How's the silage ground traveling this year?
Grazed off? Slurry out? Fert spread?
Or is it like a bog at the moment, a good year for rewetting.
I gave up making an effort years ago. Let it be lucky and feck it after that!
Don't know. They are core samples so might change when I'm taking from the face. First cut is noticeably wetter to handle thou
Really really hoping the weather improves soon. It's lashing here again this morning.. We've 15 acres of 2nd cut that needs to be mowed but there's no dry days forecasted. The fields would need a chance to dry out before you'd go near them or they'll resemble Farm Theorys latest youtube video
Looks like there’s good weather coming next weekend and into the following week, fingers crossed it happens.
it does but there is also the guts of an inch of rain for the Midwest at least on the Friday. If that came…..
A window better appear somewhere anyway. Needs to be 4 days at least for a lot of places.
Still men in NW with a lot of Silage to get in yet……and most of that is from a one cut system.
I have a second cut of silage to make in about two weeks. Bales, I know they will be a bit soft, so thinking of when it comes to stacking them. If I stack them 2 high on their end I know some of them will slip and fall as that has happened before. Thinking of stacking them two high on the flat that way I am thinking they would be less likely to fall. Yes they will flatten out a bit but I don't think that would be an issue. Are bales better stacked on their end or on the flat?
I always stack on the flat. Makes no difference to silage quality, it's what goes into the bale and the weather from cutting to baling that matters. Bales will sag into the space below and help seal up everything. Had a batch of Red clover bales from last back end and they dropped over a 1ft and were rectangular. Cattle still went mad for them
If you had bales if hay or straw out in a field which way would you leave them.
That was how a lad that makes a lot of bale silage put it to me years ago. Water is much more libel to run off them on the flat and they seal up. If water gets in when on the end the complete bale gets musty
Except for hay stacked in a shed needs to be on there ends to act like a chimney to let out their sweat.
Poster should say bales on their end versus bales on their round/side. Not bales on their flat as that it there end as well.
Sorry @Jb1989 yes I meant bales on their side.. Thanks @Bass Reeves.. most places you pass have bales stacked on their end & it's the way I ve always done it as i found they keep their shape better for loading..
Around here all on there sides, I'm about the only man about that has some on there ends due to an odd loader.
All stacked on the round/ flat here, can be called flat because thats how they end up but it makes no odds. Wouldn't even consider stacking soft bales on their ends, both dangerous and risk of bales bursting when they fall.
Anyone with silage to do looks like today and tomorrow are the days to get at it as no guarantees after that.
Will be cutting myself this afternoon and baling Saturday evening or Sunday before the rain depending on how contractor is fixed.
knocked the last 4 acres of the year yesterday. Will bale tomorrow. Giving unsettled from Sunday onwards
Going at it in a couple of hours to knock what's left here. Rang the baler on Monday to pencil us in for Saturday and he told us he's booked up to the gills but is getting another lad with a baler to come help for a couple of days. Going to be some amount of grass tied up in the next few days by the sounds of it
Knocked 5 acres of third cut yesterday, its a bad sign when you're locking the diff to make it up a hill while mowing.
I was knocking a light level 6 acre field for a customer yesterday, doing 21km/h down the field mowing, had to slow down well at the headlands though, probably to half that speed or she’d just stay going straight when you’d turn the steering!
That's the Tom Pemberton way of mowing
Id rather leave it standing than do what he done was crazy I thought. Farm theory does push it to the extreme as well
I don’t watch YouTube so I don’t know if that’s a compliment or an insult 😂
It's neither really. He was going 20+ there one year with a Malone mower and he thought he was a great lad altogether. Didn't seem that light of a crop either.
Was knocking stuff myself today. Mixed enough. Parts were pretty thick like a carpet while more was feck all on it. Even in the same fields that got the same slurry/manure. Stuck to the 12kmh for the day
I wouldn’t be doing it all the time but this was a light, maybe 3-4 bales an acre crop, in a field of been mowing for 20 years or more at this stage so I know every bump and hump in it!
Pressures on these few days so we have to cover the ground.
have silage to cut but couldn’t do it this opportunity, given rain for Sunday night and Monday morning, is anyone else still have some to cut?
Gonna cut 5 acre field now. Bale Monday afternoon. Not gonna worry about weather.
Baled the last of it. Just barely fit.
Cut early Thursday morning when it was wet. Turned out yesterday morning at 9.30. Was raked then last night at 6.30.
With a bit of luck the second half of next week could be another chance
You're not the only one. 😲Luckily enough it's for dry sucklers so as long as it's mowed dry, in the pit and covered I think we'll be good. Hopefully will get it done this week as contractor has barley to cut as well.
Was saving a bit of grass for silage but a neighbours lambs broke in overnight. Is it spoiled or would it still be ok to cut?
Still grand to cut
