Grazing corn

[kato]

It varies. On the north side the snow is drifted in and almost as deep as the permanent electric wire that is there. Then it tapers to about a foot or two across the rest of the field. This is about as snowy as we've had it right now. It looks like they'll get through it just in time. Whatever they don't get is guaranteed deer feed. it would be all gone by spring cows or no cows.

We don't get elk, thank goodness. Deer are bad enough.

[grassfarmer]

Here is the SW corner of our remaining corn - like concrete. A bit softer on the rest but not much shallower - the tall cows go in first and the shorter legged follow them in,lol. Sure glad we never swathed it anyway.

[smcgrath76]

Here is the SW corner of our remaining corn - like concrete. A bit softer on the rest but not much shallower - the tall cows go in first and the shorter legged follow them in,lol. Sure glad we never swathed it anyway.
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Is that a green tractor I see? We are pretty low on snow here yet. Would have been a perfect year to swath graze, but we rolled our greenfeed up early and had it piled up in the field since I planned to seed a winter crop. It then got too wet, so I have to unpile the bales back to their original positions to bale graze the stuff. We are grazing the corn standing, but I think it is a bit shy on grazing days.

[grassfarmer]

Is that a green tractor I see?

Yeah it's the best the economics of cattle production allow for - coming up on it's 30th birthday and just had a rebuild at 18,000 hours.

[kato]

Wow! That's a lot of snow. Ours have worked their way out to the less sheltered end of the field now, so that may be working in our favour.