Early Harvested and Reconstituted Sorghum Grain for Cattle1

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The use of high-moisture grain for finishing beef cattle attracted the attention of cattle feeders and research workers when early frosts terminated the natural maturation of corn in the Corn Belt many years ago. In 1904, Kennedy et al. concluded that on a dry matter basis, soft corn containing 35% moisture was equal to mature corn for finishing steers. In more recent years Indiana workers (Beeson and Perry, 1958) compared high-moisture and low-moisture corn in two cattle feeding trials. The results showed no statistically significant difference in rate of gain, but the cattle fed high-moisture corn showed a substantial improvement in feed conversion when the two feeds were compared on a dry basis. Problems with sorghum grain too moist for safe dry storage probably originated with the advent of combine harvesting. Prior to 1940 there was considerable interest in storing wet grain in trench silos in South Texas. Copyright © 1970. American Society of Animal Science . Copyright 1970 by American Society of Animal Science

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