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32 THE RURAL VOICE
poisoned livestock or, worse yet, a
farm fatality.
Feeding drought -stressed corn
silage. Before making silage, be sure
that all pesticides applied to the crop
are cleared for silage use. The interval
between final application and allow-
able harvest may differ for silage and
grain. Be sure to check the label of
any chemical that was applied.
Before drought -stressed corn is
chopped for silage, test the moisture
percentage. Even though the lower
leaves may be brown, plants can con-
tain 75 to 90 per cent water, which is
too wet for acceptable silage fermen-
tation. If drought -stressed corn has
pollinated, it is best to delay harvest
as long as some green leaf and stalk
tissue remains and the black layer has
not formed on the kernels. Rain can
relieve moisture stress and increase
grain dry matter and silage quality.
The feed value of silage made
from drought -stressed corn is between
90 and 100 per cent of that of silage
made from well -eared corn, based on
equal dry weights of the two feeds.
Crude fibre and crude protein will be
somewhat higher and TDN (total
digestible nutrients) lower than with
normal silage, because ears from
drought -stressed corn may contain 50
per cent or more cob compared to 20
per cent cob on normal ears.
Drought -stressed silage should
be tested for moisture percentage
and feed value. Shelled corn from
drought -stressed plants contains
between 90 and 100 per cent of the
feed value of normal shelled corn.
Test weight will be lower. Market
discounts on low test -weight corn are
often greater than the reduced feeding
value, so this shelled corn is a good
buy for a livestock producer.
Selling drought -stressed silage.
Yields: for moisture -stressed corn,
you can expect to harvest about 1 ton
of silage per acre for each 5 bushels of
corn per acre that could be harvested.
For example, if you expect a grain
yield of 50 bushels/acre, you can
expect 10 tons/acre of 30 per cent dry
mauer silage. If very little or no grain
is expected, a rough pre -harvest esti-
mate of yield can be made by assum-
ing that 1 ton of 30 per cent dry matter
silage can be obtained for each 1 -foot
height of plant, excluding the tassel.0