Silage ? ! ?

[Sarge68]

I assume one makes silage like in other games. By filling the bunker with grass and packing it down and letting it ferment.

The fodder mixer seems to want even amounts of grass, hay and silage. I don't see a way to bale silage so I guess one puts a bale of grass and a bale of hay and scoops silage with a loader to make up the other third. Does that sound right? There is usually some level of instruction about such things.

I finished the My First Farm portion and it moved me into Free Farming. I guess that makes me a real farmer now. since I have over 3000 hours in FS (13,15 and 17) I think I was already. I was just a little surprised to get all the way through with no mention of baling hay or grass or making silage.

This one was not "typical" so I asked a lot of questions but It seems good. I hope they do some more upgrading and add some more vehicles.

[adamg]

Hi, After transporting the grass to the silo, you can later pour it with front loader with bucket into the feeder. You can't baling, you can't do silage . Silage can be done only in a situation when after mowing we baling grass and then we wrap. I hope this helps. Lets us know, thank you.

[Kaeru Gaman]

that is a bit odd, since those concrete bunkers are for making silage in RL. you cannot store fresh grass in any way. either you tedder it to let it dry, then you'll get hay, or you cover it to make it ferment, then you'll get silage. if you just store fresh grass on a heap, it will rot and become a kind of stinking manure.

[Norljus]

The silage section even mentions this silo: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1338432061
I hope it will get implemented too.

[[ Col ] Chamberlain]

Originally posted by adamg:

Hi, After transporting the grass to the silo, you can later pour it with front loader with bucket into the feeder. You can't baling, you can't do silage . Silage can be done only in a situation when after mowing we baling grass and then we wrap. I hope this helps. Lets us know, thank you.

Change the Grass Storage into a Silage Storage..Pleaseeeeeeeeeee...not anyone needs a Grass Storage.

[Sarge68]

OK so I've mowed some grass and baled it and wrapped it. How long does it take to become silage and does it change in appearance or just stay wrapped until you use it.

[memmelaar]

sarge i think it takes about 1 day just walk up to it and it will give a % and when it is ready it will say grass silage

[Sarge68]

DUH! never thought to walk right up to it.

Thanks

[Medley Of Games]

Before I read this thread, I filled up my "Large grass storage" as well, thinking it had to be 100% full before you could blanket it and let it turn into silage. It's filled, but now just worthless. Any thoughts on turning this into a proper silage silo devs??

[Fendt Fan84]

I hope the game became with future updates maize as fruit. Than maize for harvesting is perfect for silage production in the silo.

[Deejoo]

Originally posted by Fendt Fan84:

I hope the game became with future updates maize as fruit. Than maize for harvesting is perfect for silage production in the silo.

I hope this too. Was great if we had the right vehicles too to make silage and maize harvesting

[jeremyj621]

Originally posted by Da Jojo:

Originally posted by Fendt Fan84:

I hope the game became with future updates maize as fruit. Than maize for harvesting is perfect for silage production in the silo.

I hope this too. Was great if we had the right vehicles too to make silage and maize harvesting

I'm surprised they have yet to add corn as a crop. There is already a forage harvester in the game, but right now it can only be used on the Columbia map to harvest hemp.

[Medley Of Games]

Originally posted by jeremyj621:

Originally posted by Da Jojo:

I hope this too. Was great if we had the right vehicles too to make silage and maize harvesting

I'm surprised they have yet to add corn as a crop. There is already a forage harvester in the game, but right now it can only be used on the Columbia map to harvest hemp.

Agreed, I'm surprised as well

[LadyBoss85]

"" Hi, After transporting the grass to the silo ... " How ? :( Ive tried a lot, but nothing works.. im in FreeFarm Montana, So far so good with some little questionmarks. I managed to make a bale, but I wanted to transport the loose grass to the grass storage.. But how ?
Tried the "scoop thing" .. nope... tried the "harvest / forage thing" ...nope.. Could only harvest with the thing on the front attatched, not forage ?
Gaming should be fun, and i would have like to have a decent encyclopedia / info in-game, not a headache... LOL Still searching...