"In many areas of the U.S. farmers are being told to brush hog corn fields
all but a row for the insurance man to look at because high nitrate levels
*can be* toxic to livestock..... All drought corn used for silage needs to
be tested the internet says for nitrate levels and gives levels.... I do not
remember hearing the above in past drought years but maybe was so?"


I don't remember ever hearing this either. I grew up on a dairy farm in
Wisconsin and we never plowed our corn under (or killed our cows with it) in
dry years. 

Eugene Makovec
Missouri USA

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