Posted by wisbaker on August 23, 2012 at 19:58:31 from (184.157.223.164):
In Reply to: Just curious....... posted by JerryS on August 23, 2012 at 19:13:12:
You grind the whole corn stalk with ears. If done right your are catching the corn at a time when the stalks have a higher nutritional value. Surprisingly corn stalks have more nutritional value than you think. A few old timers where I grew up would pick their corn (harvest the ears) then bale the corn stalks for fodder. It is much more than something to keep the cow's ribs apart and can be a good source of high quality nutrients in a balanced ration. The fact is with today's cows you can't afford to put filler in the ration, a cow's ability to produce milk is often limited buy how much she will eat, in a lower quality ration they get full before they get enough nutrition. Good cows are often in energy deficient, or using more energy than they can eat when they freshen. Also remember you're dealing with a ruminant this is an animal that was designed to eat forage and if you don't feed enough you cause other problems. Some times corn becomes incidental silage but most of the time it's planted for that purpose. If the farmer knows they're going to ensile the corn they may pick a variety that's a little longer (takes more days to grow) or they sometimes can plant corn for silage a little later depending on how their field work is going. I live in Northeast Wisconsin and probably 80% of the corn planted here in ensiled, when we lived in Tennessee less than 20% was chopped. In Michigan where I grew up about 50/50 between silage and picked or combined. Remember hay is nothing more than grass that's cut, dried and harvested and you can keep stock on hay. A companion to corn silage is haylage or hay chopped and harvested, handled, stored and feed just like corn silage.
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