Stocker Steve":1dlsk6z6 said:
My plan is to graze some standing $2 corn.
Young cattle would mostly just strip leaves while wasting sooo much corn.
If you would have the field made first as
snap-lage; bag the snaplage and then you would have plenty left standing for grazing.
Snaplage is basicly picking green ear corn with the husks on and stripping a few leaves with it while chopping and making a super dense ear corn silage. {Snaplage is a very popular feed with high production dairy herds.}
But it leaves a lot of edible plant material behind in the field.
Seems to me that grazing after harvesting snaplage would be a lot more profitable than just grazing standing corn,
because you would also have a high energy feed to carry you through the winter without any corn drying costs.
And because you are harvesting fewer tons per acre doing it as snaplage instead of corn silage, you benefit from lower harvest
and storage costs per acre, and by using your cattle to harvest the tonnage left behind you are not wasting any feed either.