Rice-mill feeds

Farrell, D.J. and Hutton, K. (1990) Rice and rice milling by-products. In Thacker, P.A. and Kirkwood, R.N. (eds) Nontrad-itional Feed Sources for Use in Swine Production. Butterworths, Massachusetts, pp. 339-354. 

Does the enterprise require the operation of grain elevators, feed mills, flour mills, rice mills, dust-pelletizing plants, dry corn mills, soybean flaking operations, and dry grinding operations of soy cake ... 

In the next milling step, the brown rice is conveyed to the hullers, which scour off the outer bran coats and gemi from the rice kernels. The term hullers is a misnomer because these machines remove the bran, not hulls, from the rice kernel. Loosened bran and smaller pieces of kernel pass through the huller screen and are later separated by aspiration and screening. The rice bran is sold as a by-product for livestock feed. 

Milled rice is used mainly for human food it may be sold as raw, quick-cooking, or canned rice. Rice is also used extensively as breakfast food as puffed rice, rice flakes, or rice crispies. Broken rice is used as food or in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. Rice flour is used in various mixes. Hulls are used as fuel, insulation, and certain manufactured products. The bran is used mainly as livestock feed. The products and uses of rice for human food are summarized in Table R-7. 

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