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<blockquote data-quote="Medic24" data-source="post: 492311" data-attributes="member: 1101"><p>Ok folks, here is a new one for ya.......................</p><p></p><p>I plant about 22 acres of dent corn every year, but this year I have agreed to side plant some heirloom greasy beans on contract for a large seed mail order company. The beans will use my field corn as a trellis, so, I plant, they contract some one to pick seed before I pick or cut the corn...............they pay a good bit toward the fertilizers etc. The rep has offered to ship me some several pounds of field sunflower seeds, as well as a few other seeds that he swears I can 'side plant' inside of my corn rows...........including some squashes, punpkins, gourds, etc, anything that won't cross polluntate with those high dollar beans, FREE!!,! so........anyway, thinking about planting some mammoth,sunbrite oil, or at least larger sunflowers among the corn, and although I have done some home work that shows me the seeds are super feed nutrition wise, and can be fed whole, my thought was to keep it simple and incorporate it in both greenchop silage, as well as drying the heads and grinding them along with my whole corn later in the winter for a dry feed...................the fat, and protein is supposed to be comparable to cotton seed meal, and the mix should not include more then 25% sunflower seeds due to high fat content causing scours etc........ok, so thats what research has told me....but I am a real world kinda guy, and would love to know if anyone here has or does feed sunflower seeds or meal to their livestock, and what experiences, good or bad that they had?.......Anyone?????????</p><p></p><p>Seem's as tho sunflower is mostly a Kansas, and Dakota crop.....................So this will be a first for our area I suppose. :cboy:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Medic24, post: 492311, member: 1101"] Ok folks, here is a new one for ya....................... I plant about 22 acres of dent corn every year, but this year I have agreed to side plant some heirloom greasy beans on contract for a large seed mail order company. The beans will use my field corn as a trellis, so, I plant, they contract some one to pick seed before I pick or cut the corn...............they pay a good bit toward the fertilizers etc. The rep has offered to ship me some several pounds of field sunflower seeds, as well as a few other seeds that he swears I can 'side plant' inside of my corn rows...........including some squashes, punpkins, gourds, etc, anything that won't cross polluntate with those high dollar beans, FREE!!,! so........anyway, thinking about planting some mammoth,sunbrite oil, or at least larger sunflowers among the corn, and although I have done some home work that shows me the seeds are super feed nutrition wise, and can be fed whole, my thought was to keep it simple and incorporate it in both greenchop silage, as well as drying the heads and grinding them along with my whole corn later in the winter for a dry feed...................the fat, and protein is supposed to be comparable to cotton seed meal, and the mix should not include more then 25% sunflower seeds due to high fat content causing scours etc........ok, so thats what research has told me....but I am a real world kinda guy, and would love to know if anyone here has or does feed sunflower seeds or meal to their livestock, and what experiences, good or bad that they had?.......Anyone????????? Seem's as tho sunflower is mostly a Kansas, and Dakota crop.....................So this will be a first for our area I suppose. :cboy: [/QUOTE]
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