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Marketing late corn through cattle feeding

Planting a late corn crop could be a way for producers held back by wet weather to market their grain through livestock, especially cattle. Warren Rusche, with South Dakota State Extension Feedlot Management Associate, tells Brownfield Ag News the key difference is growers wouldn’t have to dry down their grain…

“We can either harvest the corn crop as either silage or high moisture shelled corn or high moisture ear corn, extend the window of when harvest can take place. That gives some additional options to turn that crop into a marketable commodity and turn that into cash.”

University of Minnesota research shows no differences between those corn harvest methods in gross return per acre or the value of the corn crop in dollars per acre.

And SDSU research shows light test-weight corn has energy values 15-percent higher than normal weight corn.

He says the SDSU Extension is happy to help any farmers with questions and advice.