Kettle Moraine, WI | mikado - 11/27/2024 07:15
You're definitely thinking too much ****
Critics that I've had conversation with want to die on the hill of 1/3 of the corn crop is burnt up with JUST ethanol made out of it.
Not the case, at all
Economical in the big picture....? That's not my argument. My thoughts are simple.
Now I'm behind schedule....cattle to feed and modified to get in today. ***
But is the loads of distiller's really that much co-production as animal feed is it's highest use?
Semi load of distillers 50,000 pounds for round numbers
60% moisture so 20,000 pounds dry matter
7:1 feed conversion (correct me if I am wrong and yes distillers allows cheaper energy to be converted to gains)
20,000 lbs divided by 7:1 ratio conversation is 3,000 lbs gain in the hoof
3,000 lbs gain and 60% of that is hanging or 1800 lbs hanging
1800lbs hanging and 60% of that is final weight or 1080lbs final weight packaged
1080 lbs of beef in the freezer and that is 70% water meaning 324 lbs of convertible nutrition.
So if 1 bushel of corn makes 18 pounds of distillers, the semi load of distiller's would have taken 2800 bushels of corn to make.
So feeding distiller's adds 0.1 lbs of dry matter beef per bushel of corn?
At least ethanol is making more than energy***
Yes I think too much and I have been told that often in real life. But you can't defeat your opponents with an invalid argument.
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