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Numbers. Nearly everybody hates them, but everybody needs them. This is becoming particularly true in a competitive agriculture industry where crop prices have steadily declined over the past few years.
Fermentation of whole plants or plant parts has been around for thousands of years, but there is still this mystical fog among most people about the whole process.
In Texas, corn silage harvest begins early. By late June, when corn is rather green and dry matter hovers around 28 percent, tractors and choppers head out to the fields to start cutting down stalks.
Farmers deal with many variables when it comes to raising a crop, be it changes in the weather or changes in unsettled markets, but the act of harvesting can be one ray of stability when left to professional custom harvesters.
Custom harvesting of forage crops today is akin to the old thrashing days when a community would pool its money and buy a community thrasher because no farmer could afford to own it by himself.
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