Corn chopping started on a cloudy, rain-in-the-morning, misty Thursday.
This year we are making earlage instead of silage.
What’s the difference?
Corn silage is every part of the corn plant, while earlage is just the grain, cob, and sometimes husks.
Both are chopped, packed, packed,
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| This pile is only about five dump truck loads of earlage. |
and packed some more, then left to ferment.
Have you ever smelled silage/earlage?
It has a sickly sweet smell that takes some getting used too.
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| Two of the brothers-in-law |
Both can be used as feed for dairy cows or beef cattle.
Here are a few scenes from the day, with a couple of explanations for some photos.
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A seven span pivot
This one is funny to me. They are talking to each other on their phones.
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Sigh. I wish I lived in the country! Very interesting. I used to live 3 houses down from a wheat field and I loved looking out over those “amber waves of grain.” ( :
Thanks for making me laugh:) You posted under one photo “Two of the brothers-in-law
Both can be used as feed for dairy cows or beef cattle.” I’m still giggling;)
I really enjoyed looking at the photos you posted. I love the way you captured it all. I would love to spend a week of vacation doing what ya’ll may consider a daily chore. You captured nature beautifully in these photos. Thanks for letting us have a peek.
Hugs…Tracy 🙂
@ Melanie,
Oh goodness, that is funny! I’m going to leave it. 🙂
I really enjoyed this post; basically because my family were farmers. I know the smells even how bring back memories. My father planted corn; but he was mainly into potatoes.
I enjoyed the thoughts and the pictures.
Keep on enjoying your moments!
I really enjoyed this post. Our family lives in Indiana where corn grows in abundance. Just this weekend we were driving home from Nauvoo through fields and fields of corn. We were having fun counting the harvesters as we drove and wondering what exactly they were doing. Thanks for the mini lesson!
I just love looking at those beautiful fields. Thanks for sharing the great pictures.
Thanks for the explination. We want to have sheep on our farm (*sigh* someday) and it says to feed them silage, I didn’t even know what earlage was!
Yet another example of us knowing JUST enough…gotta learn more. By the time we actually GET a farm we will be so stinkin smart!! 🙂
I’m with the person who commented they’d like to live in the country. I live in a small town in the country but no farms around me. I sometimes envy you and your family getting to live there.
I have smelled silage and I don’t think I’d ever get used to it. It stinks!! Growing up we had to travel through Scipio UT to visit our cousins. It always smelled of silage and we used to call it “Stinkio”. LOL
These pictures are absolutely beautiful!