corn sillage what do i need?

[DOOMER]

Hi i dont know how to make corn sillage what do i need? i have to buy the biogas plant ? its quite hard to figure out since theres not even tutorial in the game that shows how its done

[tjmack]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5JSZWKFbA

[Mod Sloth]

Yes, buy the biogas plant. Then you'll need a seeder that can plant corn. I use the Tempo L 16. To harvest, you'll need a forage harvester and header, and a trailer that can hook to the forage harvester. I recommend Sugarcane trailer for its large capacity. Haul the chaff (harvested from the corn) to the biogas plant and dump it in one of the bunkers. Once all the corn is harvested and dumped, pack the chaff by driving over it with a tractor until it's 100% compacted. Cover the compacted chaff. Wait for it to ferment into silage. Once fermented, use a conveyor system or loader and silage fork to move the silage to the selling point at the biogas plant.

[DOOMER]

ok and do i need forage harvester or i can use mex 5 on tractor? thanks

[Mod Sloth]

Originally posted by stratto:

ok and do i need forage harvester or i can use mex 5 on tractor? thanks

Yeah, Mex 5 will work.

[Oceansize]

An alternative to towing a trailer behind the forage harvester is to Hire a driver for the forager and then drive a bigger trailer alongside it. The trailers you can use for this can be bigger than the trailers you can pull behind the forager, so less trips to empty the trailer. Admittedly not as great a feeling of satisfaction as you'd get doing it all yourself. :-)

OR, I believe (maybe it's the Max5 you mention) there is a front-loading tractor attachment that harvests and then throws the chaff over the tractor into a trailer behind, if you wanted to get your feet wet without buying a forager.

[Ruges]

if you already have a mower. and a windrower. You might want to consider testing it all out with grass. while not as proftable as profitable as corn. its allot easier to get into early on.

With grass, it is ready in 2 stages. and you only ever need to fertilize it once. dont need to plant, dont need to plow, dont need to lime.

With corn, you will need to plow each time. you will also need to cultivate each time since the planters dont also cultivate. You will need to fertilize twice. and lime every 3 times. Also a decent sized plow requires a pretty beefy tractor.

[Ferrus]

Theres a few ways of doing silage,But only 3 you really need to concern your self with:

1) Cheap and Easy : all this requires is the small pottinger mower, a tractor, a loading wagon and some grass fields. The beauty with grass is that will grow back after each harvest and if you want to put other crops in all you need to do is cultivate the grass in and plant over the top. The only down side is the yeild is a little low

2) Cheap Maize silage: It showed up breifly in the video, but the first header (pottinger mex 5, I think) in the forage header window is a device you can mount to the front of your tractor, so it more or less the same style as above. The down sides here are that you cant hire a worker (although Ive never tried with the pottinger on another tractor and drove along side my self) and you have to plow after every maize harvest. Hired workers dont get on well withe the bigger ploughs, mainly due to the truing size they have, so a subsoiler may be a btter option if you want to go down that route

3) The video : This is the most expensive option. A decient set up will cost you 400k minimum and if you on a budget the other options are probably the best way to start off. Theres nothing more I can say that wasnt already covered except HP doesnt really matter with the foragers, all go roughly the same speed.

For dumping silage into the BGA there are a few options:

Front end loader : cheap but slow

Telehandler : more capacity in the bucket but still a bit slow

Wheeled Loader : High capacity but expensive

Belt system: Cheap(ish) but you will have to fiddle about with them each time you want to unload the bunker, and maybe use one of the above options to grab silage and dump it in the belt system AOE

There is also silage bales which require grass, mower, windrower and baler. Two options for balers new holland or Khun, NH you will need a seperate wrapper for. The Khun one has a wrapper built in, cant remember the name but not hard to miss, and can also be used for other bales. All you need is to mow your grass field, row the grass into rows with the windrower,bale and transport to the barn.

You can either make a pigs ear out of it and try and load the bales onto a flatbed or download the ursus bale transporter of the ingame mod hub. It only hold 8 bales but much easier than trying to stack them. Square bales are also a option for this and require the Square Khun baler and the Khun wrapper. Square bales are much easier to handle if you feel like stacking, if not theres the square auto stacker.

[ancienthighway]

An alternative to buying the specialized equipment needed is to lease it.

In FS19, you can move silage to the unload point with a loading wagon, or tipper filled with conveyers or loaders.

[tjmack]

I rare use corn silage - too much work. I tow the trailer behind the FH myself. The Workers' AI is a bit crappy in FS19. and I don't rely on them to do a neat job of driving the FH. Hopefully, we'll get a 'Follow Me' mod for FS19, soon.

Just experiment, man. If you've got autosave turned on you can try both grass and corn, Max5 or FH, lease or buy, tow trailer ehind FH or hire worker - and you can revert to a backuped game in your 'x:\Users\yourilogin\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2019\savegameBackup' folder. at any time by copying the files in there to your current savedgame folder.

[Clakz]

I leased the Equipment needed and bought the largest field in the map on day 1. You can imagine the rewards for doing silage for four hours! Then planted soy beans twice to afford the biogas plant. I use silage every third harvest because you need to plow anyway. So why not two flies in one smack?

So plant grain, grain, corn, plow, grain, grain, corn, plow.

Instead of using a beefy tractor and plow, i use three Fendt 500 Favorit with 4 metre sub soilers behind them. Thats 12 metres of plowing at 12kph for less than what a large tractor costs per hour! And that includes the workers pay. Size doesnt matter when quantity excels.

I also run both Kverneland (i grew up at the norwegian Village where the Kverneland brand originated btw, yay me!) herbicide on front, and a Kverneland fertilizer set at 24 or 28 metres depending on the herbicide. Again tractors cost alot to use / lease / own. Reduce time spent in them and save money. Fertilize and deWeed at the same single pass.

If you really wanna save money, use the 59.000 euro cheapest tractor Fiat 1300 DT. Its 150hp! Good for all the simple sub soilers. Then spend the money on something nice for yourself. Like a large Fendt 1050 or medium Deutz Farh Series 7 (mod) with 63kph limit for transportation of all the phat produce and general tasks.

[Clakz]

Oh and if you get bored silaging, i highly recommend listening to audio books. I personally use audible.com. Its a blast chilling away and keeping fingers occupied with silage, while some scifi horror books churn in my headset.

[Tankfriend]

Did you have to necro a 2year-old thread for that?
Also

I use silage every third harvest because you need to plow anyway.

This is outdated. In FS19, you no longer need to plow after every third harvest (this has shifted to spreading lime). Plowing now is only necessary after harvesting certain crops like corn, beet, potato and sugarcane.

[Clakz]

I googled and it came up. Google is the master necro. What does the "occasional plow" setting mean then?

[Tankfriend]

What I just wrote - you only need to plow after corn, beet, potato, and sugarcane.
Depending on the map you're playing, some fields might also start out as "needs plowing" when you start a new game on that map.

[Oceansize]

Just an FYI, it takes more effort to complain about a necro than it does to Unsubscribe from a necro.