Chopping Corn Silage on a Dairy Farm l Harvest 2021

It's that time of year again, fall harvest is here! Watch us chop corn silage and put together our silage pile. We show the chopper at work as well as hauling loads, using the 3-point blade and backing the pile! The equipment used was the 7810 John Deere pulling the 1085 Gehl Chopper. On the pile we used the 7405 John Deere, the 1066 International, and 1650 Oliver. I hope you all enjoy the video, thank you for watching!

[@TimKrenz-j8t]

It's like driving on a BIG SPONGE 😊

[@deanschafer5919]

I love seeing your guy’s cows out in pasture like that. You just don’t see that much anymore. You guys have a nice farm!

[@jamesbreault5762]

Like seeing those older tractors still a big part of farming👍👍👍👍

[@miguelamaya6246]

Thank you for sharing your video with us... it's very educational...

[@mannsjm]

I used to work a small 40 cow barn dairy in Wisconsin in the early 80's. Your video's bring back some fond memories.

[@GierokFarms]

I'm glad we could do that for you! Thank You for watching!

[@kennethhall5070]

Such a beautiful farm, a working farm. I see that in all of your great videos, safe operation of your tuff tractors and attached equipment whatever it is. All the informative knowledgeable in's and outs of your videos, incredible job. Dad's working with sons, such a wonderful thing.

[@keithkuckler2551]

So great to see cows out on pasture, the way they were meant to be. The big industial dairies just can not hold a candle in my opinion to the old way of raising cattle.

[@GierokFarms]

Agreed Keith!

[@rebelgaming7718]

I second your comment Keith even some of the big feedlots are getting that way now

[@keithkuckler2551]

@@rebelgaming7718 Those have always been huge. I remember driving out to Denver and Grand Junction several times a year. You went right past the big Montfort of Colorado feed lots, and, youi could smell them from a long way off. That was thirty years ago, and, I imagine they are even bigger now.

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@keithkuckler2551 right

[@jonathanwymore9690]

@@keithkuckler2551 Yes, we have driven by them hundreds of times, don't like to see them.

[@viqtahkorir7622]

I love the simplicity of your farm and how you have everything done well.

[@8tomtoms8]

Love the cowbells on some of your cows!!! You can always find the cows that way. Beautiful farm!!!

[@GierokFarms]

You Betcha! Thanks for watching!

[@paultighe3735]

I love how nice and clean the entire farm is, also milked and let back out to the fields to eat grass. The cows are taken care of very well they look great 👍

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Paul!

[@paultighe3735]

@@GierokFarms welcome

[@dawgpjmj]

awesome video! cattle love that silage!!

[@alainbourdon2736]

Great video. Farming is essential to the global humanity. God bless you all farmers

[@GierokFarms]

Thank You and God Bless!

[@kennethknapp7611]

Enjoy watching these farming videos. It lowers my blood pressure.

[@GierokFarms]

I'm glad we can do that for you ken, thanks for watching!

[@jdc5941]

Great videos, we are subscribed, never miss one now. Chopping corn, fun to watch, you take care of your equipment very well. My wife likes your barn quilts, she saw a couple as you passed by. Oliver, the way to go!! We have a 1750 and a Super 77, grew up with Oliver's and Farmalls, farmed with my Uncle just south of La Crosse, near New Albin Iowa. Lots of great memories that I am reminded of as I watch your channel, thanks for creating these videos. Best wishes to you and your family. God bless and keep in farming!!

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks God Bless you and your family too! Thanks for noticing the barn quilts my mother is very proud of them!

[@whosranch]

Great job guys..😃👌

[@MickeyMouse-vt4ce]

After a day like that sit back and enjoy a Spotted Cow beer. Best there is! Hats off to all you farmers who make it happen. God Bless Ya!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you, and God Bless you too!

[@michealnuss1179]

Sutton, Nebraska Dryland corn fair, maybe 80 bu. Irrigated 200 bu. Very dry and hot (95°) with high humidity. Bad storms early on with many pivots turned over. Some just now getting back up. I'm 75 still have cows and calves. Had Harvestors and chopped as you do with some of the same equipment. Have rented out my farm ground, high cash rents are the norm. Land prices through the roof. Lot of memories in your voidios.

[@robertburt9071]

You have a nice stand of corn , Another great video Thanks

[@owenstannard8595]

great video,in Southern Ontario we had lots of rain.and good yields. We have the exact same chopper we run with a 4640. Nice to see another still kicking around!!

[@GierokFarms]

Sounds like a sweet setup!

[@karljacobson1575]

I’m in north central Kansas. Irrigated corn looks great , dry land so so. Where they got rain it’s good. Awful dry where I lived . Last year was super for dry land!!! I been at this since 1975, enjoy your videos....

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Karl!

[@karljacobson1575]

Gierok Farms 👍👍😊

[@rpark8265]

I don’t grow corn myself but my brother in law has a great crop ,all put under plastic ,a cold spring but good dry summer with enough rain to keep things growing . Enjoying your videos 👍from northern England 🇬🇧

[@GierokFarms]

I'm glad to here about the corn crop over there is good! Would love to see how people farm over there! Thanks for watching Richard!

[@randybeckman6193]

south central Illinois finished chopping September 17 started shelling on the 18th corn yielding above average here y'all are so lucky to have such beautiful scenery great video keep up the good work

[@GierokFarms]

Sounds like fall harvest is off to a great start down there, and Thank you!

[@plumcreekfarms8138]

I would love to see an equipment tour. I see some really nice tractors!

[@brianphetteplace6463]

In Michigan we got the rite amount of rain. The corn looks amazing

[@GierokFarms]

Glad to hear!

[@french-canadianfarmer5049]

From south east Manitoba. We don't grow corn on our farms but neighbors are chopping now. Yield is decent despite our very dry summer.

[@curtisowens4588]

I have seen and heard of cows getting choked on apples you are not afraid of that? Nice silage video I love the smell of corn silage.

[@GierokFarms]

Nope Thanks for watching!

[@tederdmann2993]

The Gehl I chopped with didn't have the fancy controls, we used levers. Glad to see you do have some flat ground! Lol

[@GierokFarms]

That sounds sweet and ya we got some level ground too! LOL

[@Ticky66MN]

We've had some dry spells but enough timely rain for what looks to be a good harvest. A lot of corn was chopped over the last week in the area, Plainview, MN. Thanks for the videos!

[@GierokFarms]

Glad to hear! Thanks again for watching!

[@BernerLandtechnik]

You have a beautiful area there - interesting technology. Greetings from Switzerland

[@GierokFarms]

Welcome and thank you! Switzerland! That's awesome!

[@boB7710II]

I'm in central Wisconsin. We had a good year for rain. The last 2 weeks have been dry, so all the neighbors have been going to town on chopping.

[@GierokFarms]

I'm glad to hear you got plenty of rain this year! Thanks for watching the video!

[@donaldmack7213]

You have a beautiful farm!

[@brianschmitt9874]

We have a 1085 Gehl also and recently switched to a 3 row head. Love it....really make headway with that! We are located in East Central WI near Sheboygan.

[@GierokFarms]

I believe it! Thanks for watching Brian!

[@tederdmann2993]

Brave young man on the Ollie, he probably wished he have duals on. Lol

[@GierokFarms]

It's interesting driving that around on the pile especially getting on and off the pile!

[@tederdmann2993]

@@GierokFarms I bet it is! Lol

[@dillonmeier9783]

Jones county, Iowa. East Central. Perfect year for corn

[@bryankeator8396]

Hour south of Albany in new york. Were still a week or two away from corn chopping. Still really green. Everything really wet. 9 to 12 foot corn. Been good year. Just need rain to ease up

[@GierokFarms]

That corn crop sounds great, Good luck this fall!

[@keithrobinson1331]

Your silage looks great 👍 🐄🇺🇸

[@herbhouston5378]

Nice lookin' place you have. Corn silage makes good feed for cattle. Back when I was a kid (50s and 60s) the neighbor chopped only first cut hay....with all the weeds and very poor grasses. I don't remember the cows liking it, but that's what they had.

[@terrylutke]

You guys farm like we did in the 60's, except we were still filling silos. Also we had a new 4 stall milking parlor, which the cows hated. Our cows were never pastured, always on concrete, the herd always seemed half wild to me. I envied our neighbor who had tamer cattle and a warm comfort stall barn in the winter.

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Terrry!

[@ryburnsjr]

Welldone...reminds me of my aunts small farm in the 60s

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks

[@stevebrooking4506]

Looks like you guys live in a beautiful area. We are too far south in🇳🇿 to grow maize but grew it in the North Island and miss it. All the best 👍

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Steve, I would love to see how you guys farm over there!

[@lawrencekirchheimer734]

Brough back a memory going back 58 years going on a wagon hand cutting corn loading in on the wagon With Adolf and then going to the barn. At the barn there was a small chopper belt driven off of another tractor and the corn blew into a cart to feed the cows. Adolf will tell me 1,2,3,4,5 scoops to which cow. The corn was 9 to 10 feet do to the fertilizer and he had 200 chickens that ran loose in the cornfield. Gierok Farms Than You!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you for watching, and commenting!

[@randymonninger9913]

Love your wagons tractors

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you!

[@j.w.groves2199]

This last yr. We had a incredible crop of winter wheat and the cord was bummper crops even the beans put in after wheat got great rains like every 3 days all August and September. So the beans were great to I live in western KY. By the lakes and it was great Here and across the river in Southern IL. And parts of west TN. And southeast Missouri also .

[@GierokFarms]

That's awesome Late season rains really make those beans grow!

[@bryankeator8396]

Great video. Just crazy to me that you chose to use the Oliver to do that job

[@GierokFarms]

Ya we are kind of nuts lol

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Great video, always wanted to know how it was done. I couldn't handle being on the tractor and compacting the silage, am afraid of heights. Good work. Thanks

[@bradmyers3327]

Just subscribed. That's a cool video. We had the same chopper but we chop into a dump wagon and added the chute/spout extension

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks for subscribing! sounds like a sweet set up!

[@miguelamaya6246]

Thank you for sharing your video with us...

[@BrianGLee-bc7hj]

Good year in southern Michigan now to get in the field after all the rain

[@GierokFarms]

Heck yeah!

[@randymonninger9913]

Had good corn crop in pa

[@GierokFarms]

Happy to hear!

[@charleswolf279]

Your farm is kept very neat and everything looks so nice. Over the winter watch the auctions and get yourself some Bergman hitches for the chopper and wagons, at the end of the day your body will feel so much better l guarantee!

[@GierokFarms]

Thank you Charles! They are a good idea for most farms but In the hills I think it would be very dangerous. I have seen in person a wagon get away from a guy up on a hillside because of that style hitch. Probably works great for most farmer though!

[@eastedenfarms9017]

It’s pretty wet here in NY. Corn looks decent in most spots just really slow going

[@GierokFarms]

I think I would still rather have a wet year over a dry one! Glad to hear the corn looks good!

[@keithrobinson1331]

Just starting around me in sw Iowa Neibor started on early corn 2 weeks ago was about 218 - 265 bushel a acre at 19% moisture they have stopped and switched to beans and they are great at 45 to 70 a acre I have only hay on my place along way to go around here 😃🌽🇺🇸

[@GierokFarms]

Sounds like some great yields!

[@keithrobinson1331]

@@GierokFarms got lucky with a few showers of rain at the right times some guys north of us didn’t get some of the breaks we did 50 miles north is terrible

[@GierokFarms]

@@keithrobinson1331 Ya some guys really had a dry year

[@stephenbutz2621]

That is some good looking corn 🌽👌

[@lelandmonroe7902]

Love your videos. Your farm reminds me of the farm I grew up on in NE Iowa, lots of hills. One question, what is the purpose of the bells on the cows is it a old custom or is there a reason. I remember my dad having cow bells, but they were hanging in the shed and we never used them when I was growing up. Thanks for sharing your farm life.

[@GierokFarms]

We have bells because of our swiss background, and because it is handy for finding cattle when they are on pasture! Thanks for watching the videos and commenting!

[@thompasanski7076]

@@GierokFarms I remember that our cows had bells on only the bossy ones to bring in for milking

[@Mopar-Pioneer]

would love to see a vid of you feeding off of this pile in the middle of winter when ther id 3 feet of snow on the ground !!!😁😁😁

[@GierokFarms]

I will be releasing one of us getting silage off that pile soon but not with 3 feet of snow atleast not yet!

[@micahgrubb6867]

Central pa . 12-14 foot heavy stalk big ear corn

[@GierokFarms]

Nice!

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Hello there. We never chop corn 🌽. We chop grass to 1/4" But with a self-propelled forage Harvester. It does 80As a day.

[@andylieffring2461]

So you pile the corn silage over the top of the haylage right? Pretty cool, eliminates the need for tmr;) ever have a wagon tip over on the pile?

[@GierokFarms]

Yup that is how we do it! Not yet LOL, Thanks again for watching Andy!

[@jeffgrindle4311]

I chop with a 1275 with a 3 row head awesome chopper how come your duals are on back words on your 1066

[@randymonninger9913]

In littelstown pa great corn crop

[@rebelgaming7718]

I think you guys should do a short 5 to 10 minute video of explaining how the chains on the floor in that gehl wagon moves the silage I think that be cool I'm used to big self propelled forage harvesters not the pull behinds seen them but never gotta actually watch one chop in real life

[@thomasbyerly4305]

Faimly got it together

[@GierokFarms]

Thanks Thomas

[@LVFFarmVlogs]

Best corn yield to date here in NW WI

[@GierokFarms]

Glad to hear the crops are doing well!

[@giuseppinadifonso8525]

🥇.

[@thompasanski7076]

Where is your farm located in what state and town ? I grew up in Yale Michigan in the thumb area on 80 acres 150 holsteins,1000 chickens and 1000 sheep, there was a woolen mill in town at that time early 50 to late 67.

[@misterhipster9509]

Lost an uncle running a row crop on uneven terrain. Sketchy @ best.

[@Butch344]

Back when we worked 2 farms in Winnebago County WI, silage always went into the silos. I understand the piling of the silage, my question is: what do ya do in the winter to feed it to the cows? Love your videos ..... keep it up!!

[@GierokFarms]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIjZi6uJrrmIrK8 This video kind of explains it! For the milking cows its a bit more manual labor. Thanks for watching Ted I'm glad you enjoyed them!

[@Butch344]

@@GierokFarms my question is, how do you get the frozen silage from the outside pile to the cows?

[@brianl4310]

where in the states are you or are you in Canada ?

[@danw6014]

Are you guys starting to have trouble getting parts for the Gehl chopper yet?

[@terrykoch1250]

Don't live there anymore but was born in Wisconsin Rapids and spent most of my young years in a little town of Taylor. Your country looks alot like it. What part are you in?

[@GierokFarms]

Sweet I know where Taylor is!

[@stanschwartz6449]

Great video where is your farm located?

[@nirvairsingh1678]

👍

[@mikeguido6285]

What model is the open station Deere?

[@lanehettinga1501]

like the setup. how many cows you milk?

[@GierokFarms]

40 to 50 cows

[@BarnyardEngineering]

Oh now that's just mean, shaking the apples down for the cows. Now the guy who milks them has gotta deal with a bunch of drunks...

[@GierokFarms]

Never look at it that way, LOL. But I understand what you are saying! Thanks for watching!

[@rebelgaming7718]

Do those gehl wagons have a rolling floor to push all that corn silage up when you put it on the pile?

[@GierokFarms]

It's a chain that bring it to the front!

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@GierokFarms oh ok that comes in handy so your not having to get in the wagon and start shoveling all that chaff up

[@69druth]

Nice video. Any trouble getting Gehl parts. Decent crops here in Central Ontario.

[@GierokFarms]

not really, and glad to hear! Thanks for watching!

[@chrisbennett8538]

I c silage is put on ground correct not cement?

[@codymoffatt1281]

Will you ever show a miking video?

[@GierokFarms]

Yes!

[@geraldsundberg3610]

Is it a little risky close to the edge"

[@duaneschmitz2694]

How many cows do you milk and could we get Video of you guys in the barn what state do you guys farm in ??

[@GierokFarms]

40 to 50, and that video is soon to come! Wisconsin, Thanks for watching!

[@duaneschmitz2694]

@@GierokFarms what part of Wisconsin I am from mineral Point Wisconsin lol

[@GierokFarms]

@@duaneschmitz2694 West WI

[@chrisbennett8538]

Trench silo ?

[@dannygerrits1157]

That have a processor in it?

[@GierokFarms]

Yes it dose Danny!

[@sawdustandsweat1750]

where do y'all farm? nice looking ground

[@GierokFarms]

Wisconsin!

[@tonyreynolds5112]

What date was this filmed?

[@pocketchange1951]

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