In the north central North Dakota of United States where the Minot city is located has develop a processing plant to explore the feasibility and create a market as well as to research the impact Superfeeds would have on the beef, dairy and swine industries.

Superfeeds , known as co – products, are produced from the wheat milling, ethanol production, crushing oilseeds, malting barley and processing sugar beets. It includes wheat midds, beet pulp, sunflower, soybean, corn and canola meal, distiller grains and pea products among others.
The idea of Superfeeds is to find the right combination of two or more co-products to improve the protein and energy content as well as the safety and shelf-life of conventional feed.
It is high in fiber and protein and low in starch, but their nutritional content can be inconsistent. They can use as a protein supplement for gazing animals or formulated to be a complete feed for young animals. The common for this is the pellet or cake which is the concept of mixes different of Superfeeds and types of livestock feeds.

There are numerous research reports that suggest several positive benefits using co-products or superfeed. The following are the benefits of a Superfeed for the producers.
 It increases the animal performance.
 It improves shipping and handling, convenience, ease to use, shelf life and safety of feed that is in a pellet form.
 It palatability and digestibility can be increased with specific formulations.
 And it increased economic returns.
Due to the increase of corn, barley, peas and oilseed production in the state, co-products are becoming more readily available and more research is being con ducted to find ways to utilize these products by overcoming these obstacles.

An animal scientist at North Dakota State University Vern Anderson lead the research study, it find out that the majority of agricultural processing of facilities spread across the state produce one or more of the co-products that are available for livestock feed.

This study has been carried out with the Carrington Research Extension Center, Animal Sciences Department on the NDSU Campus and Carrington-area business/Rural Economic Area Partnership Zone community agencies as well as individual communities and business throughout the state.

The funding is being provided by grants from the Agriculture Product Utilization Commission, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development under a REAP set-aside program, N.D. Department of Agriculture, various commodity organizations and the Carrington Research Center and Animal Science Dept at NDSU.

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