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The U.S. beef cattle industry has been a major consumer of wet and dried corn distiller’s byproducts for decades. As a result, there has been considerable research conducted to evaluate the feeding value of corn distiller’s by-products to cattle. Most of the research is related to feeding distiller’s grains to finishing beef cattle. Several excellent research summaries and feeding recommendations have been published (Erickson et al., 2005; Tjardes and Wright, 2002; Loy et al., 2005a; Loy et al., 2005b; Schingoethe, 2004). Most recently, Klopfenstein et al. (2008) published an excellent literature review including a meta-analysis of 9 experiments where various levels of wet distiller’s grains with solubles were fed to feedlot cattle.