That'll never happen again

I cut corn stalks in the snow a week ago last Friday. Raked them the following Sunday when the snow was melting off and it was getting muddy. I baled them first thing the next morning because they were calling for freezing rain that night. They were dry (or frozen) on top,but had pulled so much moisture from the ground that the baler belts were running shiny and wet. I could see when I kicked them out that they were wet but I kept going. I've baled wet stalks before and always ended up with frozen blocks of red mold. I hauled these things home a week ago tomorrow and started feeding them. Actually just dropping them in the barns figuring they'd tear them apart and lay on the stalks at best. They were and still are heavy as all get out. I don't know if it was that it was so cold and the outsides froze and sealed the moisture in or what,but the darned things fermented like I've never seen before. I dropped one in about 3 o'clock or so,just went out to check things before dark and they've already just about eaten the whole thing.
The old gals were standing there with big soft wet stalks hanging out their mouths chewing on them like it was candy. I'll probably never be able to replicate the same conditions to make bales like that again,but I sure do love it when things turn out way better than expected.

Like a banking error in your favor. Been playing monopoly?

No,but I feel like I won the lottery on this stuff,thank God! I needed the feed.

that was better than a dose of vitamin O !!

More than just a pleasant surprise,I'll tell you that.

I never heard of Cornstalklage, being made
Loren

Randy, had a similar thing happen when I was in hi school we had 20 acres of oats planted in July we had snow on the 5th of September again the 10 of October finally cut them on the 22 oct and stacked in a loose hay stack with a overshot stacker about the 1st of Nov. The temperature dropped well below zero that week made wonderful silage.
Bill

Be careful with those- we killed a cow on heated/fermented sudax one fall. She just kept eating in the center of the bale and she was gone by the next morning.

I'm feeding a bale of hay in the morning and a bale of this stuff in the afternoon. There are about 40 head eating off of them. The bales are gone so soon that none of them are getting too much of it. I'd been feeding silage and fresh chopped corn that was too wet to pick anyway.

Pleasant surprise for you. I kind of wondered how you would make out planting corn so late, but it all worked out fine.