Posted by JerryS on August 23, 2012 at 19:13:12 from (98.80.113.189):
I'm neither a farmer nor a rancher, but I greatly enjoy agriculture as an observer. It's one of the things America does best, but it's one of the most under-appreciated (...seldom have so many owed so much to so few...).
To the point, I greatly enjoyed the photos of Billonthefarm's silage operation (as well as his Jurassic Park pens and his happy-looking dog). I would like some education on the matter of the silage itself: is that just regular field corn, or is it a special variety? Does it bear ears, and are they ground up as well? Does it have real nutritional value, or is it just something to hold a cow's ribs apart. Is it planted to be silage, or is the decision to make silage of it one that is made during the course of the growing season? From a feeding standpoint, could the ground produce a more efficient crop, even hay?
I ask because my impression of a cornstalk is that is that it would be as near to nothing nutritionally as pine bark, and the leaves little better. When we had the dairy my dad put up sorghum silage, but it at least had a high sugar content. He dug a ten-foot-deep trench in the side of a hill, put the sileage in (unchopped), covered it with dirt and let it cook. Smelled like a rum distillery around the place.
Anyway, my ignorance in this matter is obvious, and I was just curious---is there more to a cornstalk than I thought?
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