Harvesting corn silage is in process or coming to an end in the Midwest. In well-packed covered corn silage piles, the fermentation process to preserve the silage will be complete after about three weeks. That means that most of this year’s silage crop will soon be ready to feed to cattle. While ranchers may be able to calculate the input costs or the price of selling the corn silage to another producer, it pays to consider the value of feeding corn silage to their own cattle.
Feeding corn silage adds value
Corn silage has significant value for cow-calf, backgrounding and feedlot operations.
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