Yep! Guy down here grows out 900-1000 calves a year, and this is his main ingredient. He doesn't have any grass on his 1500 acres, othern than in his horsae pastures. He cvuts about 400 acres of grain sorghum that he puts in silage pits. Plus he has a contract , since they opened in 1990, to haul off the spent mash from the Budweiser plant here. He has chicken houses himself, and cleans out chicken houses for other growers. And he gets all the cotton seed and gin trash from the gin close by. He will not have anything to do with hay....said when he was growing up, his daddy cut 150 acres of bermuda 4 times a year, and he and his brother had to haul it all and stack it in barns, and he vowed when he got old enough to leave home, he'd never touch another bale again! His 400 head of Corriente eat silage....no pasture and no hay. When he weans the calves at 6 mos, they go in his feed lots, where they are fed a mix of the silage, the spent mash, chicken litter and cotton seed for 120 days. This is a high protein mix for growth. After 120 days, he send them to an Oklahoma feed lot, where they are fed out n corn for 120 days. Corn is carbs, and adds the fat and marbling. He has a contract with a high-end steak chain to provide CAB Prime beef.
Same in this part of the world. 7-800# heifers are the cheapest thing going.
