Baling Corn Stubble

angus guy · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

I think I would chop and bag rather than try to bale. It will make better feed that way. Also don't have to wait for it to cure.

IL Rancher · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

Probably right about that Angus guy... I know a lot of silage gets chopped around here when the crop stinks on some of the sandier ground.. We had pineapple fields again here today and that was with the good rain on Monday.. Just to darn spotty and we need more to catch up.. 90 degrees again today and tomorrow probably too.. Need to run some steers down near your way tomorrow to get processed.. a few hogs too, ahhh, 4:30 wake up..

angus guy · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

We only managed .2" night before last. Last rain was memorial week-end. But sub-soil moisture is good so the crop is holding it's own. Where are you taking your steers?

IL Rancher · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject:

Bushnell.. Kind of in your neck of the woods... I think you said you were in Fulton.. Maybe my memory is wrong (I know I drive through a stretch of Fulton)...

angus guy · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

Now there's one of the best lockers in this area. We take all of ours there. You'll be with-in 8 miles of the Homestead and you will go about a mile from one of my pastures. PM me and sometime when you're down this way I'll buy the coffee.

IL Rancher · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject:

Some of our clients really like how they cut beef and they actually age things a bit better than some of the local ones. I don't mind my local one but my wife likes Bushnell and the people there are first rate... Also, whatever makes the wife happy keeps me from getting yelled at, lol.. Maybe I'll give you a buzz when I am coming back in for the frozen beasts.

angus guy · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a plan to me.

IL Rancher · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

This is the rig we use for shreading stalks.. Was cleaning it off today and thought amybe we would take a couple pictures.. Landlord (read Father in law) inspection is coming up so everything is gettings crubbed... PITA..

I was talking to some folks and they have seen bushhog type mowers used and attatched via welded brackets to v-rakes so that cuttigng and raking could be done in one pass.. Was going to do it that way until the boss got involved, lol.

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