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Wintering cows on cereal straw and millrun (wheat mids)

Hillsdown,
You are getting screwed on that 14% pellet. A 14% grower in NW Sask right now is running around $150/tonne, with some 13% range pellets running for around $110-115/t.
I just heard a quote on midds running down to Swift Current at $85/tonne. Barley quote this morning was running out of $100-105/t in Unity. The feed market is really crashing hard. With the harvest in full swing and the risk of frost now gone, it looks like the feedlot cost of gains are coming in line, which will hopefully spell some more solid calf prices this fall.
Midds are a solid pellet, with little fines. Screening can be variable, but you get what you pay for. If you are willing to pay a bit more, you can get a solid product.
 
Grassfarmer said:
I'm just wary that TGIB doesn't get a pellet like TexasBred described "15% protein and 70%TDN" - that has quite a feed value difference from the 18% protein and 80%TDN wheat short pellet I use.
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BUT I beleive you said your figures were based on a 100% dry matter basis....mine was on an "as fed" basis.
 
Lane said:
Just wondering if the pellets you guys are talking about is the same as
what we have available here in Louisiana. We have an aspirated grain
screening pellet made from product that comes out of the export elevators. It is about 8% protein, 1.5% fat, 10% fiber and about 8%
ash (on an as-fed basis). What we get is about 80% corn, 10% soybean,
10%wheat/milo, blended and made into a 1/4" pellet. From in-vetro
tests we figure it is about 90% of the energy value of corn.

Works well in stocker rations as the energy source. Price usually runs
about $75-$100/short ton FOB south Louisiana.

Lane
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Lane I've seen some of the AGD pellets you're talking about. Really nothing more than pelleted elevator dust but will have same nutrient values as the grain it comes from. PMG in Palmetto is one of the big movers of this product. Only warning I know of for it is DO NOT feed it to horses. (They won't eat it anyway :-) :wink: I believe the tag contains this warning.
 
Just Ranchin said:
Hillsdown,
You are getting screwed on that 14% pellet. A 14% grower in NW Sask right now is running around $150/tonne, with some 13% range pellets running for around $110-115/t.
I just heard a quote on midds running down to Swift Current at $85/tonne. Barley quote this morning was running out of $100-105/t in Unity. The feed market is really crashing hard. With the harvest in full swing and the risk of frost now gone, it looks like the feedlot cost of gains are coming in line, which will hopefully spell some more solid calf prices this fall.
Midds are a solid pellet, with little fines. Screening can be variable, but you get what you pay for. If you are willing to pay a bit more, you can get a solid product.
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I cancelled my order and just got 4000lbs instead. I filled the creep with it for my replacements that I am keeping over.

I am waiting for the grain until prices come down around here, sounds like barley will not be too bad. The guys around here still want to gouge us for feed because of the drought though, so we will always be higher than other areas.
 

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