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Baling dry corn? can it be done?
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<blockquote data-quote="Atimm693" data-source="post: 1800797" data-attributes="member: 26138"><p>We baled some green a couple years ago for silage. A neighbor had a batch that wasn't going to yield well and wasn't worth picking. It worked okay, as mentioned there was a lot of grain loss. I imagine that would probably be worse if it was dry.</p><p></p><p>We mowed it two rows at a time with a small sickle mower, we tried a disc mower and found it to be too destructive, threshed a lot of grain out. The sickle just snipped them off and laid them over on top of the stalks, made it fairly easy for the baler to pick them up. This was planted in 30" rows, I baled it two rows at a time as three wouldn't fit in the pickup and I don't think you could rake it over the stalks.</p><p></p><p>Our baler has a crop cutter which we were utilizing, I had wondered in not using it would've resulted in less grain loss, but I didn't try any without it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atimm693, post: 1800797, member: 26138"] We baled some green a couple years ago for silage. A neighbor had a batch that wasn't going to yield well and wasn't worth picking. It worked okay, as mentioned there was a lot of grain loss. I imagine that would probably be worse if it was dry. We mowed it two rows at a time with a small sickle mower, we tried a disc mower and found it to be too destructive, threshed a lot of grain out. The sickle just snipped them off and laid them over on top of the stalks, made it fairly easy for the baler to pick them up. This was planted in 30" rows, I baled it two rows at a time as three wouldn't fit in the pickup and I don't think you could rake it over the stalks. Our baler has a crop cutter which we were utilizing, I had wondered in not using it would've resulted in less grain loss, but I didn't try any without it. [/QUOTE]
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