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ay ucbi miage i mean torn silage withthehighestpo6Sible total digestible nutrients per acre. You growers already have dollars Invested in your ensilage corn for land, labor, fertilizer and machinery. Ha*vesting cost will be the same no matter whether the corn be green or Just right. When corn is ensiled too green you lose TDN or get fewer pounds of TDN per acre. This fact makes your TDN cost more per hundred pounds. Why cut your own throats? To get the most for your investment make silage when the kernels are in the hard dough stage. Corn is in this stage when) the entire ear is well dented on most varieties: the kernels are firm to hard but can be dented by fingernail; most leaves will still be green, husk turning brown. A typical corn silage budget shows total expenses for producing, harvesting and storing an acre to be $67.50. Studies on corn ensilage made at one-week intervals 8how that green weight yields went down 2 tons to the acre; dry matter percentage went up from 17 to 31.6 percent, tons of dry matter per acre 3.29 to 5.36 or over 2 tons per acre. The bushels Of dried corn per ton of green weight went from L3 to 5.8. Percent TDN of ensilage harvested August 16 was but 11.3%. A week later it was 15.33$ and by August 31st it had risen to 18.8 % while on Sene. 7 rlw n*rr#nt nf TIVJ waa it tfi
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