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Silage Corn Feed Value, where does it come from?
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jakeb30
Posted 1/10/2026 18:22 (#11504853)
Subject: Silage Corn Feed Value, where does it come from?


I am going to do some corn for silage this year to feed my own cows and cattle in a grow yard. No one around here does it so I dont have anyone to ask and the salesman just steer me to the "silage corn" section of the seedbook.

I am in SW OK. I can grow from 80-130 bu corn depending on the year. I usually do wheat silage or forage sorghum silage but want to try corn. So why/how did the varieties in the silage section get there? Is it strictly tonnage or do they have better TDN, neG, Lignin etc values?

I am not so much concerned with overall tonnage, I want a better feed. The only guy around me I know of used a silage corn that grew tall but yielded poorly for grain. (he did some for silage some for grain) However he was willing to show me his test and it was better than my forage sorghum test values (granted it was different labs). He also took a "grain" variety to yield and it was 30bu better on corn yield. So my question is will that extra 30bu of corn from a grain variety make a better feed than one from the silage section?

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