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| I'm feeding some wheat straw and wet DDG's right now to feeder cattle. That's baled, never thought about chopping it. One farmer I worked for years ago ammoniated wheat straw once, never did do it again, don't know the whole story. I know some fescue seed producers in South MO Ammoniate Fescue stubble hay every year and say it works great. They stack it and cover it with plastic then ammoniate the pile.
Here's what MU has to say about it.
"Wheat straw, corn stalks and late-cut, low-quality hays are too low in energy and protein for wintering calves. Sealing these low-quality roughages under plastic and treating them with 60 pounds of anhydrous ammonia per ton (3 percent of dry matter) has doubled the protein content, increased dry matter digestibility by 10 to 12 percentage points and increased dry matter consumption by 10 to 25 percent. This improvement in quality makes straw or corn stalks about equal to a medium-quality grass hay as feed for cattle. " | |
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Feeding wheat straw?
