Corn Gluten Feed (CGF)

US and EU wet-mill corn gluten feed pellets by protein, fibre and starch

Corn gluten feed is the bulk co-product of corn wet-milling, the process that turns corn into starch, sweeteners and ethanol: after the germ and the high-protein gluten are separated out, the bran is blended back with the concentrated steep liquor (and sometimes germ meal) and dried into a fibrous, tan feed that is pelleted for export. The U.S. Grains Council describes it as roughly 20% crude protein against about 60% for corn gluten meal, and Feedipedia notes that it usually contains 60–65% bran and 35–40% steep liquor, so composition varies with the plant; the export sheet reads crude protein 18–25% (21% is the standard US grade), fat 2–4%, crude fibre 8–10%, starch 12–18%, moisture ≤ 12% and ash ≤ 8%, with aflatoxin B1, DON and fumonisin at the buyer's national limits because mycotoxins in the corn concentrate in the bran. Pelleting (roughly 6–8 mm) raises bulk density, cuts fines and lets it stow and discharge like a grain. It is a ruminant energy-and-protein feed: its fibre is highly digestible, so dairy and beef rations take it at 20–40% of dry matter in place of corn and part of the protein meal, and the University of Florida's beef-cattle guide treats it as a standard supplement for pasture and feedlot cattle. Pigs and poultry take only small inclusions because of the fibre. Corn gluten meal, the 60% protein fraction, is a different product with its own page under yellow corn; buyers who ask for "corn gluten" should say which they mean, because the two differ three-fold in protein and price.

The buyer is a dairy or beef feed mill in Ireland, the UK, Türkiye, Egypt, Korea or Vietnam that takes CGF as its cheapest digestible-fibre ingredient in a Panamax or Supramax lot from the US Gulf or in containers, or an EU compounder taking it by barge from a wet mill in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany or Hungary. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers corn gluten feed pellets and meal from US, EU and Chinese wet-milling plants and trader positions against SGS or Intertek certification of protein, fat, fibre, starch, moisture, ash and mycotoxins at the load port, on GAFTA or the buyer's own contract terms. Parcels are structured as Panamax and Supramax bulk out of the US Gulf on FOB and CFR terms, often as combination cargoes with DDGS or soybean hulls into the same discharge port, and in 20-foot and 40-foot containers bulk-loaded with liners for Asian and Mediterranean mills taking 500–3,000 MT a month; because CBIL also runs a chartering desk (LaycanDesk), the freight leg can be quoted with the cargo. Send your protein floor, the mycotoxin limits your regulator enforces, the monthly tonnage and the discharge port and we will work the mill to it.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.