Contractors ,Silage cost by the ton

[fiat 9090]

Not many older foragers would have them fitted until recently I wouldn’t of thought,could be wrong though

I'm only joking

 

[mtx.jag]

I thought we were talking about wholecrop

We done whole crop with drag harvester,just do it when the heads at the cheese stage

 

[Lofty1984]

Not if you had a rock stopper

Doesn’t stop the little ones you hear rattling up the spout

 

[davidroberts30]

We done whole crop with drag harvester,just do it when the heads at the cheese stage

arable silage........

 

[mtx.jag]

arable silage........

No,whole crop
Arable silage to me would be a mixture and cut green??

 

[davidroberts30]

No,whole crop
Arable silage to me would be a mixture and cut green??

to me its arable silage if its cheesy and whole crop if it needs cracking

 

[mtx.jag]

to me its arable silage if its cheesy and whole crop if it needs cracking

It was yellow and cheesy and they ate the lot

 

[fiat 9090]

to me its arable silage if its cheesy and whole crop if it needs cracking

Yes wholecrop needs a cracker ,you may fit one on your wagon @!!!!!@@@@

 

[davidroberts30]

Yes wholecrop needs a cracker ,you may fit one on your wagon @!!!!!@@@@

Dont you start now

 

[ploughman1963]

How do you crack the grain

? We don’t need to - harvested at ‘cheesy’ stage

 

[ploughman1963]

I am

I thought we were talking about wholecrop

I was - certainly I call it wholecrop- spring barley usually cut around 2nd -3rd week of July when straw is no longer green but grain can be spread between ginger and thumb. Works well in our ration

 

[holywell farmer]

You could but you wouldn’t want to do it with a mower conditioner really as it would hammer the crop plus picking up a 10ft swath with a spf be bloody painful so you’d need to rake it which again would hammer the crop plus stones as @mtx.jag says hence the need for direct cut headers.
I’m sure some people do mow it to chop and obviously they do to bale it

I seen rye grass type whole crop cut in June with a straight mower then chopped,

 

[holywell farmer]

did the contractor force the farmer to mow such a short crop?????, and if he didn't then why is he being robbed, the contractor is only doing his job, and if its a light crop and can go fast that not his fault

It's farmers choice when mowing or chopping starts

 

[holywell farmer]

Isn't the theory with this multi cut silage by 3rd or 4th cut farmer should have enough for winter.