With dairy or any cattle operation, care has to be given to feeding drought stressed corn, because of aflatoxin concerns.
> May be what we now call prussic
> acid poisoning. Another
> possibility, though probably not
> in the 1880's, would be nitrate
> poisoning. Do a google search on
> those terms and you'll be able to
> read about them. Some years ago
> several farmers in my area that
> essentially lost the corn crop to
> drought considered baling the
> stalks. But prussic acid and/or
> nitrate poison was way too high so
> it could not be safley fed to
> cattle. Happens in drought
> stressed plants in the plant
> family that includes corn, milo
> (sorghum), sudan,
> Haygrazer,johnson grass, etc. I
> think, but am not certain, that it
> can also happen when plants have
> been growing in heavily overcast
> conditions, for many days without
> sunshine.
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