Does Grandpa Think I’m Lazy or Smart?

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[@kevingordon7426]

Your lunch beats any factor meal any day. Your wife is a blessing and the blessed.

[@jcountryguy]

The amount of people who complain about auto steer amazes me. And farm down here in the delta you use auto steer. It makes it more efficient any sized field from 10 acre to over 300 acres. The spray rig has auto steer. The combines have auto steer. And the tractors are all fitted with auto steer. Love the farming content and don’t stop using the globe it will make your job much easier.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

I know it, I love it

[@jerryfish1303]

I believe a farmer wife works just as hard as the farmer to keep him working not to say anything bad that’s the way it is and your wife does a fine job

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

@@jerryfish1303 yes they do 👍

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Totally agree.

[@bryankeator8396]

A good. Farmer needs a great wife. And. Kip is very lucky

[@bryankeator8396]

Lol. I'm make spaghetti and meant balls for my family, as I'm watching this video. Haha. Have a good one kip

[@FourkidsFarms]

Last year we put triticale in the old hay field, ran vertical tillage over it and then planted triticale, took off first cut and planted corn. Yield was great,

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

I’ve heard of that, thats awesome

[@johndeerejimmy4019]

My son uses auto steer to cut hay .The employees and myself don’t. Two weeks ago we made the 2nd cut of the new seeding. Full of weeds, we had to cut it.Our crop advisor said that that would solve the problem like you said. We have had a lot of rain and heat. Alfalfa and weeds love it.

[@greghamann2099]

When I was a boy on the farm, we had no dream of how farming would be today.

[@peewee.3138]

So many times when the next generation takes over a family farm, they try and spend their way into the next century. You, Mark and Greg are spending wisely to make one aspect of the farm more efficient that can also be used for your cash crop operation which helps the dairy tenfold. I think that you are going in the right direction.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@BoweDairy]

Been farming my whole life never thought I’d have auto steer, just recently purchased it because of your videos, I believe it’ll be worth it for everything on the farm

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@tylerjanski978]

Had a lot of dandelions in the alfalfa used for chopping other than it not drying down very nice never noticed much difference when feeding it

[@ihartman01]

Alfalfa is a high protein forage and depending on it age high to good digestibility The weeds are poorer in both Depending on the percentage it may make a difference Forage testing would give you a good idea of the value of the forage One of the feeding advantages of tmr is consistent feed day after day The weeds may effect the consistency A heads up when changing feeds do it in a stepwise manner to allow for the rumen to adapt

[@SteveNicoson-u1i]

Thanks for another interesting video in the hay field cutting. You were Asking about auto steer in the hay field. I am old enough that we didn’t have that. Think I would sure try it if not for the age situation. You hay field is looking pretty nice 😊. Nice time of the year for doing hay. Thanks for the video Kip. Take care. The Iowa farm boy. Steve. 😊😊👍✅🙏💕🇺🇸

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@aaronbeisch4707]

My one grandpa use to talk about that well broke team of horses. He said if they were broke good enough, you didn't hardly have to touch the lines until the end of the field. Well he was born in 1918, pretty sure it was after ww2 when they got their first tractor. A few videos ago, you mentioned something about breaking up an alfalfa field and probably planting it to corn next year. Thats something i completely understand, seems lile if you go with beans, you either have to raise the head up or send plenty of dirt through the combine because of the pocket gopher mounds. Small grain can be hit and miss with the pocket gopher mounds. With corn, atleast if theres mounds, you dont have to worry about the head as much. Whether it's the chopper or combine, they're still noticeable. As for how your grandpa would look at things, hopefully he'd see it as progress instead of being lazy. Im guessing that he went from milking by hand to using the back strap buckets, then to the step saver. All depending when they decided on the parlor.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Good stuff 👍👍

[@jerryfish1303]

Great video Kip that machine is pretty cool

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

I think so too!

[@johnhenderson299]

Great video

[@TheRealJesseStoltzfus]

We always fed first cut new seeding to the heifers in form of baleage. Usually after first cut it got chopped for the milkers.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@jksr2112]

Alfalfa looks great. I don’t think I would worry too much about the very few weed dogs in that new seeding . You should be very proud of your hard work and I’m sure you are .

[@davidbarron4384]

Hello sir...asking a dumb question...with as many acres you cut yearly, how come you don't have a self propelled unit? I find it's much more efficient as usually cutting 12 to 16 mph I can average 24 acres a hr rather consistently. Running a w235 with sf1 auto steer. Keep up the great work!!!

[@tylerbolton7310]

I got a used green star setup last year for my 7530 with pottinger double mowers. Didn’t buy it for cutting hay but it is nice especially with kids along. Where I really like is spreading chicken litter or fertilizer and reducing point rows in contour strips.

[@floydschriber1051]

Kip there’s not a thought whatsoever that your Grampa would think that you guys are Lazy I’m sure he would be incredibly proud of all your doing I was very young when I first met him your farm was great back then one of the best in the county an still running strong in very good hands !

[@randypeters3096]

Ford weights on 7810

[@DanWoelders-fd5zd]

I use auto steer for mowing. Using a front 3 point mower and rear swing mower. Helps so much. The front mower is weird to keep in line it takes a narrower row then it looks like it should so guys tend to miss tons of little strips if there not on gps

[@markmorrison3885]

i miss my grandpa

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Yes 👍

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

NH center pivots center on the passes better than JD, the latter swing wider to the left, so you have to adjust for it, Autosteer doesn't very well. I prefer hands on with the mower. I never slow down on the turn around, and only have to reverse on the outside corners. After that, it's full speed turn arounds. But everyone is different, and you run how you know what works. Great looking alfalfa!

[@FourkidsFarms]

I was told auto sitter won’t work well for cutting hay unless it extremely flat, the mower won’t pull straight enough on the hills

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Yeah that could be true

[@timdex91]

Photo finish!!! Stay safe, Tim in Texas

[@joshualarson6380]

I would give anything to have autosteer cutting hay. Pretty proud of doing manual but using on tillage it's a game changer!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@farmshoffman8475]

Great awesome video

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Thanks!

[@heronrunfarms5891]

Just a suggestion idle down to 900-950pto rpm, saves alot of leaves on your alfalfa if you have conditioners in your mower.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Can't beat the technology. Too bad I don't think it would work on our John Deere A maybe the 3020??? Maybe some day, auto steer would be interesting on our oddball shaped fields. Technology is pretty smart if it is applicable to your operation. I'd have to look into that, educating oneself is pretty smart.

[@MB-dl5lx]

Weights probably from Albrecht monthly farm auction, then you painted them

[@allenlesperance2163]

I know what farming is. Takes a lot of work. I k I w whatbidhoing through your mine. I was on one

[@anderspedersen6750]

Dad is still farming at 85. Tech for the win!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Nice 👍

[@anderspedersen6750]

@@KipSieglerFarming1 I went home to help 2 years ago, first time in years my fall vacation actually worked for harvest. I don't think I could run the combine anymore, so I was delegated to drive the only tractor left from the 80s, the 4050. The tech in farming these days is incredible, and I say that as someone that works in the computer industry, and has been since 1995.

[@jasonnehls1083]

For anyone that wants to know it’s $2000/year/machine to have this auto steer

[@joshbarrowcliff3019]

Guy i custom bale for uses autosteer to mow and rake. I use jps to do all my mowing, raking, and baling. Josh's positioning system! 😂

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@robertdaly9036]

Let's Go.....

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@JohnDellinger-eu4ti]

you need to lay it out wide for it to dry down to 60 % moisture anything over 65 is to wet for bags just our experince

[@CraydenGamingOfficial]

If you make it to wide the pickup on harvester wont pick up the windrow thats why

[@johndellinger4877]

How much experience do you have in farming

[@CraydenGamingOfficial]

@@johndellinger4877 lot more then you think bud quite obvious answer or just maybe wait a little longer before chopping then it will dry down

[@CraydenGamingOfficial]

@@johndellinger4877 if I were you I’d stop your yipping I answered a simple question that apparently you can’t handle

[@stevemench786]

Please correct me,but we have for 52 years always always cut hay in the afternoon 4/5 o'clock, I was always taught the most sugars are up in the plants then.

[@jasonbeecher509]

Taylor foundry weights

[@rewardchoto8486]

Let's go👆✌️🙏

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@gregcatlett1458]

How many acres in a day can you chop? Sir Thanks 🙏

[@randycharest4507]

I. E.NJOYED WARCJINg the video KIP

[@DelorisGarcia-i4p]

Douglas Isle

[@peewee.3138]

Chances are your dad got them out of an auction in Canada? Lol!

[@brysonhaggard]

In my opinion if you dont keeping with the times and make steps to grow with technology and do so efficiently in time things will get harder and for the people who say you dont need it are the same ones who cant hear or see and always have some comments about back in my day well its not your day anymore

[@jeffreywolfe3369]

is the monter weather poof .I have open cab ?

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Not sure good question

[@johnbeam-d3v]

Great video. Back in the 60's 70's and 80's no technology. Or not like now. Not even cell phones. Farming 800 acres, milking 150 cows. We had a new 1105 Massey. Thought that was the technology. It had air conditioning. That was the cats meow! Ha!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@johnbathgate904]

Were those weights previously hanging on the inside of the rear section of that 8760 ?

[@jerryfish1303]

Great video Kip that machine is pretty cool The other guy helping you do this can’t remember what his name was Mark maybe relationship to you or friend or hired hand or maybe none of my business lol just curious.

[@countryborn8575]

Brother

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Yes mark my brother

[@scotthawkins1538]

Weights are from the 4430 or a suction

[@Joe-ge3rf]

Why do you put weights on to cut hay? Looks like more soil compaction.

[@mikejankoviak8542]

I'm guessing those are case or ih weights?????? Am I right

[@bodiehot]

kip, you have a great wife

[@stevebiddle8912]

Will you be chopping this hay or baling it?

[@jerryfish1303]

One more little comment just curious again how long do you leave it out there before you pick it up just wondering I know it’s wet and you have to wait till it dries. How long does it take?

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Two days exactly is how we did this 👍

[@markmorrison3885]

farming is easy. look no hands

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@bettyswain5100]

You need a tractor with three mower heads you cut hay so much quicker we cut up to 100 acres a hour with our set up we can go up 17 miles per cutting with our 230 case in and 7290 Deere with drone heads

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Holy cow that’s fast

[@luuxdraijer3484]

@@KipSieglerFarming1we have a 9 meter Lely triple set can easily do 100 hectares a day could way more but then we whould need a larger tractor

[@burtzorn4059]

Between your wife and the super truckers wife you sure do eat good. Good thing you work hard or you could become fat. TAKE CARE AND STAY SAFE !!!!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

😀👍👍

[@peewee.3138]

You can’t eat pasta with meatballs without auto steer!

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

😂😂👍👍

[@bobpurs]

No Auto Steer here Kip. Our fields are too tight and odd shape. Probably kicking off more than on

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

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[@homey3051]

[@rockykaiser7244]

It's pretty sad when you can drive across a big field like that and need gps.

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

So sad bud

[@rockykaiser7244]

Keep patting your self on the back with the GPS cutting hay its a joke if you have to use that to cut hay

[@KipSieglerFarming1]

Never stop learning