Steigman uses a 43-foot bale mover modified for square bales, which he purchased in the spring.
Bottom Line
Better Silage
Income per acre calculated at $25.00 per ton of corn silage. Please contact your Pioneer sales representative
for information featuring silage moisture, measures of silage digestibility, and protein levels. All Pioneer silage
plots are reported with moisture adjusted to 70%.
Charles T. Wiles
Chopped 9/5/98
Hybrid
31G20
4672
Brand
Pioneer
Novartis
Damascus, Maryland
Montgomery County
Tons/A % DM Income
Brand Hybrid 70% Moist. Harvest /Acre
Doebler's 737XP 19 44 42.5 $486.00
Piooe«re: flaYta ■' „ o 43.4 J55ft7.75
Donald Leishear
Chopped 8/25/98
Jed Ef»3"‘ ri '
Chopped 9/15/98-
Hybrid
Brand
Cargill
Pioneer
F 657
3335
Spring Lawn Farms
Brand Hybrid
DeKalb DK6B7
DeKalb DK6B3
Pioneer 31G20
Preplan Gen 674
George Mason
Chopped 9/1/98
Brand Hybrid
Pioneer 3335
Pioneer 32K61
Pioneer 33Y18
Pioneer 33Q26
Pioneer 33Y09
Field Che 9114
Mycogen TMFII3
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Taneytown, Maryland
Carroll County
Tons/A % DM
70% Moist. Harvest
39.3
40.6
19.37
16.55
b 80013 ‘
York County
Tons/A % DM
70% Moist. Harvest
16.67 34.2
25.64 35.4
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Tons/A
70% Moist.
% DM
Harvest
35.9
34 0
39.5
46 1
27.86
28.07
30.49
26.44
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Franklin County
Tons/A % DM
70% Moist. Harvest
25.63 49.6
28.00 53.1
26.12 53.8
25.54 50.8
25.50 46.2
25.06 45.8
25.82 48.9
Barley Star Rock Farms
Chopped 8/21/98
Income
/Acre
$484 25
$413.75
Brand
Cargill
Pioneer
Pioneer
Cargill
Pioneer
Pioneer
Cargill
Pioneer
Lloyd Oberholtzer
Chopped 9/16/98
Income
/Acre
$416.75
$641.00
Brand
Field Che
Pioneer
John L. Landis
Chopped 9/17/98
Income
/Acre
$696.50
$701.75
$762.25
$661.00
Brand
Pioneer
Pioneer
Pioneer
Novartis
Pioneer
Novartis
Pioneer
Novartis
Pioneer'
Income
/Acre
$640.75
$700.00
$653.00
$638.50
$637.50
$626.50
$645.50
Novartis
Pioneer
Pioneer
Conestoga, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Tons/A
70% Moist.
23.11
25.36
24.74
22.05
24.37
23.46
24.14
22.53
23.33
Hybrid
7511FQ
3260
32K61
7301FQ
33Y09
31G20
8511FQ
3173
K|fFQ
Myerstown, Pennsylvania
Berks County
% DM Income
Harvest /Acre
34 0 $572.25
33 0 $605.50
Tons/A
Hybrid 70% Moist.
8309 22.89
3260 24 22
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Tons/A
70% Moist.
28. IB
26.56
30.85
27.40
29.78
27.83
27.87
27.78
30.48
25.65
27.66
30.23
Hybrid
31G20
3173
3260
N76398T
33Y09
N6BOOBT
32K61
MAX6O7
33A14
MAX2I
3335
33Y18
PIONEER
Foraging Around, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24, 199ft—Page
Income
/Acre
$577 75
$634.00
$6lB 50
$551 25
$609 25
$586.50
$603.50
$563.25
$583 25
%DM
Harvest
33.1
33.1
33.5
29.8
33 2
31.2
29 6
27.3
31 9
% DM Income
Harvest /Acre
35.3 $704 50
30.7 $664 00
37.6 $771.25
35.6 $685.00
36.3 $744.50
35.5 $695.75
37 0 $696.75
33.3 $694.50
37.3 $762.00
38.9 $641.25
37.4 $691.50
40.6 $755.75
SEED
CORN
For him, that means taking care of
the feed requirements of the crop.
“If you don’t use fertilizer, you
don’t have anything,” he said.
Steigm.'ji has been willing to test
new markets and products. For the first
lime this year, he has tried growing
edible soybeans for the organic food
grade market.
Steigman also wraps hay, including
straight alfalfa, an alfalfa/timothy mix,
and straight grass (timothy and reed
canarygrass), into large square bales.
About 300 bales stand in outside stor
age for sale.
Steigman sprays inoculant on the
hay as it is being baled for wrapping all
the time.
eliminate trips
up and down
the silo
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of 9.9 percent faoisture and 90.1 per
cent dry matter content. The sample
tested at 18.8 percent protein. Calcium
content was 1.22 percent, phosphorous
0.30 percent, potassium 2.10 percent,
and magnesium .30 percent. Cattle
TDN was at 66.23 percent and cattle
NEL .69 percent.
Relative feed value stood at 158
percent.
Steigman sells a lot of hay through
the Lancaster Farming mailbox
market, what he calls a “hot deal. I sell
a lot of hay through that,” said Steig
man. Many of his customers don’t
purchase hay on looks alone, but
demand to look at the “pedigree” of the
hay, the analysis that
tiygjeed vahjg^
He said a lot of Amish customers
analyze it or have their feed represen
tative come and analyze it, and purch
ase it by the “way it feeds,” said
Steigman.
For those who need forage during
the winter months, he provides a good
source.
Customers demand that the bales be
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