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Corn silage harvest wraps up in Michigan

A Michigan farmer says recent rains saved his silage crop this season.

Dairy farmer Blaine Baker tells Brownfield corn silage harvest on his southeast Michigan farm wrapped up for the year last week with better than expected yields.  “Everybody in the neighborhood was quite surprised with how yields turned out, we knew from walking through the fields it was going to be average anyway—we weren’t even expecting average six weeks ago.”

He says he suspects average tonnage was in the low 20s which was much better than what he was projecting a month ago. Baker says next on the harvest schedule is soybeans in about two weeks and manure applications.

AUDIO: Interview with Blaine Baker