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| I am thinking about making silage in barrels as a winter feed source for a few head of cattle. I have found the perfect forage harvester at this link http://www.daken.com.au/dakenag_lilly.html. Unfortunately it only seems to exist down under. Does any one know of a similar product in the US? Thanks
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Gehl used to make a 4 foot wide flail chopper, but they have quit making them. I wish I had one myself, but atlas I don't, so I have my grass silage custom chopped.
Corn silage though...now that I can do. I have the equipment to plow, harrow and broadcast seed corn down, and then cut the stalks with a chainsaw and then use a small Troy-Bilt brush chipper to convert the corn stalks into silage.
It is labor intensive for sure, but it does convert 1 acre of corn into 24 tons of feed! That is nice! The hard part is getting the corn to dry out before chipping them, and keeping them dry. I think it would be hard to chip the corn stalks and then try to preserve the feed in chopped form.
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Tell a welfare recipient they must work and they call their congressman. Tell a farmer he can no longer work and he commits suicide. No wonder 1/2% of the population feeds the other 99-1/2%!!
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