How To Substitute For Corn

摘要

When substituting out corn to reduce your feed cost, use caution. Alternative feed-stuffs can work, but, in most cases, it is not a simple swap. When the price of diesel fuel goes up, you can't switch to gasoline in your tractors and get the same performance. The same is true with your cows. When the price of their energy source — corn — goes up you can't just swap it for another feed and get the same results. "when replacing corn in the diet, you've got to remember why it was being used in the first place," says Herb Bucholtz, dairy nutritionist at Michigan State University. You use corn because it supplies non-structural carbohydrates in the form of starch.