A great news letter on Minimum Tillage for farmers. This practice offers an alternative to No-till and the cumulative problems that can occur with weed management and nutrient run off.
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1. Minimum till haylage.
Minimum till haylage is a new process where we optimize the forage planted, care-
fully watch to harvest at the peak of quality, and then use the mower to mix a pile of dirt,
dead bugs, half rotten plant residue into the forage to make sure your feed will have limited
milk producing ability.
Looking at the table at the
right, the range of ash is
considerable. The worst
offended are legume and
winter forage (triticale).
There are two key points
this occurs.
First is the setup of the
mower. Most farmers drop
the pin in and go without
looking at the manual or making any adjustments. Most are set to mow much to close for the
good of the forage produced, the regrowth of the stubble left behind, and the rapid drying of
the crop for same day haylage. Fields are not table top flat. They are filled with little dips,
rises, and bumps plus rodent burrow mounds. The closer you mow the more the mower flat-
tens the field by incorporating the soil into the forage.
There is approximately 250 lbs. of dry matter in every bottom inch of an alfalfa field.
Most of it has no leaves and is very poorly digested by animals. Cutting higher than the soil
level is critical to leaving soil and poor forage behind. In addition, if you are late on harvest
(for first cutting straight alfalfa stand, the target is 33 inches tall) and your plant height is
above target, you can raise the cutter bar and move the harvest date back to where it was
good forage simply by leaving the bottom of the stem in the field.
Note in the table that the grass and mostly grass fields have much less ash both on
average and as a minimum. This is because grass farmers have learned that if they scalp their
fields, the grass portion of the stand will disappear. Numerous studies have shown that grass
regrows from the leaf tissue left. The more left, the faster it regrows for increased total year-
ly yield. Those who scalped their fields have little or no grass regardless of the variety plant-
ed. Successful farmers of grass leave a 3.5+ inch stubble.
A D V A N C E D A G S Y S T E M S ’
Crop Soil News
“It is the crops
that feed the
cows that make
the milk
which creates
the money.”
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Silage Crop Minimum
ash
Maximum
ash
Average
Ash
Legume 9 13.1 11
Mixed mostly Legume 8.4 12.1 10.3
Mixed mostly Grass 7.1 10.9 8.99
Grass 6.7 11.9 9.3
Triticale 7.48 14.2 10.8
Source: http://dairyone.com/analytical-services/feed-and-forage/feed-
composition-library/interactive-feed-composition-library/
2. For those capturing extra yield and the highest forage quality
by growing winter forages such as triticale, harvest can be problem-
atic as can be seen in the tables range and high average ash content.
As on farm yields move over 8 – 12 tons of silage/acre, how you
mow becomes more important. Wide swath is critical for any
chance of same day haylage. To dry this much forage you need air
movement around and under it. More importantly, for triticale and
for first cut red clover, you will need to move the swath to allow
drying of the lower layers. This means utilizing a tedder. If you
scalped the field, the tedder and the subsequent rake/merger will
need to root in the dirt in order to pick up the crop and move it to a
windrow. Tipping the disk mower back or putting on extended skid
plates will leave a taller stubble to allow for tedding plus raking/
merging without skyrocketing ash levels. This is very do-able as
can be seen in the very low minimum levels of some of the triticale
samples sent to the lab. (hand harvested triticale is 6.5—7)
The second key point is at the mower knife itself. Many use
twisted knives that act as propellers to create an up draft so downed
material is sucked off of the soil surface and cut. Yes, you are a
“good” farmer because your field is clean. Why you want this in-
corporated forage with no leaves (all stem) and a significant amount
of rot and mold into your forage is beyond me. Unfortunately, hav-
ing clean fields and feeding rotten forage is not the prescription for
profitable livestock farming. This updraft sucks loose soil and de-
bris off of the soil surface and into your forage, increasing the ash
level. A flat knife and flat disk mower drums will cut uniformly
without sucking up soil nor leaving small windrows. As you can
see in the picture at the right, the left side of the picture was mowed
uniformly and is drying rapidly. The right side has several small
windrows that are shaded, losing nutrients, and drying much slower
than a true wide swath due to the twisted knife vortex and drum ac-
tions.
So, what is a little dirt in the tons of forage? For starters you have just inoculated a highly digestible,
high sugar forage with a range of wild and not so beneficial bacteria. They are not good for your cows or for
making silage. Second, Dr. Sniffen of Fencrest LLC found that going from 9 to 11 %ash will knock 1.9 lbs of
milk off per cow per day. On a 100 cow dairy this is loss of over $11,590 in a 305 day lactation of a high
forage diet of 50% legume. Yes, you can rebalance the ration at the cost of more grain in order to reach the
same milk. Even this has its limits as Dr. Sniffen clearly points out: “the NDF concentration will go up; they
balance on the presumed analysis and the fact is that the NDF is not really the higher NDF but the lower NDF.
Thus they end up with inadequate effective NDF, and the cows get metabolic consequences.”
Bottom line: flat knives, higher stubble for maximum forage quality.
Sincerely,
Thomas Kilcer,
Certified Crop Advisor
172 Sunnyside Rd
Kinderhook, NY
12106
Tel: 518-421-2132
tfk1@cornell.edu
The Helping
Hand
to Better
Agriculture
For heavy, high quality crops such as winter for-
age or first cut red clover; tedding is key for rap-
id dry down same day haylage. Sufficient stub-
ble is critical to allow tedding and raking without
rooting in the soil to get the crop up.
Advanced Ag Systems LLC
Many wide swath same day haylage efforts are
frustrated by mowers that leave small windrows
(on right) instead of a uniform wide swath (on
left). Twisted knives contribute to the vortex that
creates the windrows that inhibit drying.