Sweet Potatoes/sulfur levels ?

[Howdyjabo]

Anyone know the average Sulfur levels in Sweet Potatoes? I can't find it listed anywhere .

 

[Diehard40]

Be careful if feeding sweet potatoes
new a producer that fed some and lost 12 cows.

 

[Howdyjabo]

Yeah.... it grows a fungus that is toxic.
Luckily I can use it fast enough that it doesn't have time to grow and I use a mixer to make a TMR so they won't be able to pick out the taters to gorge on.

I am worried about the sulfer levels-- it would replace what I am useing now to pull down the sulfer levels.

I found Irish potatoes and their sulfer level is really low- so they are going to work great--- but latter in the year the processor will switch to sweet potatoes. I have to take both to get either and i have to decide soon.

 

[kyblockhead]

Can you get a sample and send it to a lab for analysis?

 

[Howdyjabo]

I thought about buying a sweet potatoe at the store- and sending it off. But our local guy doesn't do sulfer and the lab he sends it to takes about two weeks.

Not to mention I'm poor(some say cheap )...... sulfer tests costs $75
and all I need is a ball park figure.

 

[BAGTIC]

The sulphur content of sweet potatoes is about 14.9 milligrams per gram weight. [/b]

 

[Howdyjabo]

Thanks--- I did eventually find out alot of information on feeding them-
NC extension wrote a paper on it years ago.



Have you used sweet potatoes?