Belgium: Flemish organic farmers want to roast field beans themselves for dairy cattle ration

According to the livestock farmers, roasting the field beans increases the resistance of both the protein and the starch. This protects the beans from degradation in the rumen and allows them to be used as an efficient protein source further down the gastrointestinal tract. In recent years, Flemish entrepreneurs have been able to rely on a mobile toasting installation that was brought from France to Belgium to roast their field bean yields. But this involves high transport costs and the consumption costs of the installation are also not cheap. Specific demands There are also industrial toasting installations in Belgium that can be interesting for larger quantities. But for a small sector such as organic the size is too limited and the roasting process must meet ...