Anybody else in WI chopping corn?

Had to scrape out the cow yard and set up the blower for straw tonight, still had the 2 wagons full yet from our oats we had combined about a month ago. I unloaded the 1st wagon while mom & dad milked cows, then I chopped the 1st load while dad unloaded the second wagon of straw.

Corn looks really good too so far. Most of it is a good 8+ ft tall, some of it goes over the top of the canopy on the 1855- about 10'. I didn't fill the wagons too full, but it was only about 4 rounds (8 rows) off the 5 acre field so far to fill both of 'em. Looks like a 2nd gear season, mostly in direct/under too. Last year was 3rd almost the whole time.

Tomorrow I'm gonna spend some time with the fiance while dad works on the fence, then when I get back we'll set up the blower on the small silo and see if we can't get a few more rows off. Next weekend is gonna be the big weekend I think, but my brother and I have to pick pumpkins off the ends of 1 field first. We've got corn in the middle and pumpkins on either end instead of headlands for that field.

Next weekend is gonna be the 3rd year of us selling pumpkins again. We used to do it when we were younger (all 5 of us plus mom & dad's occasional help) but now it's just me & Tim. Great year for our pumpkins too.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Corn is really drying down here, one of my neighbors started last week and by the time he finished it was really too dry.

Seems a tad early to my non-farming observations -- usually this time of year you see the first "opening up" passes made around the outside of the fields, chopping in earnest around the 15th. I suspect some of it is the larger farms just being constrained on labor -- need the extra week or two given how much silage they're hauling in. A few of these guys I see with 100 acres worth of fields 12, 15 miles from the farm their putting it up at -- takes some time for the dump trucks to make the loop.

Hi Don;
They are close to starting to chop maize for cattle feed up the coast, next couple of weeks I guess.
Progressive dairy men are having 3rd cut Ryegrass silage done; and some have had barley dirrect cut as wholecrop silage because the weather is so bad here for combining this year.
Look forward to more photos of you in action.
David

One farmer chopped his about two weeks ago. He left three- four row strips in each field, Must be he intends to collect the crop insurance.

NW Wi. (Spooner)

Donovan from Wisconsin

Donovan from Wisconsin