Silage

Yesterday, I went out to the farm for the day to finish up our silage mound. The way we run our silage is one of them is out in the filled with the tractor chopping the corn stocks, then after the wagon is full, the next person in the dump truck will take it off back to the farm. That is where I was with my boyfriend driving the tractor to pack the feed together. All we did was drive back and forth on top of the chopped feed, making it air tight. We had to shape the pile like a dome, so when it rains, the water will just fall right off of it. We did that for about four hours, then We took the tarp, covered up the pile, then we threw tires on top of it. This is to try and get most of the air out from underneath so the food does not get moldy. We need the silage so we are able to feed the cattle all through the winter. We also will get loads of carrots and corn that the canning company do not use from Mankato. While I was up in the tractor, Karma wanted to come with us too. She jumped up into the tractor and road with us for a little while. Then, she saw her sheep friends running in the pasture, so she got excited to go see them.