Much like last week, our silage chopper was in the farm shop more than the field during the first part of the week. We anticipated being down for a day to replace a set of bearings, but we found other parts that needed replacing as well. It was Wednesday morning before we finally had the new parts in and the chopper all put back together. Since then we've chopped 18 of our 50 acres of BMR-90 forage sorghum, which is yielding an estimated 7-8 tons per acre. Barring any more major maintenance issues [knocking on every piece of wood I can find] we should finish chopping this particular variety next week. We will then move on to our final silage crop of the year: 100 acres BMR-108 Leafy forage sorghum.
Here are a few photos from this week's harvest:
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| a half-harvested sorghum field |
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| our BMR-90 forage sorghum is averaging 7-8 tons/acre |
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| the BMR-108 Leafy variety is about a food shorter than the 90 but much more, well, leafy |
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Awesome! Love the farm live..
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