High moisture grains keep
HERSHEY - High
moisture gram must be used
as feeds for livestock and
jpave poor keeping qualities
when removed from the silo,
.reports H.W. Harpster,
assistant professor of animal
science at Penn State.
The animal scientist, a
speaker at the 20th An-
niversary Forage Con
, ference held this week in
, Hershey, noted that fanners
who feed dry grams will
normally have the option of
merchandising gram on the
cash market if this should
become more profitable than
feeding livestock
This opportunity is usually
lost with high moisture
gram.
“Storing high moisture
corn mvolves more risk than
dry com storage, especially
if good ensiling practices
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Harpster emphasized.
“The farmer must be
careful to match the size of
the silo to the feeding
operation. A sufficient
quantity of material must be
removed daily from the top
so that spoilage is
minimized.”
One of the key advantages
of producmg high moisture
com is harvesting earlier in
the year. Earlier harvest
also facilitates more com
plete recovery of the refuse
for feeding or bedding, he
added.
The dustiness sometimes
encountered in dry gram
rations is avoided and
properly ensiled high
moisture grams are highly
palatable and relished by
cattle.
Their wet nature
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minimizes the separation of
ingredients when the ration
is placed in the feed bunk.
Harpster noted ' energy
yields per acre are
maximized with whole-plant
harvesting, but when more
concentrated forms of com
are fed, animal rates of gam
are higher, thus reducing
nonfeed costs.
HAMBURG - The Berks
4-H County Council will hold
a hoedown and modem
dance at the Hamburg Field
House on Saturday,
November 29 from 8-11 p.m..
Music will be provided by
“The Majesties”. Tickets
may be purchased from any
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“In tnals with growing
and finishing beef cattle,
improvements in feed ef
ficiency of six to 10 percent
are often found in com
parisons of high moisture
versus dry grains. And, high
moisture corn gram appears
to be equal to dry gram in
rations for lactatmg cows,”
he said.
4-H memuet oi mcy may be
bought at the door. The
dance is open to the public.
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Use silage additives only .
under special conditions
HERSHEY - Certain
materials added to silage
such as non protein nitrogen,
cereal grams, molasses,
whey, and limestone will
increase the concentration of
nutrients, however, only
Other fund-raising
projects for the center will
be the sale of bird seed and
calves. The bird seed con
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a seed mixture or sunflower
seeds. It may be purchased
from any 4-H member as
long as the supply lasts.
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“None of these materials
is essential to good silage
formation when moisture
concentration and storage
conditions are right,” said
Neal P. Martin, extension
forage agronomist at the
University of Minnesota.
A speaker at the Forage
Conference held in Hershey,
Martin emphasized that
when conditions do not
permit wilting of high
quality legumes or grasses,
add cereal grains or dried
whey.
Non-protein nitrogen
addition to com silage for
lactatmg dairy cattle is
suggested. Select the most
economical NPN source, he
added.
“The addition of limestone
is not suggested unless high
nitrate silage is ensiled.
High nitrate silage will have
more nitrate broken down
during fermentation,” he
said.
Preservatives such as
lactic acid, bacteria, sodium
metabisulfite, mold
inhibitors, antibiotics, salt,
enzymes, mineral acids, and
others will influence fer
mentation less than un
proved management, Martin
noted.
“There is no substitute for
good management. This
includes harvesting at
proper maturity and
moisture concentration,
chopping fine, storing in a
properly sized structure,
distributing the material
evenly, and filling rapidly
and packing to exclude air,”
he emphasized.
Cattle on feed
down 3%
LANCASTER - Cattle
and calves on feed
November 1 for slaughter
market in the seven states
preparing monthly
estimates totaled 7.79
million head, down three
percent from a year ago and
16 percent less than
November 1,1978, according
to the Crop Reporting Board.
Marketings of fed cattle
during October totaled 1.58
million, down 4 percent from
last year and 15 percent
below October 1978.
Placements of cattle and
calves on feed in the seven
states during October were
225 million, off 6 percent
from last year and 19 per
cent below October 1978.
Net placements of 212
million were off six percent
and 19 percent, respectively,
from last year and two years
ago.
Other disappearance
totaled 130 thousand com
pared with 144 thousand in
October 1979 and 153
thousand 'n 1978.
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