At lunch today we got to talking about the crops and how truely blessed we have been this year with all the crops. We have gotten rain at the right times, and the heat has not been as drastic as in years past, it has been a relatively “cool” summer. It is not even September yet and the corn is already ready to chop and put away for winter feeding. With corn you can either chop it all up and put it away as corn silage, in an upright silo or on the ground in either ag bags or in a trench silo, or you can shell it and store it as high moisture corn
and let the stalks lay in the ground to help build up the soil for the next crop. In this photo we are hauling corn silage from a farm about 4 miles from the main farm and storing it in the upright silos that sit just outside the creamery. The tractor drivers will pull the wagons up to the unloader that sits at the bottom of the 80 foot silos, and begin unloading the silage out of the side of the wagons, the unloader will chop the pieces of silage up into even smaller pieces and shoot it straight up into the pipe leading into the top of the silo where it will be stored until it is ready to be fed to the cows this winter.