[AT] Corn Binding/Hay

[carl gogol]

I was wondering if your plan is to feed the corn whole or to subsequently 
chop it with a corn blower or some other means of making small pieces for 
ensilage?  Other than manually cutting the headlands and the center two rows 
of a field, we chopped everything for ensilage.  The headlands corn was 
fresh cut with a corn sickle and then we fed a very full pickup load daily 
in the pasture, but seems like the only thing the cows ate were the ears and 
almost nothing else.  Used to put the truck in low range low gear then get 
out and walk behind it pulling the stalks off if there was no one else to 
drive.  We tried to time it so the headlands and center were all cut before 
chopping started - no waste that way.  One year we didn't finish the center 
row in time, but my dad still made me go cut and feed it to get it off the 
ground for ease of plowing later.
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
AC One Seventy diesel
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400 & B7300HST
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:54 AM
Subject: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay


> Hello,
>
> Hay here in east central Illinois is a little tight this year.  I have 
> about half of what I normally would put up in the barn, and probably won't 
> get another cutting this year.  To make up the short fall, I thought I 
> might cut a couple of acres of corn to feed.  I