文档介绍：Research and Extension Project Sponsors Kansas mission Peterson Laboratories, Inc. ADM pany Cargill Foods Flour Milling Cereal Food Processors, Inc. Stafford County Flour pany The Wall-Rogalsky pany Kansas Department merce and Housing Agriculture Products Development Division Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service K ansas grows more wheat, grinds more wheat into flour, and produces more wheat middlings than any other state in the nation. In 1997, Kansas grew a record 506 million bushels of wheat. One-fifth of that wheat production was used to manufacture flour in Kansas. According to the Sosland publication, Grain and Milling Annual 1997, the rated production capacity of Kansas flour mills is 152,440 hundredweights of flour per day. The estimated amount of millfeed produced in Kansas in 1997 was 735,729 tons or 10% of the total amount produced in the United States. During the wheat milling process, about 70 to 75% of the grain es flour, and the remaining 25 to 30% is available as wheat by-products largely destined for livestock consumption. These by-monly are referred to as millfeed (MF), wheat mill run (WMR), or wheat middlings (WM) with little regard for the various mill streams and proportions that bined and ultimately constitute the by-product’s position. As a consequence of this inconsistent terminology, difficulties are encountered when ascertaining nutritional value and establishing economic worth. The term WM will be used in this publication to collectively describe WMR and MF. USDA production estimates rank WM second to soybean meal as the dominant by- product used in mercial feed manufacturing industry. The availability of WM is limited to a large degree by the seasonal level of production and demand for flour. Quite often, WM prices slip in relationship to their feed value in the spring and early summer before strengthening in the fall and winter months. Astute livestock producers have purchased WM during