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Our ration is pretty simple.
For the fat steers.
45℅ grass silage
45℅ corn silage
10℅ ground ear corn
Plus 1.5 lbs of a protein/mineral concentrate per head

Or feeders get some good baleage, and grass silage plus a 16℅ pellet.

We put our calves in the feedlot after their weaned in the fall.

We don't like the cattle we buy to be under 500lbs, but we'll buy anything bigger we can finish.

Ben, what are you calling grass silage?
What is the origin of feeders bought in Pennsylvana?

Grass silage is basically hay that's cut when it's still really green, then chopped and stored like corn silage.





We usually buy our cattle directly from other farms, haven't been to the sale barn in years. The last group we bought from out of state came from Virginia.

So Ben, is that a legume, alfalfa, not a grass like brome?

When I tried wet alfalfa silage it turned out so sour cattle would not eat it.

I've used it but you have to check the moisture content carefully before you put it up.

Had better luck with sorghum type silage.

rockinbar, the big round, then big square bales took away the need/ideas, of hay silage for us.

Back when the farm program let us raise sorghum on the set aside acres I'd plant forage sorghum on those acres.
Mean stuff to chop, it would go down, and not feed worth a hoot.

Anybody here feeding Sudan Grass?

Ed

Fertilized coastal here.

They did into it too!

Lately we've been reseeding with an orchardgrass/clover mix. It works well for us. We usually decent bit of baleage and silage with it (which is in that pic)

We have a few ag baggers and rent them out locally. They bag a bit of everything, alfalfa, sorghum, oats&peas, Sudan grass, etc.

They've come out with some new varieties of Sudan grass and sorghum lately, that alot of the dairies have been feeding.

Ben, with the big Iowa corn crop last fall, I see bags of shelled corn.