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South Dakota Beef Report, 1994

1994

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Evaluation Of Wheat Middlings As A Supplement For Beef Cows Grazing Native Winter Range, J. S. Heldt, R. J. Pruitt, R. H. Haigh, D. B. Young Jan 1994

Evaluation Of Wheat Middlings As A Supplement For Beef Cows Grazing Native Winter Range, J. S. Heldt, R. J. Pruitt, R. H. Haigh, D. B. Young

South Dakota Beef Report, 1994

A winter grazing trial was conducted at the SDSU Cottonwood Research Station near Cottonwood, SD, to compare wheat middlings to soybean meal and corn-soybean meal supplements. During December and January 122 pregnant Simmental-Angus crossbred cows grazing two pastures with differing amounts of available forage were fed four supplemental treatments that provided the following amounts of crude protein (Ib) and metabolizable energy (Mcal) per cow daily: I) soybean meal .75 and 2.40, 2) corn-soybean meal 1.50 and 9.40, 3) low wheat middlings .75 and 4.76, and 4) high wheat middlings 1.50 and 9.40. Cows grazing the high available forage pasture gained …