silage vs haylage

[burnt]

Many around here tube wrap hay and it never makes it to a grinder. Cattle clean it up very well.

What is the advantage of this? Just baling qucker before a rain comes or what? Most stuff that is silage around here is just crappy corn. Even on a good year only the worst gets silaged.

Since we have had the option of wrapping hay at any moisture, it has taken almost 100% of the weather-related stress out of the haying season. If the weather is good, we leave it until it's dry.

If we have hay down and the weather forecast changes and threatens rain, or gets too catchy to make dry hay, we bale and wrap.

Very little need to put up poor quality, rain-on feed if there is a wrapper around. Here in southern Ontario it can be a challenge to get enough consecutive good days to cure hay properly.

 

[3 M L & C]

Many around here tube wrap hay and it never makes it to a grinder. Cattle clean it up very well.

What is the advantage of this? Just baling qucker before a rain comes or what? Most stuff that is silage around here is just crappy corn. Even on a good year only the worst gets silaged.

Since we have had the option of wrapping hay at any moisture, it has taken almost 100% of the weather-related stress out of the haying season. If the weather is good, we leave it until it's dry.

If we have hay down and the weather forecast changes and threatens rain, or gets too catchy to make dry hay, we bale and wrap.

Very little need to put up poor quality, rain-on feed if there is a wrapper around. Here in southern Ontario it can be a challenge to get enough consecutive good days to cure hay properly.

OK Wish we had that problem. We havn't hardly been able to muster up a dew this year.

 

[PATB]

Many around here tube wrap hay and it never makes it to a grinder. Cattle clean it up very well.

What is the advantage of this? Just baling qucker before a rain comes or what? Most stuff that is silage around here is just crappy corn. Even on a good year only the worst gets silaged.

The advantage of baleage is you can cut and remove the feed in a more timely manner when the weather does not cooperate to make dry hay. I usaully make baleage the first beginning and end part of the season when the dew makes it almost impossible to dry hay to low moisture.

 

[Angus Cattle Shower]

Silver, we used our NH 664 to make bales to wrap a few years ago. It had its flaws but it worked very well. The only real problem we had other then plugging it every once in a while was since the brome/alfalfa was so bushy, every half hour you had to pull off what got wrapped around the driveshaft on the baler.

 

[4Diamond]

Many around here tube wrap hay and it never makes it to a grinder. Cattle clean it up very well.

What is the advantage of this? Just baling qucker before a rain comes or what? Most stuff that is silage around here is just crappy corn. Even on a good year only the worst gets silaged.

Yeah it allows people to put up alfalfa and wheat early in the year with high moisture and not worry about the weather as much. I am not set up for this but I sure would like to buy some alfalfa baleage each year for weaned calves.