Any idea where or how the origin of calling it ..chop.. came from? I know rusty6 another Canadian uses the same name. On our farm in Kansas we called it ..feed.. or ..ground feed.. I believe in more specific terms dairies or feed lots would refer to it as ..ground ration.. We raised hogs, had a cow/calf herd and fattened 15 -25 feeders every year. Through the years we had a several New Holland grinder mixers, usually the M I now have was hooked to them. The rations usually had a small square bale or so of alfalfa, some salt and other minerals, some oats and feed supplement usually Moormans brand, sometimes some soybean meal or bran. Then filled will milo ..some call sorghum.. all grains were run through the hammer mill. The NH mills came along in the 70s when my dad and uncle joined together and took over the farm from my grandfather. They put up a confined 17 sow farrowing house and that is when we started raising hogs in greater numbers but small scale compared to todays operations. Before that my grandfather had a belt drive IH hammer mill which I remember scooping grain into a few times. It had a feed table that you could easily scoop ear corn into. After that he bought a mill someone put together on a 52 1 1/2 ton Chevy truck. The roller mill and mixer on It ran off the transmission PTO.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family’s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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