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Our corn silage is finally all harvested. Mother Nature lightened up a bit with her rain and snow, and gave us some colder weather to firm the ground to travel across. The last corn silage was the best traveling ground; our custom harvester went across the whole season. My July 15 corn that we planted in 15-inch rows and 109-day relative maturity held some good moisture yet even though there was some damage from cold and snow. It produced some decent tonnage considering how late it was planted. The last 100 acres averaged about 11 tons to the acre; a 20-acre parcel averaged 16 tons. So with that being said, for how late it was planted I consider that a victory. It was definitely a better choice than what sudangrass and such would have been.
Josh Kroeplien of Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, farms 800 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa in Sheboygan County. He milks 550 cows. He is a custom-operator, doing field work for customers on an additional 5,000 acres and has a woodworking business called Josh’s Woodworks. He’s also a seed dealer.





