THE BEST QUALITY SILAGE WE'VE EVER MADE?! | RED CLOVER MOWING, ROWING, BALING, MOVING
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2022
- In today's video we are onto cutting our reseeded red clover paddock for the first time for silage. First we get out the Samasz butterflys to mow and leave it to wilt. Then Bro goes on the rake to rake all together before the MF 6499 and Fusion 2 McHale are out to bale all up. All will be baled up and saved to feed for our weanlings in the winter. Red clover provides high protein, high quality forage.
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Sowed red clover 4 yrs ago as a trial. One thing I learned with it is to let it flower once a year. Quality will drop for that cut but extends its lifetime. Normally do it for second cut. It's on the ground atm. Letting it flower allows it to self seed and also put energy into its roots for the next spring.
We do feed the calves red clover. Works well but they leave the red clover stalks. But the cows gobble them up.
I like how liv helps uncle ian and keeps him involved with everything
Great to see him about
Looking forward to seeing the feed value statistics of the red clover bales! Good to see you taking risks for the benefit of the cows and nothing else, true farmers! hope it pays off for you all
The lads commenting about the mudguards should send Phil up a pair of them if it annoys them so much!!!
Interesting video well done.
Nice one Phil and Bro Phil, and liv 👍 interesting video not seen red clover before. 😀
Just what we need on a really hot day Farmer Phil to go home to and Father Bro 😎 wonderful Farmers best in all the world 🌎.Good luck 🍀
Great job Phil. Looking forward to seeing how it works out for you next winter and spring.
Fair play to you trying different things to try and improve your beef production 👌🏼
Great stuff 👍🏻 bro pulling the bale carrier along the ground 🤷♂️😂
Spot on Phil. Didn't realise red clover couldn't be cut too close to the ground. Learned something new. Those baler wrapper combinations are great, gets the quality locked in streight away. 👍
Great video Phil was a lovely bit of grass and clover hope uncle Ian is doing well
Phil could urself, father Phil and bro sit down for a chat about the silage season when it's done a discuss the good, the bad and the breakdowns of the silage season??? I think it would make a good video
Thanks for making this week a little better! Phil Have you ever used a sickle mower So would you want the rake spinning as slow as you can get but still making good rows to keep the damage to the clover leaves down to a minimum Liv should be painting little stick men pointing a gun in the air on each bail to keep the crows away 😂😂😂
That's a nice looking field . Bro running over the grass/clover 😆🙄😊 good job by all though better to have and try to not have any at all. Stay safe 🏴
Looks like it well come out as some nice cattle candy. Use to make alot of either red clover or lucerne balage for dairy heifers and yearling beefys. Peas and oats baled is another good blend. Cracking video. Cheers from Methven, New Zealand 👍👨🔧🚜🇳🇿
Another great video Phil great drone footage 👍👍👍😎😃😃
Fair fooks fil fair fooks god job laddy
Great video. Education and watching tractors and machines work. Keep it up lads and liv.👍👍👍
If it’s anything like alfalfa the most important thing are making sure blades are sharp because it’s cutting softer stalks higher up and dropping the rpm on a rake, and if you’re tedding using a reducer box, get the uncut bit in the nitrogen tested, remember a while back we had issues with too much nitrogen on the fields so we cut back on the slurry and went to 500 gallon per acre with the trailing shoe and aerated every other cut.
Eric made a great job of rowing and stacking the bales
Great video as always Phil liv and your bro
Don't see many red heads-is this the first cut? Used to let it go to head to mature the roots and back reserves. You're right about cutting height,it's 3 inches plus. Great silage but try pushing that up in a pit-slippery. You can Ted it but at less than 1000rpm in engine and 540 at pto. You can turn it first thing in morning when it's moist,you won't lose leaves. Just little snippets to help if it's useful
Thank you, wish you had have a nice evening
We fed the calves silage best thing ever they absolutely loved it
Great video Phil very interesting about the nodules.
Great videos keep it up 👍
Great video can't wait to see silage when you open in winter
Great vid first time I've seen clover cut
Great video lad keep up the work
Great video phil, nice looking clover , hopefully the slurry on it will give you a good second cut, good to see bro at the helm again.
Great video Phil 👌
Well
Way to go guys 💪👍
Great vid
re bonjour encore une belle vidéo😍👍👍👍
What will you do for 2nd cut asks the college graduate 🎓 and she says a number 2🤣🤣🤣🤣I couldn't resist phil 🤣🤣🤣Jeff foxworthy would have had here's your sign comment for that one
Great video farmer pill
Lovely. 20 bales not bad. Will be interesting to see how it tests.On calf feeding some here including a few vets think that calves should not be fed hay only good straw. We havent giveb hay to calves for years. Enjoying the videos
Good vid Phil
Our meadows all have clover, old English hay meadows, cut it how ever you want. I tend to go finger off the soil to about an inch.5, Ted it as much as you like 😅 never damaged our re growth. Can open any hay bale and see the clover leafs still in tact
Up that way for spin in few weeks must try the restaurant we feed haylage with straw to suck calves mighty job
Got a cab fan off him as well for 636 great yoke.
You're lucky with Eric in fairness Phil, I notice he hasn't left you any curly wurlies on the baler yet 😉😅
The best mix we grow for making bulls grow fast for slaughter is... 50% lucern 30% Red clover and the last 20% is 12 types of grass and herbs.... It performs really well on ground that varies in quality, because some of the mixture is always growing in the difrent spots.
Hope you enjoyed your big burgers for tea.
Great video again Phil. As a dairy farmer up the road from me says he would rather 10 high quality bales than 30 low quality bales.
You need to get bro a double bale handler
Great to see things being tried so we can get a good honest view of things. Are you doin a vintage silage day this year
Hi there I’m over living in the US now, just recently found your channel. Fantastic by the way!
One farm I worked on made as you said alfalfa and a rye grass mix for “wet bales” over here, they feed value was unreal. If the weather was right you could also make dry hay off it here.
I’m guessing too that you would want to get the clover cut before it goes to head?
Any plans on increasing acreage of the red clover in time?
5 years was most we got of a lay here.
Well done on another good video .hopefully red clover will be worth it expense reseeding will be worth it .how long will clover be in reseed. As for feeding to calves will the rumen be able for such protein. Keep her lit 🔥
o deer that poor 6290 really does need a tidy up this winter you should get led lights all the way round new mudguards wax the paneles and spray them black like what you did to the 6270 that way she will look very nice
Tell Bro to tip the bales as he drives back. He won't be dragging the bale lifter along the underside of the bale then, when tipping.
We have lots of red clover and it should be solid red even in grass. We only grow it to help the other crops because to us it's not worth anything by itself. We do fescue,rye,wheat, clover, brome and orchard and it gets as high as 11 bales to the acre then the following year the perennials take off and do really well for several years.
hi phil how do you get on in winter with edging dditching with all the stones you put in the edg ,
Have you bought the samasz mowers?
Good video 👍🏻 don’t leave lime sitting on paintwork long or Itll do harm. Grand on an older machine with rust and dings but not so ok on a fresh machine like that 😅
How good is that fan off auto sparky
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Is that a conditioner mower? Would it get enough wilt from a disc mower with no conditioner and no ted?
Is red clover not supposed to be grazed? Cause cattle might graze the stolen on it and and it won’t regrow
Watch for protein overload. Scour
Set a mix of barley red clover and grass early May will be baling in a week or two
Looking forward to the results
Should make very good feed 👍 One piece of advice though, put on extra wrap, and put down lots of rat poison with the bales. A friend of mine in England baled arable silage, fantastic feeding value but rats can be an issue.
@@tipperarymick5337 already have lots of poison down
Thinking of stacking on concrete and putting a line or two of electric fence wire just an inch or so off the ground all around them??😗🤐
@@michaelhearn2730 That sounds like a good plan. Be interesting to see how they turn out, best of luck 👍
Brilliant video Phil did it get much chemical fertilizer or how much does it need or does it fix all the nitrogen itself 👍💪🤟👌
No fertiliser. It fixes its own nitrogen.
@@FARMERPHIL3690 thanks Phil 👍👌
Pity u didn’t put some Argi king on it Phil
It needs lime Phil
What did it yield?
Hi phill where did you get the replacement door for the gator 🐊
it was covered by our insurance
Will the red clover cause frothy bloat when fermented?? We’ve had cows with frothy bloat due eating too much clover while grazing.
I’m told when fermented there’s no problems with bloat
Very interesting video and I will be waiting to see the results , you are by far the best UA-camr , I have recently found an American UA-camr called Duffy Ag and he is good also
Shorten the front and lengthen the back I'd say
I minced my words😂
Does the same mowing rules apply for cutting white clover
Thanks phil
Yes I would love to know that also
Any body know?
I’m not sure to be honest but. We have lots of white clover in our silage fields and mowing them normally hasn’t done them any harm
@@FARMERPHIL3690 thanks Phil. Great show. Keep her lit !!!
Where’s father Phil gone
What county is your farm in?
Longford
why do you put white paint stripes on your bales?
Watch it again 1st cut =1
Could you politely ask bro to refrain from driving on the swaths,especially with the bale handler low.
And there was me thinking i'm getting old and grumpy !! 🤣 ( glad someone else noticed it 🤣👍) .
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Very noisy cab Phil. U may invest in a John deere
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What spray would u use if you had to spray for thistles and docks with the clover
Unfortunately there isn't any spray out there that doesn't kill the clover!!
There's 2 DB plus or clover max
We use CloverMax
Grandoo wvid I can imaging bros tractor is more dusty than lime
haven't
bro runing on windrow wont be doing clover any favours crushing clover leaf
Was it just me or did anyone else think there was a bag caught under the 6290 mf tractor
It's to prevent grass getting caught in the four wheel drive shaft while baling hay.
O right i have de same problem with our 390 when I turned the grass over so we took the shaft off
cant understand why lads leave bales in the headland of the fields, so the crows can tear them and then make a mess of the field drawing them in in winter when its just as easy the stack them in the yard.
Young calves can't digest silage they will Blot on silage
Silage would have been much better if Bro didnt drive all over it
he's in my bad books for that
Make fuck all difference ye think ye were eating it yourselves keep her lit 🔥 bro 😎
Basic slag the most horrible dusty stuff you'll ever come across.