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Dairy and Ruminants: High producing dairy cows require bypass protein.  Roasting soybeans increases the bypass protein of soybeans from 26% to over 60%. ( Our average is 64%) Soybean meal is still “low bypass” at only 35%

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Full Fat Roasted Soybeans are a High Energy Protein.  Energy, or fat, is expensive.  Feeding roasted soybeans is a cost-effective way to supply energy to dairy cows.

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Poultry and swine:  Raw soybeans have trypsin Inhibitor. The trypsin inhibitor affects protein function resulting in poor performance and health. Poultry and swine do not require bypass protein. Heating soybeans to reduce trypsin to acceptable levels requires less heat than required to roast soybeans for high bypass protein. MGR’s onsite service roasts soybeans specifically for poultry and swine. Too much heat and the solubility is reduced.  Feed mill roasted soybeans are “dairy” style” with reduced solubility.

When cereal grains are roasted they go through a process called gelatinization. This means the starch molecule expands and the long chain molecule is broken into shorter chains. Gelatinization makes the starch more digestible. Cooked corn smells and tastes better. Fecal Starch analysis shows less starch in the manure when roasted grain is fed. Roasted grains make great calf feeds. Roasted grains grind much finer than raw grains. If you need super fine meal it makes sense to roast your cereal grains, especially when you can dry it at the same time. 18-20% is the maximum moisture in this instance.

Roasting dries and adds value to wet soybeans.  It is common in the Midwest to have soybeans with a moisture above 20%.  Our process dries wet beans to storable levels while simultaneously increasing the bypass levels. Midwest Grain Roasters can maintain bypass values in soybeans up to 18% moisture. We have successfully roasted 25% moisture beans full of ice and snow. These beans are roasted, dried and fully cooked. These beans will store and feed well.

Roasting wet beans does incur higher costs. However, these onsite costs are much less than the shrinks, dock and drying charges the elevators punish you with. Consider this: Elevators charge beans at 15% moisture or greater a shrink factor of 4% per point. That’s a 20% dock on 20% soybeans. Then they charge to dry them. In charges and minimum storage charges are billed as well. Now you have less beans to either sell or roast. Roasting then adds it’s own shrink (10% or more) and charges of $1 per bushel. All of this shrink comes right out of your dry matter basis.

Compare MGR’s service:

Dry beans cost $1.00 to 1.15 per bushel to roast. If the roasting cost per bushel increases to $1.50 it is still much less than the shrinks and docks and you now have a value added roasted soybean. You only lose moisture. All of your dry matter is still in your feed bin.

We use the best roaster for moldy grain. The grain passes through a 4.6 million BTU burner multiple times. It’s hot, really hot! Like, 3500° hot. This super heated flame flash burns the CFUs to almost zero and reduces the mycotoxin loads. It is very effective on aflatoxins, where we have seen 90% reductions.  Zearalenone, T1 and T2 toxins are also reduced. CFU’s of yeast are also reduced to almost zero. The moldy grain now smells and tastes better and the toxin load is reduced. Wet grain is dried and storable