My engineer just called and told me that he'd found someone in the area who has 100 hectars (about 245 acres) of corn that's going to be a loss because of the drought.
He hasn't seen the crop yet, but it appears that the average height is about 4 feet, some ears being present.
Anyway, the deal is that we cut it and give the owner half, the other half is ours to keep. I've got an in-ground silo prepared so storage space won't be a problem.
After we've got a decent measurement on the average height, spacing, etc of the plants we'll calculate the volume we can expect to place in the silo.
My question is, what's a reasonable calc for me to use on the volume of material that my cows can eat daily of such material. I've not ever feed them ensiled corn.