Coming from a farm in Wisconsin that was in the business of dairy farming for over 70 years, I never heard of anyone feeding whole corn kernals to dairy cows. The dried corn (in our case, as with neighbors, this was always dried corn on the cob) was always run through a mill. Hammer mills almost exclusively. In those years a coarse grind was specified for cows but this pretty well pulverized the corn. Fine grind (achieved by simply changing screens in the mill) was reserved for pigs and chickens. But, nevertheless, the corn for dairy and beef cows was well pulverized for feeding. This was usually combined with oats and other additives to include wheat bran, miller's grains, soybean oil meal, minerals, etc. Somtimes feeds employing molasses and beet pulp were added. Most notably Purina Bulky Las. All of these thing were fed with good effect. Cows were healty, milk production was quite high (fot that day) and we were producing more milk than the country could use, resulting in a price of around $3.00 per hundred weight. That's why a lot of those farms went into the soil bank as the farmers got older and their sons went off to seek other employment.
I realize that in later years low moisture corn was put into silos which saw pretty much whole grain corn going into cows. No one around here does that anymore. Now, it's either grass silage being made or sudan grass silage. Still some traditional corn silage being put up, however. Other mixes such as peas and oats are put up but not very much.
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