Wet distillers and dry are about the same and not.If your plant has a drier like the one here the dried is very inconsistant they may burn some and not get some dry enough so it varies in feed quality. The syrup test almost identical to the wet cake but is actually 1% drier even though its a liquid It is fine solids. I've fed the wet up to 40 lbs per day to cows with no ill effects it is a by-pass protein and you are basically wasteing it by over feeding but the winter we did we had 40 semi loads at $210 each. Our plant has a different fermantation process than most hence the product is lower in sulfer content.The mineral to use is 3VO S it has no phos as the distillers products have plenty for your cow needs. It also has Thiamine added if I remember correctly to help digest or pass the sulfer.I know that it takes about 3#s of dry to = the protein in a pound of soybean meal but you gain some energy and also 2#s more of the cows dry matter requirement.Dried is very light so it will blow out of the bunks on a windy day. We feed the syrup because it's free just pay trucking but thats ending in april as they are getting a new drying system.I will most likely feed the wet cake next winter because we use it more to blend corn silage and ground swamp grass and the wet is sticky and keeps the swamp grass hidden in the mix.Wet cake is a pain to feed without a mixer wagon.chuckwagon or a silage box of some sort.I've carried it in 5 gallon pails, you know you've done something after feeding a bunch of cattle. First thing I would do is some forage tests if you don't need it why buy it but if it's cheaper than hay the cows can handle alot of it.
Trucking is the major cost with it we live 40 miles from the plant and trucking is $300 a semi load to us more by the hour than the mile.I know the dried is a better deal at $100 a ton than wet at $30 but wet can be fed on the ground where as the dry not so much.In a tmr the dry might work also but I'd maybe add some water if the blend got to dry.
