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se montana | Thanks for the responses guys.
To answer the first response, I'm not in the feeder cattle fattening business. I run a grass yearling outfit, and simply background weined calves to go back to grass in the spring. Some years I might put 1.5 lbs on them, but I usually keep it to a pound per day gain. I am just looking at corn, or any other annual forage to povide more grazing days, and less hay feeding. Right now, my calves live on dormant grass (5% protein), and some grass hay (10% protein). Would standing corn plants compete with those two nutritionally?
I know of some 70 bushel dryland corn being cut east of here, but I'd say 40 to 50 is more realistic. This obviously isn't dryland grain corn country.
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