Agricultural Economics Department
Cornhusker Economics
Date of this Version
November 2006
Document Type
Newsletter Issue
Citation
Cornhusker Economics
Abstract
With the expected increase in ethanol production, one may expect an increase in production of its by-product, distiller’s grain. This by-product can be either sold as wet distiller’s grain (WDG) or as dry distiller’s grain (DDG). The value of DDG prices is expected to continue to fall relative to the value of corn, making this a much talked about alternative for feeding livestock of many different species. While much of the attention for the use of this by-product feed has been directed toward intensive livestock production such as dairy, hogs and fed cattle, recent work at the West Central Research and Extension Center (WCREC) has shown it to have value as a creep feed to young, yearly calves on range.
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Published in Cornhusker Economics, 11/08/2006. Produced by the Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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