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Cutting out the feed mill
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<blockquote data-quote="Dead Rabbits" data-source="post: 6677297" data-attributes="member: 70596"><p>I don’t see milling your own corn being much of a savings if you are buying it in anyway. I could be very wrong on that though, maybe you don’t have someone to grind it economically. It would also depend on current infrastructure. It can be done efficiently on farm with a good set up. </p><p></p><p>At peak feeding in winter here it takes one person about 4-4.5 hours to make and put out all the feed. That’s 4 commodities and hand bucket the mineral out, which is currently bought as a premix, then corn silage. If I had a free bay we could just dump mineral in that. That is a huge time suck on labor every day. Also tires to stack, equipment to clean/maintain and plastic to cut on top of that. Also training people to do the work and hoping they are precise in measurement. </p><p></p><p>I grew up grinding our corn with a tractor powered grinder/mixer and hated it. If the cow numbers are right it would not have been so bad but it cost us a lot of time and had to be done twice per week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dead Rabbits, post: 6677297, member: 70596"] I don’t see milling your own corn being much of a savings if you are buying it in anyway. I could be very wrong on that though, maybe you don’t have someone to grind it economically. It would also depend on current infrastructure. It can be done efficiently on farm with a good set up. At peak feeding in winter here it takes one person about 4-4.5 hours to make and put out all the feed. That’s 4 commodities and hand bucket the mineral out, which is currently bought as a premix, then corn silage. If I had a free bay we could just dump mineral in that. That is a huge time suck on labor every day. Also tires to stack, equipment to clean/maintain and plastic to cut on top of that. Also training people to do the work and hoping they are precise in measurement. I grew up grinding our corn with a tractor powered grinder/mixer and hated it. If the cow numbers are right it would not have been so bad but it cost us a lot of time and had to be done twice per week. [/QUOTE]
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