My dad did this back in 1972 or 73. We filled a concrete stave silo with it and the cattle loved it. Really smelled good coming out of the silo & beat having to grind ear corn out of the crib every day after school.
@@joelwitmer874 we did too and put it in a stave silo it made great feed i can see him wanting around 50 % moisture if there putting it in a bunk to pack better
I have a hunch you are very busy. The world needs more families like yours. I started renting my farms out after my kids grew up. No microwave, you get it!!
loved watching the corn going into the header and the corn blowing into the truck along with the music. weighting the earlage on the scale reminded me of the gold rush guys weighting their gold.
60 years old. Never saw this done. And I grew up on a farm, and still somewhat involved in farming. Very interesting to say the least. Great idea. Cudos to the pretty camera lady. Personally I love the smells of sialge. Great content as always 🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮🥩🥩🥩🥩🥛🥛🥛🥛👍👍👍👍
Ah, yes.. the smell of silage!!! I love it!! Next best thing is the smell of cow manure, because as long as they're pooping, you're making money 😎😁 And yes, she is easy on the eyes 😁
Thanks for bringing us along, and the explanation of what you we're doing. I appreciate all the work that you all do to make your farm work. I hope you all have a great day ! 😀 Craig
Never heard of earlidge, right now around here they are cutting wet corn going to the feedlots, and another 3 to 4 weeks before they cut dry corn. Then there is also milo, soybeans, cotton and sunflowers if anyone planted any. Not too mention it is time to plant the winter wheat to be harvested next June. Then there is all the things going on with the beef cattle this time of year.So busy time for farmers around here. Thank you for taking us along and explaining the process too us.
There is alot to this type of farming but can honestly say you do it so well and love watching ya all .especially you and your daughter you two are just so silly at times but yet so cute at the same time together ..but anyways love ya all and godbless
And this kids is another example of why math IS important. It’s used all day every day Thanks for showing this. Too many people think we farmers are not very smart & that anyone can be a farmer. There’s a lot more to farming than just hopping on a tractor 😊
Great video young lady, thanks for sharing it with us. Me and my grandson or right by the computer when he gets home from school, I was tell him all about working on the farm, the animals and all the wonderful smells. He wants to visit a farm now. Tell the family hi from us. Thanks and God bless
Thank you for the video. I thought I was the only one who still did a moisture test the old school way. Interesting to see end results. Again thank you for a interesting video.
We started making cobmeal about 25 years ago on a cold year we had corn that barely made maturity before first frost. We gave it a try so that we didn't spend a fortune on drying it and the cows loved it! We've never looked back
We do the same thing with our Deere 6750 chopper and 8 row corn. I built a shredder floor to put under the cutter head. It makes much nicer feed. Most of the long husks get chopped much finer. I'd be happy to tell you how I made it if you're interested...
The feed lot beside me has an oven in the feed shack for doing moistures , because it is more accurate than the little expensive sample systems, and they do full ration moistures with it. My grandfather always tested the alfalfa in the microwave, Grandma did not approve. lol
G'day again, my corn silage is wet, grab a handfull and it sticks together because of how damp it is plus the sugar content, covered and nobody goes near it for a month. Expecting Kenzie to pop up somewhere in the clip lol.
I see you guy's have some corn done, Glad everything is coming together for the farm. Are you guy's getting any cold nights yet, old man winter will be coming around the corner. Trying to talk my in letting me hunt up at the upper peninsula, have relatives around that area. You guy's have a wonderful evening, God bless
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!! Good job with chopped earlage!!! That will save U a lot of time, Work smarter not harder!!! Will U use the residue of the corn for bedding? 👍👍👍😊
Thank you for the video and information. Interesting concept the earlage feed.Shame to waste all the fiber in the stalk though.Have you tried lacing the silage with Molasses ? We did that with regular silage and we had a increase in milk production.
Another way you can check the moisture is to weigh it the same as you did to 100 grams and then put it in the microwave for a minute the first time then thirty seconds everytime time after weighing every time you cook it for thirty seconds until the weight reads the same. I find this way alot quicker and you can get an old microwave and put it in the shop. Keep up the videos.
Gotta say, probably the best silage video I've seen!! You showed pretty much everything! Nice to see you do the moisture test.. outfit I used to haul for would do it in the microwave, but I never got to see it done 😪 LOL, 30+ years of hauling silage and never got to see it tested... Thanks for the video!!!
thats a good set up, but you get tons more feed if you chopped everything, stocks and all, it is all good high protein feed and the cows love it.. , i go around at this time of year and cut down all the peoples sweet corn (the eating kind) stocks and feed mine the whole stocks, and it is like they know its coming when they hear my 5 ton dump truck coming up the long drive way, they race me up the drive way to the first feiled, and they dont even wait for the truck to finish dumping and there on it.. we cant use transport trucks in the feilds here the hills are to steep they cant get up then going slow, its all buggies an tractors
When we had beef cows we made sweet corn "stalklage"after the canning company picked the sweet corn. Man that stuff smelled good when you scooped it out of the bunker!The cows grazed dry corn stalks in the winter,this was like dessert to them!
Lyn good day, yes, specially for me, being my live stock is mostly for shelters and families in need, i have to save every dollar i can feeding them, but still feed them well, specaly with our long cold snow winter, so every little extra i can pick up free or cheap to cut back on hay in the winter, specaly this winter, with all the hay shortage in the usa again this year our local farmer are selling there hay cross boarder for top dollar so we are up even more in bale cost then last year. all i can say is thank god a bunch are leaving Jan 13 for prossing finally, our kill floor we have to book a year a head now, i have some that should have gone fall of 2018 but got pushed a head, i took a chance and did some my self, mine have been enjoying truck loads of whole pumpkins again this year .. i just paid out $80 to have my drive way plowed, something i have never done before..
We call it Maize silage. Mostly used for winter milking herds in Ireland. High yielding indoor herds probably use it a lot too. In Ireland it is more expensive to grow than in USA I presume.
@@einn32 well maize silage is the whole plant.I think Earlage is only the ear and the flag leaf(kind of) We have done it in the past i think we called it CCM Corn Cob Mix.
Did you install a screen into the chopper as well? We used do this with a 2 row NH chopper and we did put a "recutter'? screen in by the knives so that the kernels would get smashed more.
Does your chopper have either a screen or kernel processor behind the cutterhead? This further processing helps to make the starch more available to the cows.
Tried this in early seventies with snapper head on gehl chopper, lost 4,000 lbs herd average first year had to supplement energy source did three years then went to high moisture shelled corn shelled corn much better results
So you went to more or less, Earlage, costs a lot more than silage, but is much better feed... There's some done here in Oregon, not a lot though. Lots of cannery waste used for ensalage, but it's put up as it came out of the cannery, I always thought they should chop it. It's cheap high sugar feed, need a holding pond for all the juices... But the guys feeding it seem to like it.
We are in West Michigan. This is the first corn planted before we got all the Spring rain. All the other corn fields are still a ways off from harvesting.
I always thought earlage was done drier, like high moisture corn. A neighbor is planning on doing some this year and wants me to help. I made a silage and hay tester from a hair dryer. Look up koester moisture tester, and get Sanders to build you one.
I have heard of earlage but never seen it harvested thanks for the ride alone and you are a real trooper for doing the dryness test in your home. Will you all cut corn silage or earlage and cut high moisture corn also.
Acres of Clay Homestead not far then, I’m in north central Indiana. Are corn is still pretty green and beans might be ready in spots within next couple weeks. Way behind this year due to a very wet spring and wet fall last harvest
I am a new subscriber and I enjoy your videos, but I have to be honest and say it bothers me how you store the cow's feed and hay bales (in the barn) on a muddy and/or dirty surface. I would have to have silos or good concrete bunkers for the earlage or silage or haylage, and then a good, clean, dry storage for the baled hay.
Welcome to our channel! Just so you know, we don't store our hay bales on the dirt or in the mud, they never touch the dirt once they are put inside barn. Our silage cement is not a dirty surface either, other than we have just got 1 1/2 inches of rain the day before filming, it isn't not mud though, it's just silage.
@@acresofclayhomestead -- Thank you. I could swear that in one of your last two hay baling videos I saw the barn where you guys were putting the hay and the floor of the barn looked like wet rough mud. It looked like I remember cattle sheds with dirt floors looking in my days on the farm many years ago, and ours was from cattle stomping around in the shed in the spring after snow melt and spring thaw. But maybe yours was from the skid loader moving the bales in. Regarding the concrete slab, I think I would have cleaned the wet silage off and washed it down and let it dry before piling the new silage on it. But this is just all my way of how I would do it, and I am sure your way is not hurting the cows, because I know you love the cows by the way you treat them.
lol In a perfect world we would all have perfect spots to store commodities, but that's not going to happen. When a cow is grazing grass in a field do you think it pulls up a little dirt and eats it sometimes? Of course that happens. People store stuff where they can and try their best to keep it in the best condition possible. Hay bales are designed to shed water, the little bit on the outside that might go bad is either not eaten by the cow or they lay on it.
@3069mark - You are right when you saw the muddy part of the barn, but the bales don't sit in that area. It's was just mud in the path of the skid steer.
@@acresofclayhomestead -- That's good, and thanks for clarifying that. I apologize for sounding so nit-picky. After watching a number of your videos I can see that y'all are great dairy farmers, and good people all the way around. Y'all know a lot more than I do about dairy farming. Actually I know hardly anything, but for the last couple months I have been watching a lot of YT videos about dairying, and have learned a little bit. We raised Black Angus beef cattle for awhile on our farm, and we had a Guernsey for our family's milk, and she died of milk fever and then we replaced her with a Tennessee Jersey. So I have always loved cows. They are such funny and curious creatures, and big ole scaredy babies! LOL. Just so you know, your channel is one of my favorites, if not my most favorite. Take care! 😊
It looks like you did a header into something cuz your nose is black and blue, and the forehead is looking rough compared to the video with your daughter
