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[jakethesnake]

We plant em sometimes too. Never ate one but I’d try him

 

[ajschainsaws]

Here you go @Wilhelm

How To Grow Mooli, aka Daikon, Japanese Radish, or Oriental Radish, - Bite Sized Gardening

How To Grow Mooli AKA Daikon, Japanese Radish, Winter Radish, Oriental Radish, Long White Radish is a Winter Grown Asian Veg Now Grown in UK

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[Lnk]

So, around here these are planted as "green fertilizer" after the wheats are harvested, meaning they will get plowed under soon or freeze in the winter.
They look fantastic and I am told they are great & safe for animal food.
What I wanna know, are they good/safe for human consumption?!
This is just a mid sized one, there are much bigger ones in the fields!
Yes, I know it is a radish.

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Daikon radishes are awesome soil amenders. They also mine minerals from pretty deep. Break up hardpan clay soil too.

 

[Only the Tony]

Told one of the local hair dressers that my cows had frosted tips yesterday.

 

[Mastermind]

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Told one of the local hair dressers that my cows had frosted tips yesterday.

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who rolls their hay out.

 

[jakethesnake]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who rolls their hay out.

I roll mine out of the ground is good and dry. Only tried it due to you fellas sayin it was a decent method. If it gets wet I put it in a feeder.

 

[jakethesnake]

I push mine around with a loader to unroll. Is there a tool for this job? How’d you get that outta the picture??

 

[JimBear]

I push mine around with a loader to unroll. Is there a tool for this job? How’d you get that outta the picture??

Yes, baler unrollers are manufactured for 3pt use on tractors & bale beds on pickups.

They are really handy

In the photo that front corner is hinged & operated off a hydraulic cylinder.


The units have fingers/triangles that pinch the bale in the center.

 

[Mastermind]

I push mine around with a loader to unroll. Is there a tool for this job? How’d you get that outta the picture??

I can see the arm and corner of the unroller.

 

[jakethesnake]

Thanks fellers. Never knew they were a thing. Old man used to go Turkey hunting out in the hills somewhere VA I believe. He said that old guy pushed them down a big hill. Guess they unrolled on the way down

 

[Mastermind]

Thanks fellers. Never knew they were a thing. Old man used to go Turkey hunting out in the hills somewhere VA I believe. He said that old guy pushed them down a big hill. Guess they unrolled on the way down

That works......till one runs over a calf. LOL

 

[legdelimber]

"Cheap Thrills" are always right were ya find 'em.

 

[Only the Tony]

I push mine around with a loader to unroll. Is there a tool for this job? How’d you get that outta the picture??

I'll get you some pictures in the morning when I feed them. Several times I will load them backwards from how they were baled so as to fluff the hay and not put as much in a single location. Takes longer to unroll but less waste most times. Dad had cataract surgery done last year so we baled late and the stuff I am feeding has a lot of stems. Got to work on getting earlier cuts done in the upcoming years.

 

[Only the Tony]

 

[jakethesnake]

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So you clamp him then drag him to unroll ??

 

[Only the Tony]

So you clamp him then drag him to unroll ??

Yes. I can pick it up from ground contact and unroll where ever I want. Takes a bit of practice to hit close to the middle of the bale, but it is no problem to unclamp and move the points.

 

[Mastermind]

5 calves in 7 days.

 

[JimBear]

My buddy Chase just sold 100 pairs the other day, he is down to 125 pairs now. He said we are going to tear up some hay ground & he will have more row crop. I guess I will have more free time this summer…

 

[Lnk]

My buddy Chase just sold 100 pairs the other day, he is down to 125 pairs now. He said we are going to tear up some hay ground & he will have more row crop. I guess I will have more free time this summer…

Is beef high right now? I mean compared to everything else.

 

[Mastermind]

Is beef high right now? I mean compared to everything else.

Its always a little lower in the winter here.