How is/was everyone's silage corn?

Don-Wi · Oct 3, 2009

We just started chopping our corn today. Still don't have the engine back for our 1855, so we rented the 986 from down the road again. Got the chopper ready over Thurs. and Friday, and today hooked onto it with the 986 and chopped off about 7 loads.

Had to quit when the wagon hitch on the chopper snapped off while trying to narrow the chopper up 1 hole after splitting the feild. It's got a farmerized hitch coming off the axel in line with the toungue to the tractor for when it would be extremely muddy so the chopper wouldn't pull sideways.

I'll pull the hitch assembly off tomorrow morning, then continue chopping useing the other hitch until we get some new steel to fix it.

Overall, I'd have to say that the corn is pileing up much beter than I thought it would. Had a drought here during the summer and it was doing pretty poor. Got rain all theoughout August and it must have come just in time to perk it up, even though it was just tassled out. Had some that was over the top of the cab, which was very unexpected. Some corn on the other side of the same feild was only about 5' tall.

Donovan from Wisconsin

kyhayman · Oct 3, 2009

Some of the best I"ve ever seen so far. Rain shut us down two weeks ago, now the corn"s too dry and the grounds too wet. Oh well....

Anonymous-0 · Oct 3, 2009

A dairy farmer near town said it took 70 acres less this year to fill his bunker silos. It was a little wetter than usual, but it is going to be a real good crop of corn.

One farmer is combining 32% moisture corn, and that was the outside rows. I guess ya got to get going sometime.

I never would purchase land North of my home town, because it always seems they are getting a lot of ear dropping ....so they better start harvesting.... before anyone else thinks about it. Seems like a very expensive excuse to get started early.

Dairy Farmer in WI · Oct 3, 2009

ines goin alright. been delyed last weekend due to breakdowns then had a bunch of stuff goin on this week so only got the silo about 2/3 full so far. one field that im almost done with is getting dry but there is only 4 loads left out there then the next field is a little wetter yet because it was the last field i planted and that should finish off the silos. gonna top off the other silo that has hay in it just to be sure that i have enough feed.
DF in WI

Ole Shovel · Oct 4, 2009

Have heard 18 to 33 tons. Depends on if had hail, bugs or was kept watered good before the rains came.

TW · Oct 4, 2009

Averaged 20 ton per acre. Corn is short & grain fill is poor. I have a lot of short stalks with stubby "Beer Can ears"

Buckeye · Oct 4, 2009

Best silage here in a few years. Wet all summer. Filled an 18 X 50 on 14 acres. Southeast Ohio.

MSJ from MN · Oct 4, 2009

Ours is real nice. Filled two 10x200 bags. Now we are filling our pit. Snapped a spindle off of a wagon pulling it into the pit yesterday. Got it unloaded now we have to get it drug up to the shop to repair it.

rrlund · Oct 4, 2009

Excellent. The first 23 acres was a little short on nitrogen so it was a little drier,but the tonnage was super. The last 12 was unbelievable. Probably greener than it should have been,but I pushed it up over the drier stuff in the bunker. The chopper didn't have enough capacity to take corn like that. I've got a 781 Case IH. Had the 2-135 on the front of it. The digital tach never moved on it,but I had to crawl to get the chopper to take it in. Blew a u-joint out of the PTO the second day. The dealer wanted better than $400 for a nw one. Had one made at a machine shop for $100. Then what should have been the last day,I blew a couple of knives out of it with 8 loads to go. Those weren't cheap either,but I got it going again and finished up a week ago yesterday. If I keep growing corn like that,I'm definately gonna need a bigger chopper.

formerly ny bill · Oct 4, 2009

we're starting chopping tomorrow. the corn has taken forever to get ready, due to the cool wet summer. the corn on the river flats looks real good. some of the fields with wet areas, the corn ranges from good down to nothing in the wettest areas. i'm still not sure when/if the combine corn will make it.

Don-Wi · Oct 4, 2009

Our Fox 3000 is definately an old machine, but it's really a pretty decent chopper for it's age. Never ran out of capacity with it yet, although we are gonna need some new knives in it soon. I was between 2nd and 3rd with the 986 this weekend.

Donovan from Wisconsin

How is/was everyone's silage corn?

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