Posted by thurlow on May 12, 2008 at 14:11:18 from (74.250.7.10):
In Reply to: o/t what is silage posted by Nancy Howell on May 12, 2008 at 10:18:37:
It's been pretty much covered below; I've cut thousands of acres of corn for silage, with occasionally some half corn/half sorghum. Corn was cut in the 'hard dough' stage; if cut too early (some milk still in kernel), the machine would blow it (milk) out. We had 2 trench silos for about 30 years and also did a lot of (local) custom harvesting......filling either trenches or upright silos. I've posted this before on one of these forums........running an A-C cutter with cut-and-throw knives moaning was just about the most enjoyable thing I've ever done on the farm. If put into a trench, we covered it with 6 mil black plastic, sealed the edges with a little soil and covered the plastic with car tires. After it fermented, it smelled good enough to eat.
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