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Ethanol Facts:
Distillers Grains (DDG) and Corn Gluten Feed
 Distillers grains are a high value livestock feed that are a co-product
of dry mill ethanol production. Corn gluten feed is produced at Nebraska’s
two wet milling ethanol plants. Both of these products have been critical
to the success and profitability of Nebraska ethanol plants because of
the size and proximity of Nebraska’s cattle industry. The immediate
availability of a market for these feed products has been a major factor
in attracting the ethanol industry to Nebraska.
It hasn’t just been ethanol producers who have benefited. Feeding
these co-products to cattle generates an economic benefit of more than
$52 million to Nebraska each year. Thanks to feeding trials sponsored in
part by the Nebraska Ethanol Board, DDG and corn gluten feed have become
widely accepted among Nebraska’s beef producers as a preferred ingredient
in their animal rations.
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