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Often, yes. Grinding or milling--or even rolling--exposes the starch granules and breaks the protein matrix in the starch component of the corn grain making it much easier for the rumen microbes to digest and obtain nutrients from. However, grinding corn too fine can reduce palatability and chewing time, and thus reduce its effectivity as a good high-energy feed source.
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What do you grind corn for?
Grinding corn is the process by which you grind your teeth when you are peaking on ekkies
How do you shell corn?
to grind up ears of corn
Do you need to grind corn to feed a cow?
No, but it does make it easier for the microbes in the cow's rumen to break down and digest. Processed corn--corn which is rolled, ground or crushed--breaks the lignin comprising the skin of the corn kernel and breaks the protein matrix surrounding the starch granules. All of this make the nutrients in the kernel much easier for the ruminal bacteria to access, break down and use for their own nutritive needs before it goes to the cow.
What machine starts with the letter q?
a quern is a simple machine that is used to grind corn. it has a lever which is used to grind corn.
How does cow make corn?
you got it the other way round, the corn makes the cow
Many tribes raised what to grind into flour?
A mano and matate were used by the Hopi to grind corn. A matate (or metate) is the large stone on which the grain is placed. A mano is a smaller stone tool (or rock) used to grind corn or other grains. It is rolled over the matate to break down the grains into a powder
How do you make corn flour for tortilla chips?
1) Grow the corn. 2) Dry the corn. 3) Grind the corn into flour. Step 3 is obviously the tough one. If you are using a grindstone, or industrial equipment, you should remove the kernels from the corn before you grind it. If not, leave the kernels on, and run them up and down a stone surface to get a coarse grind, and use a mortar and pestle for a finer grind.
If a cow gets into a corn field how do you find out how much of the corn the cow destroyed?
It's not that easy to take account how much corn the cow ate, other than going into the corn field, finding the tracks and tracking the cow from the point where she entered the field to the point where she came out--or were forced out.
How many ears on cow corn?
One "cow corn" plant--more properly called field corn--plant will often have two to three ears on it.
How do you prepare Cow Corn for eating?
ok.. what is cow corn? I have made corn for decades... Can we assume field corn? For cattle, we let it dry before collecting. Around 12% is awesome. For humans, we do not eat field corn.
Why are windmills needed?
Windmills are needed usually to grind corn into wheat using wind-power. The main reason of using wind-power is because to grind corn needs a huge amount of energy and it would cost more to grind the corn into wheat than the actual price of the wheat. Nowadays windmills are not used and instead other ways are use to grind corn which are more power-efficient and therefore do not need much power and so can be powered from the grid
Is it true that farmers grow corn by planting cow corn on the out side and sweet corn on the inside of the field so that people don't take the sweet corn?
Actually no.. quite on the contrary if any. If the farmer grows both cow corn and sweet corn, the way we did it was the sweet corn on the outside 3 or 4 or however many rows, and the cow corn on the inside. It made it easier to pick, and you didn't ruin any cow corn when you tried to harvest it, because the outside was sweet corn which had already been picked.Additional Info.While it is very occasionally done, as both the answer above and one of the discussion points mention, it is only done in either way (outside or inside the field) on a very small portion of the field -- for the farm family's convenience. If you want high quality sweet corn, it must be planted in a location isolated from field (cow) corn, or any other type of corn, because the other corn's pollen will make the sweet corn kernels go "starchy". The best sweet corn (and what you buy in the can or frozen) is grown in a field all by itself for this reason.
