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sharpen that pencil if you don’t agree that feed costa this winter will be around 90% higher than usual no matter how economically you feed. If you feed the usual ration of 20-28 lbs. of hay per cow per day, you had better give the cow away for a year for the calf crop. Market cows found barren and those determined to be late calvers. Inventory Forage Supply. Determine as accurately as possible the amount of each kind of forage on hand^ Come get our hay sampling tool, draw a hay sample, also sample of silage after you’ve opened the silo, so you can get storage analysis. Such could prove you need not buy cottonseed or soybean oil meals. Also will show how much total digestible nutrients needed in supplementing grain for hay which is much cheaper.
Example: Corn (86% TDN) at $60 ton or mixed hay at $47 ton (60% TDN) $60 divided by 1700 is 3:5c per lb. TDN from corn. $47 divided by 1000 is 4.7c per lb. from hay.
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Cheek for Orchard Mice as you wind up apple harvest. Flagging the most heavily infested areas could be a time or labor saver comes baiting time. Keep in mind Meadow and Pine mice are not grain eaters. Use poison apple baits or ground spray.
Also it’s time to be thinking
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