Tom's dad know so much about farming and livestock, the amount of experience and knowledge he has explaining what to do etc is nothing short of incredible. it's a masterclass.
glad to see that its not as bad as we thought. i've seen silo rot a lot worse in the when the contractors did a shoddy job of rolling the pit. great video Tom
Im sorry to hear that mon, i hooe it doesnt carry through the whole pit mate. We havent seen any mould in ours yet but our pit is only small so the cover was doubled at all the edges.
Great video Tom, I never thought there could be so much interest in cut grass!! Totally opened my eyes to the subject. I assume your dad was brought up on a farm? The family farm? He has such a great knowledge and freely puts it across in a lovely manner, I can’t wait for Sunday’s chat - it should be very entertaining and informative.
Hello Tom. I dont understand why you dont put sand bags or exstra tyres on the end and on the sides of the silo pit. Here in Denmark we put 3 layers of plastic and sand bags on the sides and on the ends of the silo pit, and we have no waste, and really good quality. Sorry for my english. Great video!;)
@@kylefox6318 not really, he mentions he always has waste at the corners and end/start of the clamp, in the Netherlands we do it the same as agri videos DK, we have 1 clear layer and sheets at the sides to the ground which get covered with the silage and the closed over the clear plastic, after that we use 1 more layer all the way over. We use sandbags al around the edges for an airtight seal and sometimes a double layer, after that tires on top not completely full. Spending 2 hours more on an clamp is worth it in so many ways, first of all you had to cut all the grass, then ted and rake it, have it go through the forager and the clamped, that cost money as well and if you spend the hours while clamping you dont have to do in the winter opening it. Sometimes we let the slurry tank suck air out of the clamp when we think it has a lot of air in it the next day.
Hi Tom, just found this channel... super content and a real education.... thx for sharing your day and farming method.... your dad is a real star...!🚜..
yo should have added salt on top of the silage, this lowers the osmotic pressure and makes it harder for organisms (mould) to grow. Nice video btw. I like your channel
Shame of the silage! Especially in a year as this, i usually just feed it to the heifers, let them select it for a day. Here in Holland alot of farmers put a big magnet on their feeding thingie for the cows , so they can catch any iron that is in the silage, i hear it Works really great, maybe an idea ? Sorry for the bad english. Great vid !
Another grand video, now you know not to leave gates open. That plastic sheeting would do for the open barn hung from the roof. keep the calves warmer and be more happy.
Be careful with that since the mould can form aflatoxin which is soluble in water you could find some aflatoxin in the parts without visible mould. Have a nice day guys :)
Have any of you guys been to Australia. We have had dry winters meaning crops were ready alot earlier then normal and some of them weren't 100% productive. A few I herd were only 50% productive
Hi greetings from Argentina, you should cut silage up too 2 meters and let it dry. And i recomend you that if you want to use that front silage make an exam looking for micotoxines produce by fungi sp. Nice video is something thats normally happend.
Good videos man, chatting away getting through the dirty jobs most people never think of. Ive often considered aspects of farming very similar to my job and thought it'd make a good career but i should have started 10 years ago realistically. Off to buy FS19 instead haha
I am a bit confused on how this thing was constructed, dont you put an extra layer on top of the feed to prevent the mold from reaching it? Here on own farm we usually add a layer off "pulp" (dont know the english word sorry) that is about 10 cm orso. The cows eat the pulp even when moldy so its a lot easier. P.s. pulp is the dried remains of suggar beets from after they are processed
My family, both side were farmers, they would have laughed about going to college to learn farming. It would have been seen as a waste of time. My uncle Davy laughed and shook his head. "The job is on the farm learning,not behind a desk" He's in his 70's.
Tom Pemberton Farm Life - Same with my ol man! Feeding and breeding he always told me was key 💪🏻 Any chance of a breeding video? (Apologies if there is already one)
Hi Tom,, I wonder how t you go with the plastic sheeting and silage bags for disposal,, with all the concerns on plastic waste,, I was pig farming for 30 plus yrs and waste bread wrapping, and bags were a costly outlay,to get shut off,,,iam still on the farm, but gone down the tree, fencing plant hire route due to, slurry smells, pollution and all the usual stuff, great vids of day to day life on farm,, brings bag good and bad memories.
I see that mixer wagon looks like a Keenan had one in about 6 years wore the tub out of it. Seemed like the big piece of junk you could buy always something breaking but it did do a nice job but just didn't seem very reliable. Now we have a patz vertical mixer and love it just a bit high
try to put sand on the front and tyres on top that way the cows wont lift the sheet up that easy if someone will forget the gate again. sorry for my english im from Sweden so that explain why my english is a bit off.
Need a handful of pigs, they'd take the bad parts for you and do well on it, Question, Is that all grass silage or did you mix in cattle corn with it? I'm terrible curious how you do yours.
This is just an example as to why I won't ever use TMR, the fact that waste had to be disposed of you should have some ring feeders etc. Setup so you can dump it into there, cows don't like eating mouldy food and so will pick through and actually eat anything good! Saves a lot of money (and waste) I'll have to show you some time I reckon :) Just out of curiosity though I know you fork off your waste so you don't mulch it all up with the TMR, but do you lose many to listeria?
@@RJ1999x not at all.. but you'll find different farms have different setups, you could say the same to Tom in the sense that why doesn't he have 1000 cows? It's all more money right? Wrong.. The way I work my farm is actually very low input and we actually have a medium to high output! Which is the best way to be! Not that's there's anything wrong with Tom's setup, that's just the way he prefers to do it :) Just from my point of view.. and the way my setup is, TMR is a big no no!
@@Brooke_RS197 I am not a dairy Farmer, use to work on my uncle's dairy before I started cash grain farming. I have a lot of friends that did dairy, they all told me the best move they ever made was when they went to a TMR, they said it was like flipping a switch in production. Which I have no doubt is true, because as a kid I remember my grandpa and other farmers talk about mixing corn and hay in the same silo, how much better the cows milked
@@RJ1999x depends what you classify as TMR.. we still feed those sorts of things it just doesn't go through a machine.. and as an average our cows still produce silly amounts of milk and are perfectly healthy 🤷♂️ Like I say it's all about what works best :)
There I work we drive tractor long time over all Days at silage seasong. And put sand bags on side and sand at front. So we dont get that much mould. And if that would be so much I use the loader to take that mould and on the top 🙂 U guys use same silage "taker" as we do. But our is broken and bend
yes you can always use bad silage as fertilizer for next crop. toghether with manure and so on. But its a waste of time and lost money if to much silage is spoildt each year, spesially if you need to hire people and maskines cutting and packing the silage. and to remove the spoilage like they did here. also if too much silage is destroyd you might have to buy extra feed for the animals. so they dont starve.
haha tom i seen u try and wet henry with the tires thats evil, and whats a tow pence i think u ment two pence hehe great video as always tom good to see you do a bit of Manuel labor with the lads
around here it rains everyday so dairy farmers cut/round bale/wrap bales all in 1 day in the pouring rain all 4 cuttings. 4 months later excellent silage but when it's -30 below bales are frozen solid. have it tested and add straw to the mixer as needed
Tom Pemberton Farm Life ok but the warmer stuff you don’t give it to cows or do you? We give the black and warm stuff to the Heifers and they eat almost everything so we have less lost throughout the clamp
Evening Tom quick Question for you .... I know it's all part of dairy farming BUT does all the muck mud and water not piss you of get on your nerves ??? LOL could be a daft Question but if ya dont ask you will never know lol
Phil Naylor I agree shit every where water muck etc,,the silage pit was only half covered 1 cover waste of time and not enough weight on the ends needs sand bags,,not doubting his farmin skills as seems like a nice guy
You can feed cows with this silage because they select what is good and what îs bad you can take out.In the future you can do a more nice compacting.... PS: YOU have a nice farm🚜🚜💪🏻😂
@@TomPembertonFarmLife Be careful feeding mouldy silage to cattle, especially young cattle, as its how they get listerosis. That disease requires a long antibiotic treatment course.
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Thanks Tom love your videos
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Tom's dad know so much about farming and livestock, the amount of experience and knowledge he has explaining what to do etc is nothing short of incredible. it's a masterclass.
glad to see that its not as bad as we thought. i've seen silo rot a lot worse in the when the contractors did a shoddy job of rolling the pit. great video Tom
Like because your dad is an awesome guy
he teaches me a lot, love to watch these videos with him
Im sorry to hear that mon, i hooe it doesnt carry through the whole pit mate. We havent seen any mould in ours yet but our pit is only small so the cover was doubled at all the edges.
Great video Tom, I never thought there could be so much interest in cut grass!! Totally opened my eyes to the subject.
I assume your dad was brought up on a farm? The family farm? He has such a great knowledge and freely puts it across in a lovely manner, I can’t wait for Sunday’s chat - it should be very entertaining and informative.
Well done Tom you managed to not crash your drone this episode!!!
I like how you are making the two lads use a fork instead of machinery
love watching your videos, learnt alot from yourself and your dad! - brilliant videos keep them coming 📷🐄🐮🚜
Hello Tom. I dont understand why you dont put sand bags or exstra tyres on the end and on the sides of the silo pit. Here in Denmark we put 3 layers of plastic and sand bags on the sides and on the ends of the silo pit, and we have no waste, and really good quality. Sorry for my english. Great video!;)
The only reason its so bad is because his cows broke into it by the way love ur vids
I know. But i was just wondering why they only put 1 layer of plastic on the silo;)
@@kylefox6318 not really, he mentions he always has waste at the corners and end/start of the clamp, in the Netherlands we do it the same as agri videos DK, we have 1 clear layer and sheets at the sides to the ground which get covered with the silage and the closed over the clear plastic, after that we use 1 more layer all the way over. We use sandbags al around the edges for an airtight seal and sometimes a double layer, after that tires on top not completely full. Spending 2 hours more on an clamp is worth it in so many ways, first of all you had to cut all the grass, then ted and rake it, have it go through the forager and the clamped, that cost money as well and if you spend the hours while clamping you dont have to do in the winter opening it. Sometimes we let the slurry tank suck air out of the clamp when we think it has a lot of air in it the next day.
A lot of people do the same in the uk I expect in Tom's case it's probably the ginger warrior being frugal (tight northerner) lol
will Moore hahaha lol
Hi Tom, just found this channel... super content and a real education.... thx for sharing your day and farming method.... your dad is a real star...!🚜..
Go the ginger warrior!!😍
Cherish that man
Bambinohead1 Got to love him hahaha
yo should have added salt on top of the silage, this lowers the osmotic pressure and makes it harder for organisms (mould) to grow. Nice video btw. I like your channel
Reminds me when i used to live in village,
Love from India
Nice to see how the silo is doing tom hope you and the family are well mate farms looking great 👍
Tom it looked asif there were a huge lost but most damage on the top part of the clamp nice video.
Glad to see there was only a couple of manitou buckets full of waste silage well done to all see you sunday
Great video Tom!! keep them two lads at it!!
we use indoor silage pits and they work great, almost no mould
Tom selleck would be proud of that tash !! Great video.
you should put sand on it instead off tires. like we do in the netherlands :D
These guys are great!
Arnas Shizuaki Thanks 😀
Shame of the silage! Especially in a year as this, i usually just feed it to the heifers, let them select it for a day. Here in Holland alot of farmers put a big magnet on their feeding thingie for the cows , so they can catch any iron that is in the silage, i hear it Works really great, maybe an idea ? Sorry for the bad english. Great vid !
Steel toe caps or not resting the point of the forks on top of your foot ain't the best idea Henry.
MrKiwi MrKiwi That’s what the ginger warrior said when he watched it before 😂
Tom. I’m loving the long videos. Could you please do a video on the pipes above you that carry slurry? And how they work.
A Chick Called Faith no problem 😀
Another grand video, now you know not to leave gates open. That plastic sheeting would do for the open barn hung from the roof. keep the calves warmer and be more happy.
Be careful with that since the mould can form aflatoxin which is soluble in water you could find some aflatoxin in the parts without visible mould. Have a nice day guys :)
Have any of you guys been to Australia. We have had dry winters meaning crops were ready alot earlier then normal and some of them weren't 100% productive. A few I herd were only 50% productive
Dad's a great speaker.
That's why you can't make silage from fresh grass right after it being cut off
Wet grass and only tires to cover. A meter of sand would've done better.
@@mcCaspian95 True. We use sand bags and have no spoilage. We have low output on our silage wagon and usually the silage is very dry.
That’s why you make silage bales so you don t have this problem
Ioan Nichols like we do :)
Good irrigation underneath the silage, shame about the mould.
Waste not, want not.
In the states and Canada we standing silage silos so we never have to worry unless you have a bunker
Got some Mycotoxin binder you can mix in the TMR? Just in case there's some mould there you haven't spotted!
Tom, get a heavy top sheet to go on top of the black plastic. Google "secure covers silage".
Love these videos 😁😁👍👍
Hi greetings from Argentina, you should cut silage up too 2 meters and let it dry. And i recomend you that if you want to use that front silage make an exam looking for micotoxines produce by fungi sp. Nice video is something thats normally happend.
Good videos man, chatting away getting through the dirty jobs most people never think of. Ive often considered aspects of farming very similar to my job and thought it'd make a good career but i should have started 10 years ago realistically. Off to buy FS19 instead haha
This year has been tough hope the winter is kind to you
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I am a bit confused on how this thing was constructed, dont you put an extra layer on top of the feed to prevent the mold from reaching it? Here on own farm we usually add a layer off "pulp" (dont know the english word sorry) that is about 10 cm orso. The cows eat the pulp even when moldy so its a lot easier.
P.s. pulp is the dried remains of suggar beets from after they are processed
My family, both side were farmers, they would have laughed about going to college to learn farming. It would have been seen as a waste of time. My uncle Davy laughed and shook his head. "The job is on the farm learning,not behind a desk" He's in his 70's.
Your ol man sounds so passionate bout feeding 👌🏻
Narice Britton He loves the science of it all 😀
Tom Pemberton Farm Life - Same with my ol man! Feeding and breeding he always told me was key 💪🏻 Any chance of a breeding video? (Apologies if there is already one)
Wud u not have a day where u clean up the whole yard
Hi Tom,, I wonder how t you go with the plastic sheeting and silage bags for disposal,, with all the concerns on plastic waste,, I was pig farming for 30 plus yrs and waste bread wrapping, and bags were a costly outlay,to get shut off,,,iam still on the farm, but gone down the tree, fencing plant hire route due to, slurry smells, pollution and all the usual stuff, great vids of day to day life on farm,, brings bag good and bad memories.
Great Tash and video
I see that mixer wagon looks like a Keenan had one in about 6 years wore the tub out of it. Seemed like the big piece of junk you could buy always something breaking but it did do a nice job but just didn't seem very reliable. Now we have a patz vertical mixer and love it just a bit high
Harper Adams is only 20 mins down the road from me, and i have collected the milk from the old tank.
Cool video , interesting learning how silage works 👍
try to put sand on the front and tyres on top that way the cows wont lift the sheet up that easy if someone will forget the gate again. sorry for my english im from Sweden so that explain why my english is a bit off.
Great Tash 👍🏻
Cut the sidewalls off those tires and use those to hold the tarp down. Keeps water from collecting in them
1. enable the movie from 12:00
2. Press the key every second
"L" to 15:48
3. Look at the spoon.
Have fun
Mr Tom, if only someone shut the gate, ha, ha, good to see youngsters using a grape!!
Great video Tom
Great tash lad. You should grow a matching one tom
Graeme Bell I could do anything like that hahah
Hi Tom would ye ever spread salt along the sides of the pit, before ye sheet it to kinda persevere the edges a bit better.
Father really seems to know the science of farming. Impressive. USA.
Merry Christmas thanks for the video
Great video again merry Christmas Tom 🚜
Does your farm every "dry out"? Always muddy😳....must get a lot of rain?
well it is lancashire, so you're probably right.
Need a handful of pigs, they'd take the bad parts for you and do well on it, Question, Is that all grass silage or did you mix in cattle corn with it? I'm terrible curious how you do yours.
This is just an example as to why I won't ever use TMR, the fact that waste had to be disposed of you should have some ring feeders etc. Setup so you can dump it into there, cows don't like eating mouldy food and so will pick through and actually eat anything good! Saves a lot of money (and waste)
I'll have to show you some time I reckon :)
Just out of curiosity though I know you fork off your waste so you don't mulch it all up with the TMR, but do you lose many to listeria?
So your opposed to making money?
@@RJ1999x not at all.. but you'll find different farms have different setups, you could say the same to Tom in the sense that why doesn't he have 1000 cows? It's all more money right? Wrong..
The way I work my farm is actually very low input and we actually have a medium to high output! Which is the best way to be! Not that's there's anything wrong with Tom's setup, that's just the way he prefers to do it :)
Just from my point of view.. and the way my setup is, TMR is a big no no!
@@Brooke_RS197 I am not a dairy Farmer, use to work on my uncle's dairy before I started cash grain farming. I have a lot of friends that did dairy, they all told me the best move they ever made was when they went to a TMR, they said it was like flipping a switch in production. Which I have no doubt is true, because as a kid I remember my grandpa and other farmers talk about mixing corn and hay in the same silo, how much better the cows milked
@@RJ1999x depends what you classify as TMR.. we still feed those sorts of things it just doesn't go through a machine.. and as an average our cows still produce silly amounts of milk and are perfectly healthy 🤷♂️
Like I say it's all about what works best :)
@@Brooke_RS197 so basically you are using a TMR. Total mixed ration isn't the machine
You should pot it in a large grain storage tank
I come from germany and I find your chanal very good.👍
Nico trinktWasser Thankyou 😀
Cool, Nice cleaning
There I work we drive tractor long time over all Days at silage seasong. And put sand bags on side and sand at front. So we dont get that much mould. And if that would be so much I use the loader to take that mould and on the top 🙂 U guys use same silage "taker" as we do. But our is broken and bend
duracelljej if the cows hadn’t escaped, the silage would be ok.
Tom, will you be able to use the rotten silage as a fertilizer or compost once it's rotted down more?
Good idea..
yes you can always use bad silage as fertilizer for next crop. toghether with manure and so on.
But its a waste of time and lost money if to much silage is spoildt each year, spesially if you need to hire people and maskines cutting and packing the silage.
and to remove the spoilage like they did here.
also if too much silage is destroyd you might have to buy extra feed for the animals. so they dont starve.
Can u pls do a milking routine pls great vids
Your amazing guy
I hope will is safe operating that fork under the influence of a moustache
Adam Walton 😂😂😂😂
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Great tash dude!
Jesus Tom if u give the boys another 50 pounds each they work more for u 😂😂
The other guys were like , "Come on man stop with the video and help us"
Hey tom love the videos keep it up man
we have done 5 cuts already in new zealand and were not evan half way threw summer
Do you guys have a small biogas plant on the farm? That’s what inedible silage would be useful for.
Cutting those tires in half would make that a much easier and less messy job. Non steel belted tires can be cut with a utility knife and hook blade.
Your the best youtuber
our pit is full of mould aswell. eat the front fast so the mould is not as bad
haha tom i seen u try and wet henry with the tires thats evil, and whats a tow pence i think u ment two pence hehe great video as always tom good to see you do a bit of Manuel labor with the lads
Questions for u and the ginger warrior - are u lambing this year and if you are how many ?and what type of tup did use ?and if u aren’t why not ?
British farming 10/10 the best
around here it rains everyday so dairy farmers cut/round bale/wrap bales all in 1 day in the pouring rain all 4 cuttings. 4 months later excellent silage but when it's -30 below bales are frozen solid. have it tested and add straw to the mixer as needed
Nice vid👍🚜
Try using top-seal plastic as well as cover plastic for the next bunk. That hurts.
Do you give the warmer grass or the grass that is steaming a bit to the Heifers and Berger’s or do you throw that also away?
Ivan Van Keulen if it’s black we get rid but if it’s just warm we keep it
Tom Pemberton Farm Life ok but the warmer stuff you don’t give it to cows or do you? We give the black and warm stuff to the Heifers and they eat almost everything so we have less lost throughout the clamp
It's easy to forget to close 1 gate
Evening Tom quick Question for you .... I know it's all part of dairy farming BUT does all the muck mud and water not piss you of get on your nerves ??? LOL could be a daft Question but if ya dont ask you will never know lol
Phil Naylor I agree shit every where water muck etc,,the silage pit was only half covered 1 cover waste of time and not enough weight on the ends needs sand bags,,not doubting his farmin skills as seems like a nice guy
I sure hope that the milking facilities and dairy are kept in a cleaner condition than what appears on this video!
It annoys me at our home farm but you get used to it.
Sire, Allow me to comment, spend a little more plastic liner, I believe the rainwater is infiltrating between both liners. Best Regards.
Great Tash Will. Almost as good as Tom's hat
Great stash lad 😂 love your sc’s haha
Excellent video Tom great stuff don't think your dad will be doing his good stuff test on that lol.
Good video man very interesting
You can feed cows with this silage because they select what is good and what îs bad you can take out.In the future you can do a more nice compacting.... PS: YOU have a nice farm🚜🚜💪🏻😂
George Vornicu thanks George, it’s because cows got in which made it pretty bad. Maybe have given it young stock but they wouldn’t have eaten alot
@@TomPembertonFarmLife Be careful feeding mouldy silage to cattle, especially young cattle, as its how they get listerosis. That disease requires a long antibiotic treatment course.
Sorry Tom I ante been watching ur videos but I'm back now
Have you thought of putting this stuff on old wooden pallets? Would drain well
With Hessian bags on top of pallets?
New Zealand is the best country come and enjoy our farming style
Gzzzz the cows will pick over it..
Just watching old videos i think u shud do a cook with tom video on a Sunday
How many bunks do you guys have for silage?
That pit was well sealed!! Not
Lol