2019 Silage Season

[Beef farmer]

Done ours beginning of the week and found much the same, first field did 67t/ha off the field.

27ton acre. Thats unbelievable. What grain would that have turned out if cut dry.

 

[The Agrarian]

Would it be 50%DM?

 

[dinderleat]

If I were to be having issues with wholecrop going off during the winter due to the face being too big would spraying acid on the face after each cut preserve it enough?

Crop just keeps on coming, no one wants any and I’m really not set up at all for crimp so trying to think of ways around it before the inevitable.

Just combine and sell of the field it might even pay for your roof on feed area

 

[vantage]

If I were to be having issues with wholecrop going off during the winter due to the face being too big would spraying acid on the face after each cut preserve it enough?

Crop just keeps on coming, no one wants any and I’m really not set up at all for crimp so trying to think of ways around it before the inevitable.

Crimp it into an ag bag, contractor in Cardigan has one I think.

 

[dinderleat]

Crimp it into an ag bag, contractor in Cardigan has one I think.

That’s not a bad idea could feed a fair walk instead of cake or even sell it through the winter

 

[d williams]

If I were to be having issues with wholecrop going off during the winter due to the face being too big would spraying acid on the face after each cut preserve it enough?

Crop just keeps on coming, no one wants any and I’m really not set up at all for crimp so trying to think of ways around it before the inevitable.

Ag bag for crimp??

 

[Fraserb]

27ton acre. Thats unbelievable. What grain would that have turned out if cut dry.

We've similar fields left for the combine so will see how they turn out.

 

[gone up the hill]

Crimp it into an ag bag, contractor in Cardigan has one I think.

A lot of work with a hand shovel in the winter mind unless you want to waste quite a bit.

Easier and cheaper if you have a long narrow concreted area to put it on would be to make a long and say 15ft wide clamp for the crimp.

 

[pappuller]

A lot of work with a hand shovel in the winter mind unless you want to waste quite a bit.

Easier and cheaper if you have a long narrow concreted area to put it on would be to make a long and say 15ft wide clamp for the crimp.

Would imagine headless will have a skin who's handy with the shovel to overcome that problem

 

[buffalo_soldier]

I don't know anyone who has ever done it, but hi-cut whole crop is a thing.

Ramps up the quality like you wouldn't believe.

 

[Beef farmer]

I don't know anyone who has ever done it, but hi-cut whole crop is a thing.

Ramps up the quality like you wouldn't believe.

Then go and bale the straw

 

[Blue.]

If I were to be having issues with wholecrop going off during the winter due to the face being too big would spraying acid on the face after each cut preserve it enough?

Crop just keeps on coming, no one wants any and I’m really not set up at all for crimp so trying to think of ways around it before the inevitable.

Without a doubt home n dry is the best for not suffering issues at the clamp,unfortunately it’s not cheap.

 

[Blue.]

I don't know anyone who has ever done it, but hi-cut whole crop is a thing.

Ramps up the quality like you wouldn't believe.

One of the pioneers of home n dry tried a stripper header,in reality it was going to be perfect,sadly it pulled the whole plant out of the ground.

 

[dinderleat]

I don't know anyone who has ever done it, but hi-cut whole crop is a thing.

Ramps up the quality like you wouldn't believe.

Neighbours do it, takes the heads off then mows the straw. Its turbo charged whole crop, think they use alkalege additive.

 

[Blue.]

The ideal would be a double cutter head,one cutting high and the other low,running all over it just rolls the straw into the ground.

 

[betweenthelines]

I don't know anyone who has ever done it, but hi-cut whole crop is a thing.

Ramps up the quality like you wouldn't believe.

Next new idea will be wait till it's ripe, harvest it with a specialist machine that separates the grain from the straw

 

[The Agrarian]

Was going to say is straw not hard to lift out of the harvester tracks?

 

[dowcow]

Was going to say is straw not hard to lift out of the harvester tracks?

We heavy flat roll our wholecrop fields and last year there was barely a mark from the forager, trailers or slurry tanker afterwards.

 

[dinderleat]

Next new idea will be wait till it's ripe, harvest it with a specialist machine that separates the grain from the straw

Just means you don’t have to put it through a mill

 

[upnortheast]

Sunday planning meeting
W Barley - ready
WC Wheat - ready
3rd Cut - ready
W Barley straw 5 miles away - almost ready
Ground conditions - not great after 2" rain in 3 days
Weather forcast - shite till next weekend
Grrrrrrrrrr
Maybe our lad made a brilliant choice of week to do a judging job in Ireland after all