SILAGE 2024 is A GO! | LAWN CLIPPINGS or GREAT CROP?

The 3 day marathon of first cut silage has begun! Today we focus on mowing, the next part of this video will focus on harvesting!
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[@ThomasGash-n3v]

I've seen 2 firsts in this video, 7 mowers working for the same farm and a lad mowing in his pyjamas!!!!! 😀

[@finbarreburn5112]

'How is water made' 🤔
Explanation Exemplary
👌 😅

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Glad you appreciated that! 🤣

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video, nice to see the farm dried out and plenty of grass, thanks for sharing

[@DesTurner-wc3hm]

Only just started watching your channel but find it really interesting and informative.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Welcome aboard!

[@FarmersSss]

I got some grass lifted today. I cut it myself on Thursday afternoon, and then I rowed up myself later on yesterday and buckraked it today. When it's guaranteed dry, it saves me money, being able to most of the work myself.
I'd definitely have cut that 70 acre acre, then get it rowed up a day before the harvester to let the ground dry up, especially when you were finished the first block of land at 3!

[@grahamsmith9756]

We added red clover to our Italian ryegrass about 5 years ago to fill out the bottom so there was very little or no dirt to be seen
Increased grass yield significantly Although difficult to wilt red clover will smother the Italian in further cuts to a point where its not obvious you are growing any Italian.Red clover loves warm moist conditions and thrives with 4/5 week cutting
I dare you to try it

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I'm interested!

[@MtvKtc]

Thats nuts. All them mowers. Fair play.

[@DM-eq1fq]

I'd have thought you would have a farm map uploaded to the tractors with wet spots and various other points of interest so that others like David could do field work without getting bogged or hitting Manhole covers (like TomP).

[@TheFarmerTheCheesemaker]

You won’t get this in time I’m sure… but… raking so the field can dry is always the best option if necessary. The raked grass won’t dry out as much as it would leaving it 2 days in the swath. And any chance of drying out a field more before running even more equipment over it is best for the future crop.

[@tysonwildeboer42]

Mow it today
Then cut it first on Saturday
that way if it is a little dryer you can put the wet silage that you chopped on Saturday on top of the dry stuff

[@massey135jj]

Hydraulic top link on the shopping list 😎

[@geraldbeard856]

7 mowers cutting 70 acres= 10 acres each.......i'm surprised any one was prepared to come and cut a small acreage it would take them longer to put there mowers on the tractor than it does doing the mowing

[@fisherh9111]

If they all have UA-cam channels they will be doing it for the content.

[@Robert-kv2nx]

Say in the video that the contractor was being paid by the acre. Must have made sense to them.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I think it was to check everything was working for them before they had loads of fields to mow infront of them.

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Some.job good see out geting silage done

[@josephdunnagri4010]

How come you do the outside rounds with the front mower beside the hedge and not the rear. Surely lots of missed bits for going clockwise around the feild instead of anticlockwise?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Much easier to keep the front mower full rather than the side?

[@josephdunnagri4010]

@@FarmTheoryNI I understand for long work just thought to maximise cutting width just thought it keeps feilds tidier on the headlands for taking a little less on 3or4 outside rounds 🤷‍♂️

[@padraigking5185]

Good stuff

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Glad you enjoyed

[@masseyman390t]

Hi,
Is that westerwold grass?
Apologies if you said already

[@grahamsmith9756]

Think he said Italian ryegrass

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Italian and hybrid.

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Would puma able drive harster

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It can and it did!

[@seangaynor7458]

I think your dad is right wasting money on hired help when you have such good equipment of your own seems a bit mad also the suger content of your grass is higher in the evening which should give you better quality silage with higher energy levels

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It's about giving it time to dry, that was the priority. The sugar levels change is very little, it's kinda a myth.

[@williamwilson8327]

We were always taught that at Greenmount. To cut in afternoon when photosynthesis is happening. No?

[@johnmccarroll4845]

Brill

[@PatrickHaran]

I don't cut silage till july

[@FarmTheoryNI]

This panicks me. 🤣

[@barry1338]

Weres the Sunday video

[@FarmTheoryNI]

A day late!

[@tiernancoyle9235]

Who is your contractor that cuts your grass

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Henry Giles.

[@gerrymulligan2602]

How many acres doing

[@FarmTheoryNI]

140

[@danielcunningham5052]

How many acres

[@FarmTheoryNI]

140ac

[@6thcence897]

Why cut at 10 cm height

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Better quality, quicker regrowth, faster drying, less VFAs.

[@johnbonham8059]

By d look of that field ur mowing in video u won't b over loading d trailers

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It was perfectly dry. 🤷

[@matthewglennen1172]

If you’re getting mowers in why have your own? Depreciation, work diesel etc. This is coming from Australia where we could cut 250 acres at a time with 1 tractor and mowers. Just keep at it 🤷‍♂️

[@greggroome2791]

🇮🇪🇮🇪💪💪🙏🙏👍👍

[@Rickybobby_ie]

That could be the wrong colour flag I think.. not that it matters 👍