Producing meat, milk, and eggs to feed 9 billion people by 2050 will be a challenge for the feed and livestock industries worldwide. This challenge will require feed mills to evaluate new technology that will process more by-products from the food andbio-fuels industries into animal feeds. While there have been significant technological changes in feed mills over the last 100 years, the core feed manufacturing processes of grinding, batching/dosing, mixing, and pelleting have withstood the test of time.The objectives of pig and poultry feed manufacturing are to grind cereal grains to improve digestion, and to combine by-product ingredients from food processors, renders, and bio-fuels industries to create a safe, high quality feed that optimizes animaland bird performance. The adoption of new technology in the feed industry has occurred at a much slower rate as compared to the food industry. The greatest opportunity for improvement may be in the area of data management, specifically the application ofstatistical process control (SPC) to the feed manufacturing process. Feed mills continue to get larger with more processes being monitored and controlled through the automation system. Koeleman (2014) stated, "More and more things are measured in the feed mill (such as) temperature and moisture content of raw materials before and after they go into the conditioner or extruder. But the challenge is how to deal with the data, otherwise it has no value." The slower rate of adoption may be due in part to the lower profit margins associated with commercial feed sales or the fact, that within an integrated animal production system, the feed mill is simply a cost center charged with delivering nutrients to animals.
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