Silage 2024

I gave up making an effort years ago. Let it be lucky and feck it after that!

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

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.

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?

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

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..

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.

knocked the last 4 acres of the year yesterday. Will bale tomorrow. Giving unsettled from Sunday onwards

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.

That's the Tom Pemberton way of mowing

I don’t watch YouTube so I don’t know if that’s a compliment or an insult 😂

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.

Gonna cut 5 acre field now. Bale Monday afternoon. Not gonna worry about weather.

With a bit of luck the second half of next week could be another chance

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?