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Devils Lake, ND | To cows or feeders. My dad says that as a kid, they didn't feed any shelled corn to the cattle (Grandpa didn't have cows.) Said the extra roughage was just right to keep it from getting too hot. Seems to me like it would still work today. Put a 12 row corn head on your 600 hp chopper and haul a**. But, with one exception, I'm not aware of anybody doing this. What is the reason? Please make your explanation as simple as possible, because the only thing I know about cows is they taste good slathered in Worsterchestershire sauce.
The one exception came as a result of the cold 2004 summer. Corn in NE ND was 28%, 40#, and 80 bu. Insurance agents wrote it off, and farmers were GIVING it away to get the cover off their fields. The guys who took it chopped just the ears, I assume for dairy cows. On that subject, how far would you haul chopped earlage if the only expense you had in it was harvest?
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Feeding Ground Ear Corn
