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Livestock feeding uses food waste as feed for livestock. Livestock producers feed: (1) raw, non-meat food waste such as fresh produce waste to cattle; and (2) cooked food waste including meat, meat by-products and other food waste that may have come into contact with meat-to-hogs.
Currently, there are three family farms that collect food waste from commercial waste generators in the Twin Cities metropolitan area and feed it to livestock: (1) Barthold Recycling and Roll-Off Services in St. Francis, Minnesota; (2) Second Harvest Farms – Central in Cedar, Minnesota; and (3) Second Harvest Farms – North in Isanti, Minnesota.
Businesses in Ramsey and Washington Counties are finding that separating food waste from garbage and are managing it through livestock feeding mean a big savings. For more information (pdf) | in spanish (pdf)
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Livestock Feeding Service Providers
Manufacturing Livestock Feed Ingredients
Manufacturing livestock feed ingredients at Endres Processing in Rosemount, Minnesota is the only facility in the Twin Cities metropolitan area that uses food waste products such as cookies, dough, cereal, pasta, crackers, bread, bagels and chips to process a livestock feed ingredient that is registered by the Department of Agriculture.
Rendering
Rendering is the treatment of animal tissue and cooking grease by thermal and/or chemical processes to separate fat from protein and mineral components. Meat, fat, bones and grease are collected and transported to rendering companies where this food waste material is processed into livestock feed ingredients such as meat and bone meal and tallow and lard. Anamax Grease Services, located in South St. Paul, processes meat, fat and bones from locker plants, butcher shops and grocery stores, as well as cooking oil and grease from restaurants and other establishments that fry food.
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