Can corn stalks be eaten?

Corn stalks can be eaten; Corn stalk contains more inorganic substances and less water, and it is often used as feed for cattle, horses and other animals after crushing. It is mainly used as food, economic and feed crops, and corn stalk is also an important production resource for industrial and agricultural production. As a kind of corn stalk, it contains rich nutrients and available chemical components, and can be used as raw materials for animal husbandry feed.

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There are many corn stalks in rural areas, which have not been fully utilized in recent years. In fact, it is also widely used in rural areas.

First, it can be used as green feed after crushing.

Second, it can be used as a liquefaction furnace and raw material.

Third, edible fungi can be cultivated after being crushed.

Feed processing

Through mechanical engineering, biological and chemical means, the harvesting, feed processing, storage, transportation and feeding techniques of corn stalk are completed. With the rapid development of animal husbandry in China, new straw feed processing technologies emerge one after another.

In addition to being directly fed as feed, corn stalk has been widely used in many aspects such as physics, chemistry and biology, realizing centralized large-scale processing and opening up new ways for feed utilization.

Silage as feed

It belongs to biological treatment technology and is the main way to utilize corn stalk feed in Shandong Province. The technology is to chop, collect or manually harvest the corn stalks at wax maturity with a silage harvester at one time, and then crush the green corn stalks to 1 cm ~2 cm long to make the water content 67%~75%.

It is packed in pits, tanks, towers, ponds and plastic bags, sealed and preserved, artificially creating an anaerobic environment, and naturally using lactic acid bacteria for anaerobic fermentation to produce lactic acid, so that most microorganisms stop reproducing.

Lactic acid bacteria, due to the continuous accumulation of lactic acid, are finally controlled by their own lactic acid and stop growing, thus maintaining the nutrition of green straw and making silage slightly fruity, which livestock prefer to eat.

Micro memory

This is also a biological treatment method. Corn stalks should be cut into 5 cm ~8 cm for cattle, 3 cm ~5 cm for sheep and crushed for pigs, which is convenient for compaction, improves the utilization rate of micro-storage pits and ensures the storage quality.

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