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Botany, hay, fences....

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Drought ridden elk infested hay. Not too bad considering. The adjusters were out yesterday and said the damage rated as 'extreme'.

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Same crop through the window


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Can you see the fence in there?


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Is it straight?

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Some folks wonder how we thread the wire through the trees. :wink:

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Back to the crop. This field looks like it will be alright.

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Botany quiz time.

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Here it is again

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Starting to get a little silage done.

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The bagging contraption and the bagger pulling contraption[/img]
 
leanin' H said:
The hay looks good considering. Hope ya get it put up and it turns out better than ya hoped. I'll guess Garison Foxtail on the botany quiz.
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Yep- me too--ours is all cut now....
 
Timothy and Quack grass and something else I am not sure. Looks good enough for the cows to eat what ever it is.
 
Well, Meadow Foxtail it is. Can't get nuthin' past you guys :D

And yes gcreek, as a matter of fact I did check the wheels before starting this year. Geez, some folks have a long memory for other peoples disastors! :shock: :lol:
 
Can you tell us more about your bagging system are they regular silage bags your useing? I have some barley oats mixture I'd like to do something with.
 
Looks like that bagger requires plenty of power. :shock: :wink: :-)

I love that botany game. I have never heard of meadow foxtail. Must not get out much. :?
 
Denny said:
Can you tell us more about your bagging system are they regular silage bags your useing? I have some barley oats mixture I'd like to do something with.
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It's the poor man's method of making silage. I assume they are regular silage bags, they take about a 54 inch bale. The bag comes in a ring that you put over the back of the tuber, and you just pull the tuber along the row of bales you have placed for it. We try to put most of our oat hay (greenfeed) in bags this way. The bags generally hold 27 bales.... but sometimes they trick you and they can be one longer or shorter. The bags run between $130 and $150 each up here. The silage keeps well as long as you don't get holes in your bags. If you smell them you better take some tape and look for a hole.

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Out here the few meadows we have get over-run pretty quick with coarse wiregrass. Cows will eat it as hay but it doesn't have much feed value. Garrison or meadow foxtail sure copetes with the wiregrass and cows love it.
 
per said:
Looks like that bagger requires plenty of power. :shock: :wink: :-)

I love that botany game. I have never heard of meadow foxtail. Must not get out much. :?
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lol... the bagger gets whatever power is handy. If the ground is good 90 hp is lots.
Meadow Foxtail is really invasive. We planted it once about 25 years ago on a 30 acre piece and now it's all over, kinda like quack. It really likes low ground and peat moss, but seems to grow anywhere at least a little bit. It gets coarse very early, about a good 2 weeks before other hay is ripe around here. If you cut it in time it builds a better turd than a snowball does. We've been trying to kill it in it's original field for years, every time we work that little piece down within 5 years it takes over like it was just seeded. But there have been years when we were happy to have it.
 
There's hundreds of acres of it in this country. It is a weed that needs no special attention other than irrigation, triples the volume compared to native hay, has a good regrowth for fall pasture and the cows eat it readily in hay form. We have tested it several times and it will run from 10 to 12% protien and in the high 60's for TDN.
 

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