katrina
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Have you bought your calves yet??? What's the plan?? 8)
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Sorry I didn't see your post till now. We are pretty much out of the cattle business. We plan to buy 150 head or so to feed up the corn in the silo but that won't be till after harvest. Now I look out the office and see weeds in the yards. I do miss seeing cattle in the yards but it has been bad for us the last couple years. There are many empty lots around here especially with the smaller feeders like us. I hope things will go well for you and everyone else that has calves to sell.
katrina
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Holy buckets!!!!!! I didn't know that....... Hopefully this year will put you and us back on track.... We havn't bought any either these last two years.. Keep in touch.........
I can't remember if you had cow/calf and fats or what. I'm very impatiently waiting for hubby to get some of the cattle equipment ready to sale but he has been so busy with the crops. One item I hope goes soon is our brand new Meyer vertical beater manure spreader. It was used one fall and I hate making payments on something we don't even use!! Oh well that's the way it goes. One good thing is that I don't have to help work cattle when the flies or at their best!!
katrina
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Man you are serious about no calves if your selling your manure spreader... Do you have it consigned?? Is it a pull type or on a truck??(I'm not up on my spreaders.) I know of a guy who is looking......
We are in the process of selling our corn.... Corn is hard to keep over the summer as it's loosing it's condition... And we need the bin room. Hope your crops are doing well then too... What corn and soybeans??
We are in the process of selling our corn.... Corn is hard to keep over the summer as it's loosing it's condition... And we need the bin room. Hope your crops are doing well then too... What corn and soybeans??
per
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Katrina, I am curious about your corn comment. It really doesn't store well and old crop needs to be moved with in a time period? Too cold to grow corn where I live but it really competes and holds down the feed barley price when there is an abundance of it. Right now train loads of corn and DDS are pressuring old crop barley.
Pull type spreader, it holds 750 bu. of you know what. Corn and beans are looking great. My tomatoe plants are shoulder height. It has been tough on the guys with hay to put it up right. Grass is so green for July. Take care, Feeder
katrina
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per said:
Okay..... So..... I'm blonde ask me?? What??? LOL
katrina
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feeder said:
I'll call this guy and see what he says.... He's kinda tight though..LOL
Wow..... My maters are only alittle above my knees, are blooming.... I found an old combination hog and cattle wire panel and put two steel post on each end and planted my cucumbers so they are climbing up the panel. Really neat. I think I will do that again with my straight eights next year too. I might have to start looking for my wire panel early... I wonder what a new one cost??? Try explaining that one to my hubby. LOL
I have a zuccini about 4 inches long I'm watching.... And my beans I've replanted twice... I don't know if my garden is two hot for them or what!!
Yes tell me about haying..... We have 400 acres of alfalfla and only about 40 acres didn't get some sort of rain on it....And second isn't starting out to hot.... But we never complain around here about rain.......
Take care and if we can help in anyways let me know.........
per
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katrina said:
How well does or doesn't corn carry over in the bin? Do most corn growers clean out their bins for new crop?
katrina
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per said:
This year?? Not worth a darn...... And yes........ We always keep new and old any crop seperate. Just the way we operate..... We combined early afraid of the weather which was smart, but in doing so we've dealt with high moisture corn...And with the amount of rain and foggy weather we've had it's just made it impossible to keep........ We've found with corn that it will have a tendancy to crust or mold alittle during the summer... Plus with any grain also there is the bug issue... We need the bin room for wheat...... We were holding out for maybe a better corn market and got caught...
So we are hauling like mad two simis a day to O'Neil Ne... We've did pretty good there so far... On prolly twelve loads........ Plus with Carter going to college our truck driver won't be here for sunflowers. so that is going to be an issue down the road....(Just Ma.......fine um and grind um)
Hopefully we can feed out fats again.. I love doing that and I'm not running quite so much with kids....
Hey, Katrina you explained the corn in the bin really well. Our corn didn't dry down very good last year before harvest so in the bin it went, a little too much moisture %. It didn't dry down very well over winter even with fans running a lot. Now you get to summer and here with the high humdity you can't run fans as much as a person would like so the corn can start to mold. We finally got our corn to 15% or under but that is the bottom of the bins too. Oh, the joys of farming!!!! If you lived closer I'd come over for zuchinni bread when it is ready!!!
per
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Do you put diatomaceous earth in when you bin the corn? Doesn't help with the moisture but sure keeps the bugs at bay. What % moisture is considered dry with corn?
katrina
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No......Where we sell corn, They want it as clean as they can get it.....per said:
But would be great with feeding corn..... No bugs, no worms.. :wink:
11or12% or drier..........
burnt
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katrina said:
Another thing that works well for climbing type plants is the mesh that is used for reinforcing concrete floors. I had a piece left over from a floor we poured a few years back and the Mrs. uses it for her garden peas. All our hog pen panels were in the barn when it burned . . . :roll:
Speaking of storing corn, what was the moisture when you took it off last fall?
Ours was 24% at harvest and it gave us a lot of trouble this spring after we started the fans when the weather turned warm. Just too many wet days when it should have been warm and dry in May. And we weren't feeding it fast enough to keep ahead of it. Ended up with a bit of corn that won't pass the sniff test . . . .
katrina
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burnt said:
Okay...... This mesh, were would I find it?...... We use rebar and make our own...
Our corn was about as dry as yours! :lol: :lol: We ran fans everyday we could. We even rebinned some corn. We had quite an operation of running it out of one bin and into another.. Into the graincart, out of the grain cart, into a truck out of the truck into a gravity box up the elevator into the bin. And that bin is still good......
I know that smell......... 8)
burnt
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I got ours at a place that sells steel - rod, tubing, channel, etc. It comes in sheets that are made up of "wire" that is in a 4"x4" pattern and the "wire" it is made of is about 1/8' or3/16" thick.
With the hole spacing in it being bigger than hog pen panels, it is easier to clean off in the fall when taking it out of the garden. Sure makes the job of picking peas a lot easier and cleaner!!
With the hole spacing in it being bigger than hog pen panels, it is easier to clean off in the fall when taking it out of the garden. Sure makes the job of picking peas a lot easier and cleaner!!
katrina
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I'm for ease.......... 
Next time I'm in town I'll check at the cement plant to see if they have some scraps that will work and I can take off their hands....... :lol:
Next time I'm in town I'll check at the cement plant to see if they have some scraps that will work and I can take off their hands....... :lol:Corn should normally keep at 15% moisture. But you gotta watch for fines, trash, and bugs. Those can all be detrimental. We had the same problem here last fall......a late season, high moisture going in the bin and a wet spring. One time I had a bin of corn go bad and I will not let that happen again. Now my bins are all empty by April 1. I may miss some big weather markets in July and August, but rotten corn has little value. Plus I don't have to worry about it all summer and keep checking bins.
My opinion....cattle are so much easier to deal with than grain is. I wish there was some way I didn't have to deal with row crops :?
My opinion....cattle are so much easier to deal with than grain is. I wish there was some way I didn't have to deal with row crops :?
