sweet corn silage

I was wondering if anybody in SE Wisconsin knows of a supplier of Sweet Corn Silage. Also how long will it keep before it has to be feed without spoilage.

Thanks

Suspect that you would handle it just like any other corn silage. Probably would want to harvest a little earlier, as it matures faster than field corn. We raise a large garden full, and feed it to our sheep. Cut it and right into the pasture it goes.

Had me stumped for a minute then I got it. You mean silage made from Sweet corn. I was trying to figure out how you added syrup or whatever to make corn silage sweet.

Any silage would act the same way once it is removed from the silo. As long as it's in the silo, its sealed from the air. Once it comes out of the silo and is exposed to the air, things start happening. We have kept unfed silage in the wagon overnight and it's OK, but you can stick your arm down in the silage and it is almost so hot that you dont want to keep it there long. I would say that two days max, then it would start going bad on you.

Good luck, Gene

Are you looking for the waste from the canning company processing, or the stalklage from the field. Either way, contact DelMonte or whoever is in your area. Delavan and Janesville, Sun Prairie, Deforest and Lodi, Beaver Dam, Pickett, the Central Sands irrigated areas all grow sweet corn. I am sure there are others. Wayne

There are several canners around me in southern MN. The pea crop the waste is left in the field. Smells worse than manure being applied for a few days, as the juicy mess rots down.

Sweet corn is harvested with snapping rolls - the whole ear plus shuck is hauled to the canning plant. There the green husk, the cob, and any waste leaves & stalks are hauled to a silage bunker. It is made into silage. It tends to be very low feed value, as there is not much leaf, and very little corn in it. It is about given away for free, money is made on delivering it. Many cattle are fed on the waste from your creamy canned corn made here in southern MN.

Many get a wagon/ truck load at a time & feed off of the little pile for several days/ week, then get another load. Some get a whole bunkerful right away & have their own silage all winter from it. I beilive it needs to be handled about like any silage - once exposed to air the mold begins, and you need it fed up in a few days to a week. Or you can get it fresh & put into your own bunker/ silo/ bag.

Never done it so can't help with the question too much, but I'm sure thaqt is the type of silage being talked about here?

--->Paul

We used to plant sweetcorn for silage. Good feed but it'll eat the mortar out on a cement silo. Don't know why.