YAHOOOO!!!!! I'm DONE!!!

[mnmtranching]

Got the last pile of silage piled and covered in the dark and rain last night.

I put up some 600 tons with this outfit.

$3200 tractor, .650 chopper, .500 wagon [I use 3 wagons] The others are rear unloaders $400. each.

The piling.

1 of three piles of approximately 200 tons with about 2500 bushels of corn in each pile.

 

[bigbull338]

congrates on getting all your silage chopped piled an covered.now you just have to feed it this winter.so relax an take some time off.

 

[jw]

Thank you for posting that last picture. I see those big piles sometimes when I'm driving around, usually at dairy farms, and have often wondered what was covered up. Now I know.

 

[ChrisB]

Congrats! I just finished last night also. I'm not sure how many tons I have; it's a 24' X 85' bunker silo and it's packed to about 8-9'. Usually it's a 2-3 day job, but this year we had a lot of trouble with the corn head on the chopper. 2 wagons broke down on the last load also, but we were able to get them unloaded. With the breakdowns and the rain it took 9 days. I just parked everything, I will worry about it next fall. 8)

 

[Texas Gal]

I have absolutely now experience with silage so this maybe a "stupid" question. What are the pros and cons of bunker vs. the large pile on top of the ground?

 

[somn]

How on earth do you ever get that coarse of corn silage to pack you must have a lot of loss of nutrients due to rot covered or not. 50 acres with that rig must take awhile.

 

[somn]

Got the last pile of silage piled and covered in the dark and rain last night.

I put up some 600 tons with this outfit.

$3200 tractor, .650 chopper, .500 wagon [I use 3 wagons] The others are rear unloaders $400. each.

The piling.

1 of three piles of approximately 200 tons with about 2500 bushels of corn in each pile.

600 tons 7500bu. ?

 

[somn]

Congrats! I just finished last night also. I'm not sure how many tons I have; it's a 24' X 85' bunker silo and it's packed to about 8-9'. Usually it's a 2-3 day job, but this year we had a lot of trouble with the corn head on the chopper. 2 wagons broke down on the last load also, but we were able to get them unloaded. With the breakdowns and the rain it took 9 days. I just parked everything, I will worry about it next fall. 8)

If memory serves me right 355 tons at 70% moisture.

 

[bigbull338]

according to what ive read over the years they say 9bu of corn an the stalks is a ton of silage.so if theres 7500bu thats 830 tons of silage more or less.

 

[somn]

according to what ive read over the years they say 9bu of corn an the stalks is a ton of silage.so if theres 7500bu thats 830 tons of silage more or less.

That would need to be in a real good year all summer he has told us how dry it is up where he is from. I really doubt if he could even get an average grain to stalk yield of 7 bu to 1 ton. Thats 1071 ton for the 7500 bu. Something is very wrong with his numbers. I could understand if he is only taking the ear and everything above it but looking at the pictures he is taking all but maybe a foot.

 

[Jogeephus]

Looks good! Man, you got some good looking soil.

 

[mnmtranching]

It's GREAT having it done. Thanks for the comments.

Simple, Not a bumper crop by no means.

This is for the doubters.

OK, planted the 2-3-4 of May in moist ground, a couple little rains in May.

No RAIN! NONE! in June. :shock:

The 1st 3 weeks in July total 3 " in small amounts at a time. 8) 8)

No precip till 7th Aug, then 3/4 inch.

In July the corn pollinated, and the Aug rain made the crop.

Truth is clean corn doesn't need that much rain.

Still the nation ave is about 160 bu per acre, Mine was about 100.

75 acres 25 per pile, ton age should have been much more, but for the year, not bad.

As far as packing! I don't know? 50 5 ton loads per pile. I think packed good enough. :roll:

 

[mnmtranching]

Another corn pic. So what do you think the bushel per acre is?

 

[somn]

Another corn pic. So what do you think the bushel per acre is?

Well just looking at the picture would be hard to say 40's and full of weeds makes it even more difficult.

 

[somn]

It's GREAT having it done. Thanks for the comments.

Simple, Not a bumper crop by no means.

This is for the doubters.

OK, planted the 2-3-4 of May in moist ground, a couple little rains in May.

No RAIN! NONE! in June. :shock:

The 1st 3 weeks in July total 3 " in small amounts at a time. 8) 8)

No precip till 7th Aug, then 3/4 inch.

In July the corn pollinated, and the Aug rain made the crop.

Truth is clean corn doesn't need that much rain.

Still the nation ave is about 160 bu per acre, Mine was about 100.

75 acres 25 per pile, ton age should have been much more, but for the year, not bad.

As far as packing! I don't know? 50 5 ton loads per pile. I think packed good enough. :roll:

12 to 1 is unheard of but without true scale weights anything is possible in a persons mind. By the way 50 x 5 is 250. 250 times 3 is 750 not 600. So was it 600 or 750 tons? Even at 750 tons off of 75 acres the most a person could expect in bushels would be 7 bu. per ton @ 60% moisture. 5250 bu.

 

[mnmtranching]

Somn, Some things you should know about hybrid corn.

Seed companies have worked hard and successfully at extending the range Northward. Actually they are raising corn well up into Canada, to Winnipeg.

Some what different corn than what you are used to in S MN.

Like, believe it or not they have 75 day corn, yup! Doesn't look the same as the 120 you see where your at.

Plants have less leaves, and the ratio of grain to leaves is quite different. Much more grain to the amount of leaves.

Not saying that 75 day corn produces more grain per plant, but the leaves and stalks are much smaller.

200 bushel corn is common up here, they make up for it by plant population. Under irrigation of course.

You must realize the variety of corn hybrids available, Don't you
e

Do you ever get out, or observe things?

My corn is 85 day, grain variety, I could get a leafy 85 day more digestible plant type, but the price per bushel is double the RR brand I decided to go with.

 

[somn]

Somn, Some things you should know about hybrid corn.

Seed companies have worked hard and successfully at extending the range Northward. Actually they are raising corn well up into Canada, to Winnipeg.

Some what different corn than what you are used to in S MN.

Like, believe it or not they have 75 day corn, yup! Doesn't look the same as the 120 you see where your at.

Plants have less leaves, and the ratio of grain to leaves is quite different. Much more grain to the amount of leaves.

Not saying that 75 day corn produces more grain per plant, but the leaves and stalks are much smaller.

200 bushel corn is common up here, they make up for it by plant population. Under irrigation of course.

You must realize the variety of corn hybrids available, Don't you
e

Do you ever get out, or observe things?

My corn is 85 day, grain variety, I could get a leafy 85 day more digestible plant type, but the price per bushel is double the RR brand I decided to go with.

Someday when I have more time you can explain to me all about the hybrid seed corn you carry extensive knowledge in there with your 75 acres of 40's full of weeds. I sure hope you realize just because it was rr corn you will still need to spray the roundup on it. Next year give that a try you will have less weeds in your corn. I plant 80 RM all the way up to 115 RM. So don't try telling me how great your corn is. Maybe you need to get out and observe things 40's were a thing of the past in the 80's. So are weeds in corn. You still have both on your farm.

 

[mnmtranching]

Mr Somn, You miss the point, never meant to imply my corn is good corn. Besides the weeds are late summer weeds that show up after the Roundup wears off. Did you know even a second application will wear off? :roll:

Mr Somn, So far, you haven't given any indication you have any idea what your talking about. But don't give up, you may convince someone yet. ;-)

 

[somn]

Mr Somn, You miss the point, never meant to imply my corn is good corn. Besides the weeds are late summer weeds that show up after the Roundup wears off. Did you know even a second application will wear off? :roll:

Mr Somn, So far, you haven't given any indication you have any idea what your talking about. But don't give up, you may convince someone yet. ;-)

Well it took me awile to find what I was looking for but I knew I would find it. Either you are BS on the tons or you are BS on the corn yield. You can believe what you want in your own mind I guess.

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/CropMath.htm

By the way roundup is a contact killer it will never wear off because it can't it has no residual. If you used roundup like you have claimed to and your field was still that full of weeds I would guess you have an extreme amount of weed seed in the ground from years and years of weeds resulting in extreme weed pressure. I guess thats obvious looking at the way you farm other crops also.
http://cattletoday.com/forum/post-41421 ... ht=#414212

Maybe someday when you learn how to farm correctly without yield robbing weeds taking over entire feilds I will believe your corn made 100bu pba. Using your quoted tonage amount I of 10 ton per acre I believe it made only a grain yeild of at best 70 BPA. Anymore than that is impossible.

 

[mnmtranching]

Somn, I do believe you should be studying corn yields.

I'm trying to tell you there is so much difference in variities. And weather conditions,

For instance the dry land corn not far to the South and East of me got some good showers in June, the corn shoulder high, doing great on the 4th of July. Then the rain stopped. Hot, dry and windy July and poor pollination. Lots of plant and poor grain yield.

Bet this really confuses you :???: How can this be
Somebody is making this up right :shock:

It doesn't take much rain just timely rains.

Now that you know a little more about corn, I should tell you a little about herbicides. ;-) Later, got ot go to work.