
2015 Interviews
11 years ago
On September 21 and 22 the Boschee Brothers (Cleo and Richard) had their 110 acres of corn silage custom chopped by the Meidinger Enterprise, Herrid, SD. The following pictures were taken during the process. The silage cutter cuts eight rows at a time, four trucks are used to haul the product to the silage pile, and a 8130 John Deere tractor driven by a South African worker helped Richard (6400 John Deere) pack the silage. This process took about eleven hours. Normally it would take Richard and Cleo 7-10 days. Their cutter can only cut two rows at a time. This corn averaged 17 - 18 ton per acre. This amounts to 1.980 ton which equals to 3,960,000 pounds of corn silage. Now that is a lot of feed for our angus cattle. This synopsis was written by Cleo and Joan Boschee.


