Corn Chopping 2023 Begins! Day 1 

at least you got something for the cows GOD will provide always loved putting up silage neighbor had harvestore filled that thing many time

Happy seeing you guys using appropriate-sized equipment, farming more for your family than the bank.

Old J.I Case makes it look easy on the blower.

I always loved chopping corn, when we had more cattle and the pasture got low we would chop a load every few days, but we haven't done that for a few years. We still got the old 718 chopper though! I hope you have a good harvest!

Yup we started chopping corn too. Dad was down by the creek and wouldn't you know it a raccoon jumped in the chopper. I hope that's the worst of it. We are having the same luck with rain splitting and going around. We did get some sprinkles though.

As usual, I always enjoy watching you. Will continue to pray for you that the weather and other conditions improve. I'm from a small community as well, and remember all of the farmers who were school bus drivers. They are the best. Thanks.

Yup it's TIME TO GET GOING ❤❤😊😊

Nothing quite like the song of a NH chopper going through corn, and the Gehl blower has it's own harmony, 👍

Corn looks pretty decent considering the dry weather. Always the famous farmer saying of "hopefully next year will be better "🤞🤞. I do love watching that 1256 chop 👍👍

You can tell that’s dry weather corn. Hope the feed quality holds.

Good video, God bless

Great video brother and hope the harvest improves throughout.

This is my third harvest season watching your Channel. Absolutely love it.

wow that brings back some memories for me Thanks for sharing a great video

Thank you for sharing

What a classic site, a 830 Gas Case O'matic on the silo blower. My uncle had a 830 diesel on a Fox 2 row chopper that my Dad and Uncle would custom fill 30+ sillos in the fall

Can’t believe this is harvest season already .👍

Love that ride up by the stack.

Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊

That blower looks new. Last time I saw one of those I was standing behind the chopper box with a corn hook...way back in the early sixties! Loved chopping corn, silo gas not so much. Found your channel from Gierok Farms. 👍👍

Very nice job and God bless y'all 🙏

I think the first video that I watched from your channel was when you were chopping with the 2+2. Great channel.

Great to see you chopping corn I think it's going to be a moist harvest in New York

God bless you and yours

Liquid manure is our go to here in South West Virginia for great corn spread all we can but you do a great job love the videos

Be careful with harvest. Thank you for sharing both the good and bad harvest news. God bless

Awesome camera views!!

Wow thats way up north for corn. It's good to see small dairies still operating like my relatives used to in Northwest Wisconsin - best of luck...

I loved silage chopping time. Running the chopper was my favorite. Your silage didn't look too bad. The old 1256 just keeps chugging away.👍

Drought stinks !! Awesome video!

I live in Southern Ky bout 1 hr from Tennessee line and we’re in need of rain also.., our corn is drying very quickly aswell

Love to watch Trinity Dairy, especially during harvest. Your videographer provided some great views! I assume that big fella is your little brother😀 he looks like he could pick up a tractor or two. Peace to the entire Trinity Dairy Family! 🙏🇺🇲

Allen we are very dry also. The rain has went on both sides of us also. If you had your camera on the cab after dark we would know if that tractor is a fire breathing dragon. On a 4020 JD diesel , just after sun down. If your doing heavy tillage. When you go from lite soil to heavy soil. A 4020 becomes a fire breathing dragon! (A tractor pulling a load will have a fire spear above the exhaust pipe). A diesel engine with a turbo has a pyromatur =exhaust thermometer. You run a turbo engine by that gage. Several creeks in this area are dry. The little Arkansas River lost stream flow when are corn was filling ears. No more irrigation water. A local cattle feeder bought it for silage.

That corn when you started sure looked very dry and not in the ripe way. I remember dad would run a hose from the pump house to the blower some years to get more water in the silage so it would ferment if it was too dry. But, that was not too hard to do as the well was only 30ft away from the silo.

Ed from Vermont,Hi Alan,one big operation here is starting,Plesent Valley Farms

You're doing good 👍

I feel bad for farmers this year, out here it is so wet to even get first cut hay and it's September, unless you round baled it

Great first day of chopping.

To dry there to wet here. Hope things get better. Have a good day.

at 11:44..............love that sound !

Hope you get some worthwhile rain. In our part of Ohio, we were dry from mid May until Jun 11th. Since then, we've been getting enough rain to keep things going. Two weeks ago, we had a little over 5 inches on a Wed and Thur. Some areas had flooding issues and tornado damage. I guess we all have our challenges...just have to put our trust in the LORD and keep plugging away.

It was really hot here too and very dry, my land renters was here on my farm combining and went through the field with their chisel plow, I didn't really know that you drive school bus, it'll be real interesting when winter comes

Hope ya'll get some rain we had some the other day in Northwest Indiana...first one in a few weeks here ...been fairly dry here too. Good video ya'll! 🐂🐃🐄

Best thing you can do in this situation, chop it while its stil has some feed value.overhere we had the same problem, we got like 60% emerge this spring and no rain for like 9 weeks in a row after planting corn. But we do have RU-vid, thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

In Southern Wisconsin back in the 50's and 60's we started school right after labor day. That first week of school was usually the week extra help was hired because that was about the time my dad needed them to start filling silos. We had a Fox field chopper but before we had that we had a recutter that chopped the corn right as we blew it into the silos. Wagons were unloaded from the back and always involved 2 men pulling the silage down with hook shaped forks. The silo pipes were metal sections bolted together and were quite a job to hoist up into place. There was a lot of swearing if one of the men unloading pulled down too much silage which would plug the pipe and require it to be disassembled and reerected again. The ladder going up the side of the silo was narrow (about 8" wide) and was in 10 foot sections that hooked behind the silo rings. One time my cousin, Oliver Enge, was climbing the ladder on a 40 foot silo built on a concrete cow yard. He got to the top section of the ladder and that last section had come (unbeknownst to everyone) unhooked from the silo ring at the top. The top section pivoted out from the silo almost 90 degrees but my cousin held on tight and got back to the secure part of the ladder monkey style. If that had been our President, he would have needed special attention to his depends like when he visited the Pope or perhaps leave suddenly after bestowing the medal of honor on a hero unlike the Benedict Arnold that he himself resembles.😂😢

Hey Alan,,,,good to see harvest starting. Definitely cooler last couple days with heavy dew. Hope it helps a little. At least slow down the silage corn a little.

822 New Holland head is Offaly reliable, but is tuff to corner when opening a field . Great video.

Great video, nothing prettier than hilly farms in western Wi.

My job on the farm was unloading silage wagons when it was empty i pulled it forward so my brother could pullup and then hook up the empty to the field had a little 8n ford to run the pto of course but ya hard work but good memories

Have the same chopper Alan, but with the 824 head

We got 2 inches here monday night and now much cooler temperatures. A great blessing. Did you get rain? I love the chopping series you make every year.

It's odd to watch this today, 9/7, and our high in the Cities was maybe 63, down from the 90s, rain missed this area primarily on Wednesday evening, but tv weather seemed to show rain north and east of the Cities. Hope you had some.

Be the end of September up here in Vermont this year before most start. Been so wet

Tks for sharing. Chopping is a sure thing that summer is all most over. Hope silage runs good. You have a kernel processor on your chopper?

Whoo hoo! Corn harvest time. Alan, how many acres of corn do need to plant to get your herd through the year on average? It would be nice to have one of those Claas Jaguar harvesters if money were no object.

Loved chopping corn. But yeah where you were dry. It's nothing

Hello I'm a new subscriber with the help of gierok farms my dad was a dairy farmer when I was a kid so ya I like these type of videos doing it I call old school

One of those years... You're chopping crispy looking corn early in dust- while in Maine, TayFarms is still mowing first cutting hay, because it's been too wet to get into the fields or dry hay... ALL the rain- or none of it...

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Hard to believe how dry you are. We finally got 6 days in a row with our rain, and I did 70 acres of hay. And we got another heavy rain again today, sure wish I could share some with you. No one is thinking about chopping corn here where I live northeast of Toronto Ontario. Except maybe some guys that got hit with a hail storm 3 weeks ago, their corn has died and turning brown. You sure won’t need a kernel processor this year. Hope you get some rain soon

👀🙄🐾👍Great video Alan any rain?

At least the bears won't take too much than.

Be careful guys!

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excellent corn chopping # the best corn for silage is when corn grains have around 30 % moisture # do U ferment silage in Silo ???? ❤️🇵🇰

I was shocked, shocked! to see the chopping already. Last couple years your Grandpas corn sold, will keeping it in the family help this year or do you think you'll get the tonnage you need? I have a memory of maybe my uncle blowing silage with a garden hose zip tied to the blower behind a David Brown 995 to add a bit of moisture.

My Smell O Vision is broke, fresh corn silage, you never forget that!! How is your water supply holding up?

Cow chow 😂🙏🏻👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺

Do you ever run a water hose as you are filling the silo to add moisture to the silage in the silo?

Nice work, how many hours are on the 1256? Greetings from switzerland

Those old Gehl blowers can really eat…. Did you ever get the unloader fixed on that little silo?

Hopefully it will rain.🙏🏻

If you cut off a few of those mature corn plants at the ground (not chopped) and put them with the cows would they eat them all or just pick out the good stuff?

Allan what % moisture did it test at and do you think you need to add a water hose if it’s too dry?

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How many full trailers does it take to fill the silo?

Does Allen have a full time bus route?

Was your corn planted tight to make more silage or the same as the rest? I have been planting heirloom corn and it gets up to fourteen feet tall but it doesn't like being tighter than nine inches to make ears. Last year I planted it the same six and an half inches apart that I was doing popcorn and there were virtually no ears but good tall stalks for chopping.

Curious why you don’t run the 1066 on the chopper? A few more ponies up front

Hey did u go to the auction??

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Ahh corn chopping.... so when you gonna put the new tripod in that silo and put the unloader back

the Corn corn ear cylinder to which corn grains r attached has no nutritional value since it has more than 90 % fiber # 🇵🇰

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Well immature corn is better than no corn my friend get after it bud

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How come you’re horses have no shelter to get out of eat

How come u don’t chop with that 1066.. they are alittle more hp on pto than a 1256..

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