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Are you telling me you're like the rest of the world and want nothing to do with bolivars? :lol2: Thanks for the input. With the protein levels of heat-treated soybeans being so high, I was thinking of adding the ground cob filler to both reduce the protein levels and to help limit feed...

Okay TB, now I think we're on the same page. I'm making progress on the roasting part of the equation with some of the very helpful links provided by other posters in this thread. Since there's a lot of coffee roasting going on right here locally, I've talked to one fellow who says he can...

Tnt, I watched a youtube video last night of such an operation, don't recall the company name but the service was offered in Pennsylvania if I recall correctly. A few questions. What type of poultry are you feeding? Are you mixing your roasted soybeans with commercial feed or some other...

TB, once the beans are roasted, they'll be ground into fairly fine particles. I wasn't planning on feeding them whole. And your comment about not feeding them to horses and pigs is interesting. I've gotten a bit of info recently out the States re horse feeds and it seems everyone says don't...

Thanks all, I'll review all the links and see if I can find something that will work for me. I probably did bite off more than I can chew but what can I say, can't help myself. :D As for sticking with just cattle feed, that would certainly be an option, but again, can't help myself. :D...

Here's my problem. I can't find processed soybean meal here but I can find raw soybeans. I'm taking delivery this week on about 7,000 lbs of raw soybeans which have been recently harvested. The beans are dry, but otherwise have not been processed in any manner. I'll store them initially but...

Thanks TB. While I know free choice is always an option for minerals, for the material I'm selling I wanted to be able to honestly say that XYZ minerals have been added to the mix.....just didn't want to overdo it. With all the disruptions in business going on here, it's getting more and more...

When I purchased it I asked the guy at the feed store how much to apply....."just sprinkle some on as you lay out the feed", was his reply. I was in a hurry so I figured that when all else fails, just read the directions for proper application. Guess what....there are none. Venezuela. I'm...

Thanks for the comments regolith. This gizmo is supposed to do a decent job of expelling the air via a plunger-looking apparatus that looks similar to the one on my baler. Time will tell. If I do buy it, I might even add a vacuum capability at end point to do an even better job of removing...

Thanks for the response TB! If planted early enough here milo often produces three crops. One idea I had was to harvest the first crop of grain with a standard combine and set that grain aside. Then, when the seed heads were full but still green on the second crop, cut it again for silage. I...

Thanks for the response TB! If planted early enough here milo often produces three crops. One idea I had was to harvest the first crop of grain with a standard combine and set that grain aside. Then, when the seed heads were full but still green on the second crop, cut it again for silage. I...

Would a mix of bermuda and grain sorghum (milo) make for good silage? I ask because I'll be producing both this winter and was also considering trying out a new contraption that makes silage in bags. The final product would weigh about 45 kilos per bag (~100 lbs).

Gberry, I have neither at this point but will be visiting the fellow tomorrow who originally offered the machine to me. I suspect that it will be of Brazilian origin as that's where many of our agricultural machines here in Venezuela originate.

A few weeks ago I attended a livestock show that was dedicated to the most popular breed of milk cows here in Venezuela, the Carora. While trying to sell some of my bermuda bales, I struck up a conversation with one ranch owner who was actually interested in buying silage. As he described it...

I know I've found that when I'm buying, my estimate of weight usually is lower than the seller's estimate. When I'm selling, for some odd reason, my estimate of weight usually seems to be higher than the buyer's. Not sure what's up with that. :D

I've decided that since I'm planting a lot more of my place in bermuda this year I'm going to have a lot less acreage for planting sorghum. Since we're expecting a good "winter" or rainy season, I'm going to plant corn. A decent crop of corn on much smaller acreage will still give me the...

It worked!!!!! :D Talked to the boys at the ranch (I'm currently in the US) and they've had zero problems with spoilage, mold, bad odors, emptying the drums....and most importantly....acceptance by my cattle. Some of that grain was pretty darned humid, but so far, it's all good. ;-)

TB, I've actually been in the states since mid-March and will probably be here for another three weeks or so. When I left the ranch we were using sorghum stored temporarily in open bins for our cattle feed. At the same time we were filling and sealing sorghum in those steel drums I mentioned...

Thanks for the input TB! To be fair, most of those pics were taken during the driest part of the year....some was actually second crop sorghum, and some was sorghum that we had to germinate using our irrigation system. For that reason the heads may have appeared small. Sorghum planted earlier...

We run our sorghum through a grinder and basically end up with a rough sorghum flour....we then add water and molasses. The cattle can't get enough of it....but like I said, the hogs are less impressed with it. From the standpoint of producing sorghum, seems to me it's about 25% of the cost...