Teemu Called This "grass Food For Cows", Which They Bundle Into Plastic & Stack In The Fields.
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Teemu called this "grass food for cows", which they bundle into plastic & stack in the fields.
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David Hibbeln
In the US this is called "baleage". Its is an ensilage method of storarge forage crops for ruminants - mostly cows/beef or dairy. It was first stored in vertical silo's, then in horizontal bunk silos. For the silage process to work, its a fermantion process you need to remove excess air, in the vertical silo this was done by wieight compaction, the last in pushed on the first is. In bunk, the tractors flatten the cut corn or grass. In Haylage you cut the grass green/wet, rake into long lines called windrows and then gather into a round bale enclosed in an open mesh netting then wrap in 12 layers of plastic to squeeze out the air. Wait about 45 day until it cools down and then you can feed it. You can see see the effect of the drought and heat conditions. I'm assumeing that few bales have been moved off this field and these look like first cuttings since its july and grass is green. if it was brown the grass would have not regrown and still be brown from the cut. If I'm correct the hay harvest was poor on this field since i would expect to see 3 to 4 more the number of bales on this size field.
David Hibbeln In the US this is called "baleage". Its is an ensilage method of storarge forage crops for ruminants - mostly cows/beef or dairy. It was first stored in vertical silo's, then in horizontal bunk silos. For the silage process to work, its a fermantion process you need to remove excess air, in the vertical silo this was done by wieight compaction, the last in pushed on the first is. In bunk, the tractors flatten the cut corn or grass. In Haylage you cut the grass green/wet, rake into long lines called windrows and then gather into a round bale enclosed in an open mesh netting then wrap in 12 layers of plastic to squeeze out the air. Wait about 45 day until it cools down and then you can feed it. You can see see the effect of the drought and heat conditions. I'm assumeing that few bales have been moved off this field and these look like first cuttings since its july and grass is green. if it was brown the grass would have not regrown and still be brown from the cut. If I'm correct the hay harvest was poor on this field since i would expect to see 3 to 4 more the number of bales on this size field.