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Baling dry corn? can it be done?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1799042" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>It can be done, but I bet it's hard on equipment. Today's corn grain hybrids have really high lignin content in stalks. </p><p>In 2007, we had a disastrous Easter freeze (4 consecutive nights of temps into the low teens), followed by drought - a single 1" rain even between May 1 and Nov 30. Pastures decimated, no local hay... beef producers around here were paying as much as $90-$100 per roll for corn stalks (rolled after grain harvest) or CRP residue released for haying after Oct 1. I saw rolls of CRP 'hay' that had an ATV-size pile of honeylocust sprouts 1-2" diameter at the base, leftover, after the cows picked through for what they could eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1799042, member: 12607"] It can be done, but I bet it's hard on equipment. Today's corn grain hybrids have really high lignin content in stalks. In 2007, we had a disastrous Easter freeze (4 consecutive nights of temps into the low teens), followed by drought - a single 1" rain even between May 1 and Nov 30. Pastures decimated, no local hay... beef producers around here were paying as much as $90-$100 per roll for corn stalks (rolled after grain harvest) or CRP residue released for haying after Oct 1. I saw rolls of CRP 'hay' that had an ATV-size pile of honeylocust sprouts 1-2" diameter at the base, leftover, after the cows picked through for what they could eat. [/QUOTE]
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