Excess oats

rrlund

Well-known Member
I walked out in the oats today. I've only been watching them from the road,what little of them I could see. Unbelievable! Those darned things are up to my arm pits,and not just in one spot. I know full well my bin won't hold them all,even if I leave the wagons loaded and grind out of them until they're used up. Been thinking I'd just pile the rest in the bunker silo and cover them with plastic until I start chopping corn in September,then push them around with the loader and mix them right in to the silage. If some start to grow around the edges before I start filling,oh well,they'll be green feed,who cares.
 
I you cover them with plastic it will start to sweat from the moister in the grain and damage it
 
When I was a kid we did that during wheat harvest if we had a bumper crop. We would back the grain truck into the drive alley of the barn (cement) and dump it on the floor. We still left room by the doors for the grain truck. What it really mean was that the cats had a really close litter box and also that now when we ground feed we would be carrying the grain to the grinder one scoop at a time. Ever ground two tons of hog feed by shoveling the feed into the grinder from across the barn? Lordy. I learned to hate bumper crops.

Reminds me of a story. One harvest grandma and I backed the Ford F600 in the barn to dump on the floor. She ran the hoist up and I opened the truck gate. About that time my uncle from Denver makes a surprise visit. She jumps up and they start gabbing. I'm getting that "don't interrupt your elders" look. By the time all of my pointing and hollering did some good she had run the box of the truck up between the rafters and wheat had filled in behind the tires so we couldn't back up. We not only had to dig the truck out, we had to do it fast so that no one in the field would know she had messed up. That woman and I got into some real humdingers. Every single time the main objective became getting it covered up so no one else would find out.
 
Boy I know that one, we have really nice looking crops, my oats too, corn about as nice I've ever seen, but in less than 2 hours a really bad line of storm is supposed to be here, 60mph winds they say.

Don't thin I will sleep much tonight......

Not counting the crop yet, but a person could dream......

Paul
 
Ya,but the odds are better that it won't. Kinda wonder if I should run them through the grinder,but once they're in the silage,I don't think it'll matter much.
 
Probably not. Doesn't make much sense to run all over the neighborhood to grind them since they're just going to be fed to the cattle anyway. I mix the grain with the silage before I feed it,so it might as well be in there from the start.
 
Well my thought is ground it would be more digestible, but there are guys here that still feed whole oats to their calves, and do good on it. And I believe calf starter is whole, not rolled. I guess why waste the fuel grinding it! As you were! LOL
 
Could you sell them as a cash crop? A lot of guys here booked oats at $240 CAN per metric ton (2200lbs) in the spring. A lot of oats went in here since the last fall was so tough very little winter wheat got sown. I think they have backed off a bit since then, but they should still be worth more than feed price.

Ben
 

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