So much for buying local

LAA

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Found out the last sugar mill that did not have all of their molassses contracted now does, so although I live in Louisiana I will have to get my bulk molasses for TMR out of Missouri. Can't really blame them if they made a better deal for the companies bottom line, it's just kind of ironic, like a Wisconsonite having to get his cheese out of Alabama.
 
Seems like there's more cane acreage down here than ever but less then ten sugar millls.A bunch of them shutdown.About 1994 we fed our cattle the corn/milo by product from the gasahol plant.Is something like that available?
 
DDGs from corn where they make ethanol is great feed for cattle most grind the hay and mix with the DDGs also used for Hogs and Chickens
 
There is a local feed store where I use to get my feed mixed.
They were big enough they mix feed for some dairies.
Ever since the dairies have shut down they stopped mixing feed.

I ask one of the youngsters there a few weeks ago if they had any molasses.
Any quantity. Bulk or buckets.
No we only carry small buckets of it during deer season.
 
There is a little old fashioned feed store about 15 miles from me. They buy 55 gallon drums of that stuff. They put a sign by the cash register begging for one gallon screw top Plastic jugs. Deer bait and other animals just love a little of that stuff poured onto their feed. Dang it doesn't taste toooo darn good. Lots of sulfur in it. Also metal iron taste. Can also use it to strip rust off of sheet steel.
 
I mostly buy poor condition cull cows and other rough stock and finish for slaughter, cattle in poor condition who have been on low nutrient diets, mostly poor pasture. Getting these type cattle started on corn and concentrates takes weeks to avoid a high death loss, these cattle don't founder on molasses and get a start on a high energy diet with a lot less problems. We also use it as a forage conditioner mixed about 50/50 with water and sprayed on the chopped hay in the mixing wagon, and it helps keep the dust down on the commodity grain screenings we feed in the TMR. Cane molasses has roughly the energy equivalent of corn, up until the late 70's hardly any corn was grown in our area, most people fattened cattle on cottonseed hulls and cottonseed meal with molasses fed free choice in tanks.
 
My father said that during the 1930's when hay was short he bought a 55 gallon drum of molasses. He'd fill a sprinkling can, heat it so it would pour, and pour it over wheat straw for his horses.

I guess the horses loved it. Anyway, they ate it.
 
A couple of weeks ago a semi burned up on the interstate near me. It was a load of mozzarella cheese from Idaho going to Wisconsin. I suppose it can then be sold as Wisconsin cheese.
 

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