Corn Is Up

Sunny and 70 today!  We need dry and sun for a few days but today is a start.  No hay made today either because its still too wet from the rain.  The first alfalfa crop is the thickest when its cut so tomorrow we will rake the windrows over so they dry faster.  Jim was home this weekend and spent some time working on a wiring issue on one of our tractors.  He wasn't able to finish the project but the wiring issue isn't a problem since the tractor will spend its days blowing haylage up into the silo, that is, if we ever get to chop it! The chopper is all hooked up and sharpened and the chopper boxes are all geased and ready to go.  We have moved on to plan B with the harvest.  With the lack of weather cooperation making getting this crop off later and more mature than desired, we will now chop the first crop for heifer feed.  Generally we try to make the first crop as dairy feed since its the most plentiful crop but it is nice to have the option of waiting for 2nd and 3rd crop.  Bruce disconnected the blower from the silo here and moved it over to Ed's.  In order to fill a silo you first have to lift the unloader all the way to the top.  The blower itself is reconfigured so it will center and balance on a cable and a motor pulls it up.  Once the silo is full the unloader is put back into unloading position and starts feeding off the top of the silo.

There is excitement in the cropping world!

No till isn't pretty but we can see rows of corn now

The corn in Jason's Field is UP!!