Chopping Corn Silage for Feed

We needed a little more feed for our cattle this year.
Did you know that: Wisconsin is #1 in the USA for corn silage production?
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[@RRRIBEYE]

I don't understand why people downvote these videos - unless their allergic to working long days in the clean, country air!

[@ignasanchezl]

Cause of unprotected PTOs.

[@Ethan-ck6iz]

"Unprotected" PTOs and vegans.

[@weiniesworld8964]

Nope, I think it's that 4 letter word, ' work '. Some people got nuffin better to do.

[@marcth37]

I did what you and Travis were doing in that video one time;in about a week ,on my uncle s farm we filled up an 80 feet high cement silo using a JD2130 on a NH #56 blower,a JD2350(the tractor i used) carrying and unloading 2 Dion 20 feet long sillage wagons and a rented JD6400 pulling a JD chopper like yours!Great times! ;)

[@PietschFarms]

Out of every single video you have, this one is still by far my favorite one!! Keep up the good work!

[@eraaspr1]

I just would like to say how much I appreciate movies like these. Keep on doing more of them.

[@Erix7810]

Man.. I have such fond memories as a young kid that this video rekindled. A warm summer night with my bedroom window open, falling asleep to that growl of my neighbor chopping alfalfa.

[@thomasmealer3173]

This is the way we did it when I was a kid, except we had pits instead of silos. Lots of work. Love the smell of pickled silage in the winter.

[@camdenhoover1016]

Just saw this video realizing that the video was on the 27 of July and that is my birthday.

[@carterfarms5906]

Same

[@andrewsarles3520]

I miss chopping corn in the fall!!

[@godingsagr5073]

Didn’t know #chopping corn silage would be so easy! Very well explained video showing proper utilization of #machine. Nice work

[@Jim0i0]

I kinda like these older episodes. Very cinematic, especially the end.

[@austinharper1247]

i love your videos and your farms and your tractors plus keep up the good work

[@niko4537]

it's nice to see how it's done in other countries, since here in norway we're lucky if we have 1 week of sun, we have one JD, one valmet and a old volvo bm

[@tdgreenbay]

always did love filling silo and chopping corn silage I sit at My Computer just wanting to be there filling the silo for you

[@vkexhiled]

Most corn is harvested with a combine and used for animal feed, ethanol, plastic, and human consumption (corn syrup, corn chips and mass products, etc.).

[@stutter1738]

i'm from Ireland and i just wanted to say i think its great u run a fleet of john deere tractors we only have a 6430 john deere and a case 5150 that runs our cattle only farm

[@19674438]

I've got to say this video was both interesting and enjoyable for me a city boy.

[@markbarnhill6300]

Nice to see! My mom was from Lady Smith.

[@ih1066mb]

Your videos are some of the best.Don't stop!!

[@pd-ox1pd]

2020 you have come alongway congrats

[@decnijfkris3706]

I Like the way you farm. Reminds me of my childhood when it needed to be profitable. Farmers in Europe are getting extinct due to subsidary politics of EU and crazy overinvestment.. We hardky have any cattle anymore in my country and all farmers are in huge debt. Many of them are obliged to go broke as their farms must remain for legal- environmental reasons. So farmers sometimes have a regular day job to pay the bills and do farming after work at night.

[@JamesTyreeII]

very interesting. Never seen the whole process before. Thanks for filming it!

[@davidhoward7148]

great video, the 4440 is looking great.

[@jrbpa5775]

We used to plant sorghum in with corn rows in the fields we new we were going to chop. Sure sweetened up the silage.

[@jimlisterman2138]

Older tractors come in handy around farm to run silage equipment !

[@RobackerFarms]

love the john deere working

[@elliottsheets5251]

I live in wisconsin

[@HowFarmsWork]

Thanks!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thats a clean ol 4440. Ive always wanted to chop silage but we dont have cattle. Mabey someday!!!

[@channel954]

now this is farming lol all i see is big cash crop stuff its great to see a two row pull type harvester. we use a high dump wagon into a mayer forage trailer rather then wagon but me and my dad can put corn way quick. id like to go back to switching wagons like that but it wouldn't work with 2 guys. when i was6 years old my dad had a jd pull type like that.

[@steinderbush]

Awesome video, and very good filming!! Thanks!!

[@andrebouchard2036]

Love the land gestion and rotation on this farm.Real family farm with respect for the nature and future.Keep it this way.

[@visualdrone]

What a lovely Setup! Good condition for an old 40 like that ay!

[@tdgreenbay]

you can really see a difference in the parts of the state.. I grew up in Northeastern Wisconsin our corn never got ripe enough till late August early September it may be all them hills and different soils to get yours planted earlier maybe also shorter day corn perhaps maybe both. that corn dried off nicely looks like heavy ears, But I see that High Dollar green equipment I almost shudder to think about it

[@waterskiingfool]

Great to see how it use to be done before these big silage combined

[@NomaDairy]

Cool Video!! There is one job i really enjoy, and that's silage like this or grass silage, with high dump and dump truck or or buggy, Tons of fun!! the old 4440 looks like it does a great job!

[@ma72091]

depends on size our field that we do silage with takes about 2 days

[@carterfarms5906]

That's my birthday at the beginning

[@ryanp6999]

Damn Ryan you were skinny as hell here. It’s crazy how your videos have changed (for the the better) over the years. Though the older ones are still great.

[@tomtubman]

Love the sound !!!!

[@asifhayat297]

one I want purchase this send price this MECH Ashiqhussain from Pakistan

[@kenanpoppe5614]

wow potosi i live in fennimore, wi that like 30 minutes away

[@ianbluemink4885]

Here in Holland the corn season isn't earlier than October.

[@HighDollar17]

You make some really good videos

[@jrbpa5775]

Harvesters produce the best feed, little tough if the unloaded breaks down but good silage.....

[@cody28h]

cool !! we just have the one 5095 m but we also have a Case/ David Brown 990 and a Valtra 700

[@landini8550]

id say theres some drive off that cutter on the back of the jd i cat call it a harverster like we do in ireland because ye call the harverster the silo/ bin as wed call it

[@abunchahooey]

Ryan, I love your videos. I have a small suggestion. Maybe you could give a very brief name and descriptoin of the machinary you use, how many acres that was, etc. It's just that most folks don't have any exposure to farming at all, it would be good to educate a bit. Was the drought up there as bad as it is down here in S Indiana? Was that corn planted specifically for your cows to eat, or was it just stunted? Don't have to answer any of that, lol. Thanks for sharing your work.

[@stuartsplace100]

have work on many farms where they chop corn just like this vid

[@stuartsplace100]

what is realy weird.all the same kind of equipment i have work with,exact same.tractors,chopper,blower,wagons

[@khuramtorab9243]

Everything is so cool and seems easy. One thing , whats the machine called in which you was transferring the cut corn. Please make a video of that too. We would like to know more about it thank you very much for the video

[@jeremysmits9784]

It’s a shame you guys couldn’t have kept the 4440, even if it was getting tired it looked really good.

[@tacomas9602]

green green and more green :D Lol I use a S717 NH one row with a ford 5000 turbo hi crop in 2nd gear on 2100 RPM

[@decnijfkris3706]

that's a serious combination. I never saw that. We Always use selfdrivers, Jaguars mostly. Does that combine function on wet soil too?

[@cppat1]

Great job on the video..

[@76RSLT]

Before I read the discription, I was thinking that looks like Wisconsin.

[@DeltaTristar500]

dang..old school Ryan

[@sollien]

i evny you the great life of beein a farmer, i got a small farm, but its hard to make money of it here in norway if you dont have a huuuge farm so now its all rented out to one of the big farmers. :(

[@MarkASam777]

If you didn't use the corn for silage then what would it be used for?

[@lol62002]

that must take for ever

[@mikeapenhorst7706]

Great video. What number chopper

[@spsmtv475]

2018... wait its just me

[@christianfancy199]

No

[@samuel6234]

Definitely not, having to bing watch these great videos cause I’m bored I’m quarantine

[@micahmckennamf5842]

Always protect your shaft

[@rockkong1]

Really like your channel, keep it up!

[@claudiasmith8913]

TEXAS IS HUGE!

[@wincharter1]

good stuff, thanks.

[@zachpoff4878]

alway wonderd how you got the stuf out of those damn wagons

[@itstypical2183]

how long does that take with that small harvester?

[@bicycleyoda9301]

Im curious what you guys spend on diesel per yr for all your tractors

[@randymaylowski2485]

nice video of that :) and nice looking machines :)

[@markkrauss5994]

What's that old Deere on the blower I love ole Deere's

[@KAWoTReplays]

4020

[@bulldeere]

1:18 ooh i love animal

[@FidelityElectric]

Wow that is really great love the videos

[@mehboobalamrith7096]

I am Bangladeshi nice work

[@reiniervanderheijden1260]

i think the majority of people watching is accually a farmer xD

[@davidzimmer8929]

I am no dought

[@masonreppeto882]

no I only wish I were lol. my aunt and her brothers and sisters used to own a big farm. now im aunt has another one with a decent amount of land that I might buy from them in the future if I do truly want to become a farmer. Cause right now farmers are getting fucked over and pushed into massive debt by the corporations that they work for.

[@downonthemodelfarm3629]

I really want to be a dairy farmer, but considering no one in my family has a farm although a good amount of land, (but it's filled with trees), and i'm only 12, and the government is making it that only big commercial farms stay alive but not small one, it's going to be sure hard to have one.

[@masonreppeto882]

try getting some money cutting down all those trees on that land and then save up your money to buy more land or try to convert it to farm land if it's not to hilly.

[@downonthemodelfarm3629]

No it's not hilly at all. But that would be some job. It's like a forest (they live in the woods) i want to take over their land when they... well when i'm older to. They have 2 little fields where they used to have horses but you need more, especially dairy. Thanks.

[@ignasanchezl]

PTO covers please.

[@Rdrake1413]

Great video

[@gelhages]

Loved the video; Do you know of anyone who does projects for feedlots?

[@harleystrishock204]

how long does it take to finish one field

[@tannerkasten3461]

Does that chopper have a corn processer on it?

[@2005Danimal]

you guys need some quick hitches never have to get out to switch wagons

[@jamisgood21]

Absolutely love your videos man! Thanks for posting these. I'm very interested in all this.

[@nikosmaniatis6465]

what is this unitin the back who collect the chopped corn?

[@K2shadowfax]

When do you make the painful decision to cut a cash crop for feed...i.e., how far in advance of possible catastrophe must one act?

[@cattlefarmer3441]

A lot of farmers raise corn for the feed sometimes you will make more putting it into cattle other times not

[@bbrisley]

it is a very good video but no one sees that the left tire on the chopper that the bearing is froze up and tire is not moving

[@lukestrawwalker]

Good eye! I missed that too the first time I watched it-- after reading your comment had to go back and see for myself-- you're right! The bearing is shot and the tire rolls a little then slides a little on the chopper... Hope they didn't road it that way or they'd probably ruin a tire. Not good for it even sliding out in the dirt like that... Later! OL J R :)

[@dimencionable]

Now you can edit the subtitles of your videoes with a publisher integrado.esta in the option of your channel, regards Ryanfun1

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Do they still call that a model 38 chopper? Years ago out west my Dad and I used to chop 200000 tons of corn per year as a custom operator. He had a three row self propelled JD and two 38's. We pulled one with a 4020 and the other with a 4520

[@Ethan-ck6iz]

They now call it a 3970. That's the main model anyways, there are smaller and larger models.

[@haliduomar2537]

hi please work done where can get the silage machiny

[@salimnaefsalimalameey1017]

beautiful

[@shawnjames6714]

nice shaft

[@davehughesfarm7983]

We do this every year ..Up graded to a 3 row..lol

[@weiniesworld8964]

Dave Hughes Farm what horsepower needed to run 3 head.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

A 4440 will do it, in A1-A2, but a 4640 or 4840 is more ideal 160-180 hp....

[@Baryamanin]

What about the ears? Or the cobs? Do you harvest them separately?

[@HowFarmsWork]

This grinds everything down - ears and cobs included.

[@lukasdavidson2646]

where are you guys based out of?

[@christophersmith311]

Was your grandparents around at this time?

[@HowFarmsWork]

Yep, both were alive

[@cody28h]

hey cool video !! How many John Deere tractors do you have ??

[@maxbuhmiller9414]

cody harrison now they have 4 tractors a 4020,4640,7600 and and 8325r the rest they sold in an auction

[@ehand07]

Is this tractor one of the GPS guided ones ??

[@HowFarmsWork]

Nope! We're just that good ;)

[@ehand07]

How Farms Work That is awesome. I work for the NASDA as a statistician. The GPS guided vehicles for farming can run up to $300,000 on the low end. I'm very impressed.

[@PhatboyHD88]

Sorry to sound like a dummy but is silage the cob and the stalk both ? Or just the stalk ? Again sorry to sound like a cidiot lol OLF term .. i do live in the country in the mountains of PA,, and grow my own Large (for me) half acre hobby farm ...i am retired and is the most relaxing thing i do,, well for a 52 year old lol..

[@HowFarmsWork]

Corn silage is the whole plant! Thanks for watching!

[@farmboy331]

How do you like that style of blower?

[@viejorefran1922]

can you tell me the name of that machine,..

[@bulldeere]

aaaah, nice thanks ryan for listening to my advice google tranlator sucks

[@mahart40]

So glad nobody got hurt standing that close to a pto

[@amirhussainchouhan9090]

What is the price of this machine

[@blazex9697]

good old 4440 god love them