C4-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1994 Beef Briefs PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF BALE STORAGE TRIAL A trial ikas conducted at Penn State last year which compared three storage methods of large round bales of grass. The grass was either stored inside as dry hay or harvested as balage at about 40 percent dry mat ter and stored either by wrapping in plastic with a Kvemeland (Near bo, Norway) wrapper or stored in a plastic tube (Pronovost Equip ment, St Tile, Quebec). The balage was stored on a con crete pad outdoors. After about 170 days of storage, the hay and balage was fed to mature beef (Continued from Pago C 3) check, low starter feed intake, or poor nursery facilities is to simply wean one week later. • Records. Tells you where you are. Helps you troubleshoot problems. Summary 1. Image is now the issue. It’s important for you and it’s vital for our industry. 2. Your market is the difference between success and disaster. If your marketing options are lim- Farm Program Sign-Up In Progress LIONVILLE (Chester Co.} The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) is accepting for the 1994 Feed Grain and Wheat programs. This sign-up period continues through April 29, “All farmers with an estab lished crop acreage base are eligi ble to participate in the voluntary programs,” ASCS official Hollis D. Baker said. Program benefits include price support loans and deficiency payments. At sign-up, farmers may request 50 percent of their esti mated deficiency payments for wheat and feed grains. Baker said the payments will be limited to the farmer’s intended program acreage. by John Comerford Penn State Beef Specialist cows in dry lot using either a con ventional ring-type bale feeder or a feeder with an inverted cone and a solid base. All the material was sampled at harvest and after stor age and the feeding waste was measured. As would be expected when comparing a fermented feed with a dry one, the protein values tended to be higher for the balage after storage, while there was some reduction in TDN values. A signif icant difference was found for changes in TDN between the dry hay and that stored in the tube. Changes in TDN value were -8.3 percent, -10.4 percent, and -9.2 percent for dry hay, tube storage, and wrapped bales, respectively. The cattle readily consumed all Pork Prose ited, you have little choice but to supply the buyer with what he wants. That applies to .80 inch of backfatas much as it does to reach ing Level 111 on the Pork Quality Assurance Program. 3. The production crank. Do your sows produce? If you can improve productivity even a small amount, the increases in profit will astound you. Is your building full? If it*s not, the part of your building operating at less than capacity makes for an expensive parking lot. There are no acreage reduction requirements for wheat, corn, grain sorghum, oats or barley. Established target prices are $4 per bushel for wheat, $2.75 per bushel for com, $2.61 per bushel for sorghum, $2.36 per bushel for barley and $1.45 per bushel for oats. “Farmers will have wide lati tude in current programs, includ ing permission to plant soybeans or other oilseeds on optional flexi ble acreage,” the ASCS official said. Additional 1994 farm program provisions may be obtained from the Chester/Delawarc County ASCS Office. Nothing Works Finer Than A PbmMiij 2-WHEEL & 4 WHEEL DRIVE - 20 & 16 HP LIGHT UTILITY TRACTOR • Single Shift Hydrostatic Drive • High Flotation Tires of Equal Size • Low Center of Gravity for High Stability • Center Pivot Frame with Power Steering • 14" Turning Radius * Front Mounted Accessories for Greater Control Visability of the forage. Small spots of mold were occasionally seen on both the wrapped and tubed balage; howev er, they were usually on the surface and no more than 3-4 inches in diameter. A greater concern was feeding losses. There was no difference in the apipunt of dry matter that was wasted between the different types of bales. There was, however, a highly significant difference in the amount of wastage between the two types of feeders that were used. Use of the ring-type feeder resulted in four times as much was tage as with the cone-type feeder. Upon observation, this was prob ably due to the solid base in the cone feeder capturing forage as it was pulled out of the bale by the cow. Wastage was 8.0 percent of the dry matter offered by the ring feed er, and it was 1.9 percent for the cone feeder. After conversion to an as fed basis, this means there was 149 more pounds of dry hay wasted for each ton of hay offered and 305 more pounds of balage wasted for each ton offered in the ring feeder. 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There are some other considera tions for processing and storing hay by these methods: • The cost of wrapping is about $4 per bale and must be compared with other forms of storage, including bags, before making a decision about which kind of stor age to use. • It should be apparent that labor costs are significantly higher for wrapping or putting bales in a tube. • Putting bales in a tube implies that all bales must be moved to the permanent storage site at the time of baling, thus further increasing labor costs. • There is usually going to be a cost associated with disposal of the plastic after feeding. • There is significant evidence to show that total recovery of feed value from standing forage can be enhanced by wrapping or tubing bales. The long-term cost of that recovery must be weighed against the benefits. 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