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Choice, or prime beef is a premium product, it is not going to be cheap.

jim thanks for replying....I am interested in a beef and 2 hogs.....not looking for a killer deal.....just a fair one for you and for me.....will pm you later if you would like to proceed with this.....bob

you are right......but if is primo tasting...its worth it......bob

I'm told the lockers around here a booked up until after the first of the year.

Maybe you should be opening a new locker plant.

Been learning a lot this morning Richard.

Canada feeds a lot of barley.

Also learned that I bought the wrong machine for processing the barley!

Can you make it work for what you need?

How's the temperatures there, as far as feeding out beef this time of year? I know it varies from area to area.

Down here, it better to feed them out in cooler weather, as far as weight gain per pound fed.

Before the "BSE" hit, some big feed lots fed salvaged foods, breakfast cereals, candy bars, most anything that was cheap.

My father-in-law fed up to 10,00 head, all steers. They used a steam roller to make what they called corn flakes.

High maintenance machine, they had the rolls sharpened a couple times a year.

Some folks in the area use spent grains from breweries and distilleries.

We dont grain ours and some people dont like the flavor. Has a slight wild game taste. Not everybody that is used to grocery store beef from Argentina can get used to that taste. They like the chemical taste of imported beef.
Our cutter has been 12 weeks out for the whole year.

We think its gonna work.

We bought a grinder mixer. OMC 430 model. Sight unseen....but from the pictures it looks new almost.




In reading this morning...you do not want to grind the grain too fine or you will cause sickness. Also, fine ground barley cant be fed at the same rate as dry rolled.



However...if we use the largest screen (1 inch) and go slow....its supposed to be fine.



Hope so! Might not be ideal, but probably a more versatile machine. Especially for hogs and chickens and such.


We just have to be careful and not produce fines.

Barry, we struggle with it being too cold up here for feeding cattle. We dont have near the heat and humidity problems you guys have.



It is really hard to fatten at 30 below. Maintain body condition is possible, but gain is difficult.

Grandpa hand fed 1000 hogs one year.


Made a dollar a head.


Said he would have really had something if he had been feeding a million of them!

We fed wet distiller's gran for years. Jake got hit hard with high Sulphur one spring. I'm still sore at his feed salesman, he knew what the trouble was. Our veterinarians did not know anything about it either. I think when they go to Los Valgus for schooling they like to take horse classes.

Tell us about it Richard.

The high sulpher in the ration cause paralyses in the bovine's entreaties. They would struggle to get on their feet, the doc's kept treating with B12, that helped, but not nearly enough. I finialy got Jake to call the state beef specialist.

He had him cut back on the DG, that stopped the trouble, but not before he lost many steers, and a lot of money.

Jake was able to get in on the seven dollar corn market a few years later, that helped out a lot.

I spell much better when I talk, rather than type!!!

Why did that lot of DG have such high sulfur content?


I killed a bunch of cows during a tough winter with nitrates.

I read it just fine.

The ethanol plants use Sulphur acid for two things, to keep the yeast working longer, as do most wineries, and to wash up the equipment. Some of that ends up in the feed. Deep wells can run a higher Sulphur content in the spring.