Impacts: DDGS and Cattle

Western Canadian feedlot operators are turning to an alternative feeding source for their cattle. Dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) is partially replacing barley grain in the diets of finishing cattle.

“In Western Canada the norm used to be diets that were 85 per cent barley grain fed to finishing cattle,” says Dr. John McKinnon with the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. “Today it’s the norm that you’ll see anywhere from 20 to 40 per cent of that barley grain has been replaced with distillers grains.”

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