Pasturing stalks

[3 M L & C]

Put up a couple miles of hot wire around some more corn stalks today. Dang the ground is hard here, ended up using a 10 pould sledge with a pipe handle as a post pounder, and I was only using 1/2 inch rebar for posts. Have had the heifers out on stalks since the first of the month. I think they look better than they did on grass. We did a good job combining the corn, as there isn't much grain out there, but they sure seem to find plenty to eat as they are always passing quite a bit through their system.

 

[tenbach79]

I built some fence around some crp ground and it was the same way hard as a rock. We just started cutting our irrigated corn but ran into some wet stuff. So far not really good looking at 110 bushel yield as of 20 acres cut. Had 230 bushel corn on the same field last year.

How's is the corn looking in your area?

 

[3 M L & C]

If your well has plenty of water its as good as last year. But if you were a little short on water and planted the wrong variety not good at all. Had one pivot with very short water go about 70. I think all our dryland averaged less than 5 bu. Just enough to have to pick it. Beans about 15 to 20 bu less than last year on irr.

 

[4Diamond]

If your well has plenty of water its as good as last year. But if you were a little short on water and planted the wrong variety not good at all. Had one pivot with very short water go about 70. I think all our dryland averaged less than 5 bu. Just enough to have to pick it. Beans about 15 to 20 bu less than last year on irr.

You picked 5 bushel corn??

 

[katrina]

If your well has plenty of water its as good as last year. But if you were a little short on water and planted the wrong variety not good at all. Had one pivot with very short water go about 70. I think all our dryland averaged less than 5 bu. Just enough to have to pick it. Beans about 15 to 20 bu less than last year on irr.

You picked 5 bushel corn??

Wow... 5 bushel... We were zeroed out..

 

[George]

Shelled the 65 acres in front of the house - - - 2 years ago ( was in soybeans last year) it averaged 211 bu per acre at 17.3% and took 15 semi loads to haul off.

This year it only took one and only had 900 bu for a little under 14 bu per acre at 18%

The monitor was reading 5 to 7 bu most of the time but just east ( down hill ) of the grassy waterways it went up to 200 bu per acre for short sections or the field would have been much worse. What is really making me mad is while we got no rain from the 2nd of May till the 2nd of Sept we have had over 12" so far this month! We got 3.5" in 2 hours with almost no run off and the creeks are still dry with a foot this month so I guess we still need a bunch more!

I am going to run the cows on it unless it gets muddy and hope to stretch my hay supply!

 

[3 M L & C]

If your well has plenty of water its as good as last year. But if you were a little short on water and planted the wrong variety not good at all. Had one pivot with very short water go about 70. I think all our dryland averaged less than 5 bu. Just enough to have to pick it. Beans about 15 to 20 bu less than last year on irr.

You picked 5 bushel corn??

What are you suposed to do? At 8 bucks thats to much to leave in the field. Where i live there is no trees and the wind blows a lot. People that chopped for sillage will fight blowing dirt all winter. Usually after sillage people will plant wheat to help. But havnt had any rain for quite a while

 

[tenbach79]

I had one dry land field adjusted for 4 bushel and one was zero out. I sold both fields to a guy that swathed it and is trying to bale it now.

We run 3 sprinklers off one well but we are sandy which is hard to keep up with water. In middle June I drove to the west side of one circle and my pickup said it was 118 degrees and the wind was blowing 30 mph. With conditions like that it doesn't matter how good your well is.

 

[3 M L & C]

We had the same here. If you had wheat stubble or pasture south of your field it got fried. If you had another pivot south of you wasnt as bad

 

[Denny]

We did some field yield test/guess anywhere from 73 to 186 buschel an acre with most in the 125 range we chopped it all.Can you tell I'm allergic to money.This is all northern mn our county average last year was 68 buschel to the acre.

 

[3 M L & C]

Should be some good feed! Do people have a hard time getting the corn to dry down up there?

 

[Denny]

Some years here lately we've been having ealy springs and these guys get going pretty early for this country. Local corn is coming off right now in the 20% moisture range. Suppose to be pretty nice here for the next week the combines will be rolling this week. Alot of the early corn is having some stalk issues and is dropping ears so it pencils to combine and pay the drying cost vs lost corn.

 

[4Diamond]

If your well has plenty of water its as good as last year. But if you were a little short on water and planted the wrong variety not good at all. Had one pivot with very short water go about 70. I think all our dryland averaged less than 5 bu. Just enough to have to pick it. Beans about 15 to 20 bu less than last year on irr.

You picked 5 bushel corn??

What are you suposed to do? At 8 bucks thats to much to leave in the field. Where i live there is no trees and the wind blows a lot. People that chopped for sillage will fight blowing dirt all winter. Usually after sillage people will plant wheat to help. But havnt had any rain for quite a while

I assumed people chopped it. That's where all of it here went this year...

 

[3 M L & C]

a few years ago we had a neighbor chop some dryland. It was a dry fall and winter and that ground blew until the corn he planted the next year was a foot tall. They ripped and chissled and everything you could think of through the winter and would help for a little while. Maybe the same year a state representative got killed on interstate because he pulled over from the dirt blowing so bad and a semi run in the back of him. Ground cover is more important here than the price of sillage. I understand other places are different but i would rather buy sillage from someone else than do it on my own ground.

 

[katrina]

We have sandy loam. and we strip it to keep it from blowing or it will. We leave sixteen rows as needed... Then come back and combine the strips..

 

[4Diamond]

a few years ago we had a neighbor chop some dryland. It was a dry fall and winter and that ground blew until the corn he planted the next year was a foot tall. They ripped and chissled and everything you could think of through the winter and would help for a little while. Maybe the same year a state representative got killed on interstate because he pulled over from the dirt blowing so bad and a semi run in the back of him. Ground cover is more important here than the price of sillage. I understand other places are different but i would rather buy sillage from someone else than do it on my own ground.

Could you cut it high and bale it?

 

[3 M L & C]

Depends on which way your rows run. I have seen fields baled with north and south rows blow. I guess it depends how bad you need the feed. But there is a lot more fertilizer and micro nutrients in stalks than people realize for the next crop. Also being dry the residue covering the ground keeps it from drying out as fast when it does rain. The fields that were chopped last year burned up to nothing a month before fields that had some residue. There is quit a bit of sillage chopped out here but mostly on irrigated then they plant wheat and can water it at least enough to not blow

 

[4Diamond]

Does anyone plant wheat to help with blowing? I guess I never thought of that as a problem.

 

[3 M L & C]

Ya but if its to dry to come up it doesnt work to good