Cattle grazing on corn stalks in northern McLean County

Cattle farmers coping with low hay supplies

Corn silage will help many cattle producers get through the winter.

Mike Orso

Published: Aug 22, 2012

McLean County cow-calf producer David Mool and his father-in-law Enid Schlipf have turned their 50 head of cattle out to graze on two-and-a-half acre portions of their Central Illinois corn fields that won’t yield enough to harvest.

Mool and Schlipf helped the Illinois Farm Bureau on Monday show the U-S Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan some of the ways Illinois cattle producers continue to cope with this year’s drought.

Many Central Illinois farmers and livestock producers received some much-welcomed moisture last week, which Schlipf hopes will salvage their soybean crops;

Mool and Schlipf had their drought-damaged corn tested for nitrates, which, on their land in northern McLean County, came up well within the levels deemed safe to chop for silage or use for grazing cattle.

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