Fall, Early Winter on the farm

[austin7930]

I didn't really take any pics this fall, i was way to busy, and it seemed that by the time we got started we were already done.... ;D

We started corn on Sept. 7, and the moisture was already at 16. We did all our corn this year before going to beans



This field the combine is sitting in was our best yeilder, 206 ave. My dad keeps saying he paid too much for this land, i don't think he did haha.


hauling out some sold corn


I went to a retirement sale in the first part of Nov. in watertown, sd. a guy the next town over was selling out his VERY nice herd of reg. Angus. this pair combined brought about $8000. His top bull went for over 10,500.


This week i had a custom hay grinder from flandreau, sd come up and grind some stalks with alfalfa. I figure its a way to trick the cows into eating cornstalks better ;D they do seem to like it when i mix it with silage. Those mighty giants are a very impressive machine!

[70ds]

Nice pics. That is common practice here. Mix the lower quality feed with the good stuff and grind it. Then the cows will eat it. A lot of guys grind wheat straw in for filler too, especially in the drought.

[koskovichi]

We havent fed any hay to the cows in some time. We mix corn husks in with silage, let the ration sit for a day to let the husks suck up some of the moisture from the silage and the cows always clean up everything we put in front of them nothing left in the bunks

206 bushel average sounds about as good as it can get this year!

[AgriKing]

Always thought the 20 series combines looked pretty sweet with duals.

[gmauch]

were feeding straw, milo stalks and alfalfa mixed. steers seem to love it.