USGC: Feeding Trials in Southeast Mexico Expand US DDGS Use
(U.S. Grains Council/Ethanol Producer Magazine) Utilizing Market Access Program and Agricultural Trade Program funds, the U.S. Grains Council’s Mexico office has invested in marketing U.S. distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) through strategic feeding trials in southeast Mexico.
In 2018, five trials proved DDGS to be economically successful within small cattle ranches in Yucatan, Veracruz and Chiapas. The Council believes this region has the potential to be a 1-2 million metric ton feed market and is working to demonstrate this potential to industry by signing memorandums of understanding (MOU) with local feed companies and ingredient suppliers to promote investment into the region. READ MORE