The overarching theme I've noticed in all your videos, Eric, is efficiency. You make good use of time and all of your resources. Nothing is wasted. Farming has become much more scientific in recent years and you have embraced the technology. For a family farm with limited labor, I'm guessing your yield is way above average. Kudos.
Thank you Eric and Duchess and friends and neighbors, for allowing us to see this aspect of your dairy operation. We know that the ladies like their corn, whether for feed or bedding! Be safe and Thank Ya'll for dairy farmin', feedin', fixin' and 🍶🍦🍼🍨 🇺🇸 !
Right? I'm a city boy with the heart of an engineer and the machines here just blow me away! My wife thinks I want to be a dairy farmer, but in reality I just want to play with all the toys! 😆
@@JayWillis2120 Another engineer here would also aspires to play with these amazing pieces of equipment. Also I find it fascinating as to how food products are grown on the farm to then being moved to the store.
Loved seeing the JD 4320 at work. What a good looking series of JD tractors. I also used to round bale wet cornstalks for my dry cows and heifers. They always seemed to like the wetter bales more than dry ones. I think it was because the moisture created some fermentation smell and taste. However I did discover some mold issues if I left the wet bales set in our barn too long. So I started leaving them outside and not stacked. Seemed to be less mold issues. Colder temps are your friend with wet cornstalks. I like the looks of your big square bales. It seems like they could be more efficient to handle and store. It is so good to see that you have great neighbors & friends to help. And of course you always have your fearless security dog Dutches by your side. Thanks for all your hard work and time to make great videos! Have a blessed weekend!
Interesting stuff. Love seeing all the big toys. Maybe next video you can accedentley find a purpousley hidden refreshing beverage. Thanks for sharing, and keep us posted!
I love how you mention if something goes wrong because when you are moving hay or fodder something will go wrong. I have spilt my share of hay off of the wagon and it is not fun to pick it back up by hand. Great video as always and love how your puppy likes to ride in the cart with you. My dog goes everywhere with me on the farm. Have a great week and May God bless you and the farm.
Nice video. Do you find it more economical to rent rakes etc. instead of owning your own? Combines I understand, but smaller equipment makes me wonder. Thanks for the video.
Good use of the fodder Eric. Seems like farmers are on the cutting edge of recycling. Manure can be used for fertilizer, water can be reused, non patented seeds can be replanted instead of buying new seed and as shown here. You can use fodder from grain be it wheat, rye, barley or corn can be used for feed stretching,bedding or even sold for bio mass.
The New Holland chopper/combine is one slick machine. The guy running it sure does a good job. A lot of added value in those corn stalk bales, bedding and feed is a plus. Do your heifers have any problem with digesting those? Good one Eric, sure do like watching the machinery work, and your farm is so efficient in it's layout. Thanks for this one, have a fantastic remainder of the week.
Another great video! I’m enthralled at watching your videos. This one especially neat since you’ve never filmed harvesting corn. Amazing machines and lots of hard work on your part(and your family). From this ole city boy in Raleigh, NC. Also like seeing the pup!
Hello Eric we depended totally on cornstalks for our bedding we would bale up 480 acres and my son and I would pick up the bales we made 2 flat racks like your neighbors and my son would drive the tractor and I drove the New Holland skidloader and we would bring 30 bales to the yard at a time. We could pickup 160 acres in a day around 10 -12 hours and we had just put up a hoop building and cornstalks worked great in there as we would put pigs in it averaging 80 lbs and they would go to market 30 days before we would take out the first load out of our confinements. I think putting calves in a hoop bldg would work great and it's great for putting manure back on your ground we could cover 160 acres the ground we baled we would cover it 2x spring and the fall and when we couldn't haul the manure out to the field we would pile it up about 20 yards from the hoop bldg and the south side of the hoop bldg the curtain pretty much was all the way up except when we moved pigs in when it was below 0 for a couple weeks then we would start raising it a foot or two at a time. And sometimes when we were low on pigs we would put round bales in the hoop and put a fence across and use the bales inside the hoop first and when the bales were put in dry the pigs loved it and it took longer to get dirty as they would poop in the corners instead of all over. When my son was helping me pickup bales he started at the age of 10 and when he wasn't around his sister who was 2 years younger she took over as she loved the farm watching gates and driving tractor and skidloader and she loved unloading the semi trailer when we took pigs to the packing plant as I would open the back door and she would jump right in and chase them out and when I dropped the ramps she would go up to the top deck and chase them down. She loved to load and unload pigs but when my son had to go get a load of bulls when he was driving semi she said she would just watch as I didn't blame her. Love your videos Eric.
YAY! this was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing the shell corn harvest. Curious to see how the bales work out. I bet it gets pretty hard to get stuff to dry down properly this time of year. Lots of moisture and cool temps. Thanks for sharing.
Hey everybody you’re watching Eric the 10thgen Star! great video thanks - waste not want not. I like how y’all are using everything from the corn stalks
With a mower like that I could do my yard in 5 passes. “Yes honey the mower and tractor did cost more than both of our cars combined, but think of the time I’m saving”
You are a dang smooth operator on that skid steer! Been watching this channel for a couple years and I'm always amazed at you and your dad's operation. Great work!
Enjoyed another authentic & educational video. Must feel good to have your harvests complete & stored. Great Job. A little winter downtime is in order.
I am like to work for dairy farming. My favorite job side is dairy farming. I will like to join with your farm and work with you and share to my skills and experience. Thank you. ❤️
Have you/your custom crew ever found anything wild in the middle of a corn field? I always think about that when I see the perspective of your video from up in the combine!
Using all that the soil provides, being efficient. Question: Do you worry about storing the bales next to the equipment and drawing in more mice and the damage they can cause to wiring, etc.? Know there are probably mice already, that's nature, but wondering about more than usual.
And just like that time to get winter prep finished and look at inside maintenance. I guess the fuel bill drops markedly over the winter months. How much fuel does the farm use on average per month? I guess a percentage of the overall fuel usage is in contractors and using them for the specialized jobs.
I used farming simulator 19 and it has a head like the one you showed in the video. I combined two huge fields and make an absurd amount of money in the game. I buy the biggest equipment which actually is cost effective. The latest purchase was the largest big rig and trailer. IT is *fast* and can haul 59,000 pounds! 💪🏃♀💨 I bought a recumbent bike which is real comfortable and I can run on low setting watching videos and working on the computer. I've done it before it it makes me get way, way more aerobic exercise than I usually do because it's the concept of setting up the environment to encourage the desired task. I can sit in this chair on the computer, and all I have to do when is more the legs. 🚲🚜💪😊
Salut Eric. Just be careful with large square bales and corn straw. Otherwise you can clickbait with: "our barn burned down". love your videos and keep up the good work! greetings from Switzerland
I chuckled at your comment that, unlike some other UA-cam farmer channels, you have proof positive you don't intentionally get your tractors stuck in mud or other click bait to fill the channel with needless stuff. Listen at 15:29 on video.
Hey, Eric. I am a city girl. I love watching your videos about farming. I have a what may seem a silly question: What are you going to do with all the corn you harvested in this video? Do you feed it to the cows?
I never worked on a farm and I know it's really hard work ( which doesn't bother me any) but this would be a lot of fun....well fun for me anyways since I'm an outdoor kinda person
Did the custom crew charge extra for chopping the stalks? I understand they increase fuel usage. Since you mowed the stalks anyway afterwards, wasn’t it redundant?
Eric I live in Western PA and can't stand the short days in November what are your thoughts on daylight savings time since your a farmer and they say thats the only reason we do daylight savings...
Eric, it sounds like you bale that corn fodder up. I know you will use it on your farm but do they also sell it in the bale form? And if so what would they roughly cost per bale??(Robin)
10th Gen, that's one of my favorite things about your channel. You don't NEED clickbait! Everything is interesting as is.
The overarching theme I've noticed in all your videos, Eric, is efficiency. You make good use of time and all of your resources. Nothing is wasted. Farming has become much more scientific in recent years and you have embraced the technology. For a family farm with limited labor, I'm guessing your yield is way above average. Kudos.
Great comment. It's hard to figure out his timelines. He will mention it's "the next day" this family works very hard.
@@thereissomecoolstuff something you don't really see anymore
@@claymack1109 definitely not on a popular high subscribed youtube channel
Thank you Eric and Duchess and friends and neighbors, for allowing us to see this aspect of your dairy operation. We know that the ladies like their corn, whether for feed or bedding! Be safe and Thank Ya'll for dairy farmin', feedin', fixin' and 🍶🍦🍼🍨 🇺🇸 !
It's great to see the sense of community there. People helping each other out the way it should be everywhere all the time.
Yes, I also love the way they work at my farm, always happy
It's always such a joy to see Dutchess charge around in the fields!
Best tractor John Deere ever made.
Girls will love those the stalks.
Eric, my brother and I watch every one of your videos. Sure miss farming. 😊
Very interesting to watch how bails are made, picked up and stored. Duchess is bred for burrow hunting. Stay safe.
That 4320 was a great oldie but goodie!
I am always amazed how these machines work. Blows my mind they can get the corn kernels off the cob.
Right? I'm a city boy with the heart of an engineer and the machines here just blow me away!
My wife thinks I want to be a dairy farmer, but in reality I just want to play with all the toys! 😆
@@JayWillis2120 Another engineer here would also aspires to play with these amazing pieces of equipment. Also I find it fascinating as to how food products are grown on the farm to then being moved to the store.
@@kolt4d559 same here!
Keep moisture tester handy in case they heat, we burned barn down with corn fodder
Loved seeing the JD 4320 at work. What a good looking series of JD tractors. I also used to round bale wet cornstalks for my dry cows and heifers. They always seemed to like the wetter bales more than dry ones. I think it was because the moisture created some fermentation smell and taste. However I did discover some mold issues if I left the wet bales set in our barn too long. So I started leaving them outside and not stacked. Seemed to be less mold issues. Colder temps are your friend with wet cornstalks. I like the looks of your big square bales. It seems like they could be more efficient to handle and store. It is so good to see that you have great neighbors & friends to help. And of course you always have your fearless security dog Dutches by your side. Thanks for all your hard work and time to make great videos!
Have a blessed weekend!
Neighbors are great! That's the way it is in rural America. People still help each other.
Just remember you’re taking a good bit of potash from the field if you don’t spread the stalks back in the same field.
Excellent work young farmer, excellent work.👋👍🤠🇺🇸😁
4320... Back when JD was spectacular.
Didn't know you could bale the stubble from the cornstalks like that and use for bedding or mix in feed, nice sized bales, quick work!
Boy the harvest or is a beast, yet still road worthy, amazing.
Nice video Eric! Great to see your corn harvest. Congratulations on getting your last crop of the season harvested!
The way they harvest the corn and take care of their dairy cows is very impressive to me
So nice you have great neighbors to share equipment with. Very lucky.
We used to have a mole issue in our yard. Then we adopted a Jack. Now we have dead moles. A Jack is always working
Interesting stuff. Love seeing all the big toys. Maybe next video you can accedentley find a purpousley hidden refreshing beverage. Thanks for sharing, and keep us posted!
Really loved the neighbor's bailing duo.
The 4320 looks like a show tractor. Super clean!
LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS ERIC
I love how you mention if something goes wrong because when you are moving hay or fodder something will go wrong. I have spilt my share of hay off of the wagon and it is not fun to pick it back up by hand. Great video as always and love how your puppy likes to ride in the cart with you. My dog goes everywhere with me on the farm. Have a great week and May God bless you and the farm.
Hi Eric and you’re friend excellent video still lots of work but you’re enjoying doing it and as always you and your families be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nice video. Do you find it more economical to rent rakes etc. instead of owning your own? Combines I understand, but smaller equipment makes me wonder. Thanks for the video.
Good use of the fodder Eric. Seems like farmers are on the cutting edge of recycling. Manure can be used for fertilizer, water can be reused, non patented seeds can be replanted instead of buying new seed and as shown here. You can use fodder from grain be it wheat, rye, barley or corn can be used for feed stretching,bedding or even sold for bio mass.
The New Holland chopper/combine is one slick machine. The guy running it sure does a good job. A lot of added value in those corn stalk bales, bedding and feed is a plus. Do your heifers have any problem with digesting those? Good one Eric, sure do like watching the machinery work, and your farm is so efficient in it's layout. Thanks for this one, have a fantastic remainder of the week.
Another great video! I’m enthralled at watching your videos. This one especially neat since you’ve never filmed harvesting corn. Amazing machines and lots of hard work on your part(and your family). From this ole city boy in Raleigh, NC. Also like seeing the pup!
Hello Eric we depended totally on cornstalks for our bedding we would bale up 480 acres and my son and I would pick up the bales we made 2 flat racks like your neighbors and my son would drive the tractor and I drove the New Holland skidloader and we would bring 30 bales to the yard at a time.
We could pickup 160 acres in a day around 10 -12 hours and we had just put up a hoop building and cornstalks worked great in there as we would put pigs in it averaging 80 lbs and they would go to market 30 days before we would take out the first load out of our confinements. I think putting calves in a hoop bldg would work great and it's great for putting manure back on your ground we could cover 160 acres the ground we baled we would cover it 2x spring and the fall and when we couldn't haul the manure out to the field we would pile it up about 20 yards from the hoop bldg and the south side of the hoop bldg the curtain pretty much was all the way up except when we moved pigs in when it was below 0 for a couple weeks then we would start raising it a foot or two at a time. And sometimes when we were low on pigs we would put round bales in the hoop and put a fence across and use the bales inside the hoop first and when the bales were put in dry the pigs loved it and it took longer to get dirty as they would poop in the corners instead of all over. When my son was helping me pickup bales he started at the age of 10 and when he wasn't around his sister who was 2 years younger she took over as she loved the farm watching gates and driving tractor and skidloader and she loved unloading the semi trailer when we took pigs to the packing plant as I would open the back door and she would jump right in and chase them out and when I dropped the ramps she would go up to the top deck and chase them down. She loved to load and unload pigs but when my son had to go get a load of bulls when he was driving semi she said she would just watch as I didn't blame her. Love your videos Eric.
You are correct,.....that is a sweet John Deere 4320. They were built back when I was a teenager.
Great Vids Eric i love farming.......Im watching your Vid all the way from 🇿🇦
YAY! this was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing the shell corn harvest. Curious to see how the bales work out. I bet it gets pretty hard to get stuff to dry down properly this time of year. Lots of moisture and cool temps. Thanks for sharing.
Hey everybody you’re watching Eric the 10thgen Star! great video thanks - waste not want not. I like how y’all are using everything from the corn stalks
Great job. Using everything. Beautiful farm
Gotta say my jaw dropped when I saw that sweet old school 4320 on the baler!
I never thought of harvesting the fodder corn field. No waste , 100% usage. Impressive PEACE
Definitely prefer doing corn Stalks in big squares on the spring. Fall Stalks will always heat and smell like silage
With a mower like that I could do my yard in 5 passes. “Yes honey the mower and tractor did cost more than both of our cars combined, but think of the time I’m saving”
You are a dang smooth operator on that skid steer! Been watching this channel for a couple years and I'm always amazed at you and your dad's operation. Great work!
Nice work Eric at least you got to work on different things today even the days are short in November.
Hey Eric, I havent seen your Dad in the videos as of late, i hope all is well with and your family.
Fancy bit of kit that combine! Brilliant video 💪🏻🏴
Enjoyed another authentic & educational video. Must feel good to have your harvests complete & stored. Great Job. A little winter downtime is in order.
Eric its amazing how much custom work you guys have done.
Makes the most sense in our situation I think
Thanks for sharing your vid’s with us!
Great video Eric! Make all you can make.
I grew up on a grain and cattle farm and you guys sure doing things way different from the normal farmer
Nice job planting Eric! 6 row, no gps, just a marker. Matches up with head.
Here's an idea for the transport hire a local tow company that has a flat deck tow truck that can simply slide the bales off in my opinion
Thanks Erik. ❤️ your UA-cam videos.
All of your videos are great, but I really enjoyed that one. Thank you.
awesome video Eric. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed it
Another great video sir, truly enjoy them, thank you
re. deliberately stuck or overturned or quasi-overturned equipment: i am convinced of the same thing bro.
I am like to work for dairy farming. My favorite job side is dairy farming.
I will like to join with your farm and work with you and share to my skills and experience. Thank you. ❤️
Thanks for sharing!
Great year!
I wonder if the custom guys ran devastators on their head if you could bale straight up without mowing?
I’m surprised they didn’t have a little bigger tractor on that grain cart.
Was so disappointed that there was no mountain dew hidden in the windrow!
Would have been interesting to see the custom guy doing the round baling.
Have you/your custom crew ever found anything wild in the middle of a corn field? I always think about that when I see the perspective of your video from up in the combine!
Thanks 😊
Do many of the farms in your area outsource their harvesting equipment? It seems most of the bigger farms own their own equipment.
thank you
Using all that the soil provides, being efficient. Question: Do you worry about storing the bales next to the equipment and drawing in more mice and the damage they can cause to wiring, etc.? Know there are probably mice already, that's nature, but wondering about more than usual.
that was a timely recovery for that hay that jumped bale
Enjoyed your video so much thanks for posting and all the best or luck moving forward,
And just like that time to get winter prep finished and look at inside maintenance. I guess the fuel bill drops markedly over the winter months.
How much fuel does the farm use on average per month? I guess a percentage of the overall fuel usage is in contractors and using them for the specialized jobs.
I used farming simulator 19 and it has a head like the one you showed in the video. I combined two huge fields and make an absurd amount of money in the game. I buy the biggest equipment which actually is cost effective. The latest purchase was the largest big rig and trailer. IT is *fast* and can haul 59,000 pounds! 💪🏃♀💨
I bought a recumbent bike which is real comfortable and I can run on low setting watching videos and working on the computer. I've done it before it it makes me get way, way more aerobic exercise than I usually do because it's the concept of setting up the environment to encourage the desired task. I can sit in this chair on the computer, and all I have to do when is more the legs.
🚲🚜💪😊
GREAT MOTIVATION FOR US😊
Salut Eric. Just be careful with large square bales and corn straw. Otherwise you can clickbait with: "our barn burned down".
love your videos and keep up the good work! greetings from Switzerland
It seems that most corn harvests you chop silage, but you took the kernels separately this time. Why the change?
Another great video.
Are you working on a 'Stache?!
The Best of UA-cam 🥺🥺🥺 Saludos desde España 🇪🇦
Good stuff Eric 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I chuckled at your comment that, unlike some other UA-cam farmer channels, you have proof positive you don't intentionally get your tractors stuck in mud or other click bait to fill the channel with needless stuff. Listen at 15:29 on video.
Hey, Eric. I am a city girl. I love watching your videos about farming. I have a what may seem a silly question: What are you going to do with all the corn you harvested in this video? Do you feed it to the cows?
You don't have to worry about click bait. Your content is all solid...well aside from those surprise wayward soda cans.😆
I One hundred percent agree with you that some people just get their tracker stock for Clickbait and
I love your videos keep up the good work
good to see dad again
Good job buddy see ya on the next one . Round bails
It’s really interesting to see green grass between the rows. Is that a climate thing or is the row spacing a bit different?
10G!! You da man!!
In Wisconsin
The nature beauti is awesome brother
I never worked on a farm and I know it's really hard work ( which doesn't bother me any) but this would be a lot of fun....well fun for me anyways since I'm an outdoor kinda person
Brasil vendo seus vídeos , parabéns pela colheita de 🌽🌽 🇧🇷 .
Great video, you can learn a lot)
That's a massive head we do about 700 acres of corn a year in pa our head is a six row
Did the custom crew charge extra for chopping the stalks? I understand they increase fuel usage. Since you mowed the stalks anyway afterwards, wasn’t it redundant?
Eric I live in Western PA and can't stand the short days in November what are your thoughts on daylight savings time since your a farmer and they say thats the only reason we do daylight savings...
Will you Keep that corn after Grinding it?
Eric, it sounds like you bale that corn fodder up. I know you will use it on your farm but do they also sell it in the bale form? And if so what would they roughly cost per bale??(Robin)
Just keep that little dog safe. Lots a danger in the machinery..💖
Okay this answers my question from before
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