Corn-wise, I cant afford to feed it. To own to equipment to do it, the time, and the repairs on keeping it up it was costing me about 4.00 a bushel to raise it. Thats too expensive for me to feed.
As far as corn goes, I still raise some on occassion (when corn and milk are both high). Kept my planter as it was a good one in good shape. Use a roundup ready silage variety and chop it all, sell it to one of the dairy farms around close as standing corn. That way I dont have money tied up in wagons, chopper, and blower. If corn is cheap or milk (so they dont pay so well for it) I"ll use soybeans/milo/ or millet as rotational crops.
For feed, I"m a "least cost" producer. Makes no difference to me what I feed the cows as long as they eat it and do well. Normally I have enough hay that got a little moist before I got it up that will test out high enough I dont need to feed anything extra. On occassions that I"e needed something or that I"ve got calves to feed I"ve used bakery waste, cookie meal, soy hulls, corn glutten, wet brewers grain, wet distillery grains, etc.
This winter with hay short and all of mine in good shape I bought some really crappy hay, lots of fiber, lol but priced right. My cows will winter on that junk hay and distillers slop. Let someone else feed the 70.00 a roll hay.
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