Feed Management - May/June 2009

Dry-rolled corn or
DDGS can replace
portions of
steam-flaked corn

Dried distiller’s grains or dry-rolled corn can replace a portion of steam-flaked corn without altering feedlot performance or carcass merit, according to a Kansas State University study.

Crossbred yearling heifers (n = 689; 664 ± 143 lbs.) were fed flaked-corn finishing diets with 0% or 25% dried distiller’s grains and 0% or 25% dry-rolled corn. Heifers were fed free choice once daily in 28 dirt-surfaced pens with 23-25 heifers per pen. Cattle were blocked by weight into light and heavy weight groups and fed for 157 or 137 days, respectively.

Feedlot performance and carcass characteristics were measured.

Dairy producers switching to triticale

Faced with low milk prices, a growing “Almost all of the seed went to dairy number of dairy producers are including farmers and nearly all of it is being grown triticale in cow rations. for silage,” Kershen says.

“We completely sold out (of triticale seed) Triticale is a cross between wheat and last fall,” Ron Kershen of Canyon, Texas, rye. The article says that more dairy produc-says in the Southwest Farm Press. He is ers want small grain silage, whether wheat a breeder/marketer for Resource Seeds, or triticale.