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Sileage season is starting here, is this done in the US?

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Ken Macfarlane

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Sileage first cut is happening right now up here for some folks. Most use round bale and plastic wrap but the price of plastic and diesel is drawing some old machines out of the fence lines and off dealers lots. People cleaning our their bunkered silage areas too.

1. Chop wagons with built in chopper - some custom operators use when the land is close to the bunkered silage.

2. Self propelled - no one uses them here!

3. Towed forage harvesters and trailed silage wagons or open wagons run next to them. This is the old way and is what lots of folks are dragging out. Its been 20 years or more since most were parked. Mostly done pulling an enclosed silage wagon behind.

Any strange happenings in the US like this?
 
In our part of the world, it is mostly done with pull type harvesters and wagons. We are getting ready to pick up an old 2- row NH soon, but we'll use dump trucks to haul it and ensile it on the ground wrapped in plastic. I am getting ready to lay by the corn for it soon.
 
#2 and #3 in my area (New England). Self-propelled foragers seem more and more common (or is it there is fewer and fewer small farmers using towed foragers?)

It's in full swing around my house right now. Saw three farm trucks loaded with green chop go by my house in a half hour at lunch time when I was puttering in the garden.
 
Wheat and triticale silage already done here in April and early May. It's all done here with huge self propelled swathers or disc cutters and big self propelled silage choppers and trucks hauling it out as fast as they can go. Crazy truck drivers almost running over everyone in sight and most likely don't possess a US drivers license let alone legal citizenship? More wheat done for silage and hay that late freeze got too so not much left for grain harvest. Now irrigating corn and sorghum silage hoping for more rain and this drought to end :(
 
When you say on the ground, are you using those big fat pack
tubes or bunkered with a sheet and tires over top? Both are done
here.
 
Around me here in Ohio you can just about see it all from horse drawn binders shocking corn to the HUGE self propelled machines makeing silage put in anything from bags, bunkers to silos.
 
We hired a pull type chopper and dump trucks. This was first used by us in 1949 and filling the old way was cutting by hand and loading wagons and a truck. It was then fed into a silage cutter and blown into the silos. Used a 10-20 McCormick-Deering tractor on the belt. Took about 3 weeks to fill 2 silos. With the chopper and trucks about 3 days. The Amish in PA still
use the old way. Hal
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Most is done with self propelled and wagons either towed or pulled next to, as well as a bunch of trucks driving next to.

We use a Fox 3000 pull type when we chop. We're gonna rent a bagger for 1st crop this year, fill a 150' bag and bale the rest.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I'm leaving my old silage equipment parked again this year and doing balage again. Plastic wrap was actually a couple dollars a roll cheaper this year than last, believe it or not. Plus round baling uses less fuel than chopping.
 
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