Some pictures for ya

I know I have not been around much here lately, but I have been busy and I have been taking pictures.

Here are a few..

This is the 1855 pulling the 1421 NH discbine.

I have not used the discbine in the fodder before, we have a 15 foot JD 27 crop shredder. It is kinda like a big flail and it tears up the fodder pretty good, and then we can rake a bale it very easy.

Thanks

One- the short corn would take a lot of time running over the field with the chopper to get very minimal amount of silage, especially with our two row pull type chopper. The discbine can eat 6 rows at a time at 4 MPH and windrow it out the back, no raking. Then the baler comes by and bales it up and wrap it and its done.

Two- we are set up in our operation for baleage and not really for silage. We filled the silos to the top and then the choice is to ag bag or bale. We are not equipped to feed from a bag, so we would end up blowing the bag into the silo sometime in the winter, or have to loader it on to pickups and feed. What a mess.

Neither was a good option really, so we went with the less troublesome way and hope it works. Hopefully we will not have to make this decision again any time soon.

And here is what I was doing all last week, riding the big G-1355 moline no tilling barley behind the corn that we chopped.

That is a 15 foot great plains drill that Mo is pulling.

Here is the 1855 moving round bales. That is actually round bales of corn!!!

We were so dry here this year much of the corn never made ears, so we mowed it down with the discbine and baled it up and wet wrapped it for hay. Time will tell if it works or not....

Sometimes it's hard to tell the 2 apart...

Donovan from Wisconsin

We are basically doing anything we can to get feed in this year. We are still short some round bales, but by baling the corn and planting the barley earily I am hoping to bale the barley before fall and hopefully have enough feed to make it through.

It is supposed to rain some this week so that should help the late crops.

I am sure next year it will flood :-) Part of the fun of farming.....

We got a good 2 inch soaker back in the 1st week of July that our nieghbors 5 miles away didn't even see. After that we didn't get any rain until after I cut 3rd crop in the middle of August which was very poor and we let sit out there, but since then the rain has been fairly regular. The 4th crop looks really good this year. Probably gonna chop that as well so we can actually fill the bag.

Donovan from Wisconsin

The one corn field we baled in still had the corn planter slits in it from when it was planted, and the ground had cracked open right along the planter tracks. I dont know how the corn grew there at all.

We are getting some rain now, but it is too late for the corn and the beans are looking rough.

We baled the corn and used a bale wrapper to make silage bales just like you discribe. So far so good.