2024 Corn Silage Harvest at Warren Dairy | Sunset Farms

This is my first Corn Silage Harvest Video for the 2024 season. In this video I am at Warren Dairy in west central Indiana as Sunset Farms custom chops corn silage for the dairy. In the field they are running two of their Claas Jaguar 980 self propelled forage harvester and a fleet of trucks and trailers are hauling the silage from the field back to the farm. Once back at the farm you will see several tractors pushing & packing the corn silage which will be used in the dairy cows ration over the next year.
With all of the action this is a longer video with drone, on the ground and in cab footage of everything that was going on.
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[@jeffreyhoover2105]

Love these videos of chopping corn silage I love ❤️ the smell of fresh cut corn 🌽 and love smell when it is fermented. Thanks mike for all the work you put into your videos.

[@glenkellner9936]

Thanks for the video, I miss silage time.

[@jameshall3422]

Great video will be watching for more

[@noehueber6602]

Hey mike great vidéo and all equipement and chopper i love this equipment on this farm in real life in Alsace in France a farmer friend use all tractor and equipement and combine and truck from us of my boss and mee have a old kenwort with detroit diesel 12v 71t i love the sound from this truck and a freightliner with v8 3408 caterpillard this truck have a great sound i love us equipement and sound

[@robertdehring8471]

Very nice video liked the chopping part

[@johnwackerle7112]

Thanks Mike!!

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Great video Mike!

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Great video 👍

[@Bowhunters6go8xz6x]

Great silage harvest video Mike, awesome looking corn (not tall but thick)! Those Claas choppers sure seem to get the job done !

[@Andy-From-England]

Nice one mike 😊

[@chrisgossman6512]

Mike Less, you just keep putting out videos I keep liking. Happy subscriber 😊!

[@SimonKL11]

Cool corn silage video👍😁 the claas choppers are great machines👍👍

[@Machines85]

8:00 This scene is very beautiful

[@franciscosandiego3026]

I like Mike less video on y from the imperial county ca 😊

[@cliffh8486]

Great video, why are there all the track tractors when you're trying to pack silage? wouldn't the wheel machines be better?

[@John-nc4bl]

Mike, thanks for another excellent video. If silage corn can be dumped in into a semi trailer while cutting on the go from a forage harvester, then why cant small grains such as wheat be augered into a semi trailer while combine harvesting on the go-?

[@kennethcarlton2860]

John . We were custom harvesting wheat in Colorado and we were unloading to our semi with 2 combines while the grain cart was busy unloading the 3rd combine on the other side of the field

[@John-nc4bl]

@@kennethcarlton2860 Thanks for your reply. Was that unloading into the trucks on the go, (with the combines still cutting) - ?

[@Beyonder8335]

They can and often are, the big difference is that forage harvesters don’t have their own holding tank so they have to unload constantly, while combines can hold a few hundred bushels on the machine itself.

[@kennethcarlton2860]

@@John-nc4bl Yes I was running a combine before they had all the computerized equipment . and we never stopped the combines all day . The grain cart needed to chase us down . Hopefully that answers you question

[@John-nc4bl]

@@Beyonder8335 You make a point which is correct but sugar beet, potato harvesters as well as some other harvesters have holding tanks/bins, yet they still dump on the go into the trucks. Holding tanks are a good idea to have on some harvesters as it allows for the harvester to continue harvesting. It wouldnt work for forage harvesters as there is too much volume of cut crop in a short period of time to get rid of as you know.

[@marklollar8120]

Watching those articulated tractors reaching the top of that pile, is there a certain flex point at the centre of those things ? Doubt they’ll split in half, but must have some wear points you’d have to be aware of. Never really thought of it before. Great video 👍

[@sandrodalazem5834]

Like Like videos perfect thanks MIKE

[@markducote2529]

One he'll of a operation

[@andban92]

Hey Mike,which drone do you use for recording areal videos?

[@John-nc4bl]

With GPS accuracy, the spout of the harvesters unload chute should follow the centerline of the semis trailer and it should have the capability of being overidden when a second truck is paralleling the other truck and is ready for filling.

[@GagandeepSingh-tq3jr]

Hello Mike Sir, I like your work very much. I am also looking forward to working with you. Please hire me.

[@Daniel-vv3bi]

The farm that I work on demonstrated a class 990 with a 14 row head. Up against the JD 9900. Much quieter than the JD

[@markreetz1001]

Well rounded video Mike! It was great all the way through. Those bunks are huge! From the aerial shots, those huge tractors looked like toys in a sandbox! And what did they do in planting the last field you showed? It looked like a checker board pattern? Thanks Mike!

[@keithcooper7859]

Those are huge bunks must be milking lot of cattle

[@DaveG7920]

Great video, they are some big corn fields.

[@tomm.6265]

Some of those silage trucks coming to the pile half empty

[@chriss7930]

How come you don't have the silage compactors over there yet ?

[@jaredlund-p8z]

What kind of moisture numbers do you guys aim for?

[@billjoat]

What is the piece of equipment at the :37 second mark? thanks

[@surlyogre1476]

It appears to be a Heston "hay stacker". It's not a baler, per se, but seems to do a similar job to today's modern _round balers_ , which replaced them. edited for spelling

[@paulprillwitz9901]

😃😃😃😃👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@paulprillwitz9901]

The rows must be about 3 miles long ??

[@aimanaaimana9507]

Всё замечательно. Но грузовики используются не эффективно. Уезжают полупустыми. Торопятся. Видимо кукуруза переспела для силоса. Но это уже ошибки агрономов, что пропустили наиболее удачный период. Но, в любом случае труд аграриев - часто это подвиг.

[@AkbarMoncongloe]

Excellent video 👍