Silage Solution
by Kindra Gordon
Angus Beef Business
Tim Luther of Lawson, Mo., faced a conundrum this past summer. A tough growing season due to an Easter weekend freeze, drought and then excess rain all in a matter of months left him with a shortage of stored roughage for wintering his 200- to 250-head commercial Angus cow herd.
Luther had a corn crop to harvest, but because corn was selling for such a good price, he didn’t want to chop his crop for silage like he has in the past. Thus, he needed to come up with a cheap alternative for roughage to use as winter feed.
“I knew early in the summer we had a problem and would not have enough winter stockpiled forage without the silage,” Luther says. “I told my family not to worry, we’ve always found feed for the cows.”
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