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NC Indiana | While I agree Jim needs a new calculator, I sure see value in silage on a beef herd.
Silage 9 ft by 100 ft bag = 5714 cow day
(100 ft x 2000 lbs/ft = 200,000 lbs/35 lbs/hd/day (from past NAT posts of 1 loader bucket/10-11 hd/ every 2 days, my loader holds 700 lbs and I used 10 cows/ loader for easy figures) = 5714.28571 cow days
Boughten hay = 1288 cow days
4 acres of corn x 175 bpa = 700 bu x $4.50 = $3150 - $427 harvest cost (per Bill) = $2723 + $820 chopping costs = $3543 to buy hay with/ $150/ton hay (per Jim) = 23.62 tons bought x 2000 lbs/ton = 47240 lbs of hay/36.67 lbs/hd/day (1 round bale/hd/per month from past NAT post assumes 1100 lbs bale/30= 36.67 lbs/day) = 1288.24652 cow days
Now I know figures lie and liars figure, so I'll gladly listen to where I'm wrong here, but I'm sure not in a hurry to stop chopping silage for my beef cows. And if you use the $63/ton hay I'm feeding (more waste of course unless I mix it with silage and/or mix 30) then I'm up to 3036 cow days. | |
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Am I Crazy: Converting 200bpa corn ground to rotational grazing?
