I can’t believe how well you take care of your cattle. I know that’s what you’re supposed to do, but you are spot on. Thanks for taking care of your kettle and taking care of me.
I'm 75 and my wife and I just finished our first year of dairy farming here in The Philippines. Dairy farms are quite rare in the tropics, the weather being harder for the animals to endure, but we're always humbly inspired by your example back in my original home country. Love your work and the videos, and the messages too, we look forward to many more, sir.🙏👍👌
It appears to me Lonnie is one great worker for your farm. He does way more than I thought. He did good for him and good for you for having I believe it’s your nephew, but that’s pretty awesome.
Thanks for another great video Kip. It was interesting and enjoyable to watch. Nice of you to visit your uncle who is having some health issues. Important to spend time with family!!!!!!!! Busy time with your cows doing hoof trims and pregnancy checks. Makes for a busy time. Hopefully your pregnancy check went well for you. Baling corn stocks for bedding. Haven’t done that for a while. Corn stocks make excellent bedding for your cows. Nice going Kip and brother. About it for today I guess. You take care and be safe. Thanks Kip. The Iowa farm boy. Steve. PS. See you climbed a silo. Thought that was done. Be careful.
Tks for sharing. Sorry to hear of your uncle. Hope he doing better. Weather looks good there up north. It cool and rainy down here by Belding Michigan. Glad to that your new feeding TMR is working well.
Great bedding you are rolling In the old days when mills took ear corn. Use to buy the cobs by the ton for bedding. Hogs and cattle both loved them . TAKE CARE AND STAY SAFE !!!
Those rollbar rakes are handy and good for raking corn stalks. You have to schedule those animal appointments when you can during the harvest season. You just do what you need to do when you can.
Another great video. Looking forward to seeing how many corn stalk bales you get. Tomorrow is promised to know one . Live each day to the fullest. Take care and stay safe.
You never have to apologize for anything that is how you work your firm you take the good with the bad and I absolutely loved your videos because you are so true on what you say you don’t make shit up stuff up I mean, sorry
I was raised on a farm. I worked for a dairy farm years ago. They used to bail corn stalks. Then they will put anhydrous in the bales for protein. Have you ever considered doing that for protein in your bales?
@@KipSieglerFarming1 It had a long rod that was hook to a anhydrous wagon hose to the tank and it had holes in bottom of the rod. We would stick in in the bale about 2/3 way down the bale turn the value on that was by the hoes for about 6 seconds. You could see the bale change colors as the anhydrous going in bale and rise up toward top. Never want to put to much in it. They anhydrous could come up of the top of the bale. Over the winter it would make some great hay for cows.
I understand or agree with using the rake only on the corn stalks before the baler. Yes, i do realize that it might be harder on the baler teeth. But some of the issues ive seen with using a stalk chopper or mower. With the stalk choppers, yes you get alot more bales per acre that way, kinda gives you a wow factor when you figure bales per acre. But you also have enough dirt in each bale, and as a beef cow guy now and looking for the cattle to pick through the bales or bedding, there's going to be more waste, so there's more product that has to be hauled out in the manure spreader. Let's say experience. Then with the mower similar issue, might not have as much dirt in the bales, but there's plenty of course stalk in it that the cattle don't care for as much, so there's more loads of manure. Yes, i know there's a difference between the manures. There's the regular fresh stuff Kip and family haul out about daily from the cows in milk, then there's the more broken down stuff if it happened to be piled during the growing season from the yearling or calves, then there's the bedding or wasted hay stuff that's not quite broken down yet when it gets hauled out. Yes, there's some cows that pull hay out of the bale feeder and don't eat it or they pick through the stuff, just the way it is.
So I am a snake farmer and we use ultrasound and just watched sonne farms where they use ultrasound and they could tell sex of the calves due in February. Technology is a good thing!
Question Because you bail up the corn stalks taking away potential nutrients, does this take away from the natural decomposition process which adds nutrients to the soil?
It all depends on how much material you take in bale form. Yes, it does take some organic matter and potential nutrients. But I also grew up being told that it also takes enough fertilizer to help break the stalks down. So there can be a fine line of how much you want to take and/or leave. My preference is the top half of the plant, like from where the ears/cobs were and up and leave the bottom half if possible on the fields we are going to bale.
I can’t believe how well you take care of your cattle. I know that’s what you’re supposed to do, but you are spot on. Thanks for taking care of your kettle and taking care of me.
