Silage

[Buckshot Bear]

With all the rain its been an absolute bumper start to summer (La Niña) for the farmers for cutting silage, they are getting a lot of cuts.

The 30k drive into town from home there's literally thousands of bails being bailed up and stacked.

Can't remember when the district had it so good, I think it was in the '90's.

 

 

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

With everyone going to round bales, cows have a hard time getting a square meal

[Michigan Slim]

But it's winter here and the crops have been in for over a month! 

[Utah Bob #35998]

We had the opposite this year. Lots of farmers lost their crops. We’re in a severe drought. Hoping for lots of snow this winter.

[Badlands Bob #61228]

We had lots of rain on the east coast.  Rained almost every day last Summer.  It was all I could do to keep the grass cut.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 ......... mildew spores ?

 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

With everyone going to round bales, cows have a hard time getting a square meal

You know, there's a special place in hell for people who tell jokes like that.    

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

57 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

You know, there's a special place in hell for people who tell jokes like that.    

The Executive Suite?

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

3 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

The 30k drive into town

 

You had to drive 30,000 miles to get into town?  Australia is even bigger than I thought.

[Buckshot Bear]

3 minutes ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

 

You had to drive 30,000 miles to get into town?  Australia is even bigger than I thought.

 

When the hell are you good ol' boys gonna get metricated  

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

When the hell are you good ol' boys gonna get metricated  

When Hell freezes over.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

When Hell freezes over.

 

      ........ and the devil learns to figger skate ....  

[Grass Range]

No rain, no hay, no grass here.

[Yellowhouse Sam # 25171]

Drought from coast to coast here

 

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

9 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

When the hell are you good ol' boys gonna get metricated  

 

About the same time you blokes start driving on the right (i.e., correct) side of the road.

[Kid Rich]

Hey BB we don't bale "silage" up here we bale hay. Silage is usually corn (the entire plant) chopped and piled and then covered with a water proof cover so it ferments. This is done with mature but still growing plants.

kR

 PS cows like it almost as much as Aussies like beer and/or vegimite.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

9 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

      ........ and the devil learns to figger skate ....  

and forms a hockey team made up of “Enforcers”

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

During Prohibition, farmers would stack gallon glass jugs in their silo with the lids loose.
Silage liquor would accumulate deep enough to crowd in through the threads on the loose lids.

Farmers would have jugs of fermented, alcoholic tipple.

Silage liquor, often considered a waste product, sometimes mixed with ground feed and dumped in pigs' feed troughs.

Pigs also like second hand moonshine mash after it's distilled but that's another subject entirely.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

18 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

During Prohibition, farmers would stack gallon glass jugs in their silo with the lids loose.
Silage liquor would accumulate deep enough to crowd in through the threads on the loose lids.

Farmers would have jugs of fermented, alcoholic tipple.

Silage liquor, often considered a waste product, sometimes mixed with ground feed and dumped in pigs' feed troughs.

Pigs also like second hand moonshine mash after it's distilled but that's another subject entirely.

 

 ....... pickled pork ....... 

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

On 12/15/2021 at 7:09 PM, Buckshot Bear said:

With all the rain its been an absolute bumper start to summer (La Niña) for the farmers for cutting silage, they are getting a lot of cuts.

The 30k drive into town from home there's literally thousands of bails being bailed up and stacked.

Can't remember when the district had it so good, I think it was in the '90's.

 

 

 

 

 

Wow! A giant marshmallow farm.

[Capt. James H. Callahan]

22 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

 

You had to drive 30,000 miles to get into town?  Australia is even bigger than I thought.

I assume he left the m off km.

JHC

[Buckshot Bear]

44 minutes ago, Capt. James H. Callahan said:

I assume he left the m off km.

JHC

Nope ..... a 'k' is a kilometer  

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

14 hours ago, Kid Rich said:

Hey BB we don't bale "silage" up here we bale hay. Silage is usually corn (the entire plant) chopped and piled and then covered with a water proof cover so it ferments. This is done with mature but still growing plants.

kR

 PS cows like it almost as much as Aussies like beer and/or vegimite.

 

 ..... we have done "corn silage" ..... but only once  

 

 the baling machine can also bale hay, but we don't wrap it.

depending on the condition and, sometimes composition, of the crop, it is usually cut, raked, baled and wrapped on the same day.

hay will be a lot dryer before the baler gets on the paddock.

 

with the little moisture in the crop being wrapped up like this the fermentation process runs it's own pace and as you said the livestock love it.

 

During our last flood a lot of these things were washed into the river and were floating on their way to New Zealand.