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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 596516" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>Problem is, growing corn is not all that popular up here (which is north of the prairies) compared to down in the prairies. And from what I was learning about, research that has been done on extending the grazing season, with using corn for grazing compared with the other methods like bale grazing, swath grazing or stockpiling, the costs of corn grazing is more expensive than any of those other methods. However, I'm not saying I'm against it because I think grazing corn is a valuable tool to put what corn has mined out of the earth back through using livestock, much more inexpensive than spending thousands of dollars on fertilizer next spring. For me, personally though, I don't think I could do the corn thing because I'm more worried about the costs and how that's going to affect me long term, also what if we get a bad summer that corn growth is terrible not leaving much for grazing? I'm sure you worry about things like that down there, but it's more of a risk up here because of the shorter growing season and growing degree days that corn needs compared to other crops like barley or canola.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 596516, member: 3739"] Problem is, growing corn is not all that popular up here (which is north of the prairies) compared to down in the prairies. And from what I was learning about, research that has been done on extending the grazing season, with using corn for grazing compared with the other methods like bale grazing, swath grazing or stockpiling, the costs of corn grazing is more expensive than any of those other methods. However, I'm not saying I'm against it because I think grazing corn is a valuable tool to put what corn has mined out of the earth back through using livestock, much more inexpensive than spending thousands of dollars on fertilizer next spring. For me, personally though, I don't think I could do the corn thing because I'm more worried about the costs and how that's going to affect me long term, also what if we get a bad summer that corn growth is terrible not leaving much for grazing? I'm sure you worry about things like that down there, but it's more of a risk up here because of the shorter growing season and growing degree days that corn needs compared to other crops like barley or canola. [/QUOTE]
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