Ethanol Co-product Storage and Utilization Conference Extension Educators, NRCS personnel, and animal science/agriculture teachers from community colleges and high schools converged in Mead, Nebraska. Storing wet distillers grains products was the focus of the conference on May 19-20, 2008. Sponsored by North Central Region SARE, the two-day conference, held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's (UNL) Christenson Research and Education Building, featured a variety of educational seminars from professionals in business and university research programs and full-scale demonstrations of storage techniques. This page is your resource to the presentations and materials from the conference. (Except for the video files, all files require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open. Free download of Adobe Reader.) Email John Hay about future seminars. Program agenda Storage Manual University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension and The Nebraska Corn Board prepared a manual for storage of wet corn co-products.

Videos All will open in a new window. Clips are wmv format. Driving on WDGS Feed truck mixing with solubles and straw Feed truck mixing with stalks Layering WDGS and straw Solubles: mixing Straw and solubles: packing 1 Straw and solubles: packing 2 WDGS WDGS and stalks WDGS and stalks: packing

 

Presentations
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Ethanol By-products Use for Feedlot Cattle slide show
Dr. Galen Erickson and Dr. Terry Klopfenstein. Beef Cattle Production , University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Economics of Ethanol Co-product Storage slide show
Dr. Darrell Mark, Josie Waterbury, Dr. Rick Rasby. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Nutrition, Feed Issues, Economics, and Research for Cow/Calf Producers Considering Grain Co-products slide show
Dr. Rick Rasby, Dr. Aaron Stalker, Beef Cattle Production, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ethanol Co-product Pricing slide show
Phil Kowalski, VeraSun Energy

Storing Wet Distillers Feeds: Iowa Update slide show
Dr. Dan Loy, Iowa Beef Center, Iowa State University

Molds and Mycotoxins: What Else Could Be in Your Distillers Grains? slide show
Dr. Tamra Jackson, UNL, Department of Plant Pathology

Molds and Mycotoxins slide show
Dr. Steve Ensley, Iowa State University

Storage of Wet Ethanol By-products: Nebraska Update slide show
Dr. Galen Erickson, Brent Plugge, Denny Bauer, Dr. Aaron Stalker, Beef Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Nutrient Composition and Variation Among Wet and Modified Distillers Grains Plus Solubles slide show
Dr. Terry Klopfenstein, Dr. Galen Erickson, Beef Cattle Production , University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Sulfur-related Polioencephalomalacia in Cattle slide show
Dr. Dan Gould, Colorado State University

 

More Resources
Utilization Manual: Beef manual
UNL, Department of Animal Science and the Nebraska Corn Board prepared this manual of utilization of ethanol co-products for beef.

Utilization Manual: Dairy, Swine, and Poultry manual
UNL, Department of Animal Science and the Nebraska Corn Board prepared this manual of utilization of ethanol co-products for dairy, swine, and poultry.

Cattle Co-product Optimizer Evaluator (Excel spreadsheet)
Cattle CODE is a spreadsheet which evaluates economic returns for feeding by-products to feedlot cattle compared to a diet with no by-products. UNL, Department of Agricultural Economics.

Co-product Storage to Optimize Ration Expenses (Excel spreadsheet) manual
Co-product STORE is a spreadsheet that evaluated the economics of storing wet co-products. The spreadsheet can be manipulated to fit individual operations. UNL, Department of Agricultural Economics.