17821x - 8/28/2014 15:28 The 4 acres of corn you chopped was worth over $3000 if you combined it last fall. 175*$4.50*4=$3150. Plus your bagging and chopping makes that bag of silage worth $4000. $4000 would have bought you a lot more then 5-7 round bales. Based on the pictures of the hay I've seen you bale I don't think your cows would lose condition if they didn't have the silage. I don't own a combine. I have had corn custom combined, hauled and dried a few years ago. 4 acres of that would be nowhere near $3150 after everyone was paid! In total that was about a wash if you figured my total costs and net on that corn a few years ago. That was when I started looking into grazing it. Jim
Edited by Jim 8/28/2014 15:37
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Am I Crazy: Converting 200bpa corn ground to rotational grazing?
