High Fructose Corn Syrup
 

My Son In Law Has Been Given Several Tons Of #62 High Fructose Corn Syrup For The Moving. We Propose To Feed Some To Our Cows. I Have Asked The Cattle Forum How Much And How Often Would Be Feasible For This.

Does Any One Else Know Of A Use For This Product?

Maybe A Good Barter Item For The Future?

Any Down Sides On This Product?

Sure Would Appreciate Hearing From Those Who Have Experience In This Area.

Thanks.

Mom

http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfo...hfructose.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DGS24VKMH1.DTL

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?The-Da...Syrup&id=28535

http://www.diabetescure101.com/meat.htm

We're eliminating high fructose corn syrup from our diet.

Compost it?

We've fed about 15,000 head of cattle over the years and I would say that high fructose corn syrup would definitely NOT be something you would feed cattle.....talk about unnatural for their systems.

There is nothing good you could do with it, I would give it back.

Wow, Your Responses Have Sure Been Eye Opening.

However, It Seems To Me That The Sugar Could Be Formulated With Free Choice Minerals And Some Roughage To Make A Suitable Feed.
Will Continue My Investigation.

We Havent Moved It Yet. Dsil Needs To Move It And Will Store It Here Until He Finds A Buyer [for Any We Dont Use]. There Are About 7 Tons Of It In Two Different Tanks. I Will Sure Pass This Info On To Him, Tho.

Thanks,

Mom

Several TONS of corn syrup?

There's a party waiting to happen :)

Cattl like starch. And protien. With a little roughage.

Sugar isn't much for livestock feed. Short term energy, doesn't add much to milk or meat production. Kindsa takes away from their gains, not adds to them....

You would be using it in real small amounts.

--->Paul

Maybe you could ferment or distill it into some kind of liquor.....

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Some dairy farms use SMALL amounts of high-sugar byproducts in feed if they can get them. Two problems (at least)
1. They don't store well. Because bacteria LOVES sugar, they tend to go bad very, very quickly. Several tons is going to mean most of it ends up getting dumped
2. The cows get addicted to it. When it runs out, they crash... bad.

You could use it to sweeten up some underpar hay, but you'd be looking at the most a cup poured over an entire bale. Mostly it looks like landfill time to me.

Do you have an ethanol production facility near you? Maybe you could trade for fuel or sell it outright to them and have them pick it up in the deal.

A lot of commercial beekeepers use HFCS to feed their bees. Maybe wholsale to the major beekeeping suppliers ?

A local beekeeper told me it's the corn syrup that commercial bee keepers use that's part of the bee death problem. :shrug:

Just passing on what I was told. No flames, please.

Maybe check into feeding it to hogs a little at a time???

Corn syrup will have a some fertilizer value as well as a good stimulant for microbes in the soil. I would use it mixed with water as a foliar feed for hay crops, shubs, turfgrass etc.

There is no positive link to corn syrup for the bee problem, I would look up your local bee keepers association and give them a call, they travel a lot of miles to get that for their bees for the cold months and I am sure would be willing to buy it from you, if it is the right kind of syrup. As you are in FL that is most likely what it was made for.

What kind of container does it come in? if it comes in drums I would dump the corn syrup and keep the containers.

My daughter is allergic to high frutose corn syrup....it is nasty stuff. I'm not sure about feeding it to animals but we don't eat anything with corn syrup in it (and it is in almost anything prepackaged.)

Why are they getting rid of it?

That's what I was wondering...

Bingo! Yes, why are they getting rid of it? The best idea, IMO, is dumping it and keeping the containers!

Sil Is Dismantling A Defunct Sugar Mill-refinery. They Give Him All The Parts He Takes Down. Which He Resells. The Corn Fructose Has Turned Extremely Thick. Have No Idea What A Sugar Refinery Used It For.

From How Sugar is Refined - the Basic Story http://www.sucrose.com/lref.html

From US Sugar refinery's website:

Another site which explains how corn syrup is refined: http://www.corn.org/web/processo.htm Sounds as if a sugar refinery could possibly be used to refine corn if needed(?).

~Falcon

Left over supply......

Most corn fructose goes for sugar for liquid type foods - soft drinks are a huge user. Ice cream, and other packaged foods as mentioned.

They sqeeze the sugar out of corn - rather than from sugar beets or sugar cane. It comes as a liquid from the corn, which is good for some uses, not so good for others.

There is less sugar in corn than cane or beets, but - corn is easy to get, and the left overs make good livestock feed.

Too bad he didn't get several tons of the left over mash - _that_ woulda been good cattle feed. :)

--->Paul

I personally think high fructose corn syrup is the root of the current obesity epidemic. I wouldn't feed it to livestock unless you are just trying to fatten them up for sale.

Read the links given by Ravenlost above.

It is likely more of a contributing factor (and perhaps a significant one) than a root cause.

A junk food diet and lack of exercises probably are also major players.

is it too late for your SIL to say, thanks but no thanks?

When I first read the title of this post I was thinking of all the candy recipes that require corn syrup... but at seven tons, that would be a LOT of candy!

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No - overindulgence and ignorance of dietary prudence and nutrition is [period]

On Friday I thought I pulled a gallon of OJ out of the store cooler and then found I had (Purity) Breakfast Orange Drink when I got home. With first sip I found it was so sweet I have to dilute it. Label says ingrediends are: water, high fructose corn syrup, orange juice concentrate... Label also says it is 7% OJ. According to label then HGCS must be greater than 7% of volume for it to be listed as the second ingredient. I suspect SUNNY DELIGHT is similar.

Makes me wonder how many consider this to be a 'healty' drink for kids.

Sunny Delight is nasty. Pure D Nasty. :grump:

I agree. There is no real link. I think the mass bee deaths are from genetically modified crops, but that is speculation as well.

That's the first thing that came to my mind. Bee food.

"Sunny Delight is nasty. Pure D Nasty."

Probably like this breakfast orange drink, orange flavored sugar water.