed, owing to its strong toxin adsorption capability, this absorbent may reduce the amount of toxins entering bodies of animals, thereby improving productivity and health of animals, reducing diseases caused by toxins.

Abstract: A fish feed comprising a plurality of pellets or particles, each pellet or particle having, as its principal component, a fresh cultured polychete product, together with at least one other naturally-occurring or organic material, so as to provide a composite diet comprising a balance of various nutrients as required by the aquatic creature for whom the feed is intended.

Abstract: Improved extruded starch-bearing grain products (e.g., corn and wheat) are provided having relatively high cook values and low cold water viscosities. The products are prepared by initial preconditioning to partially cook the starting material(s), followed by low shear extrusion cooking, with a total STE/SME ratio of at least about 4.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are pet food compositions. In one embodiment, pet food compositions which are described comprise a component selected from 2-deoxy-D-glucose; 5-thio-D-glucose; 3-O-methylglucose; 1,5-anhydro-D-glucitol; 2,5-anhydro-D-mannitol; mannoheptulose; and mixtures thereof. In yet another embodiment, pet food compositions which are described comprise an extract of plant matter selected from avocado, alfalfa, fig, primrose, and mixtures thereof. The pet food compositions may be prepared by any of a variety of processes including, but not limited to, optional processes described herein.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semi-fluid food product containing from 2.5 to 16 g of guar gum and from 2.8 to 11.3 g of beta-glucane fibres per portion of said food product, said portions ranging from 125 to 250 g, characterised in that the guar gum: beta-glucane fibres mass ratio ranges from 2:1 to 4:1.

Abstract: A method of producing hexose oxidase by recombinant DNA technology, recombinant hexose oxidase and the use of such enzyme, in particular in the manufacturing of food products such as doughs and dairy products, animal feed, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, dental care products and in the manufacturing of lactones. Suitable sources of DNA coding for the enzyme are marine algal species including Chondrus crispus, Iridophycus flaccidum and Euthora cristata. In useful embodiments, the recombinant hexose oxidase is produced by Pichia pastoris, Saccharomyces cerevisiae or E. coli.

Abstract: Acetyl esterase producing bacterial strains or functional mutants thereof and methods of using acetyl esterase producing bacterial strains as forage additives are disclosed.

Abstract: A process of coating an animal feed to obtain a coated animal feed product is provided. The process includes the step of applying a first coating to the animal feed, wherein the first coating comprises at least 20% by weight of sugar selected from the group consisting of monosaccharide, disaccharide, and any combination thereof in any proportion. The process also includes the step of applying a second coating to the animal feed, wherein the second coating comprises at least 20% by weight of phospholipid.

Abstract: The invention provides an integrated corn processing model and plant which can be used to generate grits, ethanol, energy, starch, sweeteners, gluten, fermentation products, corn meal and oil in a manner that allows the controller to shift outputs depending on process economics and availability of inputs.

Abstract: A peel-apart edible pet treat and method for preparing same is disclosed in the present invention. The peel-apart edible pet treat described is characterized by a plurality of longitudinally oriented individual strands conjoined within in a compressed bundle of conjoined strands. Individual strands may be removed one-by-one in a substantially intact form from the compressed bundle of conjoined strands by pulling one of the individual strands starting at either end of the compressed bundle of individual conjoined strands. When one or more individual strands are removed, the remaining strands are still conjoined to in the bundle to provide protection from drying and flaking.

Abstract: An equine oat-balancing feed supplement comprising a mix of substances including lysine, iodine, copper, magnesium, zinc and calcium is provided. The supplement further includes one or more of Folic Acid, Nicotinic Acid, Pantothenic Acid, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine, Biotin, Cobalt, Selenium, Methionine, Threosine, Choline, Iron, Manganese, an inert material such as cereal wheat and Vitamins A, B12, D, C, E, K. The oat-balancing feed supplement is administered to horses in an amount dependent on the age of the animal, together with an oat-based diet. The health and condition of horses has been found to improve an commencement of the intake of the supplement and in particular, racing horses have been observed to have improved performance at races when on the supplement.

Abstract: Acid compositions for ruminants containing a plurality of acid-neutralizing salts with pKa's effective at different ruminant gastrointestinal pH ranges and an active probiotic culture capable of stimulating the growth and concentration of beneficial acid-consuming rumen microorganisms. Methods for preventing clinical and sub-clinical acidosis in ruminants with the acid-neutralizing salts and feed compositions to which the acid-neutralizing salts have been added are also disclosed.

Abstract: Whole food equine formulations provided by the invention include well balanced nutritional supplements providing nutrients and vitamins, among other benefits. The whole food formulations generally promote, for example, better cell utilization instead of cell saturation, which results in increased overall general physiological and psychological health of subject animals including horses.

Abstract: A dried pet food which is able to mechanically clean the teeth of pets when chewed. The dried pet food is based on a matrix of a denatured protein source and a gelatinized carbohydrate source. Insoluble fiber is bound within the matrix. Further, a humectant is included within the gelatinized matrix in an amount sufficient for reducing the brittleness of the dried pet food.

Abstract: Feed compositions comprising modified starches and an animal feed ingredient are disclosed, as well as methods of feeding such compositions to animals.

Abstract: A method of dewatering corn stillage solids comprising adding to the solids an effective coagulating and flocculating amount of an anionic copolymer comprising acrylic acid sodium salt, methacrylic acid sodium salt or 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt to form a mixture of water and coagulated and flocculated solids; and separating the water from the coagulated and flocculated solids using a dewatering device.

Abstract: The present invention concerns systems, apparatus, methods and compositions for production of improved animal feeds from by-products of ethanol production or similar facilities, such as DDG or DDGS. In preferred embodiments, the methods may comprise initial removal of water by mechanical devices, pelletizing the material, and further water removal by microwave treatment. Optionally, various supplements such as enzymes, vitamins, minerals or other nutrients may be added. In more preferred embodiments, the action of the enzymes in breaking down complex molecules in the mixture is enhanced by microwave treatment. Most preferably, the mixtures are maintained at relatively low temperatures to preserve enzyme activity and/or nutrient and feed quality.

Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for the characterization and use of novel peptide from Brevibacillus sp., and peptides related thereto, including an isolated and purified, heat stable, amino terminus-methylated, carboxy-terminus reduced peptide that have two or more D-amino acids used as, e.g., an antimicrobial or even a feed additive.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods that maintain the substantially uniform distribution of low-inclusion ingredients in an animal feed ration. Such methods include combining a non-liquid admixture that includes the low-inclusion ingredients and a non-liquid carrier with a base animal feed to make an animal feed ration.

Abstract: A re-hydration supplement composition particularly suitable to counteract dehydration stresses in mature bovine mammals in the form of a pelletized feed supplement is disclosed which includes relatively large fractions of carbohydrates including saccharides, cationic and anionic electrolytes and a minor amount of betaine osmolyte. A process for pelleting is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a maize plant having a decrease in the CCR enzyme activity due to the presence of the 3318 allele and its use for ensilage.

Abstract: Improved ruminant feeds are provided which include a pH-adjusted first ingredient selected from the group consisting of ruminant-edible, initially low pH commercial byproducts and initially low pH grain or forage-derived products, combined with a second ingredient comprising a high digestive efficiency feed grain such as flaked corn. An improved process (10) for the production of a ruminant feed (50) as an adjunct to a fuel ethanol plant is also provided wherein starch-bearing grain (12) is processed to yield ethanol (30) and whole stillage (32). The whole stillage (32) is then treated to remove water and to yield a wet distiller's grain product (WDG) (38). The pH of the WDG (38) is then elevated (46) by the addition of base to a pH of from about 5-8, and the pH-adjusted WDG (46) is optionally dried (47) and combined with a high digestive efficiency feed grain (HDEG) such as flaked grain (48).

Abstract: The invention provides compositions for feline consumption and methods of preparing such compositions. The compositions comprise at least about 65% by weight meat and have an essentially solid mass which assumes the shape of its container. The compositions are characterized as having a moisturized appearance and visually recognizable discrete food particles upon slicing the mass after removal from a container.