BJ i'll show my ignorance. Maybe also others will benefit of your answers
What part of corn do cattle eat?
They eat leaves, husks and stems? all grinded togheter?
GlisGlis they eat all of it. Some parts have more nutrients than others.
My son feeds a mixer of what we call silage and high moisture corn.
The silage is what we did here. It is cutting the whole plant and chopping it up into tiny easily digestible pieces. Ideally when the “milk line” on the kernel of corn is half way down. The corn plant is about 65% moisture then if I remember correctly. We put it on a pile and pack it as tightly as we can by driving on it with the push tractor. Then we cover the pile with plastic to keep the air out.
It then goes through a fermentation process. It will keep this way for a very long time as long as it isn’t exposed to air.
High moisture corn is just the kernels. We like to harvest them at 25% moisture. We run the kernels through a roller mill to crack them. Then we put them on a pile next to the silage. It gets covered with plastic and goes through the same fermentation process as the silage.
Sometimes we make snaplige . We put a combine head on the chopper. It removes the whole cob and husks. The cob, kernels and husk get cracked and chopped. Then covered, and fermented.
Also some is feed dry . Just the kernels dried down to 13.5% so they can be stored in a bin
Bjrogg
PS the black beans we took off yesterday were excellent quality. The white mold protection really worked. The timing was perfect. I’m afraid a lot of the neighbors aren’t going to be as fortunate. Yield and quality are going to be all over the place
