You remind me of my dad Alan. Many nights after the evening milking, he would get in his Chevy Luv pickup and head out into the fields to see how the crops were doing. Corn was always one of his favorite crops. He used to tell me how he could smell it growing. I do believe I could too. That piece of land that hadn't seen any crops or been plowed under since the early 50's, appears to have been a wise decision on your part to work it up and put some corn in there. That is feed that you wouldn't have had for your dairy. Money in the bank so to speak. I believe that sod ground almost always pushes up a pretty nice crop of corn. Does around here in upstate New York. Nice to see you and Jen out checking on your fields. Farming has a way of brings folks closer together! Love your videos. God speed to you and your family. Your children are such a joy!! God's little gifts from Heaven!
Thanks for the support ,we are still fighting for our farms and mayby you should ask the viewers to hang the Dutch flag upside down as a sign that there is people in need, thats what we do overhere, thank for the video and have a good day greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
It works out good for us, it uses a little more wrap, than a tube wrapper, but if I'm feeding in warmer weather, I don't have the spoilage I would have with a tube.
A fine video ya'll! Just went to our county's (Lake county Indiana) antique tractor show . This year they had alot Minneapolis Molines and some nice I H 's too .. my favorite are the hit and miss engines. Thanks for the update 😀
Tks for sharing. You look your crops are doing great.. Miss Jenn taters really doing good too. Theres blossoms all ready? Yes Farmer do have a hard enough time with out the Government thinking they know everything. Prayers for all Farmers .
Near my former MN dairy farm 15 years ago, A dairy farmer near me quit chopping haylage and switched to baleage. He believed the long stem fermented baleage was better for cows than chopped haylage.
I agree with you. We run brood cows here cow calf operation and finish our steers and we feed it to everybody our cattle hardly know what dry hay is and it makes terrific feed. Have a good friend that's bigger than I am in beef and he says I can't think of anything better to feed a brood cow. Ours get grain feed to but primarily in the winter time their diet is baleage.
That hay is as green as JD paint.... Looks really nice. Corn is looking really nice too. I'm praying fone frost in August. It's been a good day for me, my favorites have all been posting videos on my birthday, nothing better. Thanks guys.
Nice looking bales 👍 crops are looking good too, that's interesting with the skips in the corn. We have some of that too but it's our planter, the seeds like to hang in the drum occasionally
Our going to do all round bales this year or some small squares too. Were into 2nd cutting now, I started yesterday but the haybine broke down, had to order parts, should be in tomorrow. Good luck with hay this year.
Thank you for asking for prayers for those farmers over seas. It’s just horrible what the governments are doing. Prayers will be giving for all the farmers of the world. God bless and stay safe.
I was glad to see you guys Allen your second crop hay looks pretty good are you guys chopping any hay in bag this year or are you going to chop corn salage in bag this year
I’m curious about that wrapper. We don’t have a high moister baler but the next one will have that ability. The wrappers around here are inline. We followed one this morning on the way to church. It looked like the Ring Of Fire attraction ag the Co Fair. I like your set up better.
I don't have a silage baler either, but I would like to get one, then I could bale at a higher moisture. The tube wrapper is nice if you have a large amount of hay to wrap, but if you're feeding in warm weather, they told me you had to feed at least 3 bales a day, to stay ahead of the spoilage.
Very nice corn. Do you cultivate or just spray? My corn had damage from the striped gophers. When it started coming up they were digging up the kernels.
Just curious, how many bales will one roll of plastic do? Can you give me an idea as to what a roll of plastic costs? Thanks for the videos that you share with us because I like to see a small farm still doing it and making it out here today!
I can wrap about 25 bales with one roll of wrap. This year wrap is 100-130 dollars a roll, but the stuff I'm using , I bought a few years ago, and that was about 75 dollars a roll.
I know you're asking for Alan to give his recommendation. We are in Western Pennsylvania and we paid I think around 85 to $90 a roll for wrap this year. It is up from last year due to petroleum issues and oil prices, we use a McHale 991 BC wrapper wraps individually and we go through about a roll of plastic every 20 to 25 bills depending on who's running the rapper
Prayers to us farmers all around the world and what the socialists want to do to citizens everywhere. And to the approximately 70000 truckers California is taking off the road if new regulations go through. What do we expect? The dems want more shortages.
Was that your brother in law on the 4020 or father in law? Your field looks great, I had a cub in my yard the other day, you ever have any bears on your property?
The hay is baled at a higher moisture, so wrapping it allows it to ferment into silage. It helps to save more of the leaves in the hay, and it also needs less drying time.
Not being rude or anything Alan but looks like your leaving alot of hay on the ground you may need to replace your tines on your pickup head on the baler other then that happy farming buddy
I see what you're talking about, but it's actually not nearly as much as the camera makes it look like. Those windrows were pretty wide, and some places I missed a little with the baler.
Prices of new tractors are just unaffordable. So, if you can get your work done with a low cost tractor. But yes, have the fuel pump well checked with that high e energy prices.
The plastic from silage bags, wrapped hay bales and bunkers is generally recycled. Wrapping them like this allows them to be harvested at a higher moisture content and allows them to ferment. This allows the hay to be harvested sooner with less risk of it being rained on which results in lower feed value…..plus it’s a lot less labor intensive than small square baling and stacking in the barn. Hope this helps
