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Northwest Iowa | It doesn't seem like your getting much help. We put up 100 acres of haylage for years. Put it in a harvestore at first. Sure wouldn't advise that! Expensive storage and SLOW unload times would drive you crazy. When we wanted something different, we tried to decide between a pit dug in the ground and bags. Went with the pit dug in the ground. Haylage packs so well and makes such good silage that the 'better' quality from a bag, to us, was not an issue. Then, the math worked out to 2 years of bag and bagging cost would pay for a concrete floor in our dirt sided bunker. Let's see, silage on a concrete floor or bags in the mud. Your decision. If you already are chopping, and have a bunker dug into the side of a hill, and have room for another one, you will be very happy with feed quality of haylage in the bunker. Also, we just pulled the plastic back on the first cutting about 20 feet, put in the next cutting, and covered it again. Worked well. We switched to modified ddg's , so quit doing haylage. If this ddg's shortage keeps up, we may well go back to haylage in our bunker. Hope this helps. | |
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Best storage method for alfalfa haylage
