Living in a sugar refining state like Queensland gives us easy access to a by-product called molasses, which we feed to our cattle. If you don't live near a sugar refinery, its probably not worth trying to source it. However, if you can get some molasses cheaply, it is a great supplement feed as, according to our text book " Dairy Cattle Science ", it contains: calcium cobalt copper iodine magnesium potassium iron biotin + various other B vitamins other trace minerals These are all the good things in sugar cane that are removed to make pure sucrose sugar for us humans to eat, see why we shouldn't eat refined sugar?! In Natural Cattle Care , Pat Coleby mentions briefly that consuming excess sugar in the form of molasses can make cattle more attractive to insects, so we don't feed molasses during summer when buffalo flies and ticks are a problem. However it does provide valuable energy in winter when our grass dies off. We have been buying mol...