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Chopping Corn 2023! Day 2/Drought Stricken Corn

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The drought that we have been dealing with is really taking its toll on our corn this year, causing us to have to start chopping our corn earlier than we'd like. The International 1256 on the New Holland 790 Corn Chopper get right to work. You can really see the difference in the corn throughout the field. Back at the farm, the International 1066 is pulling Badger Chopper Boxes to the silo where the Case 830 is blowing the silage into our upright silo. The corn is very poor, but with the drought we've been having, we are thankful for anything we can get.
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Trinity Dairy was established in 2006, in Minnesota. Alan and Jennifer farm with their 5 children; Jessica, Justin, Jordan, Joshua, and Jason. We milk a mix of 33 Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cattle. We also enjoy sharing our family's love of Draft Horses and using them for logging and other farm work. Dairy Farming in Minnesota can be challenging, but it's a lifestyle we really enjoy. Subscribe today to watch our small family dairy farm and family grow while continuing to thank our Lord for the blessings we've been given.

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@DonWelter 11 месяцев назад

The corn sure varies with the soil type. At least it has more salvage value as silage compared with corn for grain. Challenging years sure give us an appreciation for the good years where everything seems to jive. I've found that as I get older my dependence on our Lord for dealing with the stresses of life is increasing yearly. Nice to see we aren't the only ones running "old iron"

@joshchoate9499 11 месяцев назад

Nothing better than the sound of a chopper

@douglasmacarthur8775 11 месяцев назад

I recall a couple years back when your corn looked bad early from lack of rain but then timely rains came and I was amazed how great it looked at chopping time. "timely rains"..............make a huge difference.

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

Exactly!

@TomSmith-me7ph 11 месяцев назад

Good video, have a great evening!

@ADSC2006 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing day 2 with us.

@Travis_Rivers 11 месяцев назад

God bless

@toddvandyke1023 11 месяцев назад

We're praying for rain. God bless

@derekjensen5918 11 месяцев назад

Another great video it is always a good day when a video from trinity Dairy shows up in my feed. Thanks and god bless hope you have a wonderful harvest

@rebelgaming7718 11 месяцев назад

Looking good there my farming buddy

@Joey966 11 месяцев назад

Good job everybody.

@ThomasDrehfal 11 месяцев назад

Yes, this sure has been a year of diverse drought conditions. Someone 20 miles away can have a great stand of corn or beans and others have not. Nothing new though, we seen this all before a few times over the years. God bless your family!

@ISXCUMMINS565 11 месяцев назад

Bringing back memories, we had 886 international w 770 new holland 2 row and knight tandem wagons.

@Travis_Rivers 11 месяцев назад

Even dry it looks good bud

@lesterhertel2945 11 месяцев назад

Very dry Thank you for the wonderful video😊😊😊😊

@stuartsplace100 11 месяцев назад

Good Day,Rd from Vermont,I guys are dry down there and we could use some dry weather,been a very wet summer here

@johnnylindsey5808 11 месяцев назад

Good job guys

@MorganOtt-ne1qj 11 месяцев назад

"Leveling off silo", ie, getting covered up in the silage, forking like crazy, and the temps are always 10° above ambient with near 100% humidity. It's a wonder it doesn't rain inside of a capped silo. I don't miss those days, but I didn't regret getting a bagger! Great video!

@drewbooher5809 11 месяцев назад

I sent y'all a sweet box from a little shop in my hometown , I hope you've received it because I have no way of tracking it ...Be safe out there and God bless...Andrew

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

I'll check and let you know.

@bruceprentice6441 11 месяцев назад

I always enjoyed chopping corn silage. I had basically the same harvester and pulled it with a IH 966. Cows really love eating corn silage, and it made us feel good watching the milk cows get right into their silage, I thought it made them happy, and kept them in good body condition.

@naturegirlmia 11 месяцев назад

Nothing like a HUNGRY forage harvester GROWLIN in your ear behind ya!!! Makes you feel good that the cows won't be HUNGRY well over the Winter!!!! Kevin,

@cdlvj 11 месяцев назад

Question: Many viewers are novice. What is silage? One of the dairy farmers where I grew up had silos. But he also had a huge hole in ground filled and covered with tarp. Next question is why silage instead of hay?

@brandonhoad9033 11 месяцев назад

I've taken to leaving a 2 row gap where I would run over corn in silage fields. Keeps tractor out of limbs and keeps from wasting fertilizer and seed

@tomcarlisle2459 11 месяцев назад

Same here. I left the whole 6 rows on the outside of the corn fields and mowed them for hay. Not sure if its worth it or not, but I no longer deal with downed limbs and branches that would be hidden in the corn.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj 11 месяцев назад

Anything in the drip line is usually wasted. Trees suck up all the fert and water.

@brandonhoad9033 11 месяцев назад

@@MorganOtt-ne1qj and if they're blk walnut nothing at all grows

@burrridgefarms 11 месяцев назад

We checked out my corn today, it wasn't as bad as I thought, but I'll have to get at one bags worth next week. I hope you have enough to get bye some sure looks burnt. That stuff will need to ferment for awhile to mitigate any nitrates in the plant from the drought stress. Take care.

@user-hm8ol4tj9i 11 месяцев назад

Hope your crop turns out okay it costs so much to grow crops

@KiwiJim13 11 месяцев назад

👀🙄🐾👍Silage looks better than I thought it would looking at the standing crop

@TomSmith-me7ph 11 месяцев назад

Good video. It was about 1970 when it rained so much, the fields where wet and my uncle would chop corn on the fields that he could. When I came home from school, we hooked up 2 four wheel drive tractors. One was a case 1494 and the one on the chopper was a case 2294. I would pull my uncle thrust

@TomSmith-me7ph 11 месяцев назад

Through the wet spots with the 1494. It might’ve been muddy that year, but it’s better than this dry weather. Take care and God bless.

@ralphriddle8864 11 месяцев назад

Good job and God bless y'all

@toddjohnson7972 11 месяцев назад

I think you need to set up your cutter bar bar your getting some long leaves

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

I adjusted it up, I think the leaves are from the places with poor corn, not enough material, for the feed rollers to hold onto.

@missourirob7712 11 месяцев назад

Sorry that you're struggling with the drought yet..... We did get some rain to keep crops going..... We're getting really dry again... Hopefully we can all try to get caught up on moisture this winter....... good luck with the chopping... take care and God bless

@canvids1 11 месяцев назад

My heart goes out to you with not enough rain and the corn is not at its best. best wishes with getting off next and into the bag system.

@mattutke4704 11 месяцев назад

There's a 50/50 chance rain here for tomorrow too and yeah I think we need it as well, thanks for the video Al 🚜🇺🇸🌽

@mikei2141 11 месяцев назад

Glad your dad and Paul could help. Hopefully you get rain, us too. Were on the edge of extreme and exceptional drought also.

@nashcobb3056 11 месяцев назад

thank you

@ronniewayne5748 11 месяцев назад

Awesome video!!

@CMDSR 11 месяцев назад

Hope you have enough to last. You had some mighty short stuff in spots.

@jamesbristow5740 11 месяцев назад

Sure hoping you get that rain, even if it's too late to help the corn, probably need it for everything else too.

@anthonyhengst2908 11 месяцев назад

Yeah it's been very dry. We decided to plant only 12 acres of corn. We are putting it on top of the third cutting alfalfa. We have about 20 ft of silo space in that silo and we aren't sure if that will fill it. Not much for yields this year but I think we will have enough so we won't have to buy too much feed. It's been a strange year.

@SadullahDemirkaya 11 месяцев назад

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@paulohamm3335 11 месяцев назад

Vc faz belos vídeos ,uma pena que está cortando esse 🌽 por causa de seca .

@paulohamm3335 11 месяцев назад

Me diz uma coisa. Como essa silagem se concerva sem apertala .dentro deste silo? Usa mais algum produto

@Ardralta 11 месяцев назад

Not much to feed a dairy herd for the winter. Buying feed in drought years is so expensive. Hope you can get enough!

@farawayfarm2520 11 месяцев назад

Let us know in the next video what you got for rain. Hopefully you picked up something. We got one massive thunderstorm that dumped 2 inches on us but some areas not far away got almost nothing.

@haraldoudevoshaar7894 11 месяцев назад

i have been through years like yours, i've chopped corn before it even made cobs or tassels, the trick to dry years is checking stalk moisture constantly. the worst dry year i had i was doing moisture tests every 4 days starting at the end of july, as soon as it was round 65% i starting chopping, with the corn not producing a cob i wasn't really sure it was worth it but bagged it anyway, turned out to be super milk feed, analysis came back 89% digestible and sugars were super high and the goats sure put milk in the tank on that stuff

@davidmicalizio824 11 месяцев назад

❤ 🌽

@aaronwolschleger1035 11 месяцев назад

Dang you guys got wiped good with the drought wish we could share rain!!!

@cdlvj 11 месяцев назад

Also can you show us what silage looks like when ready to feed?

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

Will do. But we also have older videos discussing these topics and what the silage looks like.

@cdlvj 11 месяцев назад

Seems as though in our area, South central Texas that only dairies did silage. Lots of beef cattle in our county and those folks did not mess with it.

@timothygeorge1191 11 месяцев назад

💯💯💯💯💯

@mennoreuten1563 11 месяцев назад

This is what we call racecorn, due to the fact that you can drive so fast whit the chopper, but i feel for you as a fellow dairyfarmer,greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

@Travis_Rivers 11 месяцев назад

Still better than nothing bud

@Snowtruckdriver 11 месяцев назад

bOY.. tHAT CORN LOoks awful on the opening shot. I can certainly see where you were hit hard by the dry weather.

@brentalbrecht4837 11 месяцев назад

Are nitrates something to watch out in drought stricken corn silage? Keep up the hard work. Hopefully you get into some heavy corn and ROLL COAL with the IH!

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

They can be, but I don't think I'll be feeding it until it ferments, so that should take care of any nitrates.

@ronaldfeuerstein435 11 месяцев назад

Tks for sharing. Yeah corn did look alittle thin. But still makes feed. You going to have any ear corn too?

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

I don't think so.

@ronaldfeuerstein435 11 месяцев назад

@@trinitydairy is this a good thing for you?

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

@ronaldfeuerstein435 this was our going g to be our first year grinding more of our own heifer feed, so it sucks we won't have that, but having that corn for more silage is a blessing this year.

@dlzastera 11 месяцев назад

That looks to about a 24’-25’ foot silo?

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

Yes, 14 by 25

@paulmartin8784 11 месяцев назад

Do you have enough corn for silage with it being so dry? Im doing winter rye after corn silage for early forage for next spring

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

We should have enough. I had planted more corn this year with the intention of having picking corn to grind for heifer feed. That extra corn should make up for the poorer yield of silage corn. I'll just have to buy heifer feed.

@shannonsmith5481 11 месяцев назад

Looks like your knives and shear bar could use a little work

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

I keep them up pretty good, try to sharpen and adjust, about every 10-12 loads, the biggest issue is the short thin corn, the feed rollers can't hold it, so the leaves get pulled through.

@shannonsmith5481 11 месяцев назад

@@trinitydairy Yep choppers work best if you keep them full and a nice even crop flow.

@doncc6080 11 месяцев назад

Alan is this 2 or 3 years the drought has been going on up there? I hope you get enough feed to make it another year.

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

2020 was the best corn I've had in a long time. Yes, 2021,2022, and 2023 have all been dry, but this is the worst.

@e.a.bfarms 11 месяцев назад

You mentioned long hauls, how far were you hauling back to the farm?

@trinitydairy 11 месяцев назад

It's close to a mile, but it's mostly woods, and field roads.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj 11 месяцев назад

That's not so bad, except I know what that mile probably feels like. 👍

@don66hotrod94 11 месяцев назад

Man, I thought our drought was bad, but we are way better off than you guys. It is disheartening to put all that time, effort, and money into the crops and then watch them wither. I certainly hope you get enough feed for the winter. By the way, you got a great tractor on the blower. LOL