Chopping Corn Silage at Benton Dairy in West Central Indiana

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Always impressive how they can fill the trailers up the limit! 😮 Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻

[@buck1187sp]

Great job Mike! Thanks for visiting us again this year!

[@ryanharter3411]

Something about chopping silage is so refreshing to me.

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video Mike, an impressive team, thanks for sharing

[@theburnhams2925]

Great video, Mike. An' you're "too funny" at 19:33! Took the words right outta my mouth. (although honestly, when watching it I thought it was to "smooth" that hard corner...) Always enjoy watching your content. Thank you and please keep 'em coming!

[@kennethcarlton2860]

Great video Mike . I really enjoy your silage harvesting vids . Thanks for showing all the different types of trailers the trucks used . I've been in and seen many convoys but never a convoy of silage trucks . Can't wait until the next silage video along with all your great others

[@bbf1978]

As always love your videos.When I farmed with my family both in WV as well as NC my favorite time of year was silage cutting time. There is nothing more peaceful than the sound of the hum of the silage chopper. I have never had the opportunity to run a self propelled silage chopper. My family always used the pull behind choppers that required a tractor to pull them. In WV my stepdad and late uncle had an old one row case chopper and we had to shuttle wagons back and forth from the field to the trench silo. In NC on the farm I worked on for a family friend of my late grandfather’s who was like a second grandfather to me ran a new hiolland pull behind chopper with a three row head being pulled by a John Deere 4430 with a dump wagon that would dump silage into dump trucks and hauled the silage to trench silos. In the trench silo he had an old John Deere log skidder with a push blade that he used to pack with. I wished I still farmed and i especially miss running the chopper as well as that hum the silage chopper made. I relish any opportunity that you post a silage chopping video because I miss those times deeply and would gladly leap at the opportunity to ever do it again.

[@ScottPykare]

Always impressed with those forage harvesters. Great video 😊.

[@petermoore2700]

Hi mike great videos and drone shots very interesting keep up the good work ❤❤😂😂

[@melvinrenner2891]

Great video as always 😊

[@alexthomson719]

Well Mike that was really a high standard video I really look forward to a Mike less vlog thanks again 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lllllRBlllll]

The chopper guy is a pretty great shot especially considering his spout is so floppy.

[@markfleck7981]

Love watching your videos Mike. Specially. Corn silage ones

[@joelg8004]

Everything in this video is massive. That silage pad is huge 🤯 That chopper eating through 12 rows of corn like it was nothing 🤯

[@glenkellner9936]

Another great Mike Less video. I am just waiting for the fall corn harvest videos. Keep up the awesome work Mike! I forget to mention fall harvest was a favorite of mine.

[@SimonKL11]

It doesn't matter if you hit a pole or something while you open up a field, as long as you don't miss a single plant!😂👍 just kidding, some people get annoyed when they see some plants still standing. It's nice to see a xerion on a big silage pile, thanks for the video👍👍

[@stevesluz7022]

Wow those have to be powerful choppers

[@stevebiddle8912]

This dairy farm is located not far from where I grew up in west central Indiana. It’s a huge operation. If you did more than one video, you should include the back story in your sequel.

[@tonyburelle6633]

Another great chopping video

[@markreetz1001]

Great vid Mike!

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Great video Mike, I’m guessing about 3 weeks till we start doing beans here in north central Indiana

[@johnnyholland8765]

It always amazes me you can shove all that material through that narrow throat without stopping it up...

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@franciscosandiego3026]

I like Mike less videos on KZbin from the imperial county California 👍👍🇺🇲🚜🌽🌽🌽

[@DonWelter]

Sure doesn't take long to accumulate a large pile of chopped corn. They must use a boatload of corn silage in their dairy ration.

[@ryanharter3411]

One of indianas largest dairies of the three within 30 min of each other.

[@ryanharter3411]

Great job running over the corn 😂

[@joeyheatherjosephprice1520]

Mike;ya gotta feed those trolls!!! A few stalks of corn isn't worth mentioning in the grand scheme of things when they're probably chopping 1000-1500 acres or more but some people loose their minds. Lol 😆 🤣 😂

[@stephenc2296]

Hi Mike! Just a question. If corn is more digestible to a cow after the kernel is ground… then why isn’t silage harvested with a combine. The kernels can be ground and everything else collected off the ground after it’s been chopped by the combine.

[@farmhandmike]

The forage harvesters in the video has a crop processor that smashes the kernel and cob Corn for silage has its best feed value when the plant still has green in it. These dairy farms are chopping this at a specific crop moisture.

[@geofflee8671]

I believe that is the first time I've seen a Claas tractor. There was a farmer down the road from me that used a chopper to harvest his wheat. Never have seen that before and I'm not sure why. Do farmers use wheat as a filler in their daily feeds.

[@farmhandmike]

Yes some farms chop green wheat for silage and I've seen others mix wheat straw in the ration.

[@Planeiron]

Great Vid🚜🚜🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

[@Mainly-boy-outdoors]

@mikeless-farmhand Mike nice Equipment do you own the Farm or do you just work there?

[@farmhandmike]

Neither. I was here just to video the action

[@rogerhecker4111]

How many acres of corn silage do the put up and how many ton?

[@ryanharter3411]

Too much lol

[@scottrosevold3645]

How many acres do the chop? That is a big pile....

[@buck1187sp]

At the time of the video there were roughly 1500 acres on the pile.

[@clintmeyer8029]

👍👍

[@Sirabun-qd6nu]

Luar biasa mantap

[@bobnistler]

😎😎

[@lol-vz8kd]

Biggest corn pile I have seen

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

6 or 7 stalks will feed the critters

[@markfleck7981]

Are they cutting 16 rows at a time that what it looks like ?

[@orlandochacon9253]

It looks that way, some narrow row corn.

[@orlandochacon9253]

That corn is small, no wonder they can cut so many rows.

[@buck1187sp]

20" rows 12 row head

[@brucesuperman6120]

I'd have the telephone company move that box by the driveway

[@berrypainter]

very green corn....

[@haroldcashion7942]

Mike, how does a custom havest co make money?

[@farmhandmike]

I think they all charge different. Some by the ton and some by the acre.

[@georgetarabini6552]

Is that all stalk, or is there ears of corn in there

[@farmhandmike]

Its the entire plant including the ear. It all get chopped up and processed in the mix.

[@tompreiss5010]

I would imagine that truck hitting that head on that chopper would be a lot more $$$$ than about 6 or 7 stocks of corn.😢😢😢😢😢

[@xuser48]

Chopping in Denmark: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2XHnqeeftGKhac

[@formerfarmer1718]

Something I have trouble with is tracked tractors advertise less compaction when they’re in the field but here we see a tracked tractor used FOR compaction in a silage bunker. Hmmmm………🤔

[@farmhandmike]

Yes but the tractor still weighs a lot and still packs the silage. One thing guys using tracks while packing silage tell me is the track spreads out the footprint over tires and pushed more air out while going across the pile.

[@ryanharter3411]

You’re correct Mike. And if you look closely they have added a lot of weight to the tracked tractor also.

[@juremyclorkson3518]

19:23 you missed a spot

[@piperdoug428]

@19:30 bwahahaha "yeah i've chopped 100 acres a year for 90 years with a one row and ive never missed a plant ever.....EVER!!!!!" judging a guy that chops thousands of acres a year, lol

[@linux_doggo]

imagine making a living off of recording just cool shit

[@markely3131]

The 2 track deere seems to be smoking a lot. Bad injectors? Dirty air filter? It’s not even pulling anything.

[@yourlocalfarmer1201]

I’m pretty sure they are pre-emissions I think, so that could be?