Corn Silage Harvest on the Ohio Indiana Stateline

[@nomerc3608]

Thanks for the video and not ruining it with some crazy music! Let the sounds of the engines and machines be the music to our ears!

[@TractorTimewithTim]

I loved this video, Mike! Fascinating to see so much material harvested so quickly!

[@DefaultName-yl2jw]

Another great video! It always amazes me the amount of material that those big choppers eat in a pass.

[@letzrockitrite8469]

This is one seriously well put together video.... I can't praise you enough for that superb drone footage in what looked to be really windy conditions... thanks Mr. Mike ! Your videos certainly shine a light on what I consider the most important segment of society.

[@brentfarrow8125]

I really love all silage videos,nice rhythm with all the different equipment. Again thanks for all your hard work getting the new and awesome videos out to your viewers.😎

[@CountylineFarming]

Mike these are my favorite type of videos. Any corn silage videos! It's a great start to the day! You should never disliked to a video this good!

[@onionfriend9799]

silage videos and plowing videos- guys bringing out the most powerful horses they got and pushing them as hard as they can run - always enjoyable

[@cathy3130]

Your video looks very beautiful and reassuring that dedicated people are farming with precision equipment. It helped me to gain some knowledge just by watching the entire video. Some things can't be learned by reading words alone. Thank you for a glimpse into your modern farming operation.

[@facemanisme]

Born and raised in Berne, lived 2 miles off the state line, this video brought back good memories, thank you

[@ollie-lk5dx]

Always enjoy the large choppers and the trucks and trailers involve with bringing in the crop.

[@gregsmith3410]

Nuttin better in the dead of winter.. seeing green fields of summer past.!!

[@joeyjamison5772]

Cows, pigs and chickens don't care that a John Deere tractor runs over the top of their breakfast. They still eat the corn. And then we eat them. It's wonderful here in Ohio.

[@erich4693]

This was our corn field. Just found the video today. Pretty neat. 😎. Great footage.

[@bailey4440]

Here in mid Michigan we always hang as far to the right as we can when breaking open a new lane, allows the chopper operator way better view around the spout, when first guy is almost full the next truck creeps up on left side and operator just moves spout with no stopping. Cool video tho!! Keep up the good work

[@lynngauvreau8907]

Hey Mike how are you doing. I like the videos that you post all the time, I find that they are very interesting , keep up the good work. See this from welland Ontario

[@ohiofarmlife4020]

Love the drone shots. It was nice to meet you at the farm show!

[@thr8061]

I can't wait to see the new tracked Claas & Krone choppers out there!

[@markissboi3583]

🦜au - thats diff starting with a truck behind collecting silage seems a good idea havent seen that on other farm videos - you look like a busy big farm👍

[@B3L3ND]

never been on a farm before im a city boy thats in the tech industry but these videos are so satisfying

[@JBAgrivideos]

Brilliant video. Really good information. Coming from Ireland its brilliant to watch different ways of farming. Just subscribed

[@jeremyswindell2330]

What a operation! It seems silege piles are popular

[@onionfriend9799]

For a large operation piles are still the best way because digging silage out of bags is too slow

[@danielroth167]

My OCD thanks you for this video, Mike! Greetings from Belize.

[@rburli]

Great video, and to think 1976 going from a single row harvester to a two. We thought was the cats meow

[@andrewoitok7415]

Wow good job ! Greetings from Münsterland in Germany !!! near the main work from Claas in Harsewinkel

[@tooez90]

I can do the blade work in the silage pile but I couldn't do the slow motion packing...I'd fall asleep..lol...great video Mike

[@fararaniashow823]

Very superb work weldone

[@markreetz1001]

Another gem Mike! At one point they looked like they were playing "King of the Hill" with 4 monster tractors! I think I know which one won! Thanks Mike! Oh, you think the soil needed organic matter in just that spot Mike? They target their nutrients very precisely!! :)

[@jbbrown7907]

I've driven corn a few years. One afternoon they needed me to pack on the bunk. You can have that job.

[@robertg.9964]

The yellow KW cab over reminds me of the old TV series "B.J. and The Bear". Just need to paint it red.

[@SlipShodBob]

I must say the American trucks certainly have more character to them though given the number of winter resorts in North America I'm surprised there isn't a company buying the secondhand PistenBullys and modifying them for use on farms for blade and compacting the clamps/bunks like have started up in Europe which are popular with large silage contractors due to their large blade with adjustable wings and inherent stability on steep sides.

[@graysonwilliams4826]

We have A LOT of snowcats in the USA, definitely more than in Germany. That said, we prefer articulated tractors on big piles because they’re a lot heavier and can be equipped with duals.

[@jamesmccracken5400]

Love the old cabover just wish you could have got us a up close look

[@codyludwig2811]

nice video, Okay boys lets get going chop chop

[@Torsee]

23:45 Big ol Kenworth Aerodyne Cabover footage! 👍👍

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

Complete with black smoke, ... yea!

[@guetterfarm]

Love it👌

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

Impressive operation. Thanks for capturing it. Two questions: (1) Why are the two packer tractors, 4WD articulated JD, moving so slow? They were on both sides of the divider, but their movement was the same. Why does speed of travel impact the packing function? (2) Who is making the call on where a truck returning to the field is to drive? With two choppers, and several trucks, how is the instruction on where to catch which chopper done? I think I only saw one case when a chopper was waiting on a truck. All other cases, when one truck is filled, another was right there to take over.

[@samwaterlander8120]

(1)there are two reasons for the packer tractors moving so slow one is because it helps pack each part of the pile better because your not spinning your tires and ripping up the pile and because on that pile it was fairly steep (from what I could tell) and that will save the transmissions on the tractor when you're going in forwards and reverse all the time especially on a steep slope it can take a toll on the transmission. (2) Generally, on most chopping crews all of their trucks and choppers have 2-way radios to help communicate with trucks and choppers sometimes the packer tractors will have radios as well to help guide trucks on where to dump on the pile.

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

@@samwaterlander8120 Thanks for the info.

[@nghngh5956]

A few comments -- 1) It is quite amazing to see all these heavy farming equipments and must cost a ton of money are they leased or out right purchase? 2) I find that there is a lot of spillage during harvesting is that figured in the cost of farming or written off as a loss. Thanks for the video very informative. God Bless and Best Wishes.

[@semiretired6033]

man that's a lot of feed. How long does it take them dairy cows to go through all that? Beautiful Cab over KW Areodyne. Drove one just like it a few times, back in the late 80's for broker. I know nothing about farming but i wish it was me working that field along with those guys...love your videos.

[@corgraveland4874]

Fantastic footage Mike! Apparently soil compaction isn't (yet) a big issue on this type of land in the US, although adding organic matter at some spots it does at some places😉 In Europe and have seen in Canada and elsewhere in the US, much attention goes into tires, tire pressure, wide tracks and so on, all to prevent from soil compaction. I guess the trucks don't use tyre inflation system or how you call them ? Maybe you can explain why. What type of soil this is? Visually I don't see damage from the air from heavy trucks. Thanks again👌👍🙂

[@glenncerny8403]

Got me thinking that spring and planting season is coming up shortly.

[@dougpage1271]

Salute to all the good operators! 👍

[@agrartechnikmv]

BiG Power 💪🤠 Good Video Greets Marko

[@JDrostAgricultureVideoNL]

Very good video

[@allanholiday1617]

Well organized. Everyone works well together. I bet they burn around 200 gallons of diesel per hour with all the equipment.

[@scruffy6151]

Agree on the cabover semi. Food for deer.

[@ethanmountz3122]

Hey Mike maybe next time your down torwards berne Indianayou can come down to Monroe Indiana and maybe get some corn/bean planting we live right outside of Monroe and would love to have you film us at work??

[@vulcan1429]

Absolutely wonderful.

[@tsint]

Claas never had any problem with the claas green on the forage harvesters in the US?

[@kevindircksen181]

As always, great content, Mike!!!! I always enjoy the silage harvesting videos. At times, it looks like 4 tractors on the pile is too much. There is alot of times where the blade tractors are tripping over each other. Otherwise, it's a very impressive operation!

[@philipjoron9626]

When do you usually start the silage harvest and when do you finish if the weather permits, how much do you harvest ,on how much land ? thanks philip

[@farmhandmike]

It just really depends when the corn gets planted and what kind of growing season we have but Corn silage harvest can start as early as mid August in Ohio and go through October.

[@clarencenieman9711]

Hi mike why don't you use a sheeps foot to packing

[@michaelstark703]

I would think with all those trucks in the field compaction would be a big issue. Great job on the video Mike, I like the cross over technology with the horse and buggy drone shot of road! Is it possible to purchase a Farmhand Mike hat?

[@tonyburelle6633]

That cabover was sweet

[@caseyfirewood3059]

Not two far from me awesome video mike 😏

[@onionfriend9799]

Best part is the Amish going by on the horse and buggy

[@scruffy6151]

Leave it to Mike he catches many thing's when videoing.

[@lindaalbano6868]

Wow,when was this taken.is cold and cloudy in Illinois

[@yurizhivago4848]

Great Video. I love machinery and am a Power Engineer. Anything with big engines and diesels and turbines is my favorite. I am curious as to how do the forage harvester operators know where to keep spraying the corn into the truck. Do they have a TV camera on the end of the auger arm? I never see them dump or waste any at the end of rows or when turning. How do they keep pace with the truck and fill it evenly w/o seeing it from their cab or can they?

[@farmhandmike]

A lot of the forage harvester have a camera on the spout with a monitor inside the cab but you also have a pretty good view from inside the cab of the truck.

[@yurizhivago4848]

@@farmhandmike I suspected that. Thanks for the reply.👍

[@elizabethcherry920]

Hello, I am not a farmer, but I am the of person who likes to learn. What I basically do is I pick an industry that I don't know and watch videos on it, I seen all types of farming, this farming has got me curious, is this corn or a type of corn and what is it used for. I see corn harvesting where they take the meat and get rid of everything else, but only in Europe I seen this type of harvesting. Great video

[@eltontv6002]

really nice that you actually show interest in Farming. Yes this is corn. you can basically distiguish between two types of corn. there is corn for silage wich is what you see here. the whole plant gets chopped up into small bits and then compacted on a big heap, this is done to force any air out of the heap. After all the corn is chopped, you have to seal it up with a air tight foil. after you covered it with foil it will begin to ferment into silage. its done by lactic acid bacteria and basically the same thing as sour kraut/cabbage. this is to make sure that the corn is shelf stable for a long time until the new corn gets harvested in the next year. its high in protein and has a high amount of energy wich results in a big milk production in the cows. then theres the corn thats being threshed in the fall. its basically the same plant but in comparison to the silage corn its specifically cultured that i puts the most energy into the corn kernels to make them bigger and with a high amount of nutrients. that means the plants for threshing are a bit weaker and smaller with a big corncob instead of a smaller corncob with a bigger and stronger plant for overall bigger yield as you have in silage corn. i hope you can unterstand what im trying to explain to you because english is not my first language and im not sure if everything makes 100% sense in my sentences haha. Feel free to ask more if you like to best regards

[@jeffvincent430]

Is the harvest and packing of the silage done by people who work for the dairy or is a contractor?

[@mrcrabass3669]

Question ,are those walking floor trailers nice video

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Here we are again! 😉👍🏻

[@waynebrother7]

What do you download after corn harvest . Do you prepare by ploughing?

[@erich4693]

This field was worked with a jd disk ripper several weeks later after having fertilizer applied.

[@thenderson5509]

How many pheasants and quail do these things kill in a day? Just curious.

[@farmhandmike]

Zero

[@wicaksananugr]

How many acres for this corn harverst ?

[@kellenfinley2909]

Hey Mike I am the kid that you seen at the national farm machinery show and

[@mundeja62]

Which harvester is better, Claas Jaguar or New Holland FR Series?

[@graysonwilliams4826]

Jaguar

[@mrtheguzzomanshouldknow5853]

nice vid

[@johnertel2957]

Looks like the folks associated with 7 Farms Custom Ag. Impressive!!

[@SimonKL11]

Nice video👍 you can feed some cows with a pile like that.

[@futurepilot6749]

How many truck do you have

[@hanksfarmvideos]

Field conditions look way drier than our corn silage harvest was up here in WI lol

[@LaHaSi4208]

The German Jaguar in the USA... 💪👍😍

[@futurepilot6749]

I lovers claas

[@MajSolo]

that must be an amish person on that horse wagon

[@get__some]

MECHANICAL CABOVER. !! GET SOME

[@michaeljernigan7295]

LEAVING ALOT ON THE GROUND BOYS?

[@vinhoanmientay3324]

OK 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Wow. Short Corn

[@futurepilot6749]

4:55 that tractor to fedding

[@danaedwards5464]

the guy loading the yellow cab over must of been playing with his cell phone just my guess

[@kerchaouiali650]

Trop de gâchis.

[@raykucharek5328]

The one loader needs to learn how to run the shoot. .

[@zimmhollowfarm8414]

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[@mgsfdgsfdgsgssdgrsdgdrgsr16]

А ха ха! Все сука мимо херачат! Работнички )

[@phaqthan779]

That wind noise is a shut off for us. Bye