Wanted to know if dry molasses is the same as rocky mountain sweet mix /sweet feed? In our area (colorado) the only dry molasses comes in a solid block that looks like a salt lick. So I bought the sweet feed. The ingredients are grain products,cane molasses,crude protein (not restricted by fda)so I assume it is the same as dry molasses. People may want to make sure the crude protein sources are labeled with a disclaimer so as not to be worried about mad cow disease.. thanks
Dry molasses is NOT the same as sweet mix. Sweet mix ccontainsdry molasses. Dry molasses is simply molasses in a dry powder type form. If you look around you should be able to find a feed dealer that carries is in 50# bags.
Feed labels are required by law to list all ingredients. the most common protien sources for this type of feed would be urea, alfalfa, or soybean meal. Urea is a man-made protien, not remotely organic.
Crude protien is not an ingredient, but a number that tells the % of crude protien available to the animal.
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Actually dry molasses is sold as a cattle feed supplement. It is liquid molasses sprayed and dried on grain roughage like oat, corn, wheat, rice hulls, or millet flour.
Liquid molasses is a bacterial food for soil, compost, or teas. Dry molasses powder is both a fertilizer and biostimulant because of the grain flour and the sugar content.
You are corret that Urea is a man-made, however you are incorrect when you say that it is not organic. urea is one of hte ingrediants that you put into your compost pile when you urinate into it.
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And urea is not a protein but a chemical. Proteins are made up of amino acids. Urea is a hot source of nitrogen as opposed to the protein sources. This is why dog urine turns grass yellow - too much hot nitrogen in one spot.
But inasmuch as the urea in use today is man made, topfothehill is correct. It is not considered organic even though the chemical formula for the man made product is identical to the chemical formula from a mammal's body. If anyone could afford to buy mammal urine for the garden, that product would be organic.
Someone once suggested hosting kegger football parties and sending the guys out to the compost pile during commercials. A very manly thing to do!
I read recently from a new DirtDoctor book and from a recent issue of Acres USA magazine, that natural urine (urea) and ammonia is chelated or buffered for safe foliar spraying use, if it is mixed with a easily digestible carbon source like molasses, in a compost tea recipe.
