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katrina
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: East north east of Soapweed
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Red Robin
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Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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Location: 8 mi S.E. of Harrison, Ar.
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| Nice looking operation and facilities. Thanks for the pictures.
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HAY MAKER
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Joined: 13 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| That's a nice operation Katrina,equipment looks new and even got freshly painted silos/bins................good luck
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nr
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Location: DE
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| No wonder Roscoe looks so fit! I'm always amazed at the sheer size of farm machinery.
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Jason
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Location: Alberta Canada
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Katrina, how is the ear corn harvested?
The shelled corn is with a regular combine but with spikes on the concave from what I have read, but the ear corn is different.
How does it compare feed value wise? The cob is what half the weight? And would be more roughage than energy?
Thanks for a different perspective of a similar job.
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katrina
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: East north east of Soapweed
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Katrina, how is the ear corn harvested?
The shelled corn is with a regular combine but with spikes on the concave from what I have read, but the ear corn is different.
How does it compare feed value wise? The cob is what half the weight? And would be more roughage than energy?
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Jason we use a corn picker.... It has a husking bed instead of a cylinder.
Husking bed is a steel and rubber rollers that are 3-1/2 inches together set at angle, so the ears come in on one end and fall off the other.
feed value wise. ear corn is more of a grower..
A bushel of ear corn is 70 pounds and on an average 14 pounds of cobb and the rest is shell corn......
alot of feed manufactors buy the cobs for filler in there feeds..
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angus guy
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Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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Location: west central IL
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Katrina
Haven't seen one of them mokey cages used in along time. Ear corn sure makes great feed.
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IL Rancher
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Joined: 08 Apr 2006
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Location: Northwest Illinois
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We have a few folks who run the ear pickers around here, the old one or two row pull type ones..... they don't do much and mainly do it to sell the ears to people in the city for stupid money... As in, youwould ave to e stupid to spend money like that, lol.. Most of the old pickers are getting pretty old but it does make a great grower ration..
We don't have any of the Monkey cages on this place for ear corn (Although there are some in the area), this farm always used Corn cribs and we have something like 4 medium sized ones and one huge one left over... The medium ones have storage above for oats or beans and were set up to mix feed at one point (So I am told) when the folks who used to rent this place fed out all their cattle back in the 70's....
I would imagine, if one got real ambitious with the ear corn they could run one of the seed corn pickers but you would need to run them over a husker at the point as those leave the husk on to protect the seed.
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