Posted by Nebraska Cowman on August 24, 2013 at 04:07:10 from (66.252.116.102):
In Reply to: Corn silage (again) posted by Dr. Walt on August 23, 2013 at 12:36:41:
Corn could be cubed. But the expense would outweigh any benefit. It would be a high roughage low protein feed. Of course protein, and or energy could be added. But cubing requires high amounts of heat energy to remove moisture and that makes production to costly to be feasible. There was work with cubing hay in the fields in the 60s and several companies built cubers (John Deere and Lundell come to mind) But horsepower requirements were large and that takes a lot of fuel. Also ground speed went way down. Just was not a practical solution. Sure, you get some waste with silage piled on the ground but storage costs are nearly nil which outweighs the loss.
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