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Low-Oil DDGS Still New to Southeast Asian Buyers

Cheryl Anderson
By  Cheryl Anderson , DTN Staff Reporter

The U.S. Grains Council learned during its recent export Exchange conference that Southeast Asian buyers are still learning how to utilize the low-oil dried distillers grains with solubles that are now common in the U.S.

According to an article on the Council's website (http://bit.ly/…), some end-users in the region are limiting inclusion rates when using low-oil DDGS in an attempt to minimize the effects of the variability in nutrient composition from DDGS from different sources.

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The Council has launched an intensive outreach in Southeast Asia to address questions by end-users, as well as familiarizing nutritionists with low-oil DDGS by communicating new equations that estimate the amount of energy livestock metabolize. These equations can be used to manage the variability in nutrient content and result in the most value possible.

Kevin Roepke, the Council's regional director for South and Southeast Asia, said in the article that unfamiliarity with a new product usually leads to end users backing away, especially when much of the technical information is available in a language foreign customers don't understand. It is important for the Council to keep new technologies and information available to international feed ingredient formulators, he said.

Southeast Asia is the third largest buyers of U.S. DDGS, just behind East Asia and North America, and has imported more than 1 million metric tons of U.S. DDGS so far in the 2014 marketing year through September.

Cheryl Anderson can be reached at Cheryl.anderson@dtn.com.

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