Sunday Morning News here at the Farm: Snow here this morning about 2 inches that makes 28″ of snow we have had here since the first of October. We have moved a group of Mother cows home from their summer range and they are on their winter range which is a corn field that has been harvested. They will eat the leaves and stalks from the corn plant and if they are lucky they might find an ear of corn which is a real treat. The Girls ( Mother Cows) will search the corn field looking for them left over ears, to them it is like finding candy in your vegetables. I swear they can smell an ear of corn at 50 yards. We finished the sugar beet harvest last evening. The beets are hauled to a local factory where they extract the sugar from the beet. Once the sugar had been extracted the left over pulp which looks like shredded coconut can be used for cattle feed. It is a very good feed for the cattle as it is mostly fiber with a good protein content. There is nothing wasted from the sugar beet process. We feed the pulp to our cattle as a part of
their growing diet.