Optimal Feed Mill Blending

Jeffrey Stokes and Peter Tozer

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2006, vol. 28, issue 4, 543-552

Abstract: Commercial feed blending is a complex process consisting of many potential raw ingredients and final products. The sheer number of daily orders and final products at a typical feed mill means that raw ingredients cannot be mixed to directly produce final products in an economical fashion. As a result, the intermediate production of pellets with prespecified nutritional content is a necessity that makes the feed blending problem highly nonlinear. We discuss a nonlinear approach to feed blending and compare results from an empirical application to those from a sequential linear programming approach common to most feed mills. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2006
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