What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Absolutely beautiful day here in Pittsburgh. I would take this weather all winter long.

 

That's a great shot.

 

Got my deer processed and In the freezer this evening. I still need to finish cleaning up but that's going to wait until tomorrow.

Im about 50% done making a cherry cabinet for my mom. Just need to make the doors, sand, and finish. Should have it done by Thanksgiving.

Two more days of work and the wife and I are going in a nice little getaway.

 

Entirely different process.
The hay is cut, but not left to dry as much as when baling it, then it's chopped up finely and blown into that wagon shown in the video. From there it's stored packed into some kind of oxygen limiting storage area (silo, giant silage bag, bunker, etc) where it ferments into silage, which is great cow food. This process is done with corn too...the whole plant is chopped up, not just the corn kernels.

 

Caffeine!

Time for my beautiful fence to come back down.

 

Down here, I'd lay odds that quite a bit more hay goes for silage than corn, but there is lots of that too.

 

brenndatomu Besides silage what are other major uses of hay. I mean I get horses and landscaping etc but that’s a small percentage I assume. Well here it is as our climate is 120 days between frosts and that less at elevation, over 2000 feet 90 days on good year

 

Hay is almost totally animal feed (critters of all kinds) its just a matter of if its made into silage, or further dried and baled (silage, which involves fermentation has different nutritional qualities than baled hay does, even though it may from the exact same field)
When I was a kid 1st cutting hay usually went into the silo, then 2nd and 3rd crop may be baled. (we can get 3, sometimes 4 crops per year in our neck of the woods here in NEOH)
Corn can be harvested for silage, (whole plant is chopped up) or just the ear may be plucked off and stored whole, or the corn kernels shelled off and used for feed (or whatever...ethanol/fuel )
If the corn is not used for silage (whole plant) then often times the farmer will come back after the corn itself is taken off and cut the stalks down, then bale it for bedding...which the critters will often eat some of that too.
You mentioned landscaping...generally that's wheat or oats straw that gets put down over newly seeded grass, but I've used hay before (because I had some junk hay, and no straw) it's not real common though.

 

Great answer brenndatomu thanks because it’s so different here. No wheat or oats available so landscaping is hay or straw. Here mostly dairy farms short season