Corn Silage Harvest in a Seed Corn Field - August 2018

Video from Arcola Illinois of custom built machines to chop the male rows of corn for silage in a seed corn field. The male rows are used only for pollination and are often just stomped down after after pollination. The machines in this video were built by Massen Ag.

[@timmattison6553]

Cool video Mike. Maybe they need cameras on the discharge shuts so that more silage goes in the box instead of the ground

[@markgroth4380]

With that design they could easily put a roof on the box, but yes, they could do alot to reduce waste.

[@arfarms5711]

They’re wasting more than they’re getting looks like. Be simple to build that back up higher

[@jonnn983]

They dont care?! I don't get it myself

[@Ellison89Brett]

The goal is to destroy the male rows. Harvesting silage is not the goal of the operation, any silage they get is a bonus.

[@brianwebber7168]

I've seen equipment like this at Paul's welding shop in Villa Grove, Il. Which isnt far from where you filmed.The chasis looks like the ones Modern Flow Equipment uses.

[@thr8061]

That is so cool! I'm glad they are not wasting those rows.

[@scruffy6151]

Thank you Mike. Now i know more than i did before. I like seeing things i have never seen before when it comes to farming.

[@terrellfarms1]

I like the concept Mike. Why trample it down when someone can use it for feed value. Looks like they need to re-engineer those spouts though. Need a little more bracing to cut down on that overshooting issue.

[@roycepruett5862]

- Yep, that bothers me watching the waist, maybe add an end board to block the overshooting.

[@markgroth4380]

@@roycepruett5862 , or a roof to help on windy days also.

[@rustypacker6994]

Neat Machine. I am on the phone with the owner and inventor right now. He has a new concept he's working on. Crazy, I had no idea the guy I met a few years ago made this.

[@coreybju]

Who makes it? Would love to know more details!

[@pattoohill5307]

they were built by modern flow from Villa Grove Illinois . they built the first 2 probably 10 years ago. only a few have been built

[@jeffhelt948]

They use to come up into wisconsin and do this. My cousins would buy the silage and haul it. Most the time the loads where so full they would hardly be able to lift up to dump into the semis or straight trucks. They only did it for a few years

[@ryanconlow3645]

So they need a higher retaining board because they are losing a lot of the chopped corn

[@HuntGamingProductions]

they puttin throwin out more silage then they puttin in the bed

[@alexthomson719]

Thanks Mike very interesting love your videos always something different

[@marks_sparks1]

Wow wow wow! Farmers ensuring nothing is wasted. Nice principle, if a little off on the execution (over shoot on filling box). But i like it

[@peanutsmith1462]

Smart idea. But there has to be a way they could control the Shoot’s so they don’t waste as much

[@timirish4892]

Looks like old modern flow sprayers cool video Mike !

[@brianwebber7168]

Tim Irish , I thought so to.

[@brianwebber7168]

Tim Irish , it was a long day spraying in the tricycle airplane cockpit model sprayer if you didn't have the transport trailer 😂

[@piperdoug428]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that's ocd was going mental watching this, lol.

[@fergie35X]

Cheers Mike, really interesting to see this. 🇬🇧

[@veesercattleco.4111]

That is a first to me?? Very interesting & great vid Mike!!👍👍

[@LtColDaddy71]

It seems like it would be a lot more valuable on the ground as organic matter. Def not a waste. It’s right up there with bailing residue. Now rigging a boom to put down cover crops, that’s making the most out of a pass.

[@oldfarmshow]

Thank you for the video

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool find.

[@stanhensley3082]

Great find.Farmers just can not let good feed go to waste.Well as long as is cheap.

[@DavidNachtmann]

How do they set the planter up for that? If straddling 4 rows and chopping 2, there need a 5 row planter. In my area they use a 4 row planter with one outside seed box being male. For every pass back and forth results in 2 male rows, then 6 female rows. I'm just curious.

[@Ellison89Brett]

Chopping 1 row on each side. 1-4-1 pattern. Works with a 16 or 24 row planter. Half rate on outside male rows and overlap them on the next pass to get full rate.

[@hayman1971]

Yes the were made by Paul's machine shop villa Grove Illinois

[@micael-marsiglio416]

essa jf c-120 e fabricado pais onde eu morro que orgulho

[@dcw1540]

They need just a bit more turn down on those lowers.great stuff mike thanks

[@formerfarmer1718]

Hope they do a better job of harvesting the female rows. Kinda sloppy with the bull rows!

[@lwilton]

Has anyone ever made something like a combined picker/chopper to pick the ears for threshing and also chop the stalks for silage at the same time?

[@morbark7600]

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[@stollvondeining9485]

Thanks for this interesting video

[@carlwolf4865]

Wonderful video !!

[@brianwebber7168]

I thought I 've seen ones with a cover more like a chopper box wagon.

[@2511jeremy]

They waste so much just shooting out the back

[@markgroth4380]

I know, that was kinda hard to watch so much waste after having a machine special built to harvest it.

[@gavinwurm3097]

They do that so the pollen on the corn is spread to the opposite rows so that the opposite rows will grow better than the ones they are harvesting

[@Ellison89Brett]

@@gavinwurm3097 no, this is male row destroying, after the pollination process is completed.

[@johnbates7424]

When I drove a truck TOR, I would see fields of corn with tops cut off in Iowa Illinois an Indiana. Now I know why. I was born and raised on farm but never saw this in the south. Really I thought tops were cut to make more nutrients go into ears instead of stalks. Kinda the concept of spraying Pix on cotton.

[@sneakysnake109]

Ok, mostly a city boy here. What's wrong with the male ears. Why treated differently?

[@farmhandmike]

This is seed corn so they are using the male row to pollinate the other rows. The male row is a different variety of corn.

[@screamingdemon2453]

Re engineer the spouts so they blow into the bed great concept though

[@jonlindner8022]

Why amI not getting full😎😎

[@arfarms5711]

Very cool though !!!

[@Zero01k]

Those are Modern sprayers I believe

[@nolanbrodrecht400]

Zero01k what are you talking about

[@Zero01k]

Muddy Springs the sprayer brand is called Modern if I recall correctly

[@kiwe50]

That set up sucks. It so waist full.

[@seansmith720]

Built in Mendon Mi.....seems they're no longer in business

[@vanbarrq]

There still in business just much smaller than before, they are actually chopping in our fields in Howe Indiana the past couple weeks.

[@mrtheguzzomanshouldknow5853]

nice

[@nielsdybro9759]

Great video. This is great thinking. It seems like the overshooting of the box is caused by the discharge shoot being a little on the flimsy slide. Stiffening it up some by adding a third or fourth attachment point from the chassis would likely do the trick.

[@switzerblitzer2701]

Maybe a slanted roof to the rear of the wagon would catch all of the chopped corn silage....the silage would still slip out of the wagon unimpeded.

[@farmerbrown6157]

Nice I could see a roof on top to stop some spillage other then that good job efficiency is the way to profit

[@joeslont7510]

Why don't they adjust the shoots down so their not blowing a bunch over the top

[@privateeye242]

I think the goal is not to collect the silage. The purpose is to get rid of the male plants. If all the silage was collected the load would be too big to fit in the collectors. Now the system is synchronized 2 collectors fill one green trailer and 2 trailers fill 1 truck. The overshoot might give some nutrients later so it is not waisted.

[@farmhandmike]

Exactly they'd never make it to the end if they caught every bit of it.

[@renanrmedina]

The Green Forage harvesters are from Brazil, from JF Forage Harvesters. The single row model but with some local adaptations. to work with the combine. www.jfmaquinas.com

[@jerryd0413]

Those choppers are made by jf out of brazil if im corect by the writing on the chopper. Here in south america there popular on tractors.

[@JoeKersey]

Always wondered how they handled that stuff.

[@markgroth4380]

The semi was only a hundred yards away, why not dump the harvesters right into it. So much inefficiency with wasted corn blowing over the box and an extra tractor and dump wagon, no wonder seed corn is so expensive.

[@nestof6042]

Agreed

[@Ellison89Brett]

The goal is to destroy the male rows, any silage is a bonus. The goal of the operation is not the silage harvest.

[@markkallstrom5672]

THERE WASTING HALF

[@bobsmith1814]

Very interesting video, Mike. This one for the books. It must be a European design chopper.

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

Is the chopping mechanism robbed from something else? They look pretty small. But, it is handling only one row. It looks like the choppers are driven with hydraulic motors, not mechanical.

[@jerryd0413]

They are actualy 1 row harvesters from a company called jf out of brazil. Very popular here in south america.

[@bigt6359]

That was very cool Mike!!!

[@cryptobankughaftungsbeschr2494]

RIP John McCain

[@CHRISTIAN88712]

No per dire ma metà ca fuori dal cassone o sbaglio.

[@wilsonandrade2220]

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[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

This is the first time that I have heard of using male cornrows. Is this common?

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

Oh, okay. I get it now. These fields are for growing hybrid corn to be used for planting.

[@ISXCUMMINS565]

Over shooting box!

[@zeusmacafee5097]

ISXCUMMINS 565 but when. U think about how usually all of it is waisted it doesn't really matter

[@farmhandmike]

They'd never make it to the end of the field if they caught it all anyways. And its not like they can turn around or back out.