May 5, 2012
Beer mash fattening cows, trimming costs in Colorado Explosive growth in Colorado’s craft-brewing industry produces not only more beer, but more beer byproducts. That means the hamburger you eat next week may come from a steer happily fed last week with brewing leftovers. Using spent grains for livestock feed dates to the advent of beer. But with corn and other commodity prices sky high, feedyards increasingly are using brewing byproducts to help fatten cattle in preparation for slaughter.

Beer mash fattening cows, trimming costs in Colorado

Explosive growth in Colorado’s craft-brewing industry produces not only more beer, but more beer byproducts.

That means the hamburger you eat next week may come from a steer happily fed last week with brewing leftovers.

Using spent grains for livestock feed dates to the advent of beer. But with corn and other commodity prices sky high, feedyards increasingly are using brewing byproducts to help fatten cattle in preparation for slaughter.

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April 24, 2012
Agriculture Department: New case of mad cow disease found in California; cow was not bound for food supply, posed no danger

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Filed under: news animals mad cow cows food food supply mad cow disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy 
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