Corn Silage Harvest Begins!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2022
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Thanks for sharing. Don't you love the smell of corn silage? The sweet smell of fall. The bags they look a 1/2 mile long. Lol. Iike the drone footage. You have a little slice of heaven there..
love seeing the older equipment work most videos you see on here it's all brand new equipment you guys rock!!
I never missed one video of yours,the food you made for your family looks very delicious and healthy,you are blessed to have an extraordinary talent,thanks for sharing your life with us
Try using pool noodles on the bagger cables works awesome for us
Gotta put a tarp or plywood under where you are unloading the wagons silo and ag bag filling make every kernel and stalk count 😀 u can add in w out worry of stones ! Let's go !!
The cardboard on the cable. If you know you know.
How did farmers ever make it with just mules and walk behind plows! You make the videos so interesting with the scenes depicting the processes so the viewer gets a complete picture of what happens. Thanks and stay safe. Makes me appreciate every glass of milk!
Bob
My Great-grandfather farmed 160 acres from 1883 to 1918 when my grandfather took over. My father started his own farm in 1939 and sold his last pair of Persian horses in 1958 we had a double tree for the manure spreader I double sure you for the 50 bushel wagon and a double sure you for a rack and they all head spring loaded backboard seats on them and 1958. We also had a 1952 a model A John Deere a 1949 silver king tractor and a 1947 DC case tractor my grandfather bought or his first tractor in the late 20s.
First time viewer. You've got a new city-slicker subscriber.
Great job!! Thank you very much for your work, it helps us all. Greetings from the south of Chile.
Great video. I so much appreciate your content. I always pray for uall wen I pray. Hope mamma n all are good. Much love n thanks from Switzerland Oh. Thankyou
Thanks for sharing your vids with us!
It was nice to see dad running chopper nice and easy very steady no breakage
Great video Kip glad to see everything is going good. To all the farmers out there stay safe and be careful. Thanks for what you do.
Thanks for a great video Kip and all the gang.
It's always nice to see a good thing come together. Good start off Kip. Keep it cranking.
Great looking silage Kip. Hope y’all have a great rest of harvest
Great video Kip those ladies will enjoy their chow when the snow is blowing and it's chilly. Lots of btu's in that silage. Good job 👏
You need to put a corn crusher in your self proppeld harvester. Better for digestion for the cow's.
I love corn harvest videos! Thanks for the detail on how filling a bag works, very informative.
Thanks for another great video.
Was interesting.
Thanks for showing us how the bagger works. Was most interesting. Great teamwork by all of you. Working good Kip.
Your drone footage is outstanding. Excellent work on the drone footage.
Just wonderful teamwork all the way around. Thanks to everybody.
You all take care and be safe.
Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks for everything.
The Iowa farm boy.
Kip we need more people like you because your great full for everything you have and love your family have high hopes for everyone including your self your a hard worker and make the best out of everything keep doing what you are doing. LOVE THE VIDEOS 😊
Great video Kip,love the drone footage and the long corn rows with the dairy at the end. Great that Jack does chores so you can keep chopping silage. Stay safe and have a great harvest.
I was really impressed with the corn harvesting process that was filmed with a drone.
The size of that bag is impressive! I never realized they held that much feed. Your drone shots were great showing the hard work going on. Thanks. 🏍🇺🇸🎒
Amazing family farm!! Not to many left. Proud to be an American!!! Keep up the good work!!
Really enjoy your videos. You guys run a very great dairy operation. Get along and work together. Young and old , very important to give the younger generation an opportunity to learn and possibly take advantage of a good thing. I also keep up with a cow-calf operation. They grow a lot of their on feed ingredients. American farmers are very vital to feeding the world. I for one appreciate the farmers, also enjoy you and the Peterson’s farm videos. Thank You and God Bless .
Another great video and I love smell of fresh silage
That's the thing about chopping corn... Fall tillage is in full swing right behind the chopper. Makes one look forward to spring planting and the snow hasn't even began to fly yet.
I always really enjoyed chopping silage until 1986. It was so wet in Central MN I had to have a pony tractor pulling my 2 row with 4020. In our heavy soil it was an ugly wet year. Then finally dried out and was miserable trying to do fall tillage. But we made it and 2 years later it was so dry we only had 3 foot all corn. ARGH
Love this time of year when it’s harvest time
Awesome video guys, keep it up
Looking good Kip. We used to make ten 12 by 300 bags. We started to use old milk line from the milkers to protect the bag from the cable. Cut a slit down them with a knife and you can slide them on like electric sleeves for wire. Best of all you can reuse them over and over again. We finished our last pile today. Chopped roughly 4000 ton this year.
Hello Kip. Looks good. We are also bagging corn silage here in Virginia. We also have a great corn crop this year. Keep them cows happy !
Do you also work at a corn farm?
Nothing runs like a Deere 👍another good video 🌽🌽🌽🚜🚜🚜🚛🚛🚛
My favorite job when i helped my uncle on the farm was to fill the silo
But nowadays the silo in most places is obsolete.
You should have a LOFTNESS bagger system.
REALLY REALLY NICE VIDEO FELLOW! HAVE A GOOD ONE. 👍👍👍👍
Love that 4440!!
Great awesome video kip
I learned how to drive on a dairy farm when I was 12.
Another great video
Thank You 😊
Great video
It's here it's here. Harvest time ya hoo
Great video.
Makes me jealous watching you unloading those wagons. For many years we put up a decent amount of corn silage every year here in New York. Not that much this year. Just down to beef heard. What I would do to be able to come help you guys. Look forward to it every year. Have a good one kip.
Kip, having those crop carts was one of the best investments your dad made. Simple construction and tough as hell. I bet they have paid for themselves many times over. Super bag work. Hope you can keep the coons out. Drone, awesome. That first long bag,”Oh hell ya,” 🇺🇸
That chopper seems to be running like a champ but to save that chopper some lifetime have you thought using it to open fields and then have a dion chopper on the 8400. Just a thought.
Reminds what I used to do back when my brother was farming alot easier than leveling silos.
You need the agri speed hitches! Got ours 3 years ago and would never go without them
Yeah
It was making me tiered see how many time you have to get on and off the tractor to a wagon to the bagger.we had the ag sped hitches for 13 years.
When we got them they tell people just try them and if you don't like them the company will buy them dack.
They never had enone return them!
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Yep speed hitches works really great 👍
Wow , everyone working very hard , stay safe , it's that's the time of the season , what a operation !!
@Robert Marino Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
Awesome my favorite thing to do.
Some good corn silage
Plus with a farm like this you would to a defacer for the bunk and would take a lot more people to cover the silage not alone the area they would have to lose to farm I like the idea of bunks but if the system works keep going
I agree Them bags are expensive and sometimes hard to get rid of we use the chop with 5 wagons With a Klaus chopper Had no problem keeping up Better off to have a bunk solo
Is that the same size bag u used last time???? Sure looks a lot bigger....wow that sucker is huge!!!😯😯. How many acres corn u plant each year ...I don't recall u saying....you can tell you love the farm...God bless🙏
Our corn is too green yet, but getting the itch here in Central MN
Evidently bob earl you haven’t bought any concrete lately. He can fill bags for the next 3 years and it will still be cheaper
Glad things are going good , y'all stay safe and God bless .
I’d be interested in hearing some statistics on wagon capacity, bag capacity, tons per acre etc. your the first farmer I’ve seen to use the ag bag set up.
My philosophy is if you got to keep putting corn silage in bags every year you're better off to build a bunk
@Bob Earl Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
Then you need packing tractor and person to put in it
Super expensive. Bags are very efficient in many ways.
Both have pros and cons bags you can move year to year and don't need to pack cover or worry about face spoiling
Then you need to have a person to push, another to pack. And if you do a bag right you will have unbeatable quality feed without using additives…
You sure have some good equipment and lot of it. John Deere is hard to beat. My kids are sod farmers here in Florida and they use John Deere when it is possible.
Looks like enough silage boxes to keep 2 choppers busy
I like your Deere silage boxes to bad they stoped building them! My grampa didn’t take good care his. But still are ok
@Matt Perry Hi am Cindy Smith, how are you? Hope we can be friends if that's okay with you
I helped a guy 3 years ago in North Carolina filling saige into a ag-bag they were like 14’x1000’ bags with a self propelled ag-bagger. From what I was told they cost like $500k brand new. The dude had like 5 of those, and like 10 pull behinds.
Kip thank you for another great video. Love seeing all the action. How many round bales do you put in every season?
My uncle's corn farm in Michigan usually orders about 1,300 bales per season.
Sea of green🎉
I have wondered how the Ag bags are filled. Good stuff Kip!
What moisture do you guys harvest the corn.
What length of bags you got there KIPP? Thanks
Do you not have enough silo space? I see several Harveststore silos. Why no bunks?
Kip, you guys ever considered building a bunk for your corn silage?
I have a question for you would it be easier to put in a concrete silage pit to get rid of the bags?
Kip your family has one awesome Operation . The bag process looks to be a smooth running Process ! Teem work is key ! 👍👍
Love chopping videos.
How many wagon loads to fill a bag?
Nice video bro! I hope if I can to work with you guys and teach me how to drive a tractor 😁
I wonder how much an agg bag holds compared to the silo?
You guys still thinking about trying earlage with the chopper for high moisture corn this year or gonna stick with the combine?
We do earlage really like it. think it would work for kip to .
@@randaljohnson580 I agree!
How many full time and part time workers do you employ?
We used old feed bags on the cable
Did you somehow roll the bag back as you emptied it? More detail on reusing the bags would be interesting if you have the time to respond. Thanks.
We use bags sometimes to but are ag bagger as a 9 ft drum witch puts the cables out farther.
Why are you running the drive tires backwards on the chopper?....
Why do you run the drive tires backwards on the chopper?
That way if it gets stuck, it has more traction to back out. A lot of guys in upstate NY run them backwards on their combines also for the same reason. If the tires can get you into a tough spot, they can usually still back you out of it!
How long to usually fill a wagon (know it depends on tonnage) and how long to unload a wagon? I enjoyed your silo videos-never been around silo filling and feeding.
About how long is that bag
How do you unload a 💼 bag 💼 of silage ?? Do you have video on this??
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Hi
Did your dad retire? He used to b First in on planting and harvest operating. Seems like it's just u and Mark these days..?
If corn goes in bags, what goes into the silos?
More corn silage. 👍🏼👍🏼
Alfalfa haylage
Damn scary when you are hustling around multiple power takeoffs. Is there some technique to use if one grabs your shirt or pant leg?
Not sure about kip but I have never had it happen or even close and don't intend to find out
no techniques if your lucky your shirt or pant leg tears off, but more often your limb goes with it or it pulls you in and you get wrapped around it. been there done that i was lucky someone was there to stop the pto, i was keeping my distance but small slip put me off balance and then in grabbed my sleeve. ended with twisted vertebrates in my neck, dislocated both shoulders, cracked elbow, broken and dislocated wrist, dislocated jaw, not much fun i tell ya, was 15 at the time took about 8 months to fully mend and still farming today. it can happen so fast, stay save guys.
@@haraldoudevoshaar7894 Sorry for your pain at such a young age. That's what I was thinking, just a stumble or off balance could be trouble. Maybe tight fitting cloths would help for it not to wrap immediately and give a chance to pull away. Any type of shield would seem impractical. Thanks for responding.
@@colorado1088 there are covers that go over the pto that are independent and run free of the pto, which looks like kip has all of them in place, in my case some debris got into them and caused them to stick just enough to catch my sleeve, and you are certainly correct about having shirts tucked in and fitted clothes non baggy.
@@haraldoudevoshaar7894 I thought of you several times today and your tragic accident. I'm hopeful that you healed well and that life rewarded you after this unfair start.
Why don't u house the excavator in the barn it's always sitting out
Ya wanna update to a 7400? We have a really nice low hour machine for sale
What is it? Where are you located
@@KipSieglerFarming1 2006 jd 7400 with 2007 hayhead n 2007 kemper. Kemper still has original blades.have a new set n many parts.Just dont chop much anymore
Ok, what are the hours, 4wd? Where are you located, here’s email kipsiegler@outlook.con
@@KipSieglerFarming1 john deere chopper we are in western ny. We bought in 07 used it on dairy for 5 yrs then split off n havnt ised it much
Kip does a great job of recording and explaining how everything works. He makes me feel like I am there with him and the crew and the cows and calves and the weather. BUT . . . I WANT TO KNOW HOW IT SMELLS! By that, I mean everything from the fresh silage to the stored silage . . . and yes . . . even the crap in the stalls. I suppose Kip is not the best one to describe these various aromas, since probably his olfactory sense has been dulled over the years. But give it a try, Kip. Tell us about the smells as you are taping.
what
Why not take the roofs off a few of those wagons so you can drive beside the chopper? I'd get tired of hooking up wagons.
Bc the chopper can still work while another person is unloading
Great video
Why do you screw around hooking on hooking wagons instead of chopping on the side
Good exercise and one less guy you need helping!
With the roofs on the wagons you couldn't fill a good portion of the back of the wagon. That just means more total (partial)loads to unload, which means more on and off the tractor at bagger to hook up the PTO. They also have at least 8 wagons that I counted, so they would have to have 8 separate tractors (and 8 operators) to do what two tractors and men were doing jockeying full and empty wagons around to keep the chopper and bagger busy. Much cheaper and more efficient to just hook and unhook as needed!
@@8DeereFarm well said.