Corn Silage Harvest is Finished!!!

This year, we harvested about 750 acres of corn for silage.  September was particularly busy since while we were filling our 2 existing bunkers, we were also pressing to get a new feed storage pad built.  In addition to hiring an engineer to design the pad, we needed to submit our plans to the DNR and get their approval. 

The above picture was taken on a Friday, September 16th.  You can see the large earth movers on the left side of the mirror - they were working on building our vegetative treatment area.  This is a 5 acre piece of land that will act as a buffer should any nutrients run off the feed storage area.  The large rectangular piece to the right of the mirror is undergoing final grading and where 4" of asphalt was poured the following week.

This next video was taken the following week when the silage pad was complete.  My nephew's Austin and Nate found this to be a great place to run with their RipSticks.  Unfortunately, they only had a few days before we started putting silage on the pad.

This video was taken from the pack tractor as we were putting feed on the new silage pad. 

The overall size of this pile is 120' x 275'.  In all it holds about 5800 ton of corn silage off of 250 acres.  It took this group (plus 4 others not pictured) about 2 hours to roll out the plastic and lay out about 2400 tires on the pile.