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Iowa State University

2008

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Mycotoxins In Corn Distillers Grains: A Concern In Ruminants?, Alvaro Garcia, Kenneth Kalscheur, Arnold Hippen, David Schingoethe, Kurt A. Rosentrater Mar 2008

Mycotoxins In Corn Distillers Grains: A Concern In Ruminants?, Alvaro Garcia, Kenneth Kalscheur, Arnold Hippen, David Schingoethe, Kurt A. Rosentrater

Kurt A. Rosentrater

Themain fungi that produce toxins during storage belong to three genera: Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Penicillium. When dealing with cattle diets, it is not easy to correlate the presence of mycotoxins to that of molds. The same types of molds can produce different types of toxins, and different types ofmolds can produce the samemycotoxin.