Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living As far as the eye can see

Or in this case the camera.

Nice Oak.

Tell us about them.

I'll take a dozen.

Jim,

3rd crop. Inline bale wrapper.

You must have a tall stepladder Oak?

Ha ! An agronomist team were out plotting fields with a drone and they gave me a few fly over pictures.

Nice pictures , tell me, where do you keep your junk?

Hey, can you mail me about 15-20 of those bales so I will have enough to finish out the winter.

I did the math on material, shipping and handling...it is cost prohibitive. Sorry.

Do you worry about the worth of hay, when you feed it, Oak?

Not sure of the exact meaning of your question, but I don't worry.

Very tidy looking operation.


Whats the moisture when you bale your third cutting?


My father in law in New Zealand wraps all of his hay so he can bale it sooner.

Too wet over there for conventional hay.

I think there is a difference between a wrapped bale and a silage bale....isn't there?

I've been buying some hay from a neighbor in order to stretch mine a little further. It's wheat, that was baled at high moisture and wrapped. The cows eat every bite, and it must taste like candy to them.

That's a sharp looking operation. Am I looking at the driftless zone or the Niagra escarpment in the background?

The range of moisture is 55-60%.

This inline bale wrapping produces silage or commonly called baleage. A wrapped bale with ends open will not ferment.

I have also, created silage by chopping hay and blow it into plastic "sausage" form or chop hay and deposit in silo pit or make a silage pile and pack with machinery.

i experience very little waste with silage or baleage.

It is located in the driftless area of southwest Wisconsin.

That's a really pretty part of the state. It's also where my deer hunting career started. I still kind of miss hauling the meat wagon in to Richland Center to register the bambis.

Nice looking feed, what kind of grass is it??