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Continued from Page 1 diminished the yield by 50 percent, the crop must be sold for $19.44 per ton as silage to recover expenses.

High quality com silage is currently worth $30 per ton, but drought-stressed com silage is only worth about 80 percent of a typical well eared silage. So drought affected silage is valued at $24 per ton. That’s the figure at which the bargaining process begins. Farmers will strike a deal somewhere between $6.50$24 while the buyer substracts for transportation, storage, ha vesting and hiring helpers.

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