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How long to wilt heavy crop silage?

  • 17-07-2015 9:49am
    #1
    eorna
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    Heavy crop of silage.. Normally mowed, left for a day and baled the day after.. 3 day operation..
    Giving the current weather is getting hard to get 3 guaranteed dry days.. Would you get away with mowing and baling next day? I know there is no problem with light crop but with heavy crop i am not sure..


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  • #2
    mahoney_j
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    36/48 hours .mow when standing crop fairly dry ,tedd straight away,again 12 hours later then rake and bale


  • #3
    farmerjj
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    eorna wrote: »
    Heavy crop of silage.. Normally mowed, left for a day and baled the day after.. 3 day operation..
    Giving the current weather is getting hard to get 3 guaranteed dry days.. Would you get away with mowing and baling next day? I know there is no problem with light crop but with heavy crop i am not sure..

    The way the weathers coming the last while and the look of next weeks forecast it might be your only chance, there will be some run off but its better than leaving it till it is dry(could be a very long wait)


  • #4
    eorna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭eorna


    farmerjj wrote: »
    The way the weathers coming the last while and the look of next weeks forecast it might be your only chance, there will be some run off but its better than leaving it till it is dry(could be a very long wait)

    Thinking along them lines myself..thanks


  • #5
    mf240
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    If you could ted it out youll speed up drying but then youll have to rake it in to bale.

    Nothing wrong with mowing and baling the next day. Youll just have a few more bales.


  • #6
    Green farmer
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    mf240 wrote: »

    Nothing wrong with mowing and baling the next day. Youll just have a few more bales.

    That's more or less what I did the other day. Was getting to the point where the crop was getting heavy, beginning to loose dry matter . So I sacrificed ending up with a few extra bales, but gets the field back in production.


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  • #7
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    We dropped grass yesterday but got rain after it. Tedded this morning and will hit it again this evening and rake and bale in the morning. There's a great drying wind out today thank god


  • #8
    td5man
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    We dropped grass yesterday but got rain after it. Tedded this morning and will hit it again this evening and rake and bale in the morning. There's a great drying wind out today thank god

    Heavy showers here.


  • #9
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    Heavy showers here.

    Coming and going here aswell but we are on a hill so the wind is doing its thing here


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