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<blockquote data-quote="dowcow" data-source="post: 6196378" data-attributes="member: 106876"><p>We don't use contractors for silage, and switched from trailed forager to a wagon several years ago.</p><p></p><p>Fuel usage was definitely cut. With the forager I had to fill my tractor every day, sometimes twice. I can go for days with the wagon. Our diesel supplier actually phoned us during the wagons first year to ask if they had lost our custom to a competitor. </p><p></p><p>Where the forager chopped rye grass and stems up just fine, the stuff can be a bit hard work to handle in the clamp with the wagon. It will do it, but better to have some wetter leafy stuff on top to help seal it. We switched from making 3 cuts a year to making 4 cuts. Also switched some grass varieties during re-seeds to the sorts of things the cows would like to graze. Silo quality has gone up tremendously, but in recent years I have also switched to higher cutting heights on all ground with the mower. I prefer to leave stem in the field. The grass comes out of the clamp looking like leafy grass rather than the foragers chaff. Where you do put stemmy stuff into the clamp, you can see it at feed out time and certainly makes me agree with the 'Quality not quantity' approach someone posted earlier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dowcow, post: 6196378, member: 106876"] We don't use contractors for silage, and switched from trailed forager to a wagon several years ago. Fuel usage was definitely cut. With the forager I had to fill my tractor every day, sometimes twice. I can go for days with the wagon. Our diesel supplier actually phoned us during the wagons first year to ask if they had lost our custom to a competitor. Where the forager chopped rye grass and stems up just fine, the stuff can be a bit hard work to handle in the clamp with the wagon. It will do it, but better to have some wetter leafy stuff on top to help seal it. We switched from making 3 cuts a year to making 4 cuts. Also switched some grass varieties during re-seeds to the sorts of things the cows would like to graze. Silo quality has gone up tremendously, but in recent years I have also switched to higher cutting heights on all ground with the mower. I prefer to leave stem in the field. The grass comes out of the clamp looking like leafy grass rather than the foragers chaff. Where you do put stemmy stuff into the clamp, you can see it at feed out time and certainly makes me agree with the 'Quality not quantity' approach someone posted earlier. [/QUOTE]
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