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New Mexico | looked at some "modified" a couple weeks ago, was $60 per ton delivered, 50% moisture product.
Afore thus works out to $120 per ton dry, in the bunk, or 6 cents per lb. as fed, thus indicates a hard COG of $36 cwt ( cattle converting at 6 ).
Factor margin ( say approx 30% markup ) to the afore base and achievable goal on the hard COG is thus $48 cwt., ADD $25 cwt for overhead, other costs, yardage etc., and total COG goal would be $73 cwt..
#1. New plant is gonna have to figure out how to DELIVER waste products or they'll have to PAY to have it hauled to a landfill.
You may as well educate em to that from the get go and have your products delivered from the get go too.
#2. On bred cows they can handle 8 to 10 lbs of ddg ( DRIED DISTILLERS GRAIN, thus figured to air dry basis ) per head per day.
Feed the ration Balancer product with it ( thus cuts the high sulfur risk ).
2. (a ) afore works out to 3 lbs crude protien per cow, thus don't need hay.
Perhaps use ground cornstalks and some sileage.
3. Best way to feed cows is OUT and on the ground.
That way when your cornstalks have some melt days, you can cut their fed ration some then, they'll eat what you give em, then pick thru the fields like they're supposed to around those scattered areas you feed.
New plant is going to have to run some feed ingredient analysis tests on the product to thus show CONSISTENCY of the product they need to get rid of.
Main reason for that is to figure out the S variability in their product.
Won't matter if the S is consistently high, low, middle, whatever.
The MAIN thing is to know what range their product runs in, thus adjust ration usage accordingly.
Until they do the afore ( have a meeting with em ) it is truely a waste product with NO value.
Most folks will not feed it until the afore issues are addressed.
Some distillers products are reasonable as per cost.
Some are WAY high priced ( 2 to 3 X what corn costs ).
The price fooler is generally moisture levels and to some degree S levels. | |
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Wet distillers questions
