Small scale corn growing for livestock?

I'm not sure what type of grass most of this is. The field is about three acres. I'm leaning toward the clover idea. I don't own the farm and it is up for sale. Therefore I can't make any long term plans. Whatever is put into it will be lost when it sells. If it was my farm I would keep it tilled for a good long season and then plant it heavy in clover or alfalfa for another season or two and put some bees out there during that time. I'm not going to spend Spring, Summer and Fall burning gas in the tractor to kill the grass just to see it sold in the Winter and it all be for nothing. I'll plow it in Fall and plant something to try and smother it a bit and leave it be for one season if it lasts that long but that's all I'm willing to put into it.

This little farm is just falling apart because nobody wants to work it. However like I say it's not mine and is for sale. Eventually it will sell, everything will be torn down and bulldozed over and McMansions or businesses put on it. I just hope by then I can find a place of my own to plant the corn. It's a good OP variety originally from this area and was always the highest yielder in the region when OP corn was common, even higher yielding than Reids Yellow Dent. I'm trying to keep it going. Everybody seems to want Reids Yellow Dent but that was not always the best corn for every region. Leaming can be a very difficult variety to find. It was around long before Reids and was for many years the most widely planted OP corn in the corn belt. There were two types of Leaming. What I have has both in it and I'm trying to separate the two through selection over time.

Guess it is hard to find. Although I have occasionally heard of it, Ive never seen it for sale.

Has anyone tried running stalk and all thru a hammer mill? It seems to me that it would plug up the hammer mill. If it works I might try it this fall. This is my first year growing open pollinated corn. I am trying ro find out all of my options.

I would try it with the screens removed. Does your hammermill feed from the side, or the end. Generally the ones that feed from the end are bigger ones, and your less likely to have trouble with them. Mine, a OLD Wetmore, feeds from the side, and although I can grind hay with it, its a LONG process. May take 8mins to get a bale through it a leaf at a time.

Mine is a Fords that feed from the end. It is a 12 inch. I have not had a chance to try it out yet but am anxious to try it.

Didnt know Ford made hammermills. Is it a grinder mixer?

It is not made by Ford. It is a Fords made by myers sherman. It is just a regular hammermill. I wish it was a grinder mixer.

Well, I knew that Fords had alot of machinery made by somebody else, Like Dearborn. I assume it is portable and pto. Mine is stationery and run off a belt

Mine is also stationary and run off from a belt. If you go on ebay and type in fords hammermill it will bring up a booklet on one. That one is similiar but not exactly the same as mine.

Well, learn something every day. I never seen a Ford Hammermill, and I would have thought that, since they tried to get everything to run off their 3pt hitch that it would have been a pto model. Ill tell ya, I dont think youll like throwing many bundles of corn into it. Coould be wrong. Where you gonna put the grindings? Are you gonna pick off the ears first, or leave them on>? I have a husker shredder and a corn binder. I intend to bind the corn, take it out of the field and feed the bundles through the huskert shredder, it takeing off the ears and putting them in a wqagon, and blowing the shreddings into a wire silo ill make of 8ft high wire 1 X 2in spaceings in it. Ill keep the corn for chickens, and feed the shreddings to beef cows, along with pararie and Sudan Grass hay.

I am going to use the corn binder and cut when it starts drying down and feed stalk and all. I hope to have a corn picker for the rest and for now use the snowfence corn crib method. I would like to find a decent husker shredder, but one thing at a time.

I paid $1500 for each. The binder I found and walked behind as it made bundles to make sure it worked before I bought it. Guy gave me 6 rolls of twine. It has the long elevator on it. I found it around 60 miles away. The HS is a NI. I found it in S end of SD.