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Corn's Tall and Chopping Heavy!

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donjr

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Finished chopping today- man, is it tall, and chopping at over 20 tons! My bunk is full, and we move back to Sam's next week. He's trying some sorghum this year to mix in his trench. This ought to be interesting. There hasn't been much raised in this area, so it will be new. We're both wondering how much damage the deer have done to it....
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Your corn looks real good. How was the moisture??? We are going to start later this week corns too wet just yet.

On your friend's sorghum. Make sure and chop ALL of it. It is good feed but if you do not chop it all the seeds will make a mess for future years.

With Roundup ready stuff may not be an issue but it used to be.
 
Chopping a tad green at 70%, but it packs great and makes some real sweet silage- the cows love it.....
 

Don,

You didn't look around the neighborhood,we
raised soy beans and sorgum for silo from the
early 50's to the mid 70's when we quit milking.
Makes more and better silage than corn, also
easier to feed in stansion (sp) barn.

george
 
Looks good Don. Is that a New Holland 717 chopper? We cannot get parts for them over here any more.Normally we do not chop corn that green ....are we doing it wrong?
Sam
 
892 chopper. I'd like the corn maybe a bit drier, but it's drying down quickly, and I've found that the cows really like it on the green side. Plus, Sam wants to cut in two shifts this year because his planting was spread out over three weeks. His later corn was way too green to go into the uprights, and he has a guy come in with a big Claas chopper to do his, and Parker wanted to do their corn this past week, so I opted to do mine this week. We'll all get on Sam's this next week and knock it out in a couple of days.
 
Oh, I know sorghum has been put in with corn for years. But this is a solid stand of the grain sorghum in 15" rows. It's not the real tall stuff we used to plant......
 
Sorry for the ignorance guys, my corn growing experience is measured in rows rather then acres...20 tons refers to Tons/acre? Thanks, Tom B.
 
That will make some good manure for spreading next Spring. I always liked watching the cows eating that silage. They licked it up clean. Hal
 
Not to bad . Several years ago we had corn that was a good three to four feet taller then the silage wagons . Now If i could just remember what i did with the pictures of use standing next to the wagons and corn . This years crop looks about like yours . we are still in HAY mode . We did about six hundred IDIOT CUBES of third crop , 12 round bales off a new seeding and 61 bales of Sudan grass wet and put that into a bag . Three more fields of third crop to make then we will get ready to fill the bunks.
 
I agree with JD Seller about other than corn. Your neighbors may not like you for many years. We always chopped when the shucks turned brown. Otherwise the juice would run out of the uprights for a week. The dairy at Bellflower, IL chops wet and the juice ran down a waterway so much that a truck got stuck in it in past years.
 
Don,

I didn't say sorgum in corn , I said soy beans
and sorgum planted in 7 inch rows with grain
drill. It would be 8 to 12 ft tall depending on
when planted and the weather. We cut it with
grass head on chopper , had a case model C and
later a gehl with flywheel box , would make a
730 case blow smoke .
neighbor would make 2 rounds to get a load of corn ,I would get 2 loads to a round in the beans
and sorgum.

george
 
Guess I've heard of that, but never really seen it done. What kind of tonnage did it get?
 
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