Posted by paul on August 26, 2013 at 07:02:40 from (66.60.223.232):
In Reply to: Corn Questions posted by FBH44 on August 26, 2013 at 03:39:41:
It takes as much sun and heat as available to grow top yielding corn, so we try to make use of the full summer to grow corn, get as much value from the sunshine available. Then it needs to be 15% or so to store for a long time, so we like to let it dry down to less than 20% if we can before harvesting it.
Corn syrip is sort of like an ethanol plant, they take the starch (sugar) out of the corn, leaving a high-protien feed as leftovers. The corn sugar is a thick liquid, and many industries seem to like this type of sugar, it is easier for them to handle the liquid clear sugar.
But most all field corn, or the residue left from making ethanol, sugar, etc, goes to feeding livestock. Some corn is exported to other countries. But most all of it ends up being feed to hogs or cattle.
It is high in energy and medium in protien, it stores easily, it is easy to transport and handle. This makes it a mostly a very valuable feed for livestock.
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