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silage vs bale costs on farm
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Posted by diggerdave on November 01, 2005 at 07:05:47 from (205.188.117.6):
Hi All- first let me preface this with "im not a farmer".. Curious if Im comparing apples to oranges so to speak. For this thread Im talking about alfalpha. Some guys cut it for silage which involves using a tractor with a cutting head and a Miller-Pro wagon. Additionally they seem to be running a team of at least 2 dumpers to take the silage back to the farm where you have a 4th guy running the tractor to push it onto the pile and compact the air out. All this adds up to some $$ Im sure. Just wondering why others seem fine with cutting and rolling it into the large bales you see sometimes wrapped. Then they spear them and load maybe 8 to a cart and haul them to the farm. To my INEXPERIENCED eye it would seem that is the cheeper route. Could this be a funtion of herd size?? Or a "functional use" difference?? Agian I may be trying ot compare apples to oranges here.. just wondering with the price of fuel where it is... thanks
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