Finished up silage in Southwestern IL with pics!

ihman73 · Sep 15, 2012

Here is a few pics I took while finishing up my bag of corn silage today.
This corn was planted May 12th after we had been rained out two weeks with this field left to plant. Crop insurance estimated it at 12 bpa.

966 on the neighbor's Agripac Bagger, 2950 on the Knight 17-7 wagon

Takes a while to fill a wagon when you have to look down over the fender at the corn.

4440 on the 782 chopper

This was 8 rows in a 1/4 mile field.

4020deereboy · Sep 16, 2012

Cool pics thanks for posting I bet the 4440 sounds good with
a full chopper of corn

Dalet · Sep 17, 2012

It didn't tassel? I would feed it as grasshay. I can't believe it is that green, we are combing corn in MN at 13% moisture right now.

ihman73 · Sep 17, 2012

There are tassels there and until recently the nitrate level was too high to get away with not making silage out of it. Besides that with silage equipment in the shed I wouldn't want to even attempt to mow and bale corn that size with my hay equipment. Not to say that it couldn't be done. Some of the early corn in my area is down to around 15%, this field is right at 1/2 milk line on the kernel and probably won't blacklayer for nearly 2 weeks yet since it cooled off here.

Dalet · Sep 17, 2012

(quoted from post at 00:22:50 09/17/12) There are tassels there and until recently the nitrate level was too high to get away with not making silage out of it. Besides that with silage equipment in the shed I wouldn't want to even attempt to mow and bale corn that size with my hay equipment. Not to say that it couldn't be done. Some of the early corn in my area is down to around 15%, this field is right at 1/2 milk line on the kernel and probably won't blacklayer for nearly 2 weeks yet since it cooled off here.

My comment was only for the feed value of the feed. I know people have to do what they can with the crop they get. Just don't expect the sileage to have real corn sileage nutrition for your heard. I am sure your nutritionist will say the same. It only has grass value without the ears on it.

BTW, I would never advise putting up corn with the haybine and baler either. I was just wanting to comment that without a tassel, there isn't much of a plant, so very little nutrition other than fiber.

ihman73 · Sep 17, 2012

I'm using it to stretch my hay on a few stock cows. We used to milk cows here and needed better silage then. It will also allow me to sell the few alfalfa squares I got this year for premium $$.

Dalet · Sep 17, 2012

(quoted from post at 00:28:10 09/17/12) I'm using it to stretch my hay on a few stock cows. We used to milk cows here and needed better silage then. It will also allow me to sell the few alfalfa squares I got this year for premium $$.

Sounds good to me! I just didn't want you to underfeed the livestock. Stock cows can have corn stalk bales around here with some minerals and a little feed. They can fatten up on barb wire sometimes....

Finished up silage in Southwestern IL with pics!

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