V A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 16, 1988 NEWARK, De. Straw. That’s what many of you got last year after it rained for the first cut ting, and the alfalfa got into full bloom. And they you had to rake more than once, and too many leaves shattered and fell back onto the field. Maybe you really wanted straw, because your feeding program for your high-producing cows was ... Will I J&WildllJutu Willi . ATYir A PUf IfTUT'V'IT AJJVAIN iALrUr FAKM Wiulfc ATTENTION! If Your Barn Gets Wet And Mildewy Inside Over The Winter Months, Now Is The Time To Have Your Bam Whitewashed. This Way You Will Get A Lot More Out Of Your Advantage Farm White! • DRIES WHITE • NO WET FLOORS • IS COMPATIBLE WITH DISINFECTANT AND FLY SPRAYS • DOES NOT RUB OFF EASILY • WASHES OFF WINDOWS & PIPELINES EASILY BARN CLEANING SERVICE AVAILABLE WITH COMPRESSED AIR To have your bam cleaned with air it will clean off dust, cob webs & lots of the old lime This will keep your bam looking cleaner & whiter longer. 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And if you don’t have ver tical, oxygen-tight steel or stave silos, the horizontal silage bag is an ideal option, especially since it’s 27 percent cheaper than any upright silo a fact we’ve docu mented here with our University of Delaware dairy herd operation. Even before alfalfa harvest, you’ll need to decide when to cut rye, wheal, barley and other winter forages. These crops become straw even faster than alfalfa, if you’re slow on the trigger. Here’s what can happen to feed values if your forage crop is cut at three different maturity stages: Wheat, energy % protein % fiber % Alfalfa, energy % protein % fiber % Sorghum, energy % protein % fiber % Bermudagrass, energy % protein % fiber % FOR 12 MONTHS Summer forages such as sorg hum and Bermudagrass are similar to alfalfa and winter forages in terms of their nutrient composition at different stages of maturity. If you harvest these crops when they’re late and strawy, although you get more tons per acre, your cows will milk less per day and you’ll have to buy more equipment to keep the milk tank full. In research at the University of Georgia, when rye-wheat silage from three successive stages of maturity - early, middle and late — was fed, milk per cow per day declined from 37 pounds to 20 pounds until supplements made up the difference. When alfalfa hay was fed at four successive stages of maturity from bud to mature, corresponding milk per cow per day went down from 68 to 38 pounds. So remember, waiting 100 long to cut forage crops this spring for hay, silage, green chop or haylage can rob you of much needed farm profits. Early bloom or milk stage Boot or bud stage 68 13 20 71 24 21 60 16 31 60 52 14 11 29 31 Mature stage 48 46 10 39 A.P.R.
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