UN DENTED CORN ??

Was out at the farm yesterday after being "off-site" for 2 weeks. I had high hopes of the corn stalks/ears being at least 80% yellowish. Sadly, the yellowish % is closer to 55%,and to complicate the issue, there are 2 different numbers of "supposedly" the same hybrid of  Dairyland Seed 2 days apart on machurity days.

Michael V (NM) wrote: Side note,, a hired agronimist,crop consultant, or whatever their called in your part of the country are worth hiring,,especially if your growing corn for more than a "hobby"

...now if you'd just sold the stored corn back at the high,this crappy corn wouldn't hurt so bad....

Actually, if you have a few animals or somebody nearby does, I would chop it!  Terrible test weight makes terrible feed corn, that's why the price sucks so bad.  You can get paid for the silage, I did this a few years ago for a different reason.  Didn't make money, but lived to farm another day.  We were stuck with terrible test weight corn a few years ago.  I couldn't sell it very well, so I dried it down and used it for my ground feed.  A slight squeeze between your thumb and finger, and it would crush into 100 pieces, there was just nothing to it.  That's why the feed mill didn't want it, and he was right.

Edited by Tbone95 - 21 Oct 2019 at 2:36pm

I don't have a clue, could it be sold as fuel for corn stoves?

Freedguy, I think I saw you mentioned Dairyland Seed?  That is also my go to brand, I also participate in the early pay discount program, and so forth.  My guy would have no problem switching things out if at all possible when unforeseen things like this spring's ridiculous weather strike.  Sorry for what you're going through. 

I was a dealer for seed corn and soybeans. If a customer had problems like losing farm ground, weather or other things. I would do what needs to be done so the customer was happy. If seed changes were needed, they paid if using more expensive seed, cheaper seed money back to them or prepaid seed returns they got their money back.

Well.....I gave the opinion that it should be chopped, and so did someone else.  With the crappy hay supply in MI this year, supposedly forage is valuable and hard to come by, and there might just be a farm not too far away that would buy the standing corn and chop it.  I can try to find out the value calculation if he's interested, but a cattle nutritionist can figure it out.  It's based on the price of corn and the overall plant moisture . . .  Your narrow machine idea is a good one.....assuming that other variety actually has good numbers which we don't know yet.

Yeah.....I've got a 4 row combine.....be glad to help.....but I think that's a bit too long of a road trip!

nella(Pa) wrote: Corn Silage is your best choice. Probably the green undented corn will not finish growing and dry down but will mold on the stalk, that will happen if a frost kills the leaves. That has happened to me years ago.

In 1992 I combined 400 acres of corn that was all over 40% moisture. It had a very poor test weight either grade 4 or sample grade.  Every one around here had the same.  Some got OK to destroy it and crop insurance aid out some didn't.  We sold all of the crop, took a deduction off the grade 2 price for sure and we spent some money drying it, more than normal years.  This has been a different year here, late planting, cold, wet spring then one dry August!  My corn has certainly black layered and dented.  Neighbors tried some last week was 35% they said, so in a couple weeks when I get started I am just hoping it will be lower.  But nothing I can do about that, it was mother natures choice to give me what I have.  I planted and fertilized to the best of my abilities.