Enhancing Stockfeed Milling & Molasses Blending with FlakeRite

Enhancing Stockfeed Milling & Molasses Blending with FlakeRite

Stockfeed milling operations demand efficiency and consistency. Molasses does its best to make both those things hard to achieve—cold weather, high Brix, or early season molasses can result in a timely situation in the workplace.

Enter FlakeRite: a non‑ionic water surfactant formulated to reduce surface tension by over 50% (from roughly 72 to 32 dynes). This precise engineering allows water and molasses to flow more evenly. The results? Easier distribution, reduced residue, and overall enhancement of your daily molasses run.

Enhanced Flow and System Efficiency

To achieve the best flow results, FlakeRite is added at approximately 200g per tonne of molasses. The primary objective of this wetting agent is to lower surface tension, ensuring that molasses pumps smoothly and consistently regardless of the temperature.

No more fudge-like mixture and clogged lines, which can result in damaged equipment. Additionally, there are lower levels of buildup, which means less time maintaining your plant. Finally, with less strain placed on motors and pumps, you’ll see reduced energy costs.

 

How FlakeRite Benefits Your Business

From commercial stockfeed mills to on-site feedlot operations, FlakeRite enhances flowability and pumping efficiency across grain conditioning, flaking, and press lines. No matter the scale of your setup, you’ll benefit from:

  1. Ration Consistency
    FlakeRite ensures molasses blends more uniformly into rations, which improves palatability. This ensures cattle are digesting and absorbing a higher amount of energy from their feed.
    The more uniform the grain, the more uniform the processing labour and nutritional value of the grain becomes.
  2. Cost Cutter
    By reducing mixture viscosity and improving pump efficiency, FlakeRite cuts energy consumption for your operating equipment.
  3. Lower Residue
    Cleaner equipment due to FlakeRite’s impact on flow means less frequent maintenance and slower wear and tear.
  4. Nutritional Enhancement
    A uniform moisture content and energy distribution helps stabilise rumen pH, and stabilises intakes, which is vital to improving the daily gain of a lot fed animal. FlakeRite plays a key role in these nutritional factors, which determine how quickly your herd reaches growth targets.

Also, FlakeRite contains a neutralised, non-corrosive acid, meaning it doesn’t irritate the skin, damage clothing or footwear, or accelerate mill wear.

Cattle Health and Nutritional Advantage

Molasses is valued in feed formulations for its high sucrose content (between 40–50%) and digestible fibre. This composition makes it a concentrated energy source for beef and dairy cattle. FlakeRite acts to draw out the nutritional benefits of molasses and make them more accessible to cattle, enhancing more consistent intake across the herd. 

Backed by Science, Proven by Performance
It’s not just an opinion—FlakeRite is an asset to balancing nutritional protocols and limiting feed waste. 

In clinical trials where molasses partially replaced starch, cattle showed better growth performance, higher final weights, and improved rumen stability. This all resulted in reduced incidence of disorders like acidosis, an ongoing concern for lot fed cattle (Large Animal Review, 2024).

 

The Bottom Line

FlakeRite isn’t a magic potion. It’s a strategic tool for optimising feed efficiency, protecting equipment, and improving your livestock performance. By reducing flow resistance and enhancing moisture retention, FlakeRite delivers tangible benefits for both mills, feedlot operators, and their herds.

Let FlakeRite get things moving and keep them running smoothly and reliably.

To learn more about how FlakeRite can streamline your operational performance,

get in touch with your local Austasia Animal Products rep today

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