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sullivan il. | My ration for the 300lbs. to 550lbs. is 1300 pounds whole corn 500 pounds glutten pellets and 200 pounds commercial supplement which has rumensin in it typically they eat about a 1000 lbs. of this ration from 300 to 550, then I switch them to a finisher ration which is 1540 lbs. of corn 360 lbs. glutten and 100 lbs. supplement typically eat about 5000lbs. of that ration. Implants are very important. I leave the corn whole since they don't get any roughage that way they get just a little bit of scratch. My opinion, which means nothing, is that if we raise a decent crop and corn gets a 4 in front of it with the fat cattle market being what it is I think Holstein feeders will get more expensive. I have been putting as many as I can on the bottle right now because the bottle calf price has had the bottom fall out of it I think this might be a real opportunity that you don't see very often. Then again what do I know I bought a couple of call options on corn ahead of this report Friday that didn't work out so well lol. | |
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? for Burdick on fattening holstein steers
