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Article: Feeding field corn and stalks saves money; and sheep love it. (Feeds & feeding).
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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In Wisconsin last May and June, as we were trying to plant our corn, we had massive amounts of rain from several storms. The plantings were late, on land that was worked too early, resulting in a poor stand of corn on some of our land. We were fortunate enough to have had a fair amount of our corn planted and growing before the rains came and overall we had a good crop harvested in spite of a cool summer, although it was late and not as dry as we wanted. Anyway, on the headlands of one of the wettest fields nearest the barns the corn was only two-to-four feet tall in early August. I knew it would never mature in time before the frost. Since it had not rained much in summer ...