Crops - Making Corn Silage

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   Making corn silage in the summer of 1999. Corn silage is a main source of cattle feed for the coming winter months. The pictures above show the cutting, chopping & grinding of the silage. Notice how all of the crop is utilized from ground up, the stalk, leaves, ears of corn and even the tassell. It takes a skilled tractor driver to keep the silage wagon synchronized at the right speed along side the chopper.

   After cutting, chopping & grinding the silage is hauled to the above ground silage bin. The perimeter of the silage bin is made from round bales of hay. You can get an idea of the size of the bin by the picture on the left, the tractor and silage wagon seems small inside the bin. In the picture on the right we are using the larger tractor as a silage packer. To gain additional volume we stack the silage a good bit higher than the round bale sides. When winter feeding time comes we will load the silage into a feeder wagon with a tractor with a front end loader mounted on it. We work from the South end of the pile and let the silage remain as a wind break as long as possible. The feed is hauled to the cattle pens and augered into feed bunks. If luck is with us at feeding time and nothing breaks, freezes or gets stopped up we won't have to handle the feed by hand.   

Bohaty British Whites
Walter & Nancy Bohaty
1371 - 42 Road
Bellwood, NE 68624-2429
402-367-4741
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