Chopping Milo For Silage in Self-Propelled Chopper

[@jimcarlisle2309]

I like all your videos and your Dad’s videos, down to earth!

[@jamesbomar7979]

If this tractors rocking don't come knocking!

[@clintonwilkie8142]

No matter how miserable I am at work, I just squeeze in a video from You’all and your infectious smile and happy attitude seem to always brighten up the day. I’d like to add/girl you make farming look fun!! Enjoyed this one. Thank you.

[@sterlingspencer2934]

Hi Laura! That smile will chase those clouds away.

[@Pimporly]

Laura even if I saw your show today at night here in the Miami area you increadible Smile and attitutde make me happy I enjoy seen you like this that how every person Should be happy Joyful. I'm that way to even if I'm a Handicap person I enjoy my life as fully to. Oh Today I walk and Run with my Crutches at the Park and I'm 63 years old Laura I don't let anything slow me down. God bless you Keep those videos coming with a Great Smile.

[@jaco_oosthuizen]

You make farming look very romantic, but I know it is a tough job. Well done!

[@milanstraka1107]

What a bautifull sunshine girl you are!! So glad to have found you for inspiration! The best attitude! All the best you! Hats off!

[@johnmulkins7473]

Awesome as always. Silage is a type of fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by acidification, achieved through fermentation. It can be fed to cattle, sheep and other such ruminants. The fermentation and storage process is called ensilage, ensiling or silaging

[@edgewood99]

You are really Farmer John in disguise.

[@pencilwan1628]

thank you for explaination

[@earlhollar1906]

@@edgewood99 Google Google Google

[@KaziusAzran]

"Fodder refers mostly the crops which are harvested and used for stall feeding. Forage may be defined as the vegetative matter, fresh or preserved, utilised as feed for animals. Forage crops include grasses, legumes, crucifers and other crops cultivated and used in the form of hay, pasture, fodder and silage."

[@godoftheinterwebz]

milo silage = mileage

[@philipcollings985]

You have such a wonderful way with life, Laura. Love watching you, Grant, your Dad and Mom during your days. Thank you xxxx L

[@robbhester6600]

Speeding up the video with music is to funny. Thanks for being such a beautiful and shining light- All Y’all - much love from Texas

[@davidignacio3009]

I learned something new, When you said Milo, my first thought was the powdered milk chocolate produced by Nestle. I had to look it up to find out milo is a variety of sorghum. Also, I admire your spunk. You make a hard job an easy one, and full of smiles. Your dad must be so proud of you young lady.

[@stevewalton7668]

Her energy, spunk is intoxicating! Maybe it's her good looks that help add to my day! Wow!

[@mikelhall]

It's so nice and refreshing to see your beautiful smile. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.

[@bobbyboucher5309]

You could sell blocks of ice to Eskimos with that smile!

[@jeffvandenberg8422]

I've never knew about milo. Thanks for teaching me something new. Don't work too hard. Stay healthy.

[@group447]

Absolutely the best yet. No wasted time and your look and personality are so positive! You have got to be exhausted after all that work. Great job Laura and the editing was incredible. Hope the chopper is ok. Keep up the good work.

[@exploidur]

We are bombarded with bad news, so to hear someone say the crop is "growing excellently" is one of the reasons we watch your videos. Laura. 💙

[@adamjavorcak4605]

i saw one of your video totally by accident, but now im your regular viewer from small country Czech republic

[@earllutz2663]

The best to you and your families. It is nice to follow all of you, on your videos.

[@denniswalston1217]

Always enjoy watching farm videos. I was in the equipment business for 46 years. Now, my son is involved. We sell the Big Red stuff, ya know the other good brand. Just wanted to say hi all the way from Delmarva. Farmers are the best. We feed the world.

[@markgreenough5327]

Laura always good to see you Working with your Dad .. you are a hell of a Good WORKER ... Keep up doing the great job 🐱.... We never Eat in the morning at the Farm . We eat at 12 noon... Ware is Mr. Brent today...

[@johnhelbig7110]

Many years ago, on our eastern Missouri hill farm, we chopped alfalfa and put it into a small trench silo that had been bulldozed into the ground. We packed it in and covered it with about 2 inches of crushed limestone.

[@johnwyoder]

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! (and my favorite) 😀 Also, kudos to you for crediting your mom for her part in keeping you guys going.

[@joefudd]

I love that Laura is always so happy! Today she was SUPER DEE DUPER HAPPY! :-) Made my face ache from smiling right along with her! That's still a good thing! Maybe I need to add more caffeine to my diet? LOL! WE LOVE YOU TOO LAURA! YOU GO, GIRL! You've made my day much brighter and helped me to forget my troubles for awhile!

[@8056443232]

You are SUCH a cutie - smiling all day, positive attitude, working so well with the whole family (shout out to Mom was very nice!) and keeping those trucks clean! Good camera work, good editing, I'm hooked! Cheers!

[@scottrichardson999]

Love your enthusiasm for working on the farm . Thanks for making your videos . Keep up the great work

[@manelson647]

Wow! What a day… 🎶 Rolling, rolling, rolling…keep those wagons rolling 🎶 Steady and focused for a job well done 👍 ❤️😊Love you, Grammy

[@Sam16034]

Silage is fermented green matter. Chaff is chopped corn.

[@HenauderTitzauf]

She has a wonderful face and smile. Thanks for posting and sharing this vlog. GREAT JOB LAURA!!! And you didn’t even break a nail! Lol!

[@schandler45]

That "Good Morning" makes my day, I love this Vlog

[@nathanvigesaa3387]

Silage made from milo...I would call "milage"😁

[@chrisanthony579]

Mom is ALWAYS the rock star of the show

[@marknewman5847]

Great video very interesting I think that's the first time I've seen Milo being chopped for cattle thanks for sharing

[@walterscott7227]

I love those rotary chopper heads.

[@snappingbear]

Laura's dad: "improvise, adapt, overcome". That is a great recipe for success.

[@bay9876]

That kind of good advice would be very useful in our worldwide events

[@rickharms1]

Clint Eastwood. In”Heart Break Ridge”

[@dacboyz8]

@@rickharms1 also Gran Torino

[@dwightarnold6980]

YOUR DAD IS SO AWESOME 👌 HAVE A GREAT DAY! YOU MILO CHOPPERS!

[@donaldmcleod4758]

Nice to a family that works together, stays together, your awsome , has anyone told u , u r gorgeous.

[@erianjudd4785]

I love what you guys do

[@Q-Man-9137.]

I love your tractor Nothing runs like a Deere

[@8287tjsaboe]

Your wonderful smile and attitude is infectious! Be safe, and God bless!!!

[@charlesward8196]

My understanding of silage is any green crop that is chopped and stored in a bunker, silo, or ag-bag to keep out the air and prevent spoilage. There may me some fermentation going on, as well. Eric in PA (10th Generation Dairy Farmer) differentiates between silage and “haylage’” though I am not sure whether the “hay” is rye, triticale, or alfalfa because they cut all three. Their corn goes into three huge bunkers and gets covered with air-tight plastic.

[@LtColDaddy71]

I plant every border to a road with sunflower and lavender. It kind makes us us, people are always asking about it, farmers are rude and skeptical … but believe it or not, they are great cash crops. It’s also a huge pest deterrent. The birds used to decimate the sunflower, but over the years, as I let the chickens basically revert to wild and they get to roam, propagate on their own, it’s attracted some meat eating birds of prey. American bald eagles, hawks, owls, osprey. Sure, they fly off with quite a few chickens, but I almost need them to. I pride myself as a quality producer, but chickens are so much work, I want them for fertility and pest control. We’re pretty much selling pound and a half yard birds. It’s all natural organic yard bird though. So put a little chicken coop with an open top in the milo field. They are eagle food, and the eagles will keep the seed eating birds away.

[@fat_biker]

This sounds like quite a creative set of ideas...

[@waynemorgan1577]

Improvise, adapt, overcome... Clint Eastwood - Heartbreak Ridge.. also is the unofficial slogan of the Marine Corps.

[@johndavidson6867]

Yes seeing Laura and her ever perky, bubbly continence makes every day better. Laura, silage can be from many different grains, here in my part of Alberta it is mostly barley, although corn is becoming more and more prevalent. When conditions aren't conductive to good hay the field is often taken off the same way (haylige). Corn is straight cut where as barley and hay are swathed then silage d. Hope the rest of your harvest goes well, for both you and Grant.

[@oldfarmer3001]

Always smiling, nice to see !

[@WhiteisrightNationwhite]

Who else watches just to see Laura say "good Morning" everyday? Coffee and Corn Ya can't beat it!

[@avgeek78x]

I just love it!😁❤

[@mindtricky]

I dont like it. Thinking of unsubscribe if i hear it again.

[@johntolvstad7210]

She just a bundle of energy. Makes my day Thanks Laura

[@rodcharlton1889]

I agree... it's a trademark now and I look forward to it as well.

[@SpicySteve-tz2so]

Awesome ending to the video with the American flag waving in the background. Your smile never fails to brighten my day Laura!

[@danielharder9085]

Crows and blackbirds love it! It’s about 95 degrees here in southwest Missouri!

[@JamesJones-gk5jd]

Good morning Laura, not cool here in Alabama this morning 100+ heat index today

[@DwightStebner]

i have chopped grass, corn barley, wheat and sunflowers, it all made sileage

[@keithkremer672]

I like your facial expressions. Very awesome

[@rolandhemmann5952]

Milo will pop like like corn. Kind of a little snack Thanks for the good videos

[@davenwpg1]

Good morning Laura Farms :)

[@jawick]

All of our silage is haygrazer. Somewhat similar to grain sorghum. What you call milo. All of our farm trailers are trailers except for the grain carts. Our grain and corn harvests are done. Now, we are on to cotton here in South Texas. Our corn harvest was rather poor this year . Grain was about average.

[@jawick]

Sometimes, we bale grain stubble after we combine it. We prices quite good this year, I am surprised you didn't harvest the heads/seeds and then use the stubble for silage.

[@johnrae4633]

Silage, here in the UK we consider regular silage is 'made' with grass, and what Laura is using would be called Arable Silage, and tends to be used more on our dairy farms. Over here arable silage is sometimes made with using peas.

[@keith3717]

Good job Laura xx

[@Theplumber711]

You seem like a sweet kind young woman. Thanks, cool video.

[@petruzzovichi]

I just happened onto your video and bingo...I'm a new subscriber! What a wonderful sweetheart worker deluxe you are. Your videos are everything combined from educational, informative and entertaining. Very Well Done...

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Laura Farms Video, thanks for sharing

[@vk2ig]

I remember as a little kid first seeing milo and thinking it was corn because of the leaves. The parakeets, rosellas, lorikeets, and other birds would love eating it: you'd hear lots of squawking out in the milo paddock ... chuck a clod of dirt and this big flock of colourful birds would rise up, fly around a few times squawking, and then settle back into the milo to resume eating. Milo was harvested using a header, and the grain would be taken into town where the co-op would turn it into chook food, etc. After harvesting, the stalks could be bailed up - the cattle didn't mind eating it. BTW Laura, re hydraulic fluid: never, ever spill aircraft hydraulic fluid ("Skydrol") on yourself - it burns! And it happily melts some plastics, e.g. certain boot soles.

[@changhsieh459]

learned something new today...Milo, city folks...

[@tomcampbell815]

Chopped hay is also known as silage, along with any other crops that can be fermented in a silo.

[@mauriceupton1474]

Silage season was always Hard Yakka. but it's a good way of preserving all the sugars in the grasses. Unfortunately quite a few Farmers come to grief they get too close to the edge of the stack in tip off the edge.

[@geistbike]

That`s a workflow in best form. Every Chief like this. You, Laura and your best dad of the world is a absolut perfekt combination.....

[@deesmykla10]

thank's Laura's mom... You're the best👍👍👍

[@petewhite8725]

Grass silage,oat silage you can pretty much insil any crop.

[@billkline0320]

I just love that music that you put into it it is so you

[@erickamekonapeper4007]

You should try the Grain Berry Cereal it’s made with ONYX Sorghum I got the shredded wheat but they have 6 different verities. I don’t feel tired or anything after eating it. I sometimes feel tired and sometimes dizzy from other Cereal. I am truly trying to have a Whole Foods diet. I have Emphysema COPD. I’m 46 and I have a lovely Daughter like you and I want to stay around awhile at least until she figures out my jokes! 😏 she’s almost 24 you would think she’s used to me by now.🤔 Keep going you’re doing great! I’m absolutely sure your Dad’s completely proud of his wonderful Daughter! God Bless you Guys! ❤️😏🖖🏼🇺🇸

[@petersandberg2770]

I always get in good mode when locking at you videos :-) B.r Peter from Sweden.

[@petermac3445]

Love the American flag 🇺🇸 at the end of the video. Rural America!

[@darrylphipps2221]

Laura is looking so beautiful from Darryl Phipps in Tennessee 👍👍

[@travissteinkraus6307]

Milo is fun to chop!! It gets quite in the cab compared to chopping corn. But man is it itchy

[@fredrickgross5515]

Can I just tell you that you are the food for my soul, my day is always refreshed after watching your awesome videos, thank you Laura!!!

[@fredrickgross5515]

Definitely an Angel among us, you and Grant. Your faith and belief in our Heavenly Father just shines so brightly! Keep em coming!!

[@davidgriffith7564]

She has a Beautiful smile

[@harlanroeser7546]

Pretty big lawn mower!!!

[@skyhawksailor8736]

Have you guys ever thought of using Sudan or Sudax Sorghum grass for silage? When I lived with my uncles on the farm in Tennessee, back in the 70's we use to bale Sudax for hay and we could let it grow to about six feet and cut it. It grows so tall and thick. If I remember right, if we cut it before the seed tassels formed, we would get three or four cuttings. I have watched other farm videos and several have used Sudan for hay. And the word Silage is for things which were traditionally stored in a Silo.

[@pmbair]

Sileage can vary by location and need. For instance, up in Michigan, you see a lot of alfalfa or Timothy. Cows like alfalfa and horses prefer Timothy. Virginia, however, doesn't have either. They use something altogether different, such as orchard grasses and fescue

[@dasarathtripathi1630]

Good Afternoon

[@imjustbrowsingok]

Seeing the American Flag on the farm nice

[@tinamnx7205]

Such a beautiful Smile!!

[@timothyjones8858]

This is awesome.

[@farmerallis]

Silage is the process, regardless of what's being used to ensile. Alfalfa, milo, corn, etc. can all be made into silage. Silage is simply the preservation of a crop by "pickling" it; acidic, anaerobic conditions are used to create silage. Awesome content btw

[@tokus64]

Lets give this funnie woman a ton of respect. Not everybody leaves a cookie in the car for warming up.

[@AlaskaErik]

Milo is the big German Shepard across the street from me. Anytime I say his name my Labrador Retriever goes berserk, because they are not on friendly terms. Fortunately, she didn't go berserk when Laura was talking about the stuff.

[@hotbug597]

Laura, did you know you are using the exact same skills fighter pilots use to fly into battle with the other fighters. When you are driving beside your dad so he can blow milo into the wagon you use exactly the same skills for distance, timing and separation. You go girl. Your are your dad's wingman.

[@bradpogue3448]

Very good video that is a lot of milo I didn’t realize that it made good feed for cattle. How is your grandpa doing I hope he is feeling better and he makes a speedy recovery.

[@samuelmatz]

Thanks for a wonderful video. I am not surprised since you and your family are nice and truly inspirational .

[@charlesjenkins8078]

Great video. Thanks

[@earllutz2663]

Another great video.

[@russellrattys6581]

I know exactly how that feels, i used to lay paving slabs as part of a previous job, and some days all i would do is drive my tipper truck between the job site and a farm where we dumped the soil The farmer used it to fill dents in his fields, the more he could get the better the fields were Note, that farmer had a tracked challenger tractor among others 😉

[@davidbetts480]

Hello Laura, it is known as milet in England and it is grown as a game kuver.

[@masajhn]

Hey Laura trust me the following months are going to be crucial, I hope your and your family keep farming cause due the hard situation going on in Ukraine , Be a farmer is going to be very profitable, just keep working and learning ...

[@ericprater4017]

What a sight gauge? I'm used to dipsticks or the old, old way of 2 screws one low and one high, you opened the top one, if no oil came out, you opened the lower one, if no oil came out, you filled it up to the top screw when oil came out there, more geezer info then you wanted.

[@bradrodenberg2547]

You're having too much fun really solid is always been my favorite thing and I was farming. I was wondering how your grandpa's doing is he home from the hospital and praying for your family.

[@darrel1954]

Laura, who was pushing the silage up into the pit today?

[@joefudd]

Probably her brother Ethan?

[@according2petey25]

HELLO0O0O0O0 miss Laura 🚜 here in Vermont the young ladies don't use hydraulic oil to shave their leg's🤣🤣🤣 Enjoyed another video from miss Laura 🌽 Hope everything is going great for poppa curt🙏🙏 take care

[@jackhulsbosch2215]

love your videos,jack from the netherlands

[@jakepriest4282]

Cab windows make great dry erase boards if you need to keep track of things.

[@joewright1977]

Great Video!

[@danfinley3690]

That’s some sweet footage