Bagging Barley Silage!

[@tedium37]

Really high quality look at a process most of us never think about but should. Thanks for sharing and we'll done.

[@SonneFarms]

I think Dennis enjoys bagging 😂 great video

[@lukekutchera5916]

Stop

[@JohnVanRuiten]

Yeah, you can still hear that Dutch accent hangin on in Dennis's voice. Another great video Jan. You do such a great job with the music!

[@loriwerkmeister3545]

That bagger is amazing thanks for sharing different ways of doing things

[@NadoriKaija]

I know a lot who bag like this. It's a lot easier to manage, and easier on utilities in general. Safer overall, too. We'll be doing this once we have our farm.

[@susanmelton8525]

Thank you for your informative comparison of alternative silage storage methods. Your videos are excellent sources of education and provide such a positive representation of modern farming and dairy management. Your generation of young farmers are our future and I hope that your hard work will make agriculture a more appealing career choice for other young people. Your growing subscriber numbers are very much deserved. I appreciate your hard work and the extra effort required to produce these exceptional videos.

[@lonepine5596]

You have picked up an additional thousand subscribers since last video! Congrats , way to go Dutchy! 👍🏻🇨🇦

[@kenlynch6332]

Your filming, camera angles / positions, editing is always great; but this jumped to the top. Also it iwas interesting to see a different process of storage silage. Denise was straight forward about the Pros & Cons of "bagging" & "Pit Storage".

[@danfinley3690]

Thanks for the update and that is a sweet operation.

[@corgraveland4874]

Great great video, with good show of the equipment and technology used. Thanks for discussing with the colleagues at nearby farm and do the kind a review with Pros and Cons. It's a nice technique with keeping the feed nice and clean, the best possible feed for the cows and good opportunity for good preservation of the grass, green maize and so on till wintertime. Liked it. Well done and thanks Jan!👌👍

[@CK-yi6pc]

Always good to see and hear about another method. Incorporate what you can and learn.....you might even find few more efficiencies for your place....

[@christianterrill3503]

Thanks for showing us how another farm does things. the way you do you cutting and harvesting is very similar to the other KZbin farmer I watch using the pits. Really cool to see how they store their crop by bagging it!

[@tracyshewell9544]

Great video. Great to conpair the two different types. Great job.

[@Bortnoone]

Very cool to show another farm's method.

[@johnboller7621]

Not sure how I missed this video...but I did. I really appreciate you taking us off farm and explaining this whole process and the value plusses and negative. Great work!

[@waynebulson941]

Very nice Jan. I've said this before, but you are gifted in the way you formulate your videos. They are not just catching the activity of the day. But as in this case, you reported, interviewed, and taught us about this new process. You and "10th Gen" Eric use a similar process in storing the silage. So this was interesting to see other options. Thanks for taking us along. Hope you're getting some relief from the heat this week. We have experienced some of that too down here in Virginia. Stay cool! :D

[@yayapj4]

Great team work!👍💖

[@CnTGeTRighT89]

Dennis is the kinda guy you want out there with ya all day. Knows what he’s doin and makes it fun doing it.

[@patshhi4620]

I’ve seen other videos where they are using the bagger but none of them came close to the length your friend uses. I can see it being really helpful if you have to store it for a long time.

[@suemay8120]

Wow! This old Illinois farm girl is impressed!

[@edwardguerin5056]

Its always nice to watch your videos Jan. Awesome Job!!

[@ThomasR119]

That was very interesting, Jan! Seeing that one way is not always better or worse, just different! Keep up the great videos!

[@MarkTrombly]

Way cool drone footage and time lapse. I love how during the time lapse the only thing that stayed stationary was your blindspot mirror.

[@onedeadindian]

Helping our neighbors us whats its all about - Bravo Kiddo!!! #milklife

[@derekjensen5918]

Learn something new every time I watch a video. Great vids and lots of detail. Thanks for sharing

[@Tistabell]

This is so Canadian..makes me miss home.

[@timothyshepodd7826]

Pretty cool all the different ways to do things. Thanks for sharing! Blessings.

[@judyengland2615]

That was very interesting.never saw the bags filled before. Thanks

[@scottwiley8547]

I think everybody has a friend like Dennis. 😜😜

[@lonepine5596]

Interesting and informative video. Great drone shots, Jan the man of many talents, truck driver today bouncing along. 😊

[@JJRush_]

Ok Jan you have great taste in music!!! The song Make It in Time - Gamma Skies feat. Ebba is AWESOME!!!! GOOD CHOICE!!!!

[@brianfletcher7942]

Great video. Excellent drone work. Believe the bunk silo is better, but the bagged silage is better than on the ground covered with plastic. (You may place plastic down onto the ground before dropping the silage onto the plastic, I didn’t notice that.)

[@richardvernick4280]

Jon. Thank You for the video of the chopping and bagging of hayage. The video was excellent maybe give you some ideas how you could use something like that to make your feed better just a thought. Please Take Care and be Careful around all farm equipment. 👍😎

[@lesrose800]

Great video keep up the good work The look around the bagger was very interesting 🧐 Les ( uk)

[@wallaceloan4169]

The pit suits us. There is a lot of plastic involved in bagging but it seems good quality silage coming back out. Great video and drone shots.

[@tompreiss5010]

Neat thing About the bag is if you have a self loading feed mixer you just stick the louder inside the bag and fill he up.

[@patsmith6665]

Can you imagine the size of the twist tie.

[@lindataylor6835]

ahahah

[@pamelagermany3719]

Great video and interesting facts.

[@schmidfarms1702]

Great Video JAn!

[@jjcactusandsucculents-open2156]

That was Fun! Cool to hear the pros and cons of both. Nice drone footage. Thank you for sharing! Stay safe and healthy :-)

[@DigitalGrotto]

I remember seeing this years ago. I was wondering why the farm had giant caterpillars on their property. Good to know they're actually sausages. Your drone shots are amazing.

[@tompreiss5010]

Blue harvester is still the way to go specially in the cold climate like y'all have but you have to go all the way fully automated all the way upto the fead wagon. Balled silage is probably the next best very low man house. Ball strat to a giant square baler from the chopped and of that into a pull raper. Silage is compressed and bagged all in one at the feeled.

[@adventuresindianvrk173]

I really like your presentation and agriculture video ✨ so impressive, I wish I can visit your beautiful farm land⭐

[@RadkeNixon]

Always wondered how those prairie worms were made. Thanks for the great video!

[@joanlittle4235]

I liked the bagger video a lot.. thanks

[@homey3051]

Great video Jan I am surprised there's not another hopper type finer grinding setup in the yard that all the feed goes through before it goes into the mixer so the cows can process the food mix to its full potential

[@thedogsdiddies8421]

I didn't know giant sausage feed was a thing, thanks for showing it!! I watch in total awe at your trucks/lorries/semi's driving in the fields and just imagine one going to the belly in one of my fields. You just seem to have ideal conditions for farming, huge open fields, dry weather and decent machinery to make the job a lot easier!

[@brianpritt4154]

Thanks, I never saw a bagging operation before

[@pnwRC.]

Fantastic video!

[@TheTokoterror]

Just joined your subscription. Love it from your way if dairy farming to my way here in NZ many things similar but also different .. keep up the good work ..🐮🐮

[@nicfrieler6684]

Thanks that was very informative. Always wondered how they filled those.

[@heatherwhite8001]

Great video Jan thanks, very informative!

[@lindamitchell-fox1926]

Very interesting. Thanks for the lesson.

[@rmack48]

I watch a lot of other vlogs, and they talk about the time it takes to complete a vlog. The quality of your finished product is excellent so that I would guess that between doing your regular farmwork and vlogging leaves very little time to sit around and do nothing.

[@christianterrill3503]

lol farmer don't even know that sentence "sit around and do nothing" what does that EVEN MEAN?!?!?!

[@asquithmainlines699]

One other factor on cost difference would be the construction of the silage pit as well. The price of cement these days I would not imaging they are cheap. The cost of three pits would offset the equipment cost of purchasing a bagger. Thanks so much for showing us this method, I always wondered how they did it. Does anyone in your area wrap bales? I always wondered what the benefit of that is as well. Both could be used as winter wind breaks.

[@sandrashelton3418]

Great video

[@matthewjohnson3910]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@paddyorourke6967]

That is some operation.. salute from ireland... the land.over here would never be good enough for them size of machine's

[@canuckpagali]

One also needs to consider the size of the farm, not just the quality of the land. The average farm size in the province where he's from is about 1700 acres (690 hectares). Not all of these are dairy farms, of course. In fact, most of them just grow and export various types of grains and pulses. Nevertheless, the scale of most agricultural operations out there tends be very different from your part of the world. I did a quick check to see what the average farm size in Ireland is. If my source was correct, the average farm size in Ireland appears to be about 33 hectares.

[@MultiSwatts]

@@canuckpagali i know a few farmers with over 10,000 acres here in the uk just in my area but i dont think he is on about the size of the farms over here in the uk, but more the land cant take machinery like that, our farm land tends to be built up of smaller fields but lots of them with hedgerows. and hilly or very few dead flat landscapes like over there. and if it is dead flat it will almost always be wet ground even in the summer you would almost never get away with driving a lorry on the ground you would with out a doubt get stuck. and there are big foragers like that over here in some areas but in most places you wouldnt get that thing down the lanes

[@canuckpagali]

@@MultiSwatts I see what you mean. Thanks for the context.

[@lawr46]

No tires to deal with, that's a plus. Not sure about all that plastic. Every system including silos has it's pros & cons.

[@farmboysteve3295]

lawr46 no matter what you’re using plastic if you’re not using a silo

[@johnconnor8196]

when we cover silos we never put tires because underneath the tires there is always mold so me stopped and now its ok

[@Donnie9by5]

Some need the plastic to make the feed fermented !

[@catfishstalkeroutdoorswith530]

Great video! I never saw that done before. Thanks

[@Traks_threw_life86]

Farmers helping farmers goes all across our world and they need help from you the people to make sure they are getting what they deserve for feeding your country! Take time to do research in your own country and see how you can help ppl like Jan and his family keep doing what they love and getting paid for the work they do just like you do for your own family!

[@liswhetstone6567]

That way of saving feed is amazing! No mold is a good thing. Less work than silage I think. PORT PERRY ONTARIO CANADA

[@lonepine5596]

Lis Whetstone I been to port Perry, cool town on the lake! 👍🏻🇨🇦

[@liswhetstone6567]

Sure is. A beautiful place to live. Port Perry Ontario.

[@lonepine5596]

Agreed. I was very impressed with your town, scenic and peaceful

[@larrybg9293]

Good stuff

[@seriouslyconfused1]

I wish there was more video of the bager actually working.

[@pgrosebud2012]

One question: in the winter with all the ice and snow, how does the bag vs bunk silage storage compare? Great aerials!

[@brentreid7031]

If you chop at 45% moisture and a wee under the haylage will come out just fine...

[@jenniferwhite6089]

@@brentreid7031 we did not care for the long rolls at all fighting the snowdrifts to spring mud to all of the snow we have to recycle it into the water and pump back out into the pond we have winter is hard on everything dairy cow and the owner as well

[@brentreid7031]

@@jenniferwhite6089 Back in the 70's our neighbour and his wife use to use wheelbarrow's to clean the barn out and bring silage back into the barn. Now days things are pretty darn easy.

[@thenortherndairyman2566]

I do 60-65% moisture feed in bags and it’s fine in -40

[@brentreid7031]

@@thenortherndairyman2566 I just looked in my book. And 1986 we did one bag at that moisture and it froze cock stiff. At that moisture is hard to get the recommended dry matter intake for the the day.

[@stephenphilp1380]

Interesting video, thanks.

[@ipfreely10001]

Iv used "ag bags" here in the UK before. 1 problem is rats chewing into the bags and making themselves a den in it. Another is pigeons, pheasants making holes, so you usually net the bags. Taking the silage out is ok as long as you're prepared to do some forking of the sides in and also do not!!! catch the bottom plastic with the loader bucket- that really is a pain if you do. But yes, bags are useful at times versus clamp silage.

[@MrGjc310148]

cool matey,thanks gnz

[@beazleylaw]

Very interesting.

[@Trudo981]

That bagging machines engine sounds good

[@JB-mf1zc]

very interesting

[@cliftonsnider1520]

Another really great informative video Jan. I just have to ask what happens to all that plastic. I have a video of a farmer laying it all out and balling it up in a round baler.

[@brentreid7031]

That would be perfect feed for some those people who have those fiberglass Cattle at the end of their lane...

[@KellyAshcraft-ww6ls]

Nice job ... again 😏👊👊

[@eallen7772]

Omg. That is a death machine. 🌄🌾

[@CK-yi6pc]

They have those bags around here, they usually shoot nitrogen in the bag to get better feed ...

[@hanksfarmvideos]

Nice we bag our silage too but we use a Versa bagger

[@pnwRC.]

Is it not more economical to pack the pit, as you do, rather than bag it like they do? Do the benefits that are offered by bagging out way the cost of the plastics?

[@teresamason3930]

Awesome

[@parmjitbaryar4142]

nice video bro

[@leoashrae4199]

Anyone up there looked at any differences in crude protein content between the bagged and the bunk'd silage? I do remember reading about some studies comparing trench and conventional silos. Seems that study yielded some numbers that favored the conventional air-tight (a.k.a. Harvestore) storage systems. Think the bags might be comparable(?)

[@patricknelieotten4869]

The machine is called the "bagger" , read that word in Dutch Jan, that says it all hahaha , but seriously this could be interesting if you feed a lot of different kinds of food , and i was wondering what a bag would cost , those look expensive, btw nice vid again

[@metubey1]

More content regarding the throttle/gear synchronizing vs. chopper. Old man vs. gamer vs. PECKING ORDER...

[@benhesterly462]

Interesting to watch, looks like it could be costly.

[@johann752]

hi Jan,great video,but what is the best way to do it,the way you do it ore Dennis his way ??

[@ellenl.5581]

Preparing that bag in the filling machine looks like a shark mouth.

[@toby.maximillian]

Must be a bit less convenient but more convenient than a pit which you can easily take feed from with less plastic but tires

[@jamesclarke7185]

make them silage shorts merch

[@themunter4488]

lots of farmers in europe wrap grass bales to make silage.

[@matthewburns2307]

COOL

[@BWYinYang]

Wouldn't be harder to scoop from bag?

[@kenyonbissett3512]

With all this very heavy equipment, are you concerned about soil compaction? Not judging just want to understand, thank you.

[@meganbaxter2945]

I've always wondered how bagging was done.

[@caioramon7432]

Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷✌️

[@fstoll3]

How about doing a video with what you do for fun when you are not working on the farm?

[@budprine1591]

When talking about the economics I didn't hear anything about the cost of the concrete bunks and the space they occupy. Bags could get moved around year after year.

[@sanderpelgrom8521]

Why would you move the bags every year? Just wondering because you usually pit your pit/bag in the easiest place to feed I think?

[@NilamjyotiSharma]

@@sanderpelgrom8521 yess..totally makes sense. Since u will need silage forever so it will do no harm if we permanently use a area for silage using concrete. Edit: I find this plastic concept useful till the time Rats dont find it useful😂

[@triciaabrams8848]

Dennis has such a strong Canadian accent! Do you actually have one when you aren't filming or is that your actual voice/accent? I am in Alabama, USA and have a super strong southern accent!

[@lindataylor6835]

does the plastic breath ,i can't see how the silage would't compost . is the plastic recycled , that would be a good thing

[@danielhurt5680]

How many mile haul was that?

[@justinbrand6585]

Seeing that fella in the jump suit made me want to watch Letterkenny

[@terranceyoder1309]

We bag also