The folks doing your chopping of the silage does a great job with that Claas, it's a working machine. Looks good having most of all three of the silos full, and I'm sure you guys are happy to have it all, makes for a long day, though. Enjoyed the video a lot, thanks for sharing, I hope you all have a wonderful week.
Always a great feeling when you have a good harvest, and to successfully have it placed into storage. It is also such a blessing to know that you will have enough feed for the cows all through the coming winter. Job well done everyone😊
Absolutely beautiful. I ❤️ watching corn harvest. The mechanics of cutting, filling, dumping, pushing, and packing 💕. The night drone shots 💕. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Seeing the farm at night with the lights on in the barns were beautiful.
I follow a channel called Sonne Farms and they just filled their silage bunks. Man, what a difference. Their corn is so dry it looks like they're packing wood shavings, not corn. They do the bottom half with dry and wet on top. And they don't cover it, at least they haven't yet. They also crack corn and bunk it like silage. Different world out there compared to your operation
Yeah big difference sonne Don t feed Dairy cows theirs don't need to be as protected they also feed alot of hay to their cows and also pasture them these Dairy cows don't get to be on pasture different type of cows most of sonne cows are beef cattle
Loved the close-up from inside the harvester. That was a nice angle. Also, that cute little puppy is a nice touch. She's always eager to "help" and I find myself looking for her.
Hi Eric, any chance you could do a video (with Dad) about what improvements or items/equipment you’d like for the farm? I think we could help and it would be fun to see your farm grow if you end up changing things around :)
Nothing like the smell of silage. It had been years since i had been back to Wisc. I stopped at a gas station in a little farming town and two dudes were in there and they had been shoveling silage all day. The whole store smelled like the silage silo. It brought back childhood memories. They probably thought I was a little weird, because I made a couple extra trips up and down the isles just so I could have some more of that smell. Ha.
Again it is great that you had a plentiful harvest.It is so interesting to see how you run your farm and take such great care of your livestock.Thanks so much for sharing. Hope all is going great with your family.
Must be a wonderful feeling to get all that tucked in......for a little bit, then on to the next thing I imagine. You guys always have something productive to do. Hats off to farmers !
Never gets old!! I love this channel. By far the best dairy farm channel!! I love how if feed gets molded in the silo, you scoop it out, you don’t feed it to the girls. SOME DO!!! 😳🤢
I agree Penny, Eric has the best farming channel. I watched a couple vids of a farm in Michigan that was just awful. I hate to be negative but it was clear that those people put more pride in their shiny tractors and equipment and nice looking from the outside buildings but the living conditions of their herd was horrible and the milking parlor was equally horrible. You can tell in video after video that Eric and Dennis continually strive to provide the best atmosphere possible for their girls.
Yes Eric and Dennis know their herd so well that whatever the girls need, they get. And the babies are especially well cared for. I also appreciate how they use special care in selecting the best feed possible to ensure a good milk production and herd health.
Great video!from the look of that sky I was worried that you might get rained on. Glad it's done. Great work and stayed safe!!! Thanks for letting us watch.!!!!!€
Great video, I've really enjoyed the corn harvest videos, are u cutting corn to go in the silo this year? Looking forward to the 5th cutting Alfalfa video and the Soybean harvest videos too.
It seems to be a pretty effective way of preserving the feed. Just curious about how well the older silage will do being covered by all the new silage in front of it. I also took note of what you said about the space available in the other bunkers, could you pile the older silage in the space left in the other bunkers so you could access and feed the older silage first?
I believe that opening up that old sileage and moving it to the front of another bunker would expose it to so much air circulation and open (non-packed) storage that it would cause more spoilage than just leaving it behind the new sileage for a few more months. To say nothing about the time, effort, and fuel that would be spent moving it.
Silage will last fine as long as it doesn't get exposed to oxygen. Their are story's in Australia of people opening up under ground clamps of silage that were made 30 plus year ago. Silage was as good as the day it was put in.
@@benjaminbauer4883 First of all, this form preservation is open to the atmosphere and far from completely airtight. It will eventually spoil. The point I was making is that it makes more sense to use the old silage first and putting 3/4 of a bunker of new silage in front of it doesn't do the older silage any good, no matter how you look at it. There was enough space in the other 2 bunkers to put the remaining old silage into and it could have been accessed without ruining the new silage.
The best solution might be to make both ends of the bins accessible/open. That would allow filling from one end and removing from the other end. Just my way of approaching the situation. JIM
Coordination between the harvester spray arm and the receiving bin seems like a choreographed ballet. Is the coordination just done by eye, or is the spray arm somehow electronically coordinated to the location of the receiving bin?
Its a reasonably new machine so it probably has a camera and an easy to use joystick. There are semi auto systems but I don't think most people are using them much.
Once you expose the silage to the air it starts to rot. Then if you try to bag it or even bale it, its a lot of time and effort also expense for little gain. However it doesnt matter if you leave it in the bunk for 2 or 3 years. And cows will eat the stuff harvested a few months ago happily. The only real solution is to have another bunk so never have to put new in front of old
It’s not going to cause a problem. That would be more of a waste of time and money. Feed the middle bunk that they filled first then go to the one that had the left over feed second
Open ends on the bunks r fine if new construction but you would have to lengthen the existing bunks to hold the same AMT of sileage. A little more involved than tearing the end off
Are you able to do some excavation/renovation and open the back of the silo so you could dig or load from either end? It would also give you a driveover pile. Just curious if it's in the long range plan.
Does old silage and new silage suppose to be pack together ? Holy smokes that chopper sure goes shoot the silage out real far wow . Their is a dairy farm not far away from uses has 7 thousand milking cows and sales all the baby calf’s that our heifers don’t know how many acres he has or got rented out their scattered all over 12 blocks . Their have about 5 huge bunkers long and wide. If I can take some pictures , I will send you pictures of the huge milk dairy farm. That’s good you got a lot of silage this year it comes in handy and saves money .Good job Eric video is awesome as always.
If you were thinking of adding bunk space, take this bunk and move it to or over the road & make the wall 2 - 3 ft higher. It appeared to have enough room to make a road between new bunk wall and the other building? great job. You and the family do a lot of hard work, it never ends,
Nooooooo, all the years I've been watching, this is the first year you've not chopped straight into the bunker 😞 gutted. Glad to see a fantastic harvest this year Eric, despite what the mainstream media are saying. 👍🇬🇧😎🇱🇷👍m-E-m
Aww the bunk rotation didnt work out this year...i always like to watch them shoot directly into the bunk. Why i dont know haha. But seriously, it must be a great feeling to have the bunks full for another year.
I see you put new in front of old silage. How long does the silage last? When you get back to the original silage does it still have nutrients for cattle? Lots of questions but curious. you defiantly know the business.
That last bunker leftover, I would have worked through the night before and removed the entire load out onto the lawn, then covered it until the bunker was full of new stuff, then put it at the front. To bury it I think it will expire before it gets used.
Question : Why do you have so much left from last year. Is that because you feed less or you're harvesting more food? Did you change something? Thx for your answer and love your video. Wish you could have more but I understand you need to work too! :)
Old feed won’t really go bad if it’s packed it’s just not ideal leaving it in there for more than a few years, it is good to feed it out and clean old stuff, also is mostly just a pain in the butt
@@seanellis7326 the worst part is putting two silage faces together, we’ve had the feed collapse because if u don’t get it packed in and over and packed good it can easily just fall
You also have silage that is ready to go that you won’t be able to finish. Opening another bunker when it hasn’t had time to ferment for long enough will decrease it’s feed value to the cows.
i do believe a fourth bunker silo would be great but i can't see you have proper space left for a bunker silo that size and i am sure money would also sort of be a problem unless the government is: sure here's some grand money for the bunker silo so you don't have to worry that much filling one you're feeding your cows with
