Posted by JDseller on November 29, 2011 at 06:22:34 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: Re: Ethanol posted by Dick L on November 29, 2011 at 02:58:01:
Dick L that wonderful wet mesh is 65% moisture content, 7% protein, heavy on the sulfur. You have to really watch feeding too much or you get "brainer cattle" that walk in a circle back wards and then 80% die.
Lets look at it on a dry matter basis:
Wet corn gluten mesh 2000 lbs x 35% dry matter(65% moisture)= 700 lbs of dry matter 700 lbs x 7%= 49 lbs of true protein per ton
Dry Corn 2000 lbs (35.71 bu.) x 85% dry matter(15% moisture)=1700 lbs of dry matter 1700 lbs x 8.5%= 144.5 lbs of protein.
So it takes three ton of the Wet feed to equal one ton of corn. IF you do it on an energy basis it is even worse. It takes 4.2 ton of wet feed to equal one ton of corn.
Right now since cash corn is under $6 the economics don't work right at the moment but guys will not change their rations for a while.
A ton of corn is 35.71 bu. x 6= $210.69
A ton of wet gluten is $85.00
So it would cost $250.66 to equal a ton of corn in feed matter.
When the wet gluten was under $20 per ton it was cheaper but it had risen in cost here due to Cargil buying it up to mix into a sweet bran they are shipping south to Texas in coal cars. It caused a real shortage this last month around here. This really hit the guys hard that counted on it to feed. Many of them had not put any silage up so they where scrambling to find other feed stuffs. It also had followed corn prices up last year too.
I have feed it before but my cattle are sold on a grade and yield system. When they where finished on the wet gluten feed they had a lower premium when slaughtered. I stopped feeding it four years ago.
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