SHENANDOAH, Iowa -- Feeding corn to cattle has been a traditional value-added enterprise in Iowa. With the state’s expanding ethanol industry, cattle producers will have another available feedstuff from the co-products of alcohol production, such as distillers dried grains.

Cow-calf producers and feedlot operators will want to attend the Distillers Dried Grain and the Iowa Beef Industry seminar on June 22 in Shenandoah. The seminar will be held at the Gladys Wirsig Jones Auditorium at the Community High School and will run from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

The morning session will focus on how cow-calf producers can use DDG, such as to supplement pastures. The Page County Cattlemen will be cooking ribeye sandwiches for lunch, and the afternoon session will concentrate on how feedlot operators can use DDG in rations and requirements for handling.

Presenters are Darrell Busby, Iowa State University (ISU) Extension beef field dpecialist; John Lawrence, director of the Iowa Beef Center; Brent Lorimor, Green Plains Renewable Energy; and Dan Loy, ISU Extension beef specialist.

The sponsors are ISU Extension, Ag Committee of the Shenandoah Chamber and Industry Association, Green Plains Renewable Energy, City National Bank of Shenandoah, First National Bank of Farragut and Shenandoah; Bank Iowa of Shenandoah, Essex and Red Oak, Page County Cattlemen’s and the Iowa Corn Growers.

The seminar is free of charge. For more information, call the Page County Extension Service at (712) 542-5171 or toll free at (877) 596-7243, or visit the Calendar page at www.iowabeefcenter.org.

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