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But we don't feed grain to cows, unless it's stuff like brewery mash where it's already been used to make human food. You cannot necessarily grow different stu

But we don't feed grain to cows, unless it's stuff like brewery mash where it's already been used to make human food. You cannot necessarily grow different stuff in the same field. Not all crops do well in the same kind of soil. For example, you need totally different soil for potatoes than you do for cereal crops if you want them to actually grow.

mythrwy 5y ago
That's not correct. We (in the US anyway) feed a massive quantity of unspent (not brewery mash for example) grains when finishing cattle in feedlots. Corn, barley, milo, soybeans etc along with harvested forages like alfalfa and sorghum (which is often fed as silage). People do feed brewery mash and other byproducts but that isn't most of what goes into feedlot rations nationwide.