Category: distillers grain
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Conflicitng Information
You might remember me talking about <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/3005-Win,-Lose.html">E coli and distillers grain</a> a few days ago. Now some conflicting information to that has come to light. It seems some scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have been experimenting with <a href="http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1208&u_sid=10203501">feeding distillers grain to cattle to lower E coli levels in them</a>. They have failed…
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Win, Lose
Now this is really ….. interesting. Part of the whole ethanol boom is the distillers grain that is available after the ethanol is made. This distillers grain has turned into a real boom for the cattle feeding buisness. The cattle feeders might be losing some corn but they are making up for it with the…
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I’m Not Alone
I had a <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2569-Responding.html">discussion</a> a while ago about ethanol and Distillers Grain and the cattle feeding industry moving north. My basic contention was that the ethanol plants will either find a way to ship the distillers grain to feedlots where they are presently at or the ethanol plants will move to the feedlot areas…
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Concerns
I've been somewhat curious about Distillers Grain, leftover product from ethanol production, and the feeding of it to livestock. The claims I read are how wonderful it is to feed to cattle. I know nothing about it and probably will never feed it since I don't feed anything in a bunk, it's all open range…
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Responding
I had a comment left by my buddy at MSU, Paul, and I decided to answer it here instead of the comments.<br />n<br />nHere's the comment to start with.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>This corn thing is all hype to drive down the prices we get for our calves this year. After processing the corn in the ethanol…