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Popular corn co-products manual for beef expands with second edNebraska Big demand and a slew of new research have led the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Corn Board to publish the second edition of the Utilization of Corn Co-Products in the Beef Industry less than 20 months after the first edition was released. "We have added a great deal of information in a relatively short period of time due to the amount of research progress that has been made," said UNL beef nutrition specialist Dr. Galen Erickson, one of the manual's authors. "The Nebraska Corn Board has been a major partner with UNL in this research, and we're pleased to work with them in updating this manual." The second edition expanded to 28 pages, compared to 18 pages for the first edition which was published in January 2006. The new manual also has more than 60 references. "It just made sense to update and reprint the manual," said Kelly Brunkhorst, ag promotion coordinator for the Nebraska Corn Board. "It's an opportunity to get the latest information to cow-calf and feedlot producers, nutritionists, Extension educators, industry representatives and others who are interested and looking for answers." Brunkhorst said all copies of the first edition were given away some time ago. "We've printed 5,000 copies of the second edition," he said, "and we expect them to go fast--but the information is also available on our website." In addition to research updates, the manual includes new information on how roughages interact in diets with distillers grains and the effect of corn processing in diets containing distillers grains. Information on distillers grains storage is also new, as are many charts and graphs. Erickson said new graphs are the result of a meta-analysis to compare feeding co-products at different levels across all previous research conducted at UNL. "These graphs have proven to be very useful at accurately predicting performance changes when different co-products are fed," he said. Brunkhorst said as the ethanol industry expands there is a greater need for information on feeding ethanol co-products like distillers grains. In the 2007-2008 marketing year, he said, Nebraska ethanol plants will produce about 3.4 million tons of distillers grains, nearly triple what was produced in 2005. In the whole U.S., some 19.4 million tons will be produced this marketing year. "Although the adoption of distillers grains has been tremendous, producers and nutritionists still have questions about the best way to use these products and other corn co-products," Brunkhorst said. "This manual will help provide answers and hopefully eliminate some of the barriers to increased usage of co-products by the cow-calf and beef feedlot industries." Utilization of Corn Co-Products in the Beef Industry, 2nd Edition is authored by Erickson, Virgil R. Bremer, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Aaron Stalker and Rick Rasby of the Department of Animal Sciences at UNL, and printed and distributed by the Nebraska Corn Board. The manual is available for download on the Nebraska Corn Board website at Nebraskacorn.org or UNL's Beef Extension website at http://beef.unl.edu. It may also be requested by contacting the Nebraska Corn Board at 800-632-6761 or ne.corninfo@necorn.state.ne.us. For questions on feeding corn co-products, you may also contact Galen Erickson at 402-472-6402 or gerickson4@unl.edu. The Nebraska Corn Board is a self-help program, funded and managed by Nebraska corn farmers. Producers invest in the program at a rate of 1/4 of a cent per bushel of corn sold. Nebraska corn checkoff funds are invested in programs of market development, research and education. Date: 10/10/07
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