At 70 I thought I knew a lot but watching 10th Gen, You and Farmer on the Prarie I know nothing. I thought these nice clean cows got milked 2 a day and that's it. The amount of work required to plant and process food for cattle, feed every day, and then take care of the back end product! I see silos every day but watching your videos gives me a new appreciation. Bunking! Who knew? Now using this plastic tube system. The tech is ever-changing. Thanks for sharing eah!
I know a lot who bag like this. It's a lot easier to manage, and easier on utilities in general. Safer overall, too. We'll be doing this once we have our farm.
I watch a lot of other vlogs, and they talk about the time it takes to complete a vlog. The quality of your finished product is excellent so that I would guess that between doing your regular farmwork and vlogging leaves very little time to sit around and do nothing.
That bagging machine is really cool. I wondered how they made those perfect piles. Also interesting to hear about the pros vs. cons of each method of silage storage. Thanks for the vid!
Storage solutions are a whole science. Each metgod has its pros and cons. In my opinion bags pros are that it is done in one sweep, but on the con side they take a while to fill and therefore need extra transport capacity if you compare tipping loads in a pile or bunker silo. everything beats bales.. 😇
check out Grassmens youtube page, they have an older vid there where are one big contractor that does alot of bags and he talks about the pros and cons hes experienced with it
Your filming, camera angles / positions, editing is always great; but this jumped to the top. Also it iwas interesting to see a different process of storage silage. Denise was straight forward about the Pros & Cons of "bagging" & "Pit Storage".
Thank you for your informative comparison of alternative silage storage methods. Your videos are excellent sources of education and provide such a positive representation of modern farming and dairy management. Your generation of young farmers are our future and I hope that your hard work will make agriculture a more appealing career choice for other young people. Your growing subscriber numbers are very much deserved. I appreciate your hard work and the extra effort required to produce these exceptional videos.
So interesting Jan, thank you for this video. Your shots are so good, really taking us up close and personal with the bag loading. Back in the “good old days” our silage pit (corn only) was made out of wood with a head stantion that was pushed forward with the tractor. My my how things have changed for the better. Pros and cons will continue on, what is good for one farm isn’t suitable for the next. Great drone footage...just a great video, thanks again.
Another pleasant day when I come home to a video from Jan. Super drone footage, it really gives a great view of how the crop gets into the truck. Really enjoyed it and as always, thanks for taking the time to make and share the videos.
Great you can help each other out. Just shows you how the human figures things out, taking the process in different directions as you move from cutting to storage. That innovation!!
I’ve seen other videos where they are using the bagger but none of them came close to the length your friend uses. I can see it being really helpful if you have to store it for a long time.
I love the variety of your videos. There have been so many times I would wonder how something is done in the farming world and by watching your videos I feel like I have learned quite a bit. Thanks for all the effort and time tou put i to your videos it is much appreciated.
Great great video, with good show of the equipment and technology used. Thanks for discussing with the colleagues at nearby farm and do the kind a review with Pros and Cons. It's a nice technique with keeping the feed nice and clean, the best possible feed for the cows and good opportunity for good preservation of the grass, green maize and so on till wintertime. Liked it. Well done and thanks Jan!👌👍
We used silos then switched to bags , we liked both , we used bunkers but hated them most , yes the bag was better feed more fresh but our harvestores we loved most over all, what we hated most was the disposal of the plastic in our area .
Thanks for showing us how another farm does things. the way you do you cutting and harvesting is very similar to the other RU-vid farmer I watch using the pits. Really cool to see how they store their crop by bagging it!
Not sure how I missed this video...but I did. I really appreciate you taking us off farm and explaining this whole process and the value plusses and negative. Great work!
Nice to see Saskatchewan countryside again. The last time I was there was August 1979. It had been so dry that year that all across western Canada no one bothered to harvest their wheat. It would've cost more to harvest it, than they would have recieved.
Very nice Jan. I've said this before, but you are gifted in the way you formulate your videos. They are not just catching the activity of the day. But as in this case, you reported, interviewed, and taught us about this new process. You and "10th Gen" Eric use a similar process in storing the silage. So this was interesting to see other options. Thanks for taking us along. Hope you're getting some relief from the heat this week. We have experienced some of that too down here in Virginia. Stay cool! :D
Blue harvester is still the way to go specially in the cold climate like y'all have but you have to go all the way fully automated all the way upto the fead wagon. Balled silage is probably the next best very low man house. Ball strat to a giant square baler from the chopped and of that into a pull raper. Silage is compressed and bagged all in one at the feeled.
Very interesting. In Germany many farmers have to build new silage pits, because there are new laws and you have to divide between rain water and the water which comes out of the silage. Costs about 250000 € for a normal silage pit. Our new silage pit gets a roof completely over. Greetings
Jon. Thank You for the video of the chopping and bagging of hayage. The video was excellent maybe give you some ideas how you could use something like that to make your feed better just a thought. Please Take Care and be Careful around all farm equipment. 👍😎
One also needs to consider the size of the farm, not just the quality of the land. The average farm size in the province where he's from is about 1700 acres (690 hectares). Not all of these are dairy farms, of course. In fact, most of them just grow and export various types of grains and pulses. Nevertheless, the scale of most agricultural operations out there tends be very different from your part of the world. I did a quick check to see what the average farm size in Ireland is. If my source was correct, the average farm size in Ireland appears to be about 33 hectares.
@@canuckpagali i know a few farmers with over 10,000 acres here in the uk just in my area but i dont think he is on about the size of the farms over here in the uk, but more the land cant take machinery like that, our farm land tends to be built up of smaller fields but lots of them with hedgerows. and hilly or very few dead flat landscapes like over there. and if it is dead flat it will almost always be wet ground even in the summer you would almost never get away with driving a lorry on the ground you would with out a doubt get stuck. and there are big foragers like that over here in some areas but in most places you wouldnt get that thing down the lanes
Great video. Excellent drone work. Believe the bunk silo is better, but the bagged silage is better than on the ground covered with plastic. (You may place plastic down onto the ground before dropping the silage onto the plastic, I didn’t notice that.)
Just joined your subscription. Love it from your way if dairy farming to my way here in NZ many things similar but also different .. keep up the good work ..🐮🐮
You guys should go to bagging that way you don't have to deal with all those tires and plastic troubles of it mixing in the soil& silage. Just a thought kid time for you to invest. 😁👍
I remember seeing this years ago. I was wondering why the farm had giant caterpillars on their property. Good to know they're actually sausages. Your drone shots are amazing.
Great video Jan I am surprised there's not another hopper type finer grinding setup in the yard that all the feed goes through before it goes into the mixer so the cows can process the food mix to its full potential
Farmers helping farmers goes all across our world and they need help from you the people to make sure they are getting what they deserve for feeding your country! Take time to do research in your own country and see how you can help ppl like Jan and his family keep doing what they love and getting paid for the work they do just like you do for your own family!
Iv used "ag bags" here in the UK before. 1 problem is rats chewing into the bags and making themselves a den in it. Another is pigeons, pheasants making holes, so you usually net the bags. Taking the silage out is ok as long as you're prepared to do some forking of the sides in and also do not!!! catch the bottom plastic with the loader bucket- that really is a pain if you do. But yes, bags are useful at times versus clamp silage.
Great Video, The Bagging process has always intrigued me, I guess it's a balance between quality and cost! I suspect grass and maize will be always bunker stored, where as specialist crops like Lucerne, Whole crop might suit bags, my gut feeling it it seems like lots of plastic, thanks for sharing
