Farmers have learned to live by one of life’s biggest lessons – always expect the unexpected. But sometimes even the unexpected can still cause us to pause and scratch our heads. That’s the feeling these farmers faced as they recalled the strange finds they’ve stumbled across in their fields during silage harvest.
On the Dairy Herd Management Facebook page, we asked our audience what weird things they’ve found in their fields. Here’s what they had to say:
- “One spring my mom cleaned out the root cellar, threw pumpkins and squash into the manure spreader. That fall Dad found several pumpkins and squash when chopping corn.”
- “Found a boat anchor once while combining corn. Went right in the tire!”
- “Turns out someone decided to plant their own field within ours…they planted marijuana, not corn!”
- “A few years ago, our corn got flooded and a porta potty got washed into it!”
- “I found my phone that I had lost the year prior in the freestall barn. We figured it must have ended up in the lagoon then spread on the field at some point.”
- “One of our lost SCR (activity monitor) collars … was out all winter and was still working!”
- “Found a surgical scissors with the metal alert while chopping haylage, unfortunately, half of it ended up in the wagon. A medical helicopter had landed in the field a couple of weeks earlier.”
- “We found an entire license plate in the TMR bunk, not the field. It was cut diagonally in one-inch slices. We were able to assemble the entire thing!”
- “Our neighbors thought they were funny and placed a giant metal cutout of bigfoot in the field. Gave us a good scare when we were chopping late into the night!”
- “We always see critters scurrying out of the fields, but I about wrecked the tractor when a bear came barreling out of the corn!”
- “We found a dented-up mini fridge that must have fallen out of the back of someone’s truck and rolled into the field. Took it back to the farm, plugged it in and the thing still worked!”
