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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1709509" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>[USER=40072]@Lee VanRoss[/USER] ... not trying to dispute anything you said... but what is TKR ? I reread my post and cannot seem to figure out what you used to come up with those initials... </p><p>If you are thinking that I am not figuring the corn silage correctly; I am not sure if it was 15 or 16 acres... but we have 2-200 ft bags , plus another 40-50 ft of a left over bag that we filled . 9 ft bags and the standard figuring is 1 1/4 ton to the foot with the 9 ft bag. We used to use an 8 ft bagger and it was 1 ton to the foot. With 200 ft bags you figure you lose 25 to 30 ft.... 15 ft on each end for tie off at the beginning, and then again at the finish end to fold and seal... So I am being conservative and figuring 150-160 ft full silage.. plus the extra that was about 80 plus feet left over from last year, and we figured half of that... AND he hauled 3 truck loads to a neighbor and the truck was weighed empty then loaded... and it was right around 10 tons each load.... so add 30 tons to the totals. Maybe you were referring to something else. Sorry that I didn't pick up on it. </p><p>The only cows we are feeding hay to are the group in the smaller 2 acre lot that are calving. Just to make checking and tagging easier. They will be going out to back stockpiled pasture when it works for son to do so. My getting the knees replaced next week will slow down some of what he is getting done, because I will not be here for at least 2 weeks because of going into a rehab.... he doesn't have time to worry with me and get things all done too so rehab is the best option for me and should get me up and going faster and better....don't know how much or how fast I will be up and going after that....</p><p>We cut about 30-40 head of cows over the last year. Mostly through attrition, old age, non breeding etc. Even though it was dry for the better part of the summer, because we had fewer cows, we are in pretty good shape on grass. Only had more cows than normal in one place and took out about one forth of them to take pressure off the spring there and then we got some rain and it picked up, and less cows solved that concern. Having less cows has helped with the supply of grass and being able to still have a good amount pasture available to rotate around, to use for some time yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1709509, member: 25884"] [USER=40072]@Lee VanRoss[/USER] ... not trying to dispute anything you said... but what is TKR ? I reread my post and cannot seem to figure out what you used to come up with those initials... If you are thinking that I am not figuring the corn silage correctly; I am not sure if it was 15 or 16 acres... but we have 2-200 ft bags , plus another 40-50 ft of a left over bag that we filled . 9 ft bags and the standard figuring is 1 1/4 ton to the foot with the 9 ft bag. We used to use an 8 ft bagger and it was 1 ton to the foot. With 200 ft bags you figure you lose 25 to 30 ft.... 15 ft on each end for tie off at the beginning, and then again at the finish end to fold and seal... So I am being conservative and figuring 150-160 ft full silage.. plus the extra that was about 80 plus feet left over from last year, and we figured half of that... AND he hauled 3 truck loads to a neighbor and the truck was weighed empty then loaded... and it was right around 10 tons each load.... so add 30 tons to the totals. Maybe you were referring to something else. Sorry that I didn't pick up on it. The only cows we are feeding hay to are the group in the smaller 2 acre lot that are calving. Just to make checking and tagging easier. They will be going out to back stockpiled pasture when it works for son to do so. My getting the knees replaced next week will slow down some of what he is getting done, because I will not be here for at least 2 weeks because of going into a rehab.... he doesn't have time to worry with me and get things all done too so rehab is the best option for me and should get me up and going faster and better....don't know how much or how fast I will be up and going after that.... We cut about 30-40 head of cows over the last year. Mostly through attrition, old age, non breeding etc. Even though it was dry for the better part of the summer, because we had fewer cows, we are in pretty good shape on grass. Only had more cows than normal in one place and took out about one forth of them to take pressure off the spring there and then we got some rain and it picked up, and less cows solved that concern. Having less cows has helped with the supply of grass and being able to still have a good amount pasture available to rotate around, to use for some time yet. [/QUOTE]
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