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#No till farming corn is planted in the spring
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#checking to make sure corn seed is planted at the correct depth
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#Corn has started to grow
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#Mature Corn
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#Corn Tassels
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#In late summer whole corn stalks are harvested with the corn chopper
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#Corn Silage is the main feed ingredient for our cows
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#The chopped corn stalks are called corn silage
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#The header that cuts the corn stalks
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#Corn silage gets hauled to a bunker silo and unloaded
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#Two tractors move corn silage and keep driving over it to pack it down
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#Tractor piling up corn silage
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#Another load of corn silage delivered to the bunker
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#Tractor packing the corn silage
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#Tractor on top of silage bunker
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#After bunker is filled & packed, plastic is pulled across the silage to cover it.
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#Tires are placed on the plastic to keep the plastic in place
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#Bird netting is stretched across the tires to keep birds from pecking holes into the plastic
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#Close up view of top of bunker with plastic, tires & bird netting.
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#Cow manure being spread on the field for fertilizer.
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#Corn is shelled in late fall. A combine separates the corn kernels from the stalks and cobs
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#The corn kernels are stored in the combine until it's full. The fodder )corn stalks and cobs) come out the back of the combine
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#The shelled corn gets loaded onto a truck and hauled to grain bins for storage
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#Full truck load of shelled corn
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#Truck delivering shelled corn to grain bins
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#Shelled corn being unloaded
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#Rye is planted in the fall after the corn is harvested and manure is spread on the field
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#Rye is mowed in the spring
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#Mowed Rye is called ryelage
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#After rye is harvested, manure is spread on the fields (according to the agronomists recommendations). Corn or soybeans are then planted.
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#A chopper chops the rye and blows it into a wagon
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#The ryelage is blown into upright silos by a blower
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#The ryelage is fed to our heifers (young cows that have not had a calf yet)
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