We Made The BEST Grass Silage Of 2024 | Unbelievable Amount Of Grass!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- It's FINALLY happened!! After twiddling our thumbs for weeks on end we have mad a start on silaging our herbal leys. Not only that but our 6410 is fixed and finally on the rake and we have to break out 2 wrappers to get finished off.
This one is a cracker, I hope you enjoy it.
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Congratulations on beef farmer of the year 🎉
Great video and work well done 👏 the drone had a near miss with a buzzard, didn't it 😂 💯👌
Great video, good to see a productive happy farmer. Great work 👍🏼 thanks for sharing 🚜
Thanks you! We keep trying our best 👍
Cracking video mate! Great to see the 6410 still ruling the roost. Best tractor ever made!
Thanks mate. It’s a great simple tractor. We’d be lost without it.
James your enthusiasm is infectious, I’m wanting to go out and buy some cows for the garden 😂😂
Do it 😂
Wow what a difference in lights on the tractors. Good old 6410👍
Sure is, and remember that the 6410 has LED lights fitted too. Way better than the standard ones 👍
Hi James Nice one Thanks again
11:37, what a cracking view. British farming at its best 👌🏼
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Need a bigger mower I reckon
Yeh, been going back and forth about this for a while. There’s a lot I want to do but can’t do it all at once so hard to know where to start. 🙈
Grreat video ,some lovely drone shots❤
Thanks Sara 😊
If the two seed rates are producing similar tonnage. It will be interesting to see if one out performs, or is more resilient, than the other over time.
100%. I would have thought there would have been slightly more on the double rate field but surprisingly not. Time will tell.
Very good video again 👍
Thanks Paul.
New to the channel chief. great content. Keep it up
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Thanks Darren! 👍
Good, case for putting that new Tanco on the back of the Baler.
Too right. We would have been done for 6.30pm and I could have had my feet up the chimney at night. 😂
If you had a fusion you could have stayed in on Saturday night James, we finished baling straw last Saturday before the rain Sunday, nice to get it done might do some more silage if we could just have some sun👍
Yeh too right. My only concern would be the weight in this scenario. Glad you got your straw bales, it’s been a hell of a long campaign this year with the weather 🙈
@@baldysfarm the weight would be fine their on big tyres and I'm guessing it's reasonable flat where you are but cameras never give a true picture, yes long season for sure, did you count the bale difference on the thick seeds and thinner seeds. Be interesting to see how the two patches compare as time goes on, looks some nice stuff, be interesting to see the analysis of the different leys you v baled this year, 👍
I use clouds for my gps mowing. Look out your back window at a cloud straight behind you, then turn into a new block and aim for it again.
Great idea, perhaps not on a windy day though 😂
That kite nearly had ya. Bless and so whats better too much or just thr right amount.
The kite wasn’t happy. I was hoping to get some more footage of him. But he wouldn’t play ball after that.
Nice rake. Scrap tractor 😂
Needs left hand reverse get a 6290 😂😂😂
Naaaah! Keep it simple, no need to any of that malarkey 😂
When are those shorts coming to the merch shop...? 🤔😲
😂 leave it with me. I’m trying to work on a bit of a merch project at the minute. 👍
Hi James, lucky to be silaging in October. So how many did you do in the hour with Tanco?
Still about 80 but tbh I wasn’t pushing it mega hard. Sped up some of the settings and then cruised along. Probably could have done 90 if I’d really pushed her.
Will you be getting it analysed?
Yes, once we get to housing we will have all silage analysed in order to allocate it correctly.
What size is that feild!?
The one with the drone footage in is 30 acre.
Im not a farmer but i used to silage and hay contracting lad u may seriously have a think about pitting all that grass !
Trouble is our pits on its last legs and it would be a huge investment to put a new one in and we use mowing as a management tool, so I can’t see a contractor wanting to keep coming for 8 acres here and 10 acres there all summer 🙈
Wouldn’t the savings on the baling and wrapping soon pay for updating the pit? You could still bale the small areas needed for grass management yourself.
@@markandrews6712not if you consider the economic costs of the machinery needed to feed clamp silage no. Bales seem expensive to make (which in comparison to clamp it is) but cheap as chips to feed. Realistically clamp is no cheaper than bales.
What date was this silage made?
5th October it was baled.
How many acres of silage do you make for 100 odd cows you seem to silaging all summer
We use mowing as a management tool so we are often silaging lower cover but we also have about 400 head of stock on farm at any one point with the finishing stock too. Winter feed budget dictates about 1600 silage bales and 400 hay to make it through the winter safely.
@baldysfarm so about 800,000 tonnes of fresh weight silage I'm guessing at that, I'm only asking as we are running roughly the same sort of number of cows 160 acres pit silage 10 acres of wholecrop and similar in maize silage plus 25 acre of round bales for sheep and 30 acres of the pit silage would be for sheep, got cows on restrictive ration once weaned 20kg silage 2kg straw nothing better than going in the evening seen all cows lying down in cubicles chewing cud
Wean your calves on the rest of you new seeds they will fly on it
It’s tempting but we have a burst water pipe to the fields that need fixing over winter so can’t get water there atm 🤦🏼♂️
Why don't you make clamp silage rather than making all them bales ?????
Tbh, we would need a new clamp which would be a huge investment and then we would also have to rely on a contractor with heavy kit and trailers which I’d rather not do. Hoping to move to keep cattle out longer in general so shouldn’t need to make as much moving forward, even with higher cattle numbers.