Chopping Corn Silage with a New John Deere 8300 Forage Harvester

Video from a Mercer County Ohio dairy farm as they harvest their 2019 corn silage crop. This year they got to demo a new John Deere 8300 forage harvester with a 676 header.

[@TristanH7290]

Thank you for posting this, there is just something so satisfying about making silage.

[@deplorablelibertarian]

I grew up on a farm in Mercer County, OH...just off Hone-Weir Road. It’s absolutely fantastic to see this farm on one of your videos.

[@kylebuehrer5710]

Some amazing shots especially with the lightning in the background! Love your videos! They just keep getting better! Thanks for sharing!!👍🏻

[@aluminium3574]

Keep them coming mike. Thank you from the Netherlands for all the videos and information you provide... great job mister farmhand

[@jaredschmitmeyer3411]

Glad I got to see this video and glad to see it’s around my area!

[@29rosslyn]

Great work capturing all the corn silage action at this farm! That drone shot at the end was a real masterpiece Mike.

[@joeroy02]

Great video. Love the scene where you have all the machines from the drone. That was cool with the lightning in the distance.

[@coryfritz295]

Great video footage Mike!! Enjoyed all angles of the corn silage harvest!! Keep the awesome footage rolling!!

[@onionfriend9799]

Great video Mike! A farmer-sized chopper like this is really rare especially in Colorado where I live. Pretty much all custom operators runnning biggest machines they can buy out here.

[@markray2496]

Great video Mike! The clip of you standing inbetween the truck and chopper is awesome!

[@piperdoug428]

Wonder if it scares the begeezus out of the chopper guy seeing a guy appear out of nowhere as he chops by, lol.

[@hughwhaley3179]

Awesome video Mike thanks for sharing 🌽🌽🚜🚜👍👍

[@JDrostAgricultureVideoNL]

Very nice video

[@tonyburelle6633]

Wonderful video, thanks

[@SlipShodBob]

Looks like that has got some good work lights

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

SJ K yes it does

[@gabebruggeman8156]

I can't believe you were in my home county, we're thinking about chopping this weekend

[@deplorablelibertarian]

Gabe Bruggeman....I grew up on Hone-Weir Road, it’s about halfwayish between the NW corner of the lake and the state line. My grandparents lived on Elm Street in Celina, and everyone pretty much worked at Reynolds & Reynolds. It’s a small world after all.

[@jeffreyhoover6771]

Mike how many acres of corn do they chop each year.and does the harvester let you know what the moister is running as there choping.

[@2of2DCH]

Good stuff Mike! Really appreciate the extra details you add, do you happen to know, on average, how quickly they can process an acre of land?

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

we did 180 acres in 3 days with about 13-14 hours a day

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

All that hp! Very impressive! 👍

[@nayrb11111]

Is the down corn laying on the ground at the 7:45 mark due to deer the 4 leg kind not the green and yellow?

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

Papa’s Place yes it is lots of deer in our area

[@koolman2021]

Awesome video 👍👍👍👍

[@samson1200]

Great video Mike for the night effect from the drone.Just watch out for the power lines lol. Curious why they did not weight the 8260R for packing. Driver seems a bit new to working a silage bunker.

[@SlipShodBob]

And shed roofs, parked tractors, windrows, bins/silos, trees and the drop from the bed of a pickup...

[@SlipShodBob]

@Ridin' Green it may have been where it was crossing it where the sides were steeper than the face of the bunk as there were several times it looked to be struggling for traction to get up the sides where weights on the 3pt linkage would either ground out more easily or just make it harder ultimately it looked to be there basically to keep the sides tight where the other 2 were compacting it more

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

yes that was his first time ever doing that and we put fluid in the tires

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

Ridin' Green ya i was the kid driving the 8260R but i was teaching someone else how to go up and down the pile so i could go and do some feeding and the reason for not as much weight is when we bought the tractor brand new we didn’t order 3point arms because we never thought we would need them and we would like more front weights but don’t have anymore need to buy some but the fluid in the tires does a very good job getting all of the oxygen out of the silage

[@tilapiastew6784]

What all is silage used for? Wikipedia tells you the many different kinds of silage but doesn't really explain what types of operations use it and why. I see lots of dairy use corn silage and finishing operations but can silage be used for cows diet from young to market?

[@leesteele9290]

That roller,packer , weight on the one pusher is something new to me ,is it specifically for silage or is it a roller that's really intended for something else? Something about silage harvest that's kinda romantic to watch SOMEONE ELSE do! Thanks for the video!!

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

Lee Steele it is made just for silage their someone near us that builds them and it is a frame then their are 9 train wheels on the bracket that role on the silage

[@onionfriend9799]

Do you know the name of the place that builds the silage packer?

[@bigt6359]

Thanks Mike...Awesome footage!!!

[@stipegen4farms609]

What software do you use to edit your videos?

[@farmhandmike]

I do everything on my MacBook Pro.

[@mountainviewturning5319]

Nice video 👍

[@drewbooher5809]

Great job man

[@nycsox987]

This silage stuff is fascinating. This is just for animal feed, no corn cobs/kernals are in this crop??

[@MotoKeto]

The cob and corn kernals are all chopped together and fed to the cattle.

[@nycsox987]

@@MotoKeto thanks for your reply. The scale of it all is just amazing 👌.

[@2of2DCH]

Learned the other day, that they want the kernel to be chopped up a bit. If whole it's less likely the cow will digest it as completely.

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

we chop it all up for our dairy cows and heifers

[@johnbeldon635]

I think that is the same chopper that the local dealership (KFG Archbold) had on display all spring and summer before it made it way down your way.

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

john beldon yes probably KFG just got it in and had it on demo because no one around us knows what it can handle or how it runs

[@johnbeldon635]

Ohio Dairy Farming I know the Archbold store had one sitting out on the front yard for a long time this summer. Now they have a 7000 series tractor with a Kuhn spreader and a pay loader sitting there. Which part of Ohio are you from?

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

john beldon i live about 10 minutes away from the coldwater KFG

[@HillbillyRednecking]

What happens if there’s a massive oil leak on the tractor while it’s on top of the silage pile?

[@mikespecht]

Then the cattle poop a lil easier when they eat that part of the pile.

[@2of2DCH]

Wondered the same myself.

[@farmhandmike]

You just hope that don't happen but if it does the silage in that area would be removed.

[@joeclarkson3642]

Great video how late did they work into the night?

[@farmhandmike]

I left around 10 PM and they were still going.

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

we run til about 11 every night

[@MoeWhiskey]

what is the long white building for what part does it play great videos I enjoy them but I don't know anything about farming haha

[@farmhandmike]

The big white building is the barn the barn that housed the majority of the milk cows.

[@MoeWhiskey]

@@farmhandmike thank you very much enjoy your videos a lot keep them coming

[@rafbressana9988]

Nice vid mike, N1👍

[@marks_sparks1]

Fantastic drone footage once again. Last shot query: was that lightning in the background?

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

marksandsparks1 yes it was

[@marks_sparks1]

@@ohiodairyfarming6382 did it avoid your area and not disrupt the harvest?

[@farmhandmike]

@@marks_sparks1 The storm lost its punch in Indiana and did not make it into Ohio.

[@futurepilot6749]

Nice

[@chrisleon6238]

👍. 👍. 👌

[@MrPummi88]

Well, 6 rows is not that much?

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

MrPummi88 More than you would think 6 rows of 12 foot tall corn at a time is a lot for a machine to handle and you must remember we aren’t big factory farms we are a family owned farm milked 235 cows not 2500 cows were they need 10 times more feed than us so they need the 9300 chopper instead of this one which is a lot smaller

[@MrPummi88]

@@ohiodairyfarming6382 In Germany 10-12 rows are standard, thats why I am asking. No Problem, usually USA is bigger and better ;)

[@ohiodairyfarming6382]

MrPummi88 yes their are some farms that run 12 row headers and costume harvesters but not a whole lot of farms have them

[@АлександърФилипов-о5п]

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