The deer, squirrels, rats, and raccoons will eat the corn. Sometimes it gets really bad in the middle of winter and deer will pull entire ears out. So to minimize the damage we put chicken wire around our cribs, also orange snow fence, or the older snow fence made of wire and wooden lath. Last year we put round bales around the cribs, which worked until the deer learned to jump on top of the bales, stand on their hind legs, and eat well above the orange snow fencing. They can all make a mess, especially if corn is kept in to the summer. Some of it we just figure as "drying cost" since we aren't combining it and burning LP like everyone else. Some years you can keep up on it really well and have practically no loss, and other years we have 30-40 deer on the yard every night. I agree there was more habitat around here years ago for deer, so they weren't so concentrated, and the deer population has increased substantially from years ago...
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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