Alfagreen Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa Pellets
Alfagreen Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa Pellets
What is Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa?
Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa by AAFCO Definition – 3.5
"Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal or Pellet is the aerial portion of the alfalfa plant, reasonably free of other crop plants, weeds, and mold, that has not been stored in bales or in stacks as sun-cured alfalfa hay prior to being ground and dried by thermal means under controlled conditions". (AAFCO, 2020)
3. Alfalfa Products. (2020). In 2020 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION: Association of american feed control officials incorporated (p. 349). OXFORD: ASSN OF AMER FEED CONTROL.
What does this mean? It means our alfalfa does not originate from a suncured bale. It means our customers are only receiving the freshest, highest quality alfalfa in the market today.
At Alfagreen Supreme, we provide the highest quality forage ingredients through our Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa products. Our process starts in the fields with the harvesting of our alfalfa plant upon reaching the most optimum vitamin and nutrient levels. The alfalfa is cut and placed into a windrow where its chopped and promptly placed in live floor trailers where it is thermally dried. Upon arrival at the dehydration plant the freshly chopped alfalfa Is unloaded onto a pad and fed into the dehydration system. This Direct Dehydration process entails the use of only freshly chopped high moisture alfalfa which is then dried to approximately 8% to maximize the color, aroma and nutrients. The product is then pelletized, cooled and placed into a monitored and controlled storage facility. This process allows our product to be easily tracked and traced from the origin field, to the dehydration plant and then to the customer.
Our alfalfa is never bailed, never stored outdoors and never sun cured. Our Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa is chopped fresh in the field and promptly transported to our local processing facilities to be dehydrated, pelletized and placed into a controlled storage environment. This process ensures the vibrant color, the highest aromatics, and locks in other key nutrients and vitamins.