There's something about watching the harvest that is so satisfying. From the siychronized driving (I don't know why I'm impressed with that; they're just driving the same speed) to the filling of the silo, bunker or ag bag. It's certainly the most satisfying part of the year.
Even though they’re driving the same speed, it’s still a tricky thing to do and takes a LOT of concentration. If you live anywhere near a crop farm, go meet the farmer, tell him/her you have an interest in where your food comes from - he/she will most likely be more than happy to show you around. He/she might even take you for a tractor ride 😊
@@ImOnAJourney I have been on a tractor - but it's been a mighty long time. Half a century. Spent the summer I was 12 on my uncle's dairy farm; still my best summer ever. But when I graduated high school, circumestances made me leave the country. Last half dozen years I've been in a 2 mile square village but it borders a river and city, not farms. I would love to get back to a farm. I found this channel years ago when I was looking to see how milking might have changed from half a century ago. It has indeed! I'd love a video of his Dad talking about the changes he's seen over the years that he's been farming.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer I keep saying if my father-in-law was still alive, he would be shocked to see how dairy farms operate now! He started with six Holsteins, a couple of buckets and a little two-legged stool he “sat” on. He’d get between two cows, line his buckets up, balance himself on that little stool and hand-milk two cows at a time. Eventually he put in four automatic milkers and built the herd up to around 50 cows. He ran that dairy farm like a well-oiled machine for three decades. But he had nothing as fancy as we see on this or other dairy channels. Too stingy with money, for one thing!
@@ImOnAJourney The changes just since the 70s! Came here because my dairy farming roots outed in my fiction (unpublished so sorry, hobby only) with dairy farming family from 1800s to current times so I had to find out. Delving into the history and all that that came before me too. Was kind of fun to see the evolution on the farms from milk stools to robots/computerized things. I was glad to find one that was a family farm. So many are these huge factory farm type things that really made my eyes boggle but seemed kind of cold and inhumane. Saw one that just had some rotating floor that just literally brought the cows in conveyor belt style to be milked. Made me shudder. Family farms need to be perserved.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer Hear! Hear! We live in a cornfield in the middle of the US, and I agree totally! The average age of farmers in my state is 58.6 years. That’s a terrifying statistic - who takes over when those guys are all dead? It’s a job you’re born into, not a job you pick up after high school and just decide to make a career out of it.
The saddest part is that we won't get to see the chopper shoot direct into the silage pile anymore. Should've seen if he could hit the bagger from there lol. The new setup will be nice though.
@@karloarsch1579 yeah I don't know if this nee change up is gonna be beneficial for them. Seems like a big waste of money and time in my opinion but hey what do I know
Use to be my favorite time of year cutting silage. Amazing to see the size of tractors today. We used a Massey 1105 to run a 2 row corn header. Then 3-670 moline turbo diesels pulling silage wagons and a couple dump trucks. That was in the 60's and 70's.
Oh man, Eric! I am so excited for this change over. Its incredible to hear you say "this is the last time we are going to feed out of these bunkers"... I forget how many years I've been watching you fill those bunkers. I've always looked forward to harvest season but this year has got me on the edge of my seat over here. Can't wait to see the next steps!
You and your Dad are Awesome working together ❤️ Thank U for sharing and teaching us new ways of farming. I am 85 years old and am glad there new ways to make it easier 🙏 Love the way you do things ❤️
Thank you 🙏🏻 Eric!! Your wonderful energy revived my Soul 🤍!! I appreciate you. Honesty carries the highest energy flow🤍 and your energy is Righteous 😀
I look forward to see your videos every week. I just love your channel. So interesting. All the nonsense in the world, I come here to relax. God Bless you and your family Eric
We can always count on Eric to show us more and more interesting farm work. Great idea using the space in the bunkers for ag bags.Hard to believe that summer went so fast and it is now harvest time.Watching the corn get chopped is mesmerizing.Glad the yield was better than you expected. Great video as usual and thanks.
Eric, Your videos are the best relaxation at the end of the day. I was hoping to hear a few words from Dad about the vacation. I enjoyed my time in Alaska. God Bless you and all farmers!!!
Hope u doing this videos long time forward. Im from sweden and about to start work full time on a farm with total 350 cows and 1482 acres (600 hectares) on this day and you become a good inspirer to me so thank you! Sending you some pics from swe soon
I'm looking forward to my fall visit to Lancaster. I can always find your farm from long distance with my benocs. This year with the new sky scrapers should be real easy . Thanks for all the content.
Glad to see dad back on farm hope he had great time in Alaska & looking forward to every video installing the robot system it's really gonna free up some man hours per day, but I'm sure you guys will have other choirs to fill in the time.
I always love watching the silage crew! It’s really cool seeing all the agco equipment you don’t see that equipment all that often! Great video exited to see the robots in action!
Thanks for showing the charger! Was wondering how they would connect but never in my life would I have guessed they use, at least appears to be, a standard CEE Plug
Eric, I can hardly wait to see the Robot's in action! I hope they workout to your expectations!!! Are you working in a plan of how to use the old mixer just in case something goes haywire .... I'm sure you did ! GOD BLESS !!!
Eric, We traveled to Lancaster for a wedding a couple weeks ago. On our way to our rental house we were driving some backroads and I was wondering where your farm was. About 5 minutes later I spotted 3 silos! Very nice farmstead you have there. Enjoy your videos. Keep them coming!!
So very interesting. Your Dad just gets off a couple weeks rest and right back hard at work. Your new way of doing silage, hope it works out real well for you. I do see other farmers that I watch doing the same. a laugh, our fearless leader in Ottawa will not let us have plastic shopping bags no more LOL, imagine how many shopping bags you could make with one ag bag LOL
Can you tell us how the solar system is doing? is the investment panning out like you expected for your farm? I have been long considering solar to offset my energy needs and reduce electricity costs.
Hi Eric! Today I finished watching all the videos on your channel; I didn't watch them all today; I watched them from the most recent to the oldest. I've been using them to practice listening to English (I'm not American).
Tight final spurt! Please think again about the removal of the silos. Actually, only one has to go into the feed room, the others (right and left silo) already fill it outside the building.
It feels so different to not see y’all filling the bunkers, I’m guessing it feels pretty strange to you both, as well. It’s so exiting to see y’all grow your farm for the future! By the way, that silage smells amazing … it’ll smell even better after it has a bit of time to ferment 😉
Those kemper heads are amazing! Sure wish we had those all hydraulic chopper boxes back in the 70s and 80s when I was unloading wagons. mind blowing 🤯🤯
He could show us vacation photos with one of them fancy new slide show projectors. Yeah, I thought "welcome back to reality" as they were removing those panels.
Just realized that we will never watch again the scene of the forage harvester throwing the silage directly into the buker silo unless we search for the older videos of the channel
Cattle feeding and production now turns to robotic management, maintenance and repairs . Wonder if Eric imagined this in his career. Brave new world as they say.
The Lely feed pushers and the ones that clean the manure need infrequent maintenance and troubleshooting. The alternate option is a daily fulltime role of manually pushing feed & cleaning manure. Huge timesavers having those robots! Can’t imagine the amount of time saved with the new robot feed system. It can be a huge tradeoff
@@BigDib18 life changing, even for future generations 11, 12... Those generations will probably not imagine dairy farming without these new technologies.
No more throwing tires, unrolling plastic, or driving on he freshly filled bunkers!! Going to start on a new feeding chapter very soon. The excitement builds.
Excellent video of cutting the silage and putting it in the plastic bag. I wonder why you didn't put the silage in those bags like that all the time. Seems like it would keep better and longer. Looking forward to seeing how the robots work out. I would bet you better include a way to catch the silage and distribute it the old way. Can one robot do the total job if the other one is broken? Always leave a back up to get food for the cows. Looking forward to seeing your construction of the silage handling system.. Sam
I foresee yall roofing clear to silos and putting unloading elevators for all silos under roof so you don’t have to get out in elements to check or go up ladders.
I'm an og to your UA-cam channel and the farm and equipment has changed a lot looking great. Keep up the good work. Pls drop man dew off the new silo and more basketball videos. Thanks
The new silos will be great for the farm, but I'm going to miss the bunker-filling videos, they what the youtube algorithm decided I should watch bringing me to your channel
As I recall you had to cut some corn early last year as well. Were the crops of '22 and '23 below normal? Hope this year is a bumper crop so you have plenty to carry you through to the fall of 25. Great content as always.
Bare handed! And long panels....what a man. Welcome hope dad, hope you an' you'rn had a great vacation. Any video from that? Always enjoy your video productions.
Hi Eric! I’m an architect from another country, and I don’t know why this video showed up in my recommendations, but I watched it from start to finish! You guys are incredible, and the hard work and effort you put into managing your farm is simply amazing. Watching your team work so seamlessly is truly impressive. If it’s not too much trouble, could you please tell me if you fully provide all the feed for your livestock from what you grow, or do you have to buy some additional feed?
While they grow soybeans on their farm, the sell it to a processing plant that's across the street. They buy some of it back. Some as milled, some as toasted. They also buy corn grain, minerals, hay and molasses. They also buy distillers grain from time to time.
@10thgenerationdairyman61 Eric / Dennis ... Bro's.... you didnt film the most important part: Tying the balloon knot at he start of the Ag bags! We'll NEVER EVER see it now. No Ag Bags ever again because using silo's (sad face) ..ps.. love the music and drone footage as always. Keep safe and well. Maybe do a end of harvest 'highlights' reel for us fans? Stuff you had to chop out from video edits for whatever reason?
we don't see this everyday. Glad you recorded this in length.
There's something about watching the harvest that is so satisfying. From the siychronized driving (I don't know why I'm impressed with that; they're just driving the same speed) to the filling of the silo, bunker or ag bag. It's certainly the most satisfying part of the year.
Even though they’re driving the same speed, it’s still a tricky thing to do and takes a LOT of concentration. If you live anywhere near a crop farm, go meet the farmer, tell him/her you have an interest in where your food comes from - he/she will most likely be more than happy to show you around. He/she might even take you for a tractor ride 😊
@@ImOnAJourney I have been on a tractor - but it's been a mighty long time. Half a century. Spent the summer I was 12 on my uncle's dairy farm; still my best summer ever. But when I graduated high school, circumestances made me leave the country. Last half dozen years I've been in a 2 mile square village but it borders a river and city, not farms. I would love to get back to a farm. I found this channel years ago when I was looking to see how milking might have changed from half a century ago. It has indeed! I'd love a video of his Dad talking about the changes he's seen over the years that he's been farming.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer
I keep saying if my father-in-law was still alive, he would be shocked to see how dairy farms operate now! He started with six Holsteins, a couple of buckets and a little two-legged stool he “sat” on. He’d get between two cows, line his buckets up, balance himself on that little stool and hand-milk two cows at a time.
Eventually he put in four automatic milkers and built the herd up to around 50 cows. He ran that dairy farm like a well-oiled machine for three decades. But he had nothing as fancy as we see on this or other dairy channels. Too stingy with money, for one thing!
@@ImOnAJourney The changes just since the 70s! Came here because my dairy farming roots outed in my fiction (unpublished so sorry, hobby only) with dairy farming family from 1800s to current times so I had to find out. Delving into the history and all that that came before me too. Was kind of fun to see the evolution on the farms from milk stools to robots/computerized things. I was glad to find one that was a family farm. So many are these huge factory farm type things that really made my eyes boggle but seemed kind of cold and inhumane. Saw one that just had some rotating floor that just literally brought the cows in conveyor belt style to be milked. Made me shudder. Family farms need to be perserved.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer
Hear! Hear! We live in a cornfield in the middle of the US, and I agree totally! The average age of farmers in my state is 58.6 years. That’s a terrifying statistic - who takes over when those guys are all dead? It’s a job you’re born into, not a job you pick up after high school and just decide to make a career out of it.
The saddest part is that we won't get to see the chopper shoot direct into the silage pile anymore. Should've seen if he could hit the bagger from there lol. The new setup will be nice though.
I agree, that was always a highlight, but we can rewatch videos from past years.
@@karloarsch1579 yeah I don't know if this nee change up is gonna be beneficial for them. Seems like a big waste of money and time in my opinion but hey what do I know
You're channel is epic. Watching the transformation over the years is really neat. Thanks for sharing!
Use to be my favorite time of year cutting silage. Amazing to see the size of tractors today. We used a Massey 1105 to run a 2 row corn header. Then 3-670 moline turbo diesels pulling silage wagons and a couple dump trucks. That was in the 60's and 70's.
In the good old days 😉
Yes, remember those days.
Back in his day
Oh man, Eric! I am so excited for this change over. Its incredible to hear you say "this is the last time we are going to feed out of these bunkers"... I forget how many years I've been watching you fill those bunkers. I've always looked forward to harvest season but this year has got me on the edge of my seat over here. Can't wait to see the next steps!
Yeah, I love watching the evolution of your projects and your farm
As a fellow farmer I crown you best farm youtuber
He’s good but not millennial farmer good
👍, but no trophy? 🏆
Millenial farmer is an actor@@daymeianrichardson6239
@@daymeianrichardson6239 true
I think that he is pretty awesome
You and your Dad are Awesome working together ❤️ Thank U for sharing and teaching us new ways of farming. I am 85 years old and am glad there new ways to make it easier 🙏 Love the way you do things ❤️
Getting close to robot feeding time. Nice yield on that first cut.
I really enjoy watching, how you show all the different things in a dairy farm
I've been here since 50k subscribers, I love watching you do your thing.
Thanks for letting us come along Eric. It's a blessing. Miss seeing your scriptures & the soda / chocolate milk surprises.
Nice shot of the chopper in action as you were starting to fill the bag!
Thank you 🙏🏻 Eric!! Your wonderful energy revived my Soul 🤍!! I appreciate you. Honesty carries the highest energy flow🤍 and your energy is Righteous 😀
Really enjoying the robot setup videos. Must be odd to say last time feeding out of a bunker!
I look forward to see your videos every week. I just love your channel. So interesting. All the nonsense in the world, I come here to relax. God Bless you and your family Eric
When you get the robot going you should attach a camera to it and do a live stream of it working
No
We can always count on Eric to show us more and more interesting farm work. Great idea using the space in the bunkers for ag bags.Hard to believe that summer went so fast and it is now harvest time.Watching the corn get chopped is mesmerizing.Glad the yield was better than you expected. Great video as usual and thanks.
Eric, Your videos are the best relaxation at the end of the day. I was hoping to hear a few words from Dad about the vacation. I enjoyed my time in Alaska. God Bless you and all farmers!!!
How pleasant to listen to some mountain music while the lush green feed flows into the store! Thank you for your video efforts...much enjoyed!
That yellow insulation made my hands itch just watching your videos 😂
Hope u doing this videos long time forward. Im from sweden and about to start work full time on a farm with total 350 cows and 1482 acres (600 hectares) on this day and you become a good inspirer to me so thank you! Sending you some pics from swe soon
I'm looking forward to my fall visit to Lancaster. I can always find your farm from long distance with my benocs. This year with the new sky scrapers should be real easy . Thanks for all the content.
He could set up a time lapse shot from one of those skyscrapers during harvest, too.
Glad to see dad back on farm hope he had great time in Alaska & looking forward to every video installing the robot system it's really gonna free up some man hours per day, but I'm sure you guys will have other choirs to fill in the time.
I always love watching the silage crew! It’s really cool seeing all the agco equipment you don’t see that equipment all that often! Great video exited to see the robots in action!
Thanks for showing the charger! Was wondering how they would connect but never in my life would I have guessed they use, at least appears to be, a standard CEE Plug
Eric, I can hardly wait to see the Robot's in action! I hope they workout to your expectations!!! Are you working in a plan of how to use the old mixer just in case something goes haywire .... I'm sure you did ! GOD BLESS !!!
Always great video brother from the imperial county California 👍🇺🇲🚜🐐
Eric, We traveled to Lancaster for a wedding a couple weeks ago. On our way to our rental house we were driving some backroads and I was wondering where your farm was. About 5 minutes later I spotted 3 silos! Very nice farmstead you have there. Enjoy your videos. Keep them coming!!
The corn comparison, then and now was interesting....Goodbye AGBag
I'll bet you're happy those bunkers are a thing of the past. Good job men, keep my milk coming and I'll keep buying.
So very interesting. Your Dad just gets off a couple weeks rest and right back hard at work. Your new way of doing silage, hope it
works out real well for you. I do see other farmers that I watch doing the same. a laugh, our fearless leader in Ottawa
will not let us have plastic shopping bags no more LOL, imagine how many shopping bags you could make with one ag bag LOL
Those bunkers could make for some beautiful equipment sheds.
Between This channel and Millennial Farmer. It’s hard to crown one as the king!
Can you tell us how the solar system is doing? is the investment panning out like you expected for your farm? I have been long considering solar to offset my energy needs and reduce electricity costs.
It produce more than a nuclear Power plant.
Ahh, love to see another harvest video. I hope the new house is working out for you as intended or better.
Nothing like the smell of fresh harvested corn
Hi Eric!
Today I finished watching all the videos on your channel; I didn't watch them all today; I watched them from the most recent to the oldest.
I've been using them to practice listening to English (I'm not American).
This is the best shaped AG bag I´ve seen so far.
Tight final spurt!
Please think again about the removal of the silos.
Actually, only one has to go into the feed room, the others (right and left silo) already fill it outside the building.
They have thought it through and know what they are doing
Looks like it's coming along very well. Keep up the great work 👍🏻
It feels so different to not see y’all filling the bunkers, I’m guessing it feels pretty strange to you both, as well. It’s so exiting to see y’all grow your farm for the future!
By the way, that silage smells amazing … it’ll smell even better after it has a bit of time to ferment 😉
That bagger is amazing. Highest capacity I’ve seen used so far!!
14:05 Yes! Corn cuttin' music!
That ag bagger is pretty cool 😎
Great, informative video, Eric. Nice camera work!
Glad to hear your dad made it home safe. Awesome video Eric. 🚜🚜🚜
Another excellent educational Video Eric & Dad.
I love this time of year when it's time to chop and I don't even farm but I could watch this all day
Kinda miss that video shot of the chopper shooting the silage directly into the bunker.
Great awesome video eric , still lots of work to do . Be a bit before corn goes in those silos .
Those kemper heads are amazing! Sure wish we had those all hydraulic chopper boxes back in the 70s and 80s when I was unloading wagons. mind blowing 🤯🤯
Hello from California , your farm is looking great !
Eric have Pops talk about Alaska. I’m curious what a Pennsylvania dairy farmer thought.
He could show us vacation photos with one of them fancy new slide show projectors.
Yeah, I thought "welcome back to reality" as they were removing those panels.
Just realized that we will never watch again the scene of the forage harvester throwing the silage directly into the buker silo unless we search for the older videos of the channel
I can’t wait for you to start feeding with the robots!
Cattle feeding and production now turns to robotic management, maintenance and repairs . Wonder if Eric imagined this in his career. Brave new world as they say.
The Lely feed pushers and the ones that clean the manure need infrequent maintenance and troubleshooting. The alternate option is a daily fulltime role of manually pushing feed & cleaning manure. Huge timesavers having those robots! Can’t imagine the amount of time saved with the new robot feed system. It can be a huge tradeoff
@@BigDib18 life changing, even for future generations 11, 12... Those generations will probably not imagine dairy farming without these new technologies.
As a German farmer who has driven Deutz-Fahr for years, I am surprised to see a current Deutz-Fahr Series 8 in the USA.
No more throwing tires, unrolling plastic, or driving on he freshly filled bunkers!! Going to start on a new feeding chapter very soon. The excitement builds.
I know it will be a lot easier for everyone, but I'll miss that part. It was beautiful to watch especially with Eric's editing.
Great Video Eric, That Bagger is an impressive piece of kit, thanks for sharing
19:50 an end of an era- and much luck on the new process!
Getting so close to using the new setup 👍
Excellent video of cutting the silage and putting it in the plastic bag. I wonder why you didn't put the silage in those bags like that all the time. Seems like it would keep better and longer. Looking forward to seeing how the robots work out. I would bet you better include a way to catch the silage and distribute it the old way. Can one robot do the total job if the other one is broken? Always leave a back up to get food for the cows. Looking forward to seeing your construction of the silage handling system..
Sam
I foresee yall roofing clear to silos and putting unloading elevators for all silos under roof so you don’t have to get out in elements to check or go up ladders.
I'm an og to your UA-cam channel and the farm and equipment has changed a lot looking great. Keep up the good work. Pls drop man dew off the new silo and more basketball videos. Thanks
I always look forward to drone shots and Blue Grass music.
The guy driving the chopper has really impressive aim. His bathroom floor must be immaculate.
Yes, opening the room up really opens the room up
Iv done my silage like that since 2015
Amazing video. thank you guys
thanks for the final tire toss. both of us deserve a chocolate milk.
The new silos will be great for the farm, but I'm going to miss the bunker-filling videos, they what the youtube algorithm decided I should watch bringing me to your channel
great video, very informative and interesting
As I recall you had to cut some corn early last year as well. Were the crops of '22 and '23 below normal? Hope this year is a bumper crop so you have plenty to carry you through to the fall of 25. Great content as always.
Have you guys ever used Greenbank Custom Farming to do any of your chopping?
take some the corn juices and save them and make moonshine with it LOL LOL
Bare handed! And long panels....what a man. Welcome hope dad, hope you an' you'rn had a great vacation. Any video from that? Always enjoy your video productions.
"welcome hoMe" dad, etc.
Hi Eric! I’m an architect from another country, and I don’t know why this video showed up in my recommendations, but I watched it from start to finish! You guys are incredible, and the hard work and effort you put into managing your farm is simply amazing. Watching your team work so seamlessly is truly impressive. If it’s not too much trouble, could you please tell me if you fully provide all the feed for your livestock from what you grow, or do you have to buy some additional feed?
While they grow soybeans on their farm, the sell it to a processing plant that's across the street. They buy some of it back. Some as milled, some as toasted. They also buy corn grain, minerals, hay and molasses. They also buy distillers grain from time to time.
@@MellowYe77ow Thanks for the answer! It is obvious that it takes a lot of effort and farmers always have to plan their economic strategy wisely
@@AurigaMV You're welcome. Yeah, and they only have 250 acres to work with. Which isn't enough for all of their feed needs.
No more tarping, no more tires.
I would have had gloves and masks for that fibreglass!
Impressive machinery
I sent you an email regarding the truck sidewalls. Great video
The 6th corn silage harvest of the channel!
That ag bagger is lots better.
Another great video!!
Great crop demo,,, excellent explanation!
🇺🇸🇨🇱
Really interesting to see this come together. Good stuff
❤ You ERIC ❤
Should definitely take a look at the BMR king fisher corn
@10thgenerationdairyman61 Eric / Dennis ... Bro's.... you didnt film the most important part: Tying the balloon knot at he start of the Ag bags!
We'll NEVER EVER see it now. No Ag Bags ever again because using silo's (sad face) ..ps.. love the music and drone footage as always. Keep safe and well. Maybe do a end of harvest 'highlights' reel for us fans? Stuff you had to chop out from video edits for whatever reason?
Mow and bag, now with hefty triple ply💥
Hi Eric, things are moving along nicely always enjoy corn silage time.
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
3rd season ive seen the corn get cut 🎶🎶
Excellent video
That custom crew is awesome they are very neat and precise nothing left the way it should be! Nice job
Thanks for sharing. Impressive bagger
THANK YOU YOUNG MAN FOR YOUR POWERFUL CREATING.... GREAT INSIGHT 😅😊😅
Wow, no gloves for handling that sheet metal
Eric , I think you can get three roll’s of salage in the bunker. Your bunker is wider then the old one’s ,I seen .