Baling forage sorghum/forage soybeans for Baleage

good afternoon everyone it is sunday september 27th guys it's 1 34 on that clock and we are trying to make some village uh it's been a struggle uh this will make ah see it's been a struggle net wrap not feeding correctly well let's go see what we got going on here oh uh i just uh frustrated i think it's a wiring harness i've been fighting it all day yeah we get this one done it'll be bale well we got net wrap there it's not there it's not on the bale we might get some rain of course so i guess we're going to make life interesting so let's try this again get your baler winder up hit rap see what happens tie the bay wall maybe hopefully well i can see that wrap on the bale too so [Music] it is tied i just want to get these few point rows here finished up [Music] i was hoping i wanted to put up a hundred bales originally and then i get to fighting this and uh actually most of the there's still a whole bunch over there between here and that other wine wrap i think it's too dry it's borderline dry enough for dry hay so it is what it is but we're going to do this we should get just a touch over 70 maybe even 75 uh these i'm making them 50 inches tall so i can handle them easier but we get struggled through the next 10 bales i'm going to call again i get this a little bit here bailed up let's see here you guys probably wouldn't mind watching me bill see even this is fairly dry i got a hold of a guy that i know that does quite a bit of balance for some advice and uh he said as long as it's over 17 which i know this where i'm at i'm thinking his third here a little better [Music] the leaves and stuff are really dry i know that you can see that they're coming off but i know the stalks are juicy and i think i did bale a few of them around the outside and stuff that i thought were probably a little too dry my theory is i'm going to mix them in the middle of the pile with these ones that have the moisture and see if we can't get it to average out make some decent mileage if not i guess worst case scenario i'll have dry hay that's small tails than a wrap so i guess we'll see what happens there uh this is the same field if you watch i took the failage the feed max baylor drop up i got 44 bales off the whole field doing that i'm not even going to build half of it we have 66 of these now normally i would make a 62 inch bale which uh i figured these for material wise are about 50 so i'd have 33 large bales which is pretty good off of about 12 acres should be in half you know so there's about i think you're just shy of 26 acres in this field so [Music] we're doing okay there excuse me so sure would take a little rain shower at least settle the dust for a couple days make everybody and everything feel better [Music] i have had to treat a couple calves at home that are weaned i did lose one which i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it a little too late i'm getting them treated but uh [Music] grandpa dad neighbor it seems like you know if you're gonna have them you're gonna lose them so that's the way it goes it's part of life nothing ever makes it out alive so uh one way or another [Music] it's still not any fun but uh so this is uh kind of a concoction i made up the planet behind the feed max we actually today we built the feed max it was grilled right behind it um it's forage sorghum which is most of the tonnage and uh supposed to be forage soybeans and they're hard to see i can see them in a windrow i'm sure you probably can't but uh things got a little crispier than i thought they would this stuff was cut on fridays all and it's sunday so i mean it was in the 90s and the wind was blowing but i it shouldn't be this dry so it was mostly five to six foot tall the forage sorghum was um it's a little coarse but i knew that going into it probably was going to be uh trying to get you know soybeans [Music] uh i had enough sorghum and i was happy with that i just wish i had more soybeans so that's a lesson going forward um i need to plant more soybeans however i also think that soybeans might have made themselves smaller uh trying to compete with the sword and the sorghum would out compete without complete them for size pretty fast so we'll just see there's a lot of hay here there's quite a bit of ton of jamming for double crop i'm happy with it uh this field was just straight forward sorghum last year and this year was feed max and ford and sorghum service i've taken a lot of hay off over the last couple years my plan is next year this field and the field that's tough grass which actually is adjacent to this field you have to go through the tough grass field to get here um that field was alfalfa for four years and then tef grass this year so i need to get these into row crop get some organic matter built back up into them uh and i'm gonna keep producing hay over where the sorghum sedan is it's that green spot over there on the hill it's behind them trees now but there you can kind of see it over there that's where my sorghum sedan was off of that house sorry that was pretty close up my nose i hope it's halfway clean for you so that there's 88 acres in that field we're going to split it up i think next year i'm going to try forage sorghum and forage soybeans again however i'm going to plant them as a primary crop on the field you know not as a double crop of themselves and then my hope is to take them off for hay you know in august dish i don't know i'm throwing out a number there and uh plant like rye or triticale back into it for either grazing or haying or next year or both maybe maybe both so um this field here i was tempted to plant wheat and it actually just as a cover crop sorry and wheat because wheat is cheap it's the cheapest thing i could plant so if we're gonna go to milo we wouldn't want to kill until you know the 10th or 15th of may which would give us plenty of time to get it killed uh get a good make sure we got it killed and uh you know give us a chance to get the milo planted in there about the 25th of may so that's kind of what i'm thinking i might do we'll see uh the tough grass actually there's they got two cuttings if we got a little rain we haven't had a frost yet we haven't even closed them for a couple weeks so um that the weather guessers are showing right now so i would have had three cuttings off that if we got solar rain that's okay it didn't happen but there is good cover over there i think i'll just leave it go and then uh we'll probably have to do a burn down on that one in april we'll clean it up good but they give me about 65 acres of milo right here in one piece essentially and then so that's the plan for these two fields i've got the bale wrapper over just over the hill i got to move it over here get it set up sorry i'm watching what i'm doing a little bit gotta get the wrapper over here and get it set up and then get the uh tractor over here i got a couple dry bales to bring over for end caps uh in plugs whatever you want to call them so and then get to wrap and it's a quarter to two it's gonna be two when i get done i'll just say that it's gonna be it's gonna be 4 30 or so before i get started wrapping it i got 71 bales what kind of 75 so take at least two hours to wrap so i might get done before dark otherwise i'll be pretty close i'm gonna have to run hold my tractors at home uh my white ford pickup is down it's got a cracked exhaust uh exhaust pipe flex pipe behind the turbo and uh it's been mechanics for 10 days now i'd really like to have it back that's also part of the reason we bought my wife her pickup is uh i'm trying to figure out how in the heck he cut this anyway uh well i have to go home and steal hers to hold the tractor down but i had all the wrap and everything on my old red flatbed so that's excuse me get the wrap removed over here set the wrap off uh go home and get the tractor and the other pick up and come down and rap hey as a plan so i'm probably gonna have to go to town and get some gas for the rapper i bet i've got six full rolls plus three parts and rolls that should get me there i hope otherwise we get a run up but find some more rap i got two pallets sitting in the shed so i did a big deal but uh so we're getting some rain sprinkles on ain't gonna amount to anything i don't think the weather guy said zero percent so i gotta guess he's pretty right so let's make 72. we're gonna end up with about 73 males to wrap we might bail a little bit on the way out we'll see i got two over there that are exploded so it's been a rough day it's sunday i suppose i should have known better but no rest for the weary it's either way good or however that goes oh excuse me so i'm just going to keep going away here about got these wrapped up so if i get time or board we might get some videos wrapping or a video unwrapping the bad part about that is with the tractor i have we won't be able to do much talking about it so we'll just have to do it and see what happens all right well thanks for watching and we'll catch you later

Channel: Montgomery Livestock

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Id: Y3rWK1vmm9Y

Length: 12min 49sec (769 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2020