Patent ID: 7713572

Claim:
A method of predictably enhancing the nutrient value of distillers, brewers or fermenters grain byproducts, and of producing a protein feed or feed supplement end product having a crude protein content of over about 30% of the feed or feed supplement end product composition on a dry matter basis, and at least one of (1) a UIP/RUP content of over 50% and up to about 83% of the crude protein, (2) amino acid levels in the crude protein and in the RUP/UIP of greater than 1% and up to about 2% methionine and 2% and up to about 8% lysine, or (3) a post ruminal digestibility of the UIP/RUP of over 60% and up to about 94%, comprising: determining the desirable levels of crude protein, UIP/RUP, amino acids and post ruminal digestibility in an end product; creating a distillers, brewers or fermenters grain by-product-nutrient source mixture having an enhanced nutrient value by (a) adding one or more crude protein and/or amino acid content nutrient sources comprising canola meal, soybean meal, sunflower meal into wet distillers, brewers or fermenters by-products based on the crude protein, UIP protein, amino acid content, UIP/RUP amino acid content of the added nutrient sources; and (b) adjusting the temperature and/or the moisture content of the enhanced nutrient value by-product-nutrient source mixture based on an empirically derived relationship that relates the UIP as a percent of the crude protein (CP) to an end product temperature in a predictable and repeatable manner to produce said end product, wherein the empirically derived relationship that relates the UIP as a percent of the crude protein (CP) is the following formula: UIP (% of CP )=(End Product Temperature ° F.×0.819)−107.644.