We do about 10-15 acres of corn for silage, and sometimes put sorghum-sudan chopped in or on it... Had about 400 ton 2 years ago... fed out this past winter (kept it a year) and pit is cleaned out ready. Used to do bags, usually 2-3 150 ft ones also.... but son got tired of the mud all winter, and then cleaning up the bags... and now bags are costing alot, plus renting the bagger and having to have trucks with side unloads to run into the bagger.... So he put in a 26x150 ft concrete pad and used those big concrete blocks for sides... said if he ever wanted to do something different he could move the blocks and then build a building over the concrete... Only needs dump trucks to dump silage and tractors to pack. We did not have enough room to pull wagons in, and around to unload so they had to be backed in... so trucks worked much better... still more time consuming... and he just said that's enough... and put in the pit where it used to be an old earth berm pit . Close to the barn to be able to feed with skid loader and load onto the silage carts... I think they are 24 ft also... helps the fall calving cows along better... and keeps the old cows in better flesh and milking better too.
We have it done custom... neighbor plants our corn last, then harvests last and it works out pretty good.
We have a wrapper for individual rolls, not in the long tube... got it off a friend that was getting a new one.... figured it would do good for what little we do wrapping.... some trading type deal.
