How'd your corn silage look?

Don-Wi · Oct 18, 2010

We finally started chopping our corn on Sunday and it's quite a bit better than I had thought. Dad chopped some off 1 feild over the last month just to feed right out of the wagon, but yesterday I finished that one off and opened up the next feild.

Around the outside wherever I looked it only appeared to be about 6' tall, and from the road you could see waves in diagonal rows the way we worked it. It wasn't planted until 6/22 and it was 105 day corn so we got lucky with no frost until a week or 2 ago. No fertilizer was put on it either as we didn't get it ordered and the weather window was very small.

My oh my was it nice. In the middle, it's all atleast 8' tall. A good portion is as tall as the tractor's canopy or just below it. We're not gonna chop more until this next weekend when I'm home again, so I'll try to have my camera with me.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Wisconsin Cowman · Oct 18, 2010

Corn silage was done a while ago but people up your way are just getting started must have more rain then we did. Toady I finished chopping soybean straw. Must people are combining corn right now me not yet. After making my pile of silage on the home farm I still had enough corn to make a pile at the other farm.

INCase · Oct 19, 2010

We had a good growing year, wet spring hot summer but it dried up early but yeilds still aren't bad. many folks started filling silos mid/late August this year and some of that "looked" too dry. A few with late planted corn finished the past week or so. I'll bet 3/4 of corn is shelled and 80-90% of beans are done. Dry and nice fall so they've been going full steam. Just need some rain to get wheat going.

kyhayman · Oct 19, 2010

Not the best I've ever had but not bad. On a shelled corn basis when I had the insurance adjuster check it it ran from 105 to 135 bu per ac. Chopping out though it was incredible, 6 loads of 5-6 tons per load per acre. Not quite what it was last year but its only had 2 hundredths of rain since August 11. We finished chopping a month ago. Its been so dry that the wheat drilled into the stubble hasnt germinated yet.

Fordfarmer · Oct 19, 2010

I'll let you know in a few days. Just got the TW35 back from the shop Sat., and was getting the chopper and chopper boxes ready yesterday (sharpen knives, grease, replace stationary knives on corn head). Hope to get the silo unloader up today adn start chopping. Corn I intend to chop looks real good for being planted June 10th. 85 day corn.

cadet trooper · Oct 19, 2010

First of all I just have a soft spot in my heart for dairyman because I grew up on a dairy farm and the cows come first so we aren"t known as grain growers but I had my eyes opened up when I became manager of a large grain farm and saw areial photos of the farm ground and saw the tractor tracks since the previous manager was doing tillage and planting when conditions were too wet and that seemed to start a no-till revolution that has consumed our area there is not a plow within a hundred miles of here. The one thing I know affects dairy farmers is being timely because there is hay to make and manure to haul first things first but tillage concerns need to move up the priority list.

How'd your corn silage look?

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