Impact of ELD livestock exemption felt immediately

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by shogun, Dec 22, 2018.

  1. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    I'm wondering

    Would you all still like the meat if you knew about the wood chips, sand, waste water and waste molasses. That gets mixed with the hay that the meat eats?
     
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  3. shogun

    shogun Road Train Member

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    Definitely. You ain’t seen gross until you’ve watched dump trucks full of all the carcass parts leaving the kill plant. I used to load cows, get covered in fresh manure, grab me a Subway sandwich and ride. One woman said “I can’t believe you can eat with that smell.” I said it smells like money to me.
     
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  4. wore out

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    I'm headed to Wisconsin Wednesday to get some for a green tag sale at West Plains next week. Oughta be yummy
     
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  5. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    How about feeding them cannery waste? I've seen bins of tomato skins and pulp, cull plums, rotton peaches, spoiled almond meal,sun burned melons, rice bran, and all kinds of other goodies get fed to cows. Mix a little molasses in and they'll eat anything. I wonder how the calves gain on that stuff?
    We run a few cows and I had a feed broker call and offer me my choice of cull plums, rejected raisins, or tomato waste. I think I'll stick with hay.
     
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    I haul lots of rice bran and ddg this time a year. Guess where straight to feed lots, farms etc. What it was matters not near as much as what it is. A creole gal taught me that.
     
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  7. Feedman

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    In-laws have fed pulp from apples, grape's, sugar beets, wet distiller's grain, celery. Many food products are just a filler with a little nutrition value. Most of that stuff is only fed to dry cows though.
     
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  8. 25(2)+2

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    How about whole cottonseed and citrus pulp, or pineapple trim?

    Dairy cows get lots of different byproduct feeds, too.
     
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    I haven't hauled whole cotton seed. But have hauled a boat load of cotton seed meal, and cotton seed hull pellets for them. They say the meal is rich as a foot up a bulls butt.
     
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  10. Hulld

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    The only smell I can remember that would give the rendering plant a run for its money was the inside of veal barn where the calves were raised on that powdered milk ####.
    It was a smell that would literally take your breath away.
    I really hated those loads...
    Over thirty years ago and I still throw up a little in my mouth when ever I read veal on the menu lol.
     
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  11. REO6205

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    Fish meal. Sugar beet pulp.

    LOL...I wonder if the majority of people realize what beef eats. Maybe that's why our home-grown stuff...nothing but pasture grass, well water, and some corn to finish...tastes so much different than store bought.
     
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