baling the silage

With a week of fine weather forecast this week we cut 20 acres of grass on Monday to make into silage. Although silage doesn’t have to be completely dry (like  hay) when it is baled, it makes a better feed for sheep if it is fairly dry, so this week had been a perfect opportunity to get the job done.

With so much expensive machinery needed, most silage making is now done by farm contractors, so neighbouring farmer and contractor Bernard Worth arrived at 9-30am. With all this machinery on site, all 20 acres was baled and on the way to the wrapper by 1.00pm. A far cry from70 years ago when 20 acres of hay making would have taken 20 men and half a dozen horses a whole week!