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Interesting way to get that corn out of the car. At -40 (that was the temp when this picture was taken 2 days ago) high moisture corn doesn't flow out the hopper as well as you would like.
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Nothing a strategically placed jack hammer can't solve.
 
Little bow, that is Ballco at Brant. Pretty good idea. I would guess in the spring they will lift it down and use it in the feedlot.
 
you northerners are some thinkers, i'll give ya that :wink: that looks like something that could soon be featured on the Praire farm Report with Bill Wilson :D
 
little bow rancher said:
them DDG's sure are a pain , but sure are a cheap supp , It's to bad they can't put it in a pellet , one fella I spoke with said it makes up 20% of his ration , pretty cheap protein.
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The ethanol plant here had a German company come over with a machine to make pellets from DDG. They made them and left with the machine must not have been cost effectice at the time.
 
little bow rancher said:
them DDG's sure are a pain , but sure are a cheap supp , It's to bad they can't put it in a pellet , one fella I spoke with said it makes up 20% of his ration , pretty cheap protein.
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Kinda funny one load will come out fine and the next load you'll think your gonna have to turn the trailer over to get it out. Around here it's getting cheaper, the hog guys have pulled it out of they're reations because the concentrations of aflatoxin and vomitoxin and what not are too high.

Larry
 
I recently read and think I book marked it. That any cattle being fed by products or actual corn with high levels of mycotoxins. That all animals should be withdrawn from these feeds at least 3 weeks prior to slaughter.


This will soon be our next hurdle to over come price wise. One the mycotoxins are harmful to humans and secondly the feed lots will use this as a reason to lower the price of feeders.

If you have doubts mark this day down on your calendar and watch just how quickly it bites the beef producer in the buttocks. :wink:
 
larryshoat said:
little bow rancher said:
them DDG's sure are a pain , but sure are a cheap supp , It's to bad they can't put it in a pellet , one fella I spoke with said it makes up 20% of his ration , pretty cheap protein.
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Kinda funny one load will come out fine and the next load you'll think your gonna have to turn the trailer over to get it out. Around here it's getting cheaper, the hog guys have pulled it out of they're reations because the concentrations of aflatoxin and vomitoxin and what not are too high.

Larry
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Sows will abort when any number above 4 parts per million is fed. Corn free of these brings a premium here.
 
Denny said:
little bow rancher said:
them DDG's sure are a pain , but sure are a cheap supp , It's to bad they can't put it in a pellet , one fella I spoke with said it makes up 20% of his ration , pretty cheap protein.
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The ethanol plant here had a German company come over with a machine to make pellets from DDG. They made them and left with the machine must not have been cost effectice at the time.
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In the UK we have been feeding pelleted DDG's for 30 years - transport is dearer there and also they don't tend to have the big feedlot numbers to handle it fresh on each farm. Their DDGs are a byproduct of the whisky industry so are barley derived rather than corn. Never heard of any mycotoxin problems - are they specific to corn or to moist feeding?
 
little bow rancher said:
them DDG's sure are a pain , but sure are a cheap supp , It's to bad they can't put it in a pellet , one fella I spoke with said it makes up 20% of his ration , pretty cheap protein.
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What are they asking for DDGs in your neck of the woods?
 

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