Family Farm Makes Hay on Huge Scale

[@michaelprotinick4252]

You might have one of the most authentic farming channels out there from what I have seen. Running all makes and models, newer equipment and older equipment is a very realistic representation of what agriculture is. Coming from a smaller/medium size family farm in new Jersey, I find the value in what you are accomplishing. It's awesome and something to aspire to be. Keep it going.

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you very much Michael. These are the type of comments that’s really motivate us to keep sharing

[@bladewiper]

Loved the drone shots. Nothing like seeing tractors out doing their thing.

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you! I wish I could have taken some more but I was falling way behind on the telehandler that day

[@brandontegan9665]

The Massey's look great! Nice video

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you!

[@halwilliams1682]

Nice looking Massey tractors!

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you!

[@kurtreinhardt6789]

Great operation you have

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you Kurt!

[@edsecorr7812]

Great job looking great keep up the good work love your videos

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you Ed!

[@blossomquisno9187]

You millers have an impressive hay operation, very impressive

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you very much!

[@tomadelsberger6101]

Great video I hope that the new trucks work out well for you you guys are a well oiled machine quite impressive Keep up the great work

[@FarmingInsider]

They have worked superb so far. Thanks for the kind words Tom!

[@bradpogue3448]

Now that was a lot of hay. Stay safe, positive and god bless.

[@FarmingInsider]

You too Brad. Thank you

[@robertjohnston3900]

Getting close to 25k keep up the great work. Your channel and ivers are my two favourites and I’m happy to see you both growing together !

[@FarmingInsider]

Thanks so much!! Ivers is a great channel. Those boys hammer out the row crops

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

@@FarmingInsider I'm sure you saw but they sure need the prayers 🙏 now. I can't imagine how they feel with something like that.

[@aidencrawford5977]

We farm near the Ivers, go to school with them, there big

[@sharihoffman5440]

Your music sounds like a ballet. How appropriate because you have everything in perfect sync all coordinated getting the job done.

[@henriettemalan85]

Your yield looks great bales coming out nice and close in row

[@FarmingInsider]

It was good!

[@MrKen-longrangegrdhogeliminato]

Beautiful timothy hay!

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you!

[@chrisgilbert2152]

my gawd, that hay makes me drool!

[@FarmingInsider]

Haha thank you!

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

I guess we can say you are all hat no cattle 🤣🤣🤣great video hay is looking good

[@FarmingInsider]

haha that's awesome. I'm gonna steal that saying

[@andyrobinson339]

One of my fave old time sayings.

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@FarmingInsider]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@robertkreiling1746]

Who in the world told you that putting this to a music sound track is what we like ?

[@FarmingInsider]

Oh my

[@andyrobinson339]

Can the bundle handler swivel the load so the approach doesn't have to be perfect? Seems like that would be handy. Great video--wish you posted more often!

[@FarmingInsider]

Yes sir you can be off quite a bit depending on your direction. I’m trying to! We just truly get so flipping busy, but I need to set aside a little bit of time more often. We have some awesome viewers

[@johnwarwick4105]

Wow that a lot of men and machinery working! Do you worry about the fire risk all that hay in one barn. So very dry here in the Uk fires all over the place ☹️

[@FarmingInsider]

Ahh, yes of course we worry but we do our best to make sure the hay is as dry as possible before baling. We would like to put up a couple more barns in the future, but we have to work with what we have at the moment

[@bickabraham2397]

Off road fork lift. That’s what we call them in construction!

[@FarmingInsider]

These machines live off road for sure

[@aidenkoster6427]

Awesome video we will be getting some custom bundling done with a d14 how long do you make your bale's and is there anything else I need to know for baling Infront of a multi pack d14?

[@FarmingInsider]

We make them about 34 inches. It can handle anywhere from like 28 inches to 4ft. My biggest advice is just make a consistent length, tight bale. Consistency is gonna be the most important thing. Try not to be in too much of a hurry baling

[@aidenkoster6427]

Awesome thanks for the advice

[@benjamindejonge3624]

I’ve seen in Germany a direct pellet compress hay harvester machine on the fields

[@FarmingInsider]

That would be awesome to see

[@muppetryfpv441]

What model are your Kuhn hay rakes you guys run? everything here in the uk is geared for the big balers. Trying to find something that pulls in two rows at a time and can produce a row our balers can keep up with in the heavy crops we have

[@FarmingInsider]

I believe they are the GA9032. We can make 1 giant row or 2 smaller ones. It works perfect

[@franksoko8522]

What is the cost to operate a farm that size. With all that machinery.

[@FarmingInsider]

Oh golly. It’s too much lol

[@jasonvankooten3049]

Great video. What are you stacking the bales on in the hay barn? Black tarp?

[@FarmingInsider]

Black plastic, 6 mil yep and on dirt floors we also put a layer of straw down. On our concrete barn floors we just do plastic

[@berriosbuckingbulls1]

What bundler works the best for you?

[@FarmingInsider]

The arcusin and baron both work great. With nice, consistent bales in large fields the barons are better capacity wise

[@김민성-h4i8u]

Did hay field also need fertilizer? Like corn or soy field?

[@chrisgilbert2152]

dumb uestion.. what do you guys do with the rake from the hay barn?

[@FarmingInsider]

I’m not sure what rake you are talking about

[@chrisgilbert2152]

@@FarmingInsider the loose hay on the ground.

[@hammerhayllc]

Awesome video ! I got one question... how many Arcusin bundlers does one have to buy to get one of them nice shirts?

[@FarmingInsider]

Hmm I don’t know the magical formula haha

[@howardyounger5456]

do you guys have as much fun greasing those 1840s as i do mine. i had one guy i should put 80 pound bales together.

[@FarmingInsider]

Sam pretty much keeps up on all maintenance. I don't know how much fun he has but he doesn't complain about the 1840s lol

[@howardyounger5456]

@@FarmingInsider but they love to have a lot of hay. put in them. i just baled a little field. i baled 900 bales in 2 hours. without any breaking.any and it could of handled more. they are great balers but they have a lot of guards. that was a great video.

[@matthewwade4646]

How many haybales did yall bale this year

[@FarmingInsider]

The year isn’t over!

[@KarensCookieJarCollection]

We want more! We want more.... Show us cutting. Add drying. Show us more windrowing. Show more bailing. Show us more. been to long we need more videos. Getting the new trucks was cool but we want more Farming! Signed "Farming Insider Junkie"!

[@FarmingInsider]

Hey that means a lot! Thank you. I’m trying to be more active on here. You have my word

[@kevinrichardson3248]

What made you choose the massey balers over new holland? Looking for a new baler in the near future. Have always had new hollands and have been happy but seems like more people are switching to inline balers. Thanks

[@FarmingInsider]

We ran new hollands about a decade ago and struggled with the type of consistent bale we wanted. These inlines spit out the exact same bale every time. No banana bales, no weird stuffer adjustments for size of windrows or anything. They just perform

[@bobhickling1837]

Great video! Question…why don’t you cross stack in the barn to tie stacks together to help prevent tipping? Keep up the great work! This old farm boy loves seeing young men farming!

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you sir! They aren’t uniformly sized in both directions so it becomes a bit of an issue when trying to do that. 3 bundles wide is slightly longer than 1 bundle long

[@eof3100]

Would you mind to post photos of the Agri King applicator that you have installed on your 1840 baler I would like to get this setup on my baler ? Thank you.

[@FarmingInsider]

sure! I can get some close ups

[@eof3100]

@@FarmingInsider Thank you Sir , I appreciate your help.

[@eof3100]

@@FarmingInsider Did you get a chance to get some picture's of the Silo King mounted on the 1840 baler ?

[@sandyelliott3350]

What state are you in ? Those hay rows are really thick.

[@FarmingInsider]

We are in Ohio

[@darenholzinger4587]

How many acres of hay do you have, how many cuts per year?

[@FarmingInsider]

sometimes too much! On most of our ground we get 2-3x cuttings

[@ManpreetSingh-dn5kk]

Where are you from?

[@FarmingInsider]

Medina, Ohio

[@christiandamgaard1129]

How many balles did you make? I will bale 700 hay bales this year.

[@FarmingInsider]

From this field we brought home around 20k in 3 days

[@christmascox3675]

Wow! How many massey mechanics does it take to keep all that running?

[@FarmingInsider]

The Massey’s stay running pretty well. They are all on the newer end so we haven’t had many problems. The balers get a professional once over in the winter and things have been smooth.

[@finleydickinson5996]

What is the model of that rake?

[@zcole6612]

Fishing now you have my attention but I'm all about catching Crappie .

[@FarmingInsider]

My dad and I keep meaning to get the boat out and do some fishing but it hasn't come to fruition in awhile lol. Justin goes fairly often up to Lake Erie when work isn't calling his name. You don't like the walleye game?

[@zcole6612]

@@FarmingInsider we have them but I enjoy catching alot of fish in a couple of hours . Is there Crappie in the lakes around you

[@ryanorange5872]

Love the vids make some good hay videos

[@FarmingInsider]

Thank you!

[@stevecobb7844]

Looks like a million dollars in equipment. Is this a profitable operation?

[@FarmingInsider]

Try making corn without a million dollars in equipment. Nothing in farming is cheap

[@davidjlane6103]

Red button. 13 speed Blue button . 15 speed Grey button . 18 speed

[@FarmingInsider]

Haha I won’t forget now

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

@@FarmingInsider had a reverse 8, 8LL,speed, 9 speed,super 10, and a 15 speed I liked the 9 and the 8LL the best the 15 I drove it like a 9 and didn't use the splitter that much but they all had 3406e except the Mac with the 8 LL it had a 460 e7

[@halharker7300]

what do you you do to prevent fires?

[@FarmingInsider]

We meticulously moisture probe our hay batches and monitor storage

[@jtn-minn8105]

But does it hold air pressure over a cold winters night?;) I agree...get the work done and go fishing Wally's!

[@FarmingInsider]

Hahaha I try to keep my trucking in the winter to a minimum

[@notsamelliott..]

New video let’s go

[@FarmingInsider]

More being edited as we speak!

[@amosmoses8718]

Hello Carl, see you was camera shy today.

[@FarmingInsider]

Check out the most recent video! We got a close up interview

[@kellymcdermott2546]

Observation: Your flat paddocks look like you measure in 100's of acres. I am in hill country. and measure my flats in single acres. We certainly can't run trailers as big as yours.

[@FarmingInsider]

I only video our biggest fields haha. We have plenty in the smaller range. None are measured in 100s of acres tho I assure you. The biggest contiguous piece of hay land we farm is 156 acres

[@ManpreetSingh-dn5kk]

I really like it i am. Also do this but in smaal scale I have dream to like this farm

[@FarmingInsider]

It is a dream when everything is running smoothly lol

[@rickyfuller6057]

I have never heard of that lite of a bail of hay. I would never buy on that lite. Our bail were always 75 to 90 lbs Boy has times changed Sounds like to me the buy is getting ripped

[@FarmingInsider]

If a 45 lb bale is half the price of a 90 is that a rip off? What about the customers we sell by the ton to? Lol

[@ronaldpiper4812]

Only one was left in barn were crashing walls in medal building do a lot of damage. And not stacked correctly be bad. Then he could be out in sun and duster. Lol farmer knows workers and workers know farm.lol

[@FarmingInsider]

I didn’t follow this great Ron. Are you saying the barn stacker usually screwed up and got put into the fields?

[@ronaldpiper4812]

I was complementing the farmer knowing who to leave by self with equipment that can crash in a tight area. And no he likes it in barn as hot dusty doing other job. Basocly saying good man by self and he was left there as good planning who could crash in a tight area and could make stack a mess. Basicly you know who is best and he new were he wanted to work a nitch he likes and trusted to do it and a good job.

[@FarmingInsider]

@@ronaldpiper4812 oh right on. Justin (the guy in the barn usually) is extremely good at the stacks and takes a lot of pride in them and keeping the barn tidy. He’ll occasionally let me swap in for him but he does a great job and usually likes to see it through. How the bales enter the barn usually sets the tone for how well they will pull out the next 11-12 months.

[@aidenkoster6427]

The amount of bots is wild lol

[@FarmingInsider]

Yeah it’s crazy. Hopefully it helps the algorithm lol

[@brandonmgarsee5865]

to long of a gap in videos i like viewing your videos

[@FarmingInsider]

Hey, thank you man. I have another one on deck! Trying to be more regular

[@sharihoffman5440]

The music at 505. Not later in the video

[@TheHidepounder]

45 - 48# bales, my buyer would laugh at me for trying to sell them a bale that light....

[@FarmingInsider]

Thanks for input Randy!

[@herbhouston5378]

I'll ask you like a I ask sooo many other posters. Why is it that you think anyone tunes in to listen to anything that's not a natural farm sound?

[@FarmingInsider]

Hmm

[@herbhouston5378]

@@FarmingInsider I apologize for trying to tell you what to do, but you see, I'm 78 and grew up next to a small dairy farm in Ohio. I handle a lot of hay and straw and worked with different kinds of animals. I worked hard, but I enjoyed it more than anything I've ever done. I watch a lot of farm and homestead videos on my phone... and they bring back so fine memories. Anyway, I'm sorry.

[@johnwarwick4105]

It’s an interesting question. It interesting to see what other farmers do especially in other county

[@janetmaher1116]

If you pay closer attention, the music typically accompanies only drone footage, when “natural” farm sounds wouldn’t be captured anyway. Just my two cents.

[@GreenWing-bq7bf]

pick a volume