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Wheat

Wheat(Triticum sativum) is the most important domestic cereal and is grown as winter or spring wheat. Its value for human nutrition depends on its baking ability, i.e. composition and content of gluten protein. For animal nutrition, the starch(approx. 58 %) and protein(approx. 12-14 %) contentare significant. This also determines the energy content. When wheat flour and wheat starch are produced for human nutrition, various by-products are produced that can be used very well for animal nutrition. These are, for example, wheat bran, wheat semolina bran, wheat gluten feed.

Illustration of wheat as a raw material for fodder (© Deutsche Tiernahrung Cremer).

Wheat

Ingredients

Content
(per kg original
substance)

Dry matter, g/kg

870,00

Crude protein, g/kg

120,00

Lysine, g/kg

3,40

Methionine, g/kg

1,90

Methionine
+cystine, g/kg

4,80

Threonine, g/kg

3,50

Tryptophan, g/kg

1,30

UDP, %
of crude protein

15,00

nXP, g/kg

145,40

RNB, g/kg

-4,05

Crude fibre, g/kg

26,00

Crude fat, g/kg

18,00

Sugar, g/kg

29,00

Starch, g/kg

583,00

Starch content
consistency, %

15,00

resistant starch
(bXS), g/kg

87,45

NDForg, g/kg

104,40

ADForg, g/kg

26,10

NFC, g/kg

613,40

Structural value
(SW), /kg

-0,13

Crude ash, g/kg

16,50

ME, MJ/kg
(pig)

13,80

ME, MJ/kg
(poultry)

12,73

ME, MJ/kg
(beef)

11,63

NEL, MJ/kg

7,40

Calcium, g/kg

0,40

Phosphorus, g/kg

3,30

digestible
Phosphorus, g/kg
(pig)

2,15

Sodium, g/kg

0,06

Sources: DLG feed value tables for pigs; DLG feed value tables for ruminants; Rechenmeister 2000 (Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia-Lippe); CVB Veevoedertabel; DLG Information 2/2001 "Structural and carbohydrate supply of the dairy cow"