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Its funny that this farm sold and the old owners contract for silage. Myself and another come in and help them during silage season. Long days often but, pretty good side gig

Grass silage or a planted crop?

Grass but, it's taken care of the same as crop products. Plenty of liquid manure and fertilizers year 'round. In the summer when most farms are brown due to drought, these fields all get irrigated and are pretty much lush green. We used to let the grass dry a bit to bag but the KIWI's like to bag wet grass. Pain in the butt sometimes because it makes water in the bagger and slows things down.

What kinda grass y’all grow out there?

I'm not the expert but, Brad uses rye, clover, fescue in different mixes. We also had a huge field with clover, plantain and chicory. That was MY favorite because it pulled all of the elk off other farms lol. He hated that.
They do test fields and count grass blades, all of that fun stuff...

I need that Tedder behind that blue tractor, if that’s what that is..

Claas Rake I think. I ran a Claas 66 hay baler for years. Claas is good equipment, that chopper will straight up get after it. My Uncle had a old New Holland chopper with a big block ford gas motor in it when I was growing up.

If the fields were more flat a larger rake could be used, but it would get tore up in these fields. That blue LS tractor has held up really well. They have two of the large wagons here and another one down south but it's a Claas. A couple big tractors at that farm and two big JCBs here. Adding another JCB next week so, two wagons and a mower without having to swap back and forth. You're right, that chopper's legit, fast too. The bagger's actually made here in Astoria.

What is silage? I know I could google it but I’m old school where people actually interact with other people.

Silage is a forage that is chopped and Ensiled and packed in some way, to get the air out, either stacked, tubed or in a silo. Usually covered by a tarp if on the ground. Usually fed green looking several months later after going the the anaerobic process. It saves a lot of the nutrients this way. Mostly used here for dairy cattle.

Same here, the dairy guys use it. It rains so much here the cows hang out in big barns with long feeders. We fed 40-60k pounds a day. Typically a mix of silage, bakery, calcium, mineral etc...
The farm here bags the silage like pictured. The sister farm uses pits and heavy plastic tarps. For the pits, someone drives a tractor back and forth over it to pack it, not me lol.
All the beef guys here simply leave cattle out and feed hay.