Spent some time yesterday baling corn stalks over at my brothers farm. He had left corn standing as food and cover for wildlife next to his CRP (not CPR) and WRP which are wild life habitat areas that he has on his farm. Anyway, he cut the standing corn down and we baled it for the Angus cattle. This will make good roughage and has some corn cobs in it with some corn on it as well. Cows are kind of picky when you put one of these round bales out for them. They like the leaves and cobs with any corn kernals on them, but they will pick through the rest and tend to leave it lay on the ground. Cows can't live on corn stalks because the nutrional value in the stalk is too low once it has dryed down to the brown that we see during harvest time, but our cows eat lots of alfalfa hay throughout the winter, which provides more nutrion than they need. So by giving them corn stalks every once in a while it keeps them from getting over weight.
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