Posted by RN on November 09, 2012 at 10:50:17 from (205.213.104.118):
In Reply to: to chop stalks or not? posted by Fordfarmer on November 09, 2012 at 09:46:21:
The cows will chew stalks down, get any leftover green weeds without a chopper"s help-- sort of depends on how many cows to the acre you put out there. Holsteins will do a good job gleaning and cleaning, was old practice and with cost of fuel saves a bit. Mother used to turn out her small herd in nearest corn field after picking, no chopping and when I disked that field in spring before bean planting scheduled, no problems with trash, no erosion problem from winter- this in central Iowa. Stalk chopping was done on far fields that didn"t have fences, then plowed/disked spring. RN
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