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Of course, today as we start corn silage the drought ends and the rain begins. Anyone else out there cutting yet?
 
New Mexico? Wow, do you use an upright, bags or bunker?
I am in Michigan so for corn silage it is still early.
 
bags and bunkers,dont know exactly that they are bunkers,we pile to make mountains,cover with plastic and old tires
 
We fill vertical silos. I had thought to try bags or piles but with the weather up here in the winter, spring and fall (lumped into one word-mud).
If the unloader works, life is good....
 
Where ya at in Michigan, I am over by Grand Rapids and have seen a few out chopping, it is to green here to put in an upright but they have thousands of acres they put in bunkers.
 
Berrien county. The ones we are filling now are small diam. and can take a little more "juice". I planted 92 day corn so I could get it off a little earlier.
 
be another week before mine is about right. also have to get everyting ready this week. grase the choppers, put silo unloaders up, set up blower,grase boxes. all the fun stuff! gotta cut hay to mix with it too! there goes a whloe week or better!
DF in WI
 
Brother finished up a couple of weeks ago in S. Central IL. Been putting it in a bag last few years. Harvistore has bad floor and he don't want to mess with concrete silo. Too much work. I remember having to mud the walls of the wooden silo. Cut it by hand and haul it to the cutter-blower.
 
I had an idea to buy a couple of harvestores and convert them to top unloaders. Problem was that with the cost of new doors it was the same as putting up used stave silos.
Silos are a better option compared to bags in mud and snow...
 
Been green chopping into one of the feederwagons for a week now, but it's still too green for putting in the silo. Everyone around here got things planted late this spring, so none of the corn has dented yet. Missed a frost last night (I think!), so it may finish maturing yet. Sure hope so - I don't want to have to chop 90 acres. Thats too much to put in an 18'x60'!!
 
Yeah, around Elkhart Co, IN ALOT of bags and bunks are filled or being filled (until rain at least) Not sure if anyone is filling uprights. Haven't seen any but with the dry weather things are early. There are fields with the ears hanging straight down. I'll probably see if one of our dairy friends need a tractor seat kept warm this week.
 
We got ours cut about 3 weeks ago here in SE NC. It was a little on the mature side, but looked good. We piled it, packed it, and covered it with plastic.
 
Gonna start chopping neighbors corn next week. I have enough grass silage and hay so I'm not gonna cut my corn for silage. I am gonna just snap and grind the ears and ensilage them. As a side note most dairy farmers round here still use mostly upright silos as mud sucks, and feed is too precious to waste.
 
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