Good quality of low-moisture grass feed produced in South Korea

Hay

Rye

Barley

South Korea

Published Mar 24, 2021

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[Korea Rural Newspaper Reporter Woo Jung-soo] The National Institute of Livestock Science's 2020 quality inspection B grade or higher reached 73.4%. As a result of the quality inspection of the low-moisture grass feed produced by the National Institute of Livestock Science, B grade or higher was counted as 73.4%. Said that. In 2020, the quality inspection of full feed was conducted on 6366 samples produced by 717 locations nationwide. Italian ryegrass accounted for 88.7%, followed by rye (5.4%) and green barley (2.1%). By item, low-moisture grass feeds such as haley and hay accounted for 80.6% and 19.4%, respectively. According to the Livestock Science Institute, the domestic winter low-moisture grass feed produced last year was of good quality overall, with 12.7% of the A grade and 60.7% of the B grade, which are the highest grades among the five quality grades. By item, the level of hailage was A grade 14.1% and B grade 58.7%, while hay was analyzed as A grade 7.2% and B grade 69.1%.

Original content

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has been conducting the'grass feed quality inspection and grading business' since 2015 to improve the quality and reliability of domestically grown grass feed, through which the moisture content that influences the quality of domestic distribution and stored grass feed is reduced. The Institute of Livestock Science explained that it has achieved results in a variety of products and products. Chun Dong-won, head of the grassland feed section of the Livestock Science Academy, said, "I hope that the production and distribution of high-quality grass feed will ...

Source: Agrinet