Protein and oil: high-oil corn is an excellent livestock feed. Development of high-oil corn has created a new product category that earns top dollar in the feed industry. Infratec™ simplifies identity-preserved segregation of feed-quality corn, ensuring a premium value. Soybean is an important source of both digestible protein and oil – the greater the levels, the better the payment premium.
Moisture: accurate determination of corn moisture levels is critical to its subsequent handling and storage. Soybean moisture content is also critical – 10-13% is considered optimum. If too high, the soybean is costly to process; too low and it tends to ‘powder’.
Starch: corn starch serves many applications, the largest as a soft drink sweetener. Accurate identification of extractable starch level determines use.
Starch: Improved varieties of corn is becoming available having high levels of fermentable starch. The largest application is for ethanol production for mixing into regular fuels.
The Infratec™1241 Grain Analyzer comes with ready-to-use calibrations for protein, moisture, starch and oil. Just select from the list of global or local calibrations.
Corn:
Protein • Oil • Moisture • Starch • Test weight • Whiteness • Extractable starch
Soybean:
Protein • Oil • Moisture • Test weight • Sugar • Oleic acid • Linoleic acid
Value of accuracy in analysis:
The difference in value between soybeans having 18 or 20 % oil is 10 €/ton.
