cost of maize silage per tonne
Here again, this value could be adjusted if conditions warrant. For our example, there is 700 lbs. of dry matter per ton. Thus, $1.00/cwt. results in an additional value of $7.00. Adding the cost of the corn grain $18.50 and the $7.00 results in a total cost of $25.50 per ton of whole plant corn silage.This value is just slightly above the average obtained earlier simply using 8 or 10 times the price of corn.iven a corn price of $2.00/bu., these factors would result in silage being priced at $16.00 to $20.00 per ton. I prefer to use a method that is more complicated but takes into account moisture content of the silage in addition to the price of corn grain.