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Ethanol Byproduct Helps Farmers, Ranchers By Offering High-Protein Livestock Feed
By Mr Ethanol | August 30, 2007
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LoHud:
The rising demand for corn to make renewable fuel might be hurting some dairy farmers and beef ranchers, but others are finding advantages to staying close to ethanol plants.
Converting corn into ethanol produces a byproduct called distillers grains, which can be used as high-protein livestock feed. Most are dried so they can be shipped across the country and overseas, but cattle ranchers within 50 miles or so from an ethanol plant can save money by buying wet distillers grains.
Eric Nelson, who operates two feedlots in western Iowa, buys modified wet distillers grains from Little Sioux Corn Processors ethanol plant, which is just down the road from his Marcus, Iowa, feedlot.
Nelson said he started using the grains for 20 percent of his rations but has since upped his mixture to 30 percent. It has worked well for his operation, and the cattle seem to like it, too, he said.
“It smells good,” Nelson said. “It looks like something you’d want to put on your breakfast cereal.” Read on.
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