one of my communities youngest farmers struggling to make a go of it i seen last few days mowing an abandon farm for 'hay' thats been bought and not in use. he has made a deal to mow .its probably 20%-30% stick weeds and blackberry briers.its been dead for months so its pretty low quality stuff but he/we/commuity are so desperate for any type of feed hes mowing. the field is actually a fire hazard till now. its going to be some pretty low quality feed for his cattle. i want to see him make .was by a large corn field and its pretty sad. they cut outside edge and stopped. its so dry i think it wont make silage now. i have cut corn pretty dry and we actually pumped water into the blower to give it extra moisture to ferment properly and its way drier now than then. i even think its to dry to make a produce called earliage where only ear is cut and ground .its a powerful version of silage. i am pretty sure the guy is going to have to pick the corn to get best use from it now in its condition.
That's much more on point than saying "The US Has No Grain Reserves" and referring that we're all going to suffer.
I feel your pain. I spent plenty of hours crawled up inside of a combine making adjustments to save farmers from having a losing year verses one that they could make money.
They didn't know how to change the adjustments to compensate for varying conditions.
I could make just 3 adjustments and change their operation from 'losing thousands' to 'making thousands'.
I was well liked before there was anything called "
likes".
I've been there when their harvest was shut down when the combine sucked up a runaway fence-post and destroyed it's internals.
Talk about being under time constraints
Toss a 6" log into a complicated machine with spinning parts. It's carnage.
All along, I worked with them thru adverse weather conditions.
When a combine is mired up in 6-feet of mud and the driver pushed it too hard and broke the traction belt.
Who ya' gonna call?
Just wanted you to know I'm not just an armchair-warrior.
I've been there.
