Two questions. First instead of earlage have you ever tried high moisture corn. Picked between 20 and 30 percent then ground and packed like silage? Second have you thought about making your piles higher ?
We made high moisture corn in 2019 and 2020. I like high moisture corn, but it adds an extra step to the process. The chopper grinds the corn up right away, with high moisture corn it has to be put through a grinder after combining it. We could go higher with the pile but we would need another packing tractor and this size silage pile is a good hight for our pay loader to reach easily for scraping silage off.
Why are they cutting up so high. Will you have to Disk the field before replanting. You already have a large concrete pad, what would it cost you to have bunker side walls erected. Great video
This cut height is pretty standard, there isn't much nutrient content in the bottom of the stalk. The cost would depend on hight of the wall. I would prefer to have a bunker to store earlage and keep the silage in a drive over pile.
Is the prevalence of 22" plantings because that's the common spacing for sugar beets. Have you ever considered feeding sugar beets. I have read that they are of equal to or even superior to corn silage as an energy source.
30" is most typical here, sugar beets aren't grown in our area. We've looked at feed beets before, but it takes a lot of specialized equipment to harvest and process the beets.
We seeded rye on 2 fields but it's been really dry, I'm not sure we'll get any growth this fall. Our growing season is just about finished after corn silage, it's difficult to get a crop to establish.
Hi Piet ....a 20 percent higher protein content in the silage is possible if maize is successfully grown in mixed cultivation with pole beans. Seed mixture in a ratio of 60,000 maize kernels and 40,000 beans per hectare. And with white clover as undergrow its produce nitrogen that helps the yield of your silage. Maybe you can try 1 or 2 hectare to see the result. A lot of farmers in the Netherlands grow a mixed crop now to gain more protein from own land.
@@engbertdijkstra6242 Oke, ik waarneem een stijgende populariteit. Maar volgens jou is dat dus niet zo? Genoeg onderzoek gedaan hiernaar oor universiteiten en die concluderen toch echt dat je meer proteine uit eigen bodem kan halen
@@oghuzkhan5117 stond onlangs nog een stukje van in een vakblad. Geen suc6. De meesten stoppen na een jaar. Onkruid bestrijding is het grootste probleem. Je kan niet spuiten met twee gewassen.
@@engbertdijkstra6242 Voor onkruid bestrijding moet je witte klaver als onderzaai gebruiken. Dat zal de onkruid dempen en voor extra stikstof zorgen voor je mais en bonen
We have more feed in inventory than in years past. The sorghum and barley silage piles also required a fair amount of tires, that silage wasn't really planned but became available after the wet spring we had.
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Thanks for the earlage video. Looks like earlage is a lot heavier per bushel than silage.
Yes, earlage is more dense compared to silage.
Two questions. First instead of earlage have you ever tried high moisture corn. Picked between 20 and 30 percent then ground and packed like silage? Second have you thought about making your piles higher ?
We made high moisture corn in 2019 and 2020. I like high moisture corn, but it adds an extra step to the process. The chopper grinds the corn up right away, with high moisture corn it has to be put through a grinder after combining it. We could go higher with the pile but we would need another packing tractor and this size silage pile is a good hight for our pay loader to reach easily for scraping silage off.
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Why are they cutting up so high. Will you have to Disk the field before replanting. You already have a large concrete pad, what would it cost you to have bunker side walls erected.
Great video
Cutting high increase nutrient density. Not much but fiber in the bottom of the stalk.
This cut height is pretty standard, there isn't much nutrient content in the bottom of the stalk. The cost would depend on hight of the wall. I would prefer to have a bunker to store earlage and keep the silage in a drive over pile.
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 oh ok. Thank you
Nice video,
Can i ask you how and how often do you clean front part (which is not covered with straw) in your heifer barn.
We clean the manure alley in front of the straw pens once a day.
Is the prevalence of 22" plantings because that's the common spacing for sugar beets. Have you ever considered feeding sugar beets. I have read that they are of equal to or even superior to corn silage as an energy source.
30" is most typical here, sugar beets aren't grown in our area. We've looked at feed beets before, but it takes a lot of specialized equipment to harvest and process the beets.
Do you plant winter crops on all your land
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We seeded rye on 2 fields but it's been really dry, I'm not sure we'll get any growth this fall. Our growing season is just about finished after corn silage, it's difficult to get a crop to establish.
Hi Piet ....a 20 percent higher protein content in the silage is possible if maize is successfully grown in mixed cultivation with pole beans. Seed mixture in a ratio of 60,000 maize kernels and 40,000 beans per hectare. And with white clover as undergrow its produce nitrogen that helps the yield of your silage.
Maybe you can try 1 or 2 hectare to see the result. A lot of farmers in the Netherlands grow a mixed crop now to gain more protein from own land.
Nee hoor. Tis niks waard. De meeste zijn naar 1 jaar gestopt. 2 aparte gewassen leverd meer op dan bobtjes door de mais.
@@engbertdijkstra6242 Oke, ik waarneem een stijgende populariteit. Maar volgens jou is dat dus niet zo? Genoeg onderzoek gedaan hiernaar oor universiteiten en die concluderen toch echt dat je meer proteine uit eigen bodem kan halen
@@oghuzkhan5117 stond onlangs nog een stukje van in een vakblad. Geen suc6. De meesten stoppen na een jaar. Onkruid bestrijding is het grootste probleem. Je kan niet spuiten met twee gewassen.
@@engbertdijkstra6242 Voor onkruid bestrijding moet je witte klaver als onderzaai gebruiken. Dat zal de onkruid dempen en voor extra stikstof zorgen voor je mais en bonen
@@oghuzkhan5117 probeer dat dan maar. Ik weet uit ervaring dat het onkruid dan hoger staatvdan watvje gezaaid hebt. Hanepoot melganzevoet ect
you use a stock chopper after or just disc the stocks?
They will be disced when we apply manure later this fall or next spring.
Thanks for the video. Did you plant this corn specifically for earlage or did you decide later to make earlage instead of silage?
These fields of earlage were planted specifically for earlage. For silage we are typically looking at later maturing varieties compared to earlage.
Have you increased the number of animals or gained access some more land as tires seem to be in short supply?
We have more feed in inventory than in years past. The sorghum and barley silage piles also required a fair amount of tires, that silage wasn't really planned but became available after the wet spring we had.
Same type of corn head that combine uses?
Yes, they just have an adapter to be able to connect it to the corn chopper.
Do they use a kp on earlage
Yes they have a kernel processor on all of their choppers. In both silage and earlage we want the kernels to be completely cracked or smashed.
Matthew sealey UK how many acres do you farm
We farm about 1200 acres and purchase feed from our neighbors also.