We to done in the 70s, it best at 23 to 30 0/0 moister

@@joelwitmer874 we did too and put it in a stave silo it made great feed i can see him wanting around 50 % moisture if there putting it in a bunk to pack better

Ah, yes.. the smell of silage!!! I love it!! Next best thing is the smell of cow manure, because as long as they're pooping, you're making money 😎😁 And yes, she is easy on the eyes 😁

I thought I was the only one baking silage in the oven!! LOL

Yes, it worked really well!

Good way of putting the public ,slook on farmer s or there is more to farming than shoveling muck. Good video as usual Rhonda and family.

Yes, it worked great!! Thank you for watching!

Thank You!!

We have had a few cooler night in the upper 50's but the days are still warm. I'm not ready for the cold weather yet.

Paul Watson, We made Shotgun Reds recipe for corn pudding yesterday and it was fantastic!

Thanks!

Thanks! I've never used a microwave to test silage, just the oven.

@@acresofclayhomestead I don't know how they did it, he has some formula to figure it out... That's all I know 😪

Yeah, Seems like a lot of waste, but if we were to combine the corn there would be twice the amount of waste left on the ground. Thanks for watching!

If we can get the stalks dry enough we may chop some for bedding.

That's a great idea! Thanks for watching!!

Good day Arnold. When we had farm middle 80/s , we had too many cattle for farm not enough grass we would go to town & do that to. Thanks

@@donvoll2580 yes you cant get any better then free feed

When we had beef cows we made sweet corn "stalklage"after the canning company picked the sweet corn. Man that stuff smelled good when you scooped it out of the bunker!The cows grazed dry corn stalks in the winter,this was like dessert to them!

Lyn good day, yes, specially for me, being my live stock is mostly for shelters and families in need, i have to save every dollar i can feeding them, but still feed them well, specaly with our long cold snow winter, so every little extra i can pick up free or cheap to cut back on hay in the winter, specaly this winter, with all the hay shortage in the usa again this year our local farmer are selling there hay cross boarder for top dollar so we are up even more in bale cost then last year. all i can say is thank god a bunch are leaving Jan 13 for prossing finally, our kill floor we have to book a year a head now, i have some that should have gone fall of 2018 but got pushed a head, i took a chance and did some my self, mine have been enjoying truck loads of whole pumpkins again this year .. i just paid out $80 to have my drive way plowed, something i have never done before..

It would be nice to harvest enough to get us through the whole year, but I'm not sure at this moment.

@@acresofclayhomestead we have to grow ALOT of corn to have enough. We milk 1200 cows across 2 farms in Vt.

We will also be chopper corn silage.

We will be planting rye into the field very soon.

Our chopper has a kernel processor that grinds the kernel.

We call it Maize silage. Mostly used for winter milking herds in Ireland. High yielding indoor herds probably use it a lot too. In Ireland it is more expensive to grow than in USA I presume.

@@einn32 well maize silage is the whole plant.I think Earlage is only the ear and the flag leaf(kind of) We have done it in the past i think we called it CCM Corn Cob Mix.

@@frank.s74 Ok cool. I did think there was a nice bit of stubble left. The header (corn header) is different to a maize header now that I look at it.

einn32 but CCM Corn Cob Mix is done with a combine...so I think its not the same...

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So you went to more or less, Earlage, costs a lot more than silage, but is much better feed... There's some done here in Oregon, not a lot though. Lots of cannery waste used for ensalage, but it's put up as it came out of the cannery, I always thought they should chop it. It's cheap high sugar feed, need a holding pond for all the juices... But the guys feeding it seem to like it.

Our chopper puts it through a kernel processor, which grinds the kernels up much finer than the old gehl chopper did.

We have a kernel processor.

With the Kemper head we cut closer to the ground harvesting as much of the corn as possible for silage.

No radios, the truckers just watch the driver of the chopper. We have hand signals. LOL

We do earlage in place of high moisture corn. It yeilds more and cows do really well on it. We will be chopping silage also.

I'll look it up, sounds like a great idea! Thanks for watching!!

We are planning on doing 40 acres of earlage. So far, we've done around 5-7 acres.

We are in West Michigan. This is the first corn planted before we got all the Spring rain. All the other corn fields are still a ways off from harvesting.

Yes, we will plow it and plant rye into it.

Only 1 field is dry enough. It's sandy soil. We got it planted very early this Spring.

Don't know the percent, but it's very little.

Just enough for dove to eat.

West Michigan

Acres of Clay Homestead not far then, I’m in north central Indiana. Are corn is still pretty green and beans might be ready in spots within next couple weeks. Way behind this year due to a very wet spring and wet fall last harvest

Silage is a moist feed compared to something like dry hay, but it's not super wet. The moisture of the earlage was 44%

Is silage dry then earlage

Corn Silage is between 60%-70% moisture.

Ok thank u. Wish I could do stuff like this love the videos.

Only 15 minutes from where I live now.

Yes. As a farmers' wife I've always made sure I know how to operate all our equipment. Thanks for watching!!

But metric is way easier though.

It's all just what you were raised with

Welcome to our channel! Just so you know, we don't store our hay bales on the dirt or in the mud, they never touch the dirt once they are put inside barn. Our silage cement is not a dirty surface either, other than we have just got 1 1/2 inches of rain the day before filming, it isn't not mud though, it's just silage.

@@acresofclayhomestead -- Thank you. I could swear that in one of your last two hay baling videos I saw the barn where you guys were putting the hay and the floor of the barn looked like wet rough mud. It looked like I remember cattle sheds with dirt floors looking in my days on the farm many years ago, and ours was from cattle stomping around in the shed in the spring after snow melt and spring thaw. But maybe yours was from the skid loader moving the bales in. Regarding the concrete slab, I think I would have cleaned the wet silage off and washed it down and let it dry before piling the new silage on it. But this is just all my way of how I would do it, and I am sure your way is not hurting the cows, because I know you love the cows by the way you treat them.

lol In a perfect world we would all have perfect spots to store commodities, but that's not going to happen. When a cow is grazing grass in a field do you think it pulls up a little dirt and eats it sometimes? Of course that happens. People store stuff where they can and try their best to keep it in the best condition possible. Hay bales are designed to shed water, the little bit on the outside that might go bad is either not eaten by the cow or they lay on it.

@3069mark - You are right when you saw the muddy part of the barn, but the bales don't sit in that area. It's was just mud in the path of the skid steer.

@@acresofclayhomestead -- That's good, and thanks for clarifying that. I apologize for sounding so nit-picky. After watching a number of your videos I can see that y'all are great dairy farmers, and good people all the way around. Y'all know a lot more than I do about dairy farming. Actually I know hardly anything, but for the last couple months I have been watching a lot of YT videos about dairying, and have learned a little bit. We raised Black Angus beef cattle for awhile on our farm, and we had a Guernsey for our family's milk, and she died of milk fever and then we replaced her with a Tennessee Jersey. So I have always loved cows. They are such funny and curious creatures, and big ole scaredy babies! LOL. Just so you know, your channel is one of my favorites, if not my most favorite. Take care! 😊

No, I somehow got dirt inside the lens of my camera and now the color and lighting is not a good. :(