IN the past couple of years, livestock producers have been saddled with skyrocketing grain prices and an influx of dried distillers grains with solubles, a product that is unique to each ethanol plant. Hans Stein, University of Illinois Extensionswine specialist, hopes to take some of the guesswork out of feeding DDGS to hogs. He's created a DDGS calculator, which allows producers to input costs for the various portions of the feed ration. Producers can then see the cost comparison for a rationwith and without DDGS.
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