Ensilage Harvest, 2013

Ensilage, or Silage

The view from the top of the pivot

Looks like a really nice salad to me!

Salad shooter?

Today was a harvest that we are not used to.  Ensilage or Silage, this was our first year to grow it for the dairy and so the cutting was somewhat of a lesson in agriculture for me at least.  The dairy uses the silage for the cows to eat and has several farms around growing it.  I thought it was really pretty growing and Shawn loved checking on it every day.  He was amazed at how fast it grew and how quickly the sunflowers grew with it!  The machine cutting it is called an "Ensilage cutter" ....thats very technical isn't it!?  The trucks followed the machine through the field and then once full would take it to the dairy for them to dump, cover in salt, cover in plastic tarps and let ferment.  Kind of a cool day for McCowen Farms.