Irrigation

Last week Wednesday was the first day we irrigated on the farm. We started up one of the irrigators called a roto-rainer. It is basically a big lawn sprinkler that waters an area 300 feet wide and travels up to 1900 feet in a run. This weekend while I was off they also started up the K-Line irrigation which is made up of a sprinkler head in a pod, attached to a long water line. It is moved around with the quad bike and attached to water outlets at the ends of the paddocks. We have a total of 7 different types of irrigation on our farm. We will be working on getting them all up and running this week as things are drying out quickly with warm sunny weather. 

Here is a picture of the roto-rainer in action next to our house.

Also we ended up getting almost 500 bales (3' x 4' x 6') of silage off the farm and where we winter the cows. Below is a picture of one of the ways we store the bales so they don't go bad. It is called a bale stack and these stacks are two bales high, five bales wide, and 15 bales long. It saves a lot of many on plastic doing it this way versus individually wrapping the bales in plastic.