The next phase of the Penn State research will involve raising heritage birds in a silvopasture system where they will be able to forage and eat natural
feedstuffs as they find them outdoors, instead of predominantly commercial turkey feed in a pen trial.
Not exact matches
However, by the time the turkeys were processed at the Penn State Poultry Education and Research Center in December, the birds that consumed natural
feedstuffs weighed essentially the same
as turkeys in the control group that ate only commercial poultry feed.
The feed mix was designed to encourage the birds to consume the natural
feedstuffs, such
as insects, mushrooms, forages, berries and nuts.
While the grape leaves and other parts had uses
as foods or
feedstuffs for animals, the pits were true waste, with only a small amount repurposed for other uses.
In 2016, our Neosho, Missouri premix plant earned prestigious recognition
as the Premix Manufacturer Category Winner and Overall Winner of the 2016 Feed Facility of the Year, a national contest conducted by the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) and
Feedstuffs.
A late 1998 issue of
Feedstuffs, a weekly agribusiness newspaper, quotes Lu Mai, an agricultural economist and senior fellow at a government think tank in Beijing,
as saying, «Brown seems to have been accorded guru status in high places.