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Year of the Patriot: Gardens
bjrogg:
We had a good week. We switched our combine over for corn and my son’s combine to soybeans.
I harvested our soybeans, a neighbors and my son’s.
My nephew ran our combine and finished our dry corn to haul to elevator.
Then we all worked at my son’s high moisture corn for feeding his cattle. Here’s the last load for his bunker. Nice and full. Need to clean corners of cart out because it will be carting sugar beets tomorrow.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We run this corn through a roller mill to crack it. It helps the cattle digest it more efficiently and also helps it pack on pile so we can drive on it with push tractor. Ideally we like the moisture of the corn to be from 27 to 24 percent moisture. Much drier than 24 and it gets like driving on sugar. You can’t pack it good enough to drive on it with tractor. If you get stuck on this pile your going to need a sky hook to get out. This was getting just under 24 and you had to be really careful.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Here’s push tractor. As name suggests it push the cracked corn up on the pile and packs it.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The corn will ensile ( not sure how to spell that, but kinda like ferment ) and it will keep without spoiling that way. You want to limit it exposure to oxygen though so we cover the top with plastic to keep oxygen out. Then we put a thin layer of lime over top to hold the plastic down and keep wind from blowing it away.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Still have some corn for my son to dry yet but it needs a few more days.
We will work at switching everything over to harvest permanent pile sugar beets today and hopefully be digging beets tomorrow
Bjrogg
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