rye: 2018



Rye was no-till drilled on October 18 and November 1. 

 
The two fields of rye were cut on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning... one field of6 acres, and the second field of 8 acres. These fields were cut to be chopped and bagged as ryelage. And, we will feed the ryelage to cows late this summer as needed.

Rye was raked this morning to be chopped and loaded into wagons to fill a bag. 

catching rye as it is being chopped

Loads of rye were hauled back to the farm to fill the silage bag. Bagging crops like ryelage allows us to harvest high nutritional value forage and store it for later use. It has worked very well for us.

We finished chopping and bagging one field of rye. Then unfortunately, rain arrived. We were caught in a rain delay. So, we will have to wait to finish the second field of rye.