(wrapping the freshly bailed silage)

Summer 2010

Not really Summer yet - more then end of Spring. With the wet year, everything is growing like crazy (including the snails - a bumper year for them as well). 

We had a short window of opportunity to have some of our grass cut for silage. The rest will go into hay later when it matures a bit more. 

Silage, for the uninitiated, is a green hay cut young and then bailed and wrapped. The plastic wrap is to keep it moist and let it ferment in the the absence of air. If it ferments correctly, you wind up with a product with higher protein and digestible carbohydrates than hay. The steers love it in winter, although hay is much better when they only have "watery" winter grasses - helps bind and fill them up during the cold days of winter.