Beef feed at broken rice is a market option – Diario Cambio Salto

“This year the stewards are not going to see a bag of rice, even with a chance,” said Eng Álvaro Simeone, when he started talking about the work done by the Intensive Meat Production Unit (UPIC) in co- In spite of this, and the current corn price situation, cracked grain has found, through research, another option for marketing in feed. livestock
Juan Miguel Silva, ACA board member; He recalled that the work started with the low yield of all grain seen in the 2021 dry season, where producers were looking for alternatives to send grain directly from the farm. After the last two winters of research, “we arrived at very interesting results, with an idea of ​​value, of what value could be as animal feed. “
In this regard, Simeone assured that corn can be removed from the feedlot diet and imported rice, however, he clarified that “it must be well ground.” From his point of view “it is a tool very important for the rice sector if the price of rice falls, it can be given to animals, because it is equal to the price of corn.”
“The profits we got are, while they earned one kilo seven hundred in a corral with a lot of corn, with ground husk rice grain they also gave me one kilo seven hundred, the same thing we replaced up to 45% of the corn. “, said the professional. In this sense, he explained that “there are seven kilograms of corn in a free-range diet, so we changed half of the corn for broken rice with the husk and did not change the performance.”
For the rice producer, the use of broken rice as feed for cattle is an alternative to “some types of rice that have poor milling quality, that is, types of rice that have a low whole grain, but give many kilos .” Silva explained that there are some varieties that are able to reach “15,000 kilos or 300 bags per hectare, but they do not have good whole grain quality.”