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Faunsdale, AL | Making earlage is a good option for anyone with cattle to feed
The drymatter and energy yield is greater per acre than for dry grain.
The feed you get is suited for most kinds of cattle diets, is very palatable and is already processed when it comes out of storage.
Harvest can be done a few weeks ahead of grain harvest which spreads out work load, reduces risk of loss from lodging, ear drop, weather etc.
In our area with a very long growing season, we can get ahead of late season weeds like morning glory and johnsongrass, get the crop off and shred the stalks down, so we can spray the weeds with ground spray equipment and keep them from making seed.
Downsides are you have to have the equipment and storage, and you are limited as to what you can do with the earlage, can't sell it to the elevator | |
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Earlage and pull type choppers
