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Alberta, Canada | One of the fields I took on this year was a 127-acre piece that had been an elk pasture for the past 19 years. I didn't find out it was available until June, so it was a mad scramble to get it useful. While we were at it, dad worked down about 20 acres of pasture, and a 5-acre horse paddock at home that we did swath grazing on. There's a picture of the 7710 running an IH cultivator in the 5-acre piece.
The first thing I did was go over it with a rented 14' Kello-BILT breaking disk.
Secondly, dad and I went at it with the neighbor's AGCOStar 8425 4wd tractor and 28' Steiger Trail-R-Disk breaking disk and the 7630 w/rented 26' Ezee-On disk.
Next, we harrowed it with a 70' Degleman heavy-harrows.
Finally, the neighbor came in and seeded with his 8425 and 45' Bourgault Air Seeder.
Lastly, we land-rolled it with a 40' Degleman behind the 7630.
The TV145 to pick rocks (after each pass) and pile brush.
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Growing Season
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To cut it, I borrowed the neighbor's swathers, 9240 Hesstons w/30' drapers.
The new baler (AGCO 7434) arrived just in time to start, but it had issues. Right out of the box it had minimal capacity, and finally it just wouldn't bale at all ---- the timing was off. I also had accumulator and knotter problems for the first few hundred bales, some can be blamed from the conditions.
As usual, the 7630 loaded, TV145 unloaded.
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For the fall work, I borrowed the neighbor's AGCOStar 8360 4wd and 36' Kello-BILT breaking disk.
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Ensiling Process
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For feeding this year we use the 7630 and a Degelman (Bale King) 4100 Vortex bale processor. My cereal silage bales weigh anywhere from 2,600-2,800lbs depending on the bag (moisture ranges from 60-64%). The cows love it, and the feed test results were quite good.
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Cereal Silage 08 - From seeding to feeding. (pics)
