Riceland Foods, Inc. markets full fat and defatted rice bran, mill feed and hulls as ingredients for livestock feed. Riceland livestock feed products are produced through the cooperative's milling and processing operations at its Arkansas milling centers in Stuttgart and Jonesboro.
Defatted rice bran also is sold as an ingredient for the pet food industry. Rice hulls are used as a pressing aid in fruit juice extraction and as bedding in poultry houses.
For more information on the feed ingredients and rice hull products that Riceland can provide, please contact Sherry Brantley, sales manager rice feed ingredients, at sbrantley@riceland.com or call 1-870-673-5314.
Full Fat Rice Bran is the pericarp or bran layer and germ of the rice, with only such quantities of rice hull fragments, chipped, broken, or brewers rice and calcium carbonate as is unavoidable in the regular milling of edible rice.
| Guaranteed Analysis = 12-12-12 |
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Results |
| Moisture |
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9.7% |
| Fat |
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15.8% |
| Protein |
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13.3% |
| Fiber |
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11.5% |
Nutritional information of rice bran and rice polishings as reported by D.F. Houston, G.O. Kohler, National Academy of Sciences, Nutritional Properties of Rice.
Defatted Rice Bran is full-fat bran that has gone through an extrusion process, where as much oil as possible is extracted from the rice bran through a hexane extraction process. The rice bran is then dried and ground into a consistency suitable for feed ingredients.
| Guaranteed Analysis = 14-.5-14 |
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Results |
| Moisture |
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11.66% |
| Fat |
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1.0 - 2.84% |
| Protein |
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16.54% |
| Crude Fiber |
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5.09% |
Full Fat Rice Mill Feed is a high-fiber feed ingredient used in the manufacture of complete livestock feeds and pullet retarder rations. This product is commonly used to reduce the concentration of high protein and fat ingredients in the livestock feed. Mixing the correct amounts of full fat rice bran and ground rice hulls to create a palatable and nutritious feed ingredient produces full fat rice mill feed.
| Guaranteed Analysis |
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Results |
| Moisture, not less than |
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12.00% |
| Fat, not less than |
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5.00% |
| Protein, not less than |
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6.00% |
| Crude Fiber, not less than |
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30.00% |
Defatted Rice Mill Feed is identical to the 6-5-30 (Protein-Fat-Fiber) full fat rice mill feed in regards to blending, with the exception of using defatted rice bran.
| Guaranteed Analysis = 6-.5-30 |
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Results |
| Moisture |
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10.12% |
| Fat |
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1.04% |
| Protein |
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9.54% |
| Crude Fiber |
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23.88% |
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