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Kentucky cows are chowing down on candies.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/news/economy/farmers-cows-candy-feed/index.html?source=cnn_bin

Cows are being fed crumbled cookies, breakfast cereals, trail mix, chocolate bars, gummy worms, ice cream sprinkles, marshmallows, bits of hard candy and even powdered hot chocolate mix, which are blended into more traditional forms of feed, like hay. It has been a practice going on for decades. Farmers said that it's a very good way to reduce feed cost, because the price of corn has doubled since 2009. While corn goes for about $315 a ton, ice-cream sprinkles can be had for as little as $160 a ton. Livestock nutritionists advised farmers to cap the candy at 3% of cow's diet, and the sugar seems to increase milk production by 3 pounds per cow per day. As the demand for candy-feed goes up, the price of sprinkles rise from $160 to about $240 per ton. But farmers still buy the candy.

livestock (n.) animals that are kept on a farm.
cap (v.) to limit the amount of something that can be used or spent.