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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 19, 2012 18:12:54 GMT -5
Saw an artical in the Progressive Dairyman about a dairy that among other things was feeding sugar beets to their dairy cows. Said that they blended it in somehow with their corn silage, really didn't go into specifics in the article. Did I understand it correctly. Just caught my attention, but it looks like it would be kinda expensive feed. I still want to know why there seems to be no interest in using sugarbeets for ethanol, but that is another discussion.
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Post by pldairy on Feb 19, 2012 20:04:33 GMT -5
we get beet pulp in the winter when they are prossing beets into sugar by the 50 ton semi load, we add this to the corn silage to help our feed last longer, was paying 25 a ton delivered
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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 19, 2012 20:12:40 GMT -5
This sounded like they were using the raw unprocessed beets. Claimed to grow several hundred acres and harvested same time as silage harvest. I've heard about feeding beet pulp, citrus pulp was real popular years ago but I think shipping KOed it here, seems like gin trash took its place.
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Post by johnwayne360 on Feb 19, 2012 21:39:17 GMT -5
if they were using the actual beets, ive never heard of it..but I think I remember something about using the beet tops..but its been a long time..
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Post by JoshuaGA on Feb 19, 2012 22:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by johnwayne360 on Feb 20, 2012 15:06:33 GMT -5
Interesting..guess i would have thought that it would require too much specialized equipment to make that work..
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Post by 2+2, MN on Feb 23, 2012 23:13:04 GMT -5
sure wish i could get Beet Pulp by the load for cheap.
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