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quickly. When that happens, the water inside the bagasse and trash particles turns to steam and the particles explode. This second step can make bagasse and trash even easier for animals to digest.”


Making the most of what nature has to offer Animal feed diets typically contain a variety of different types of supplements such as probiotics which are added to enhance the health and performance of an animal, as well as digestive enzymes to break down feed to release extra ener- gy and nutrients. Led by Professor Robert Speight, the team of QUT scientists are also developing new probiotic and en- zyme supplements specifically for inclusion in sugarcane bagasse-based feed to add further value to this low-cost feed ingredient. “We’re looking at adding the probiotics and enzyme supplements to the feed to make it more digestible


and nutritious, which produces an animal that is healthier and more profitable for the farmer,” said Speight, adding that the research is specifically targeting the microbes that natu- rally exist in bagasse stockpiles as these are already adapted to the material. The microbial communities vary, depending on the oxygen levels, temperatures and pH gradients in the different levels of the piles. The next step for the research team is to identify bagasse microbes with properties that could be used as bagasse-based feed supplements, then scale up production and finally test them in livestock feeding trials.


This research was undertaken as part of the Biorefineries for Prof- it project, which was funded by Sugar Research Australia and the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through the Rural R&D for Profit Program.


▶ ALL ABOUT FEED | Volume 28, No. 4, 2020 17


Sugarcane ba- gasse and trash is not fed to ani- mals because the by-products are neither di- gestible nor nu- tritious in their raw form.


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