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Dry or High-Moisture Corn for Finishing Steers in Drylot or on Oat Pasture

Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, Georgia 31794

Abstract

Feeding trials were conducted to compare dry and high-moisture whole shelled corn as energy sources when yearling steers were finished in drylot or on winter annual oat pasture. Regardless of whether fed in drylot or on pasture, steers fed high-moisture corn gained about 12% faster (P<.10) and were about 8% more efficient than steers fed dry corn. Gains for steers fed in drylot were similar to gains for steers fed corn in combination with pasture. Carcass characteristics were similar for all steers. Feed costs per pound (kilogram) of gain and returns to capital, land, labor and management were $.41/lb ($.90/kg) and —$6.86/steer when fed dry corn in drylot, $.39/lb ($.86/kg) and $13.73/steer when fed high-moisture corn in drylot, $.41/lb ($.90/kg) and $4.58/steer when fed dry corn on pasture, and $.36/lb ($.79/kg) and $19.90/steer when fed high-moisture corn on pasture.

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