According to a Young Cattleman on an agriculture propaganda site: "Corn is the predominant grain used because it is a great source of starch (carbohydrates) utilized for energy. Other grains used include oats, barley, sorghum, distillers (brewers) grains, and by-products of numerous grain and fiber milling processes. These are referred to as the concentrate portion of the ration.
Corn or wheat silage is a very common feed ration ingredient to be used. It can account for the forage and concentrate portion of the diet. Silage is the entire plant (seed and stalk), harvested in an earlier stage with higher moisture, then stored in an anaerobic environment (without oxygen) where fermentation occurs and breaks down the plant cell walls." That's for beef cattle, anyway. And even if there were soy, it's hardly natural for ruminant. Cheers, frank On October 30, 2015 3:10:27 PM EDT, "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]> wrote: >Soybeans is a large part of animal feed, corn hardly has enough >nourishment. One of the problems of the native American cultures was >lack of large domesticable animals, and suitable easily domesticable >grasses. No culture that had a choice would have chosen Corn, and the >only tractable large ruminant in the Americas was, well there wasn't >one. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
