Big Ben - 6/10/2024 20:09
t rock - 6/8/2024 17:54
Big Ben should way in, he will not merge Trit if I remember correctly, stems oriented a certain way do to the merger created nightmares for the chopper. We just started chopping Alfalfa/Grass with winter Trit no tilled in for tonnage boost... huge tonnage and probably only half of what you chopped. Would be pushing 5 ton if it was dry hay, as for weight half the weight per full trailer as corn silage... but we are only 50% moisture.
Yeah we didn’t merge trit because it didn’t pick up well and made lumpy windrows that were too big for the chopper anyway. Sounds like OP learned the hard way. In good trit, putting two windrows together with a twinstar rake kept a 700hp chopper plenty busy. Highest yield we ever cut was 26 tons per acre at 70%. Trucks filled fast there.
Triticale was crazy this year. We put 42' together to keep our 990's full. Farm average was 5.79 tons dry. Highest field was 9.35 tons dry. Just around the dairy was 6.57 tons dry average. We didn't cover many acres every day, but we sure chopped the tons!
Chopping triticale
