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.
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
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.
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 :)
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 !
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.
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.
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.!!!!!€
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@coltsjason in english please
Thank you Lord for blessing these people with a bountiful harvest. You have been so good and generous to America for so long. We thank you.
You ever think of going to open ended bunks? Would be easier to wheel pack and then you can feed the old side out when you butt up the new silage.
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 love how that little Jack Russel shows up unannounced throughout the videos. So funny seeing how nosy the little pup is.
I’m getting more sold on contract harvest. Great video. Super drone shots.
Hello from a Upstate NY Farmer.
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.
Enjoy your videos. Seeing someone take so much pride and care in the feed you put up is great. You have a lucky herd of cattle!
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 :)
It amazes me how quick you harvest and fill the bunkers. Great working team. Good video. Thanks.
Good job with the harvest. You probably have a great sense of accomplishment, knowing that all 3 bunkers are full & covered. Stay safe.
Always enjoy your drone shots set to music! Great job. Glad the chopping has gone well. Your farm looks beautiful.
Congratulations on finishing corn silage with a crop big enough for the whole year!
Love the videos, keep up the hard work you are THE best farming channel out there!!!! Hi from central northern Maryland
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 !
Eric had a hat that said, “I farm you eat.” Says it all…😋
Eric i love the music that you over lay when you aren't talking keep on praising Jesus Christ and we will meet on that beautiful shore.
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.
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.
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.
@@jettron1 Was that Siegler Farms in Michigan?
@@jettron1 I agree .a while back they asked Eric what was the worst thing about dairy farming. He said when the cows were sick. Good dude...
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.
Eric I have said it before you have a beautiful farm. It is a pleasure watching your farm family work together. 😊
Sequence from 5:23 to 5:48: brilliant.
Nice to have the year worth of feed in the bunks. Great video.
I like your choice of music for the drone shots,
It's good to see you have extra silage. One youtube channel they had to start feeding their cows from the winter hay because of droughts.
Eric, good to see the family helping out. 3 full bunks. You have a beautiful farm!! Enjoy watching your vids.👍🐄
Loved the nighttime overhead shots.
Versatile makes very nice equipment. The awesome bright headlights are a nice bonus!
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.!!!!!€
In the sweet by and by. Love it.
Success! Ready for the winter and next year.
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.
It's a custom guy so he knows what he is doing. Fast hard and move on... Cool to watch em work though
Thanks for showing us the hard work!
Glad you will have enough feed. I was kinda worried seeing the the stains on the bunk walls.
Congratulations on finishing corn harvest.
Love the music, I really do!!
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 had the same concern about the older silage being covered by the newer
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.
@@egypt0 they did this last year and feed lasted perfectly.
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.
I always love your drone footage Eric.
In one of the bunkers you could have two opposite entrances to draw food for the cows.
LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS ERIC
Cows be eating good this winter
Great video young man, I loved the music I could listen to it all day..
The aerial shots (and the music) are great. I hope it's a good harvest for you.
When you eventually extend the bunkers, you can make em backless so you can feed from both sides
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.
Any thoughts on bagging the leftover silage outside to avoid leaving inaccessible behind fresher stuff?
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
Or have the ability to open the other end
@@joakrage3972 What I thought!
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
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
Love your videos thanks for taking the time to make them when your so busy
Thanks Eric for this video that shows how hard you guys work even during the night. Good luck with the extensions too. Greetings from Australia
I learn so much from your videos Eric.
Darn, I was hoping for more scenes of the chopper blowing it right into the bunker like last year.
Hi Andrew! Doing well here. Thanks for helping our friend out with the silage!
Wonderful job
It’s about time to add another bunk as good as the yields have been the past couple years.
It’s cool you introduced all the additional help
Nice that the equipment lighting packages have improved so much. I looked like daylight at night!
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.
All that corn harvested and no aliens 🛸👽
Great video Eric, great team effort getting all the corn silage in! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
You guys got a lot of silage this year.
You always have good friends helping you out with these tasks. I hope you lend a helping hand to your friends as well!
Great workmanship
Really great video Eric. Thank you from Gurley Alabama
Great content Eric good to see the family operation operating as a family 👍👍👍👍👍👍
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,
Growing your own feed is the only way you can stay alive in dairy farming. Commercial feed has gone up like crazy. Godbless our farmers everywhere.
I look forward to these videos every year!
And also no matter how many times I see you throw them rings of tires it never gets old!
There's no better feeling than having full silage bunks.
Tidy job and a well run farm well done
nice change up on the Drone footage music!
Aww! You missed your chance for direct deposit to the bunk this year. Blessings!
Great awesome video Eric
awesome day for a nice farming video
Great video Eric thank you.
think of all the work that goes into that gallon of milk.
Another great video Eric. Always love seeing the bunks fill up. Who is Andrew ?? Seems to be a good helper.
Amazing Video keep up the good work!!!
Amazing how much feed you need for the cows just for a year congrats on getting silage done
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.
Drone shots were 👌
Love the smell of corn sileage
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
Algo bump!!
Thanks for sharing your vids with us
Nice job man!
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.
Well guys thats a wrap on another year 👏 👏 👏
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.
Hi Eric and dad what beautiful drone in daylight and night time lots of work and as always you and your dad and families be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Enjoy your videos as mutch as SaskDutchKid. Great filming.
Some farms just take the remaining and spread it out over the floor in a thin layer and then just pile the new stuff over the top.
Can't imagine how long it took you guys to hack that many tires in half.
Hey I enjoy your videos! Tell me about the product you sprayed on the feed before covering? Thanks
Hey Andrew, nice to meet ya !
great video! just a question... is there any harm in leaving the old silage in the bunker (ie it will go bad) or is it just not ideal? Thanks!
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
@@ohiodairyboys7230 gotcha!! Thank you!
Premium silage. Aged like a fine wine.
@@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.
Makes hor a long day when you have to get up at 4am to milk.
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