Unloading feed at a friends today. Plus some IA Pics

JDseller

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I hauled a load of Corn gluten pellets to a friend today. He did not tell me he wanted to auger them into some wagons. He usually just dumps them into a pile. So I did not have the chute on the back of the truck.

I took some pictures.

1) The first one is of us unloading the feed.

2)The second is of his fields and pasture. HE had been real dry but he got 1 1/2 inches just last Sat. The crops really have greened up and his pasture looks much better than before.

3) In this picture the red building at the very top of the picture is the back of my one farm. We only are about four miles apart as the crow flies but it is an eighteen mile drive. There is a river between us and you have to go to town to the closest bridge.
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I am twenty miles west of Dubuque. So you are about 150 miles south west of me. I have hauled feed down in your area last fall.
 
JD Seller,

Pretty countryside. Did not know there were corn gluten pellets. Assume it is just for animal feed. Will have to google it.
 
Corn gluten pellets are a by product from corn sweetener plants. They are the fiber mixed with the seep water that is left after all of the processing. The seep water has the protein left in it. They are made into pellet form and then dried down to under 10% moisture. They have 18% protein. Cattle love them.

There is also a wet gluten product we haul too. It is 65% moisture. It is only 7% protein. The cattle guys mix it with tub ground hay and corn to finish cattle.

The only problem right now it the cost has gone sky high in the last two months. They where $165 per ton June 1 st. Now they are $265 a ton. Plus the plants have sold just about the entire production for Sept-Oct. I can maybe a load or two that have not been contracted but not any large order.
 

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