Saw corn tepeed old style yesterday

Haypoint, is that Miller book 5 acres enough or 10 acres enough?

I get them confused. There is a 5 acres to independence and then maybe Millers is 10 acres enough. point is you don't need much land to raise a dozen heifers if you collect free corn stalks and buy ground corn. This was done to keep the hired hand busy on the off season.

There's a co. rd 35 (great river road) in western WI..maybe that's what the OP meant?

I saw a feedlot recently that was feeding dry corn husks, corn cobs, with a few kernels left on and corn silk. I couldn't figure out what type of combine would leave that and wondered where the stalks were. They had made a purchase from a seed corn factory. They get the ears with the husks and silk on and seperated it in the factory. They were able to buy the "waste" for cheap and it was added to their ration. They also had piles of potatoes that they fed.
But corn can provide cattle feed in many different configurations.

Okay, I am 56 right now but age 8 to 15 that is how we grew and harvested field corn. The stalks were brown and pretty dry when we shocked them but the corn was much dryer two or three weeks after we cut and shocked the corn. We sat out there in some pretty cold weather some years to get it all husked out. My step-father fed it to the pigs still on the cob. Kind of wasteful but the pigs grew and we butchered them then traded the pork pound for pound for beef. We grew pork but ate beef.
We threw the stalks up in the loft above the pigs and all winter we put them down for bedding as needed. We only kept one boar and two sows over the winter. The floor in the pig shed/barn was dirt so it stayed muddy. The corn stalks really helped. When I turned 16 I got a job and moved out. That was the very last corn he ever grew even though at that time his own son was eight years old that year, the same age I was when he put me to work.
I would have felt different about it all if only he ever had a positive word for me. He did make me strong though. Now I am glad I lived through it.

I bought a couple of years ago a single horse (gonna use my mule) corn cutter, it cuts two rows at a time. My plan is to start cutting and shocking the last week of September (when you normally put up silage) and thus the stalks will have feed value like hay does instead of waiting for the stalk to dry and ear to fall and have value like straw. I have an old silage cutter for this that feeds the stalks into a cutter and cuts it into bite sized chunks. At this time of the year the corn is to immature to crib so will leave it on the stalk. My only change of plan is to buy an electric brush chipper so I can just feed stalk and ear into the electric chipper (like for brush and yard debris) and blow it right into the feed bunks in the barn. If it can handle some hay it would be like creating a total mixed ration!
So you ask why I haven't? Last year I dealt with heart problems, this Sept I went in for a double bypass in my right arm. So the mule is ready, the cutter is ready, cross my fingers for next year!