Cows cornstalks

TGIN · Oct 16, 2012

Back in the summer during the drought the talk was nitrate posining . Now we have had the rains and cant get all the hay up cause of it . Just wandering about the nitrate level in the stalk now . Has anyone turned cows in on stalks and have you had any problems ? Have not run the corn yet but plan to turn the cows in when after we do , any opinions or experence ? I am sorry if I misspelled any words .

Matt H NY · Oct 16, 2012

If you have been getting some rains lately when the corn was still growing it should have "flushed" the nitrates out. If you have concerns you could get a forage sample off to a lab and they can run it for nitrates. I ran a sample this fall on some Corn Silage that had been stressed and then rains when it finished growing. It was fine. Nitrates were way below concern threshhold.

TGIN · Oct 16, 2012

It was just tasseling whien the rains started and and was about 1/3 green when the freeze killed it the other day . It rained on it for a month and a half or more .

Matt H NY · Oct 16, 2012

I really think that you will be OK. My corn was. If you are truly nervous can you collect some stalks and send them in for a forage sample?

paul · Oct 16, 2012

Got some grass edges or waterways or the like, anything else for them to munch on?

What did the corn yield, if it was good corn it will have used the nitrates; the trouble is when you fertilize for 200 bu corn & only harvested 50bu, then all that N is someplace and I'd get the stalks tested.....

If you got a pretty good yield, then I'd not be too worried.

--->Paul

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