Efficient turkey feed means better margins in a price-sensitive industry.
There’s nothing a turkey would rather do than gobble its feed. That’s a big deal to producers as food represents the majority of the cost of raising a bird. Recent feed cost hikes have threatened producers’ slender bottom lines.
, a professor of poultry production and nutrition at the University of Missouri's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, has developed a new that can producers $13-25 per ton. That’s a lot of scratch – almost 15 billion pounds of chow go to fatten the birds each year.
That could have a big impact on a little known but important part of . The state is the nation’s fourth largest producer with 21.5 million turkeys, about 10 percent of total US production, heading for ovens and sandwiches annually.
Reviewed 2013-01-23