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Spent Brewers Grain Available for Animal Feed - Liverpool
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<blockquote data-quote="Coximus" data-source="post: 7862937" data-attributes="member: 12800"><p>Not my area but I do this in my area,</p><p></p><p>Worth putting up what type of grain - IE are you grinding it yourself or buying in bags, </p><p>quality can vary especially from small micro and craft/ / ale breweries -</p><p>I take grains varying from 22% crude protein and 12ME/kg at 28%dm,</p><p>through to ground pale ale malts with 16% protein and 8ME which come very wet at only 19%dm</p><p>The former is worth traveling upto 5 miles return per tonne collected - </p><p>The latter is worthless and I usually get a coffee / beer / sarnie if thats all thats to be collected - though usually I collect 4-5 tonnes a visit twice a week.</p><p></p><p>Remember your taking all the sugars out of the grain, and its very wet - and doesnt store well so it needs to fit into your local farmers system - Good grains I can feed as a top up to my animals - Crap wet pale malts need me to spend money on beet or molasses to make them worth feeding and handling.</p><p></p><p>I worked out that even for good grains - its usually a loss maker feeding anything less than a 10 tonne load and the only real benefit to me is either dumping it on unpalletable hay / lege to get it eaten, or as ga forrage extender to drag out feed and grazing rotations.</p><p></p><p>That said currently Im getting a run of malts from strong 8% plus DIPA/s and these are coming with the all important 11+ME/kg /DM making them worht collecting down to 2 tonnes at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coximus, post: 7862937, member: 12800"] Not my area but I do this in my area, Worth putting up what type of grain - IE are you grinding it yourself or buying in bags, quality can vary especially from small micro and craft/ / ale breweries - I take grains varying from 22% crude protein and 12ME/kg at 28%dm, through to ground pale ale malts with 16% protein and 8ME which come very wet at only 19%dm The former is worth traveling upto 5 miles return per tonne collected - The latter is worthless and I usually get a coffee / beer / sarnie if thats all thats to be collected - though usually I collect 4-5 tonnes a visit twice a week. Remember your taking all the sugars out of the grain, and its very wet - and doesnt store well so it needs to fit into your local farmers system - Good grains I can feed as a top up to my animals - Crap wet pale malts need me to spend money on beet or molasses to make them worth feeding and handling. I worked out that even for good grains - its usually a loss maker feeding anything less than a 10 tonne load and the only real benefit to me is either dumping it on unpalletable hay / lege to get it eaten, or as ga forrage extender to drag out feed and grazing rotations. That said currently Im getting a run of malts from strong 8% plus DIPA/s and these are coming with the all important 11+ME/kg /DM making them worht collecting down to 2 tonnes at a time. [/QUOTE]
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