High Moisture Ear Corn Harvest near Bad Axe Michigan

[@billlong769]

Michigan, home of the multi axel truck! A Michigan cucumber harvest video would be sweet.

[@timlewis5096]

I find these harvest videos veru relaxiung. Brings back so many memories from years gone by for me. To old to partake but would love to try the new equipment. I'm from the era where you sat out in thew open and knew what your gear was doing by the feel through your pants.

[@scottrosevold3645]

That looks like some awesome feed. Great video.

[@jimmystrain883]

When I was a kid we picked the ear a stored in the corn crib

[@SimonKL11]

It's cool to see a chopper with a combine head on it😉👍 Nice video again👍👍

[@ascension8811]

This is the first time seeing high moisture corn being harvested, I knew of it but never seen it. I knew it being stored in silos but not bunkers. Thanks

[@robertburt9071]

Wow that's a slick way of doing it One step and your done You have the horsepower to go do it And good for put in a upright silo or a pit Same way as silage Great video

[@marks_sparks1]

04:40 Mike, your farm practice explanations are really informative. I really have leaned a lot from your videos these last 4 years

[@farmhandmike]

Thanks,

[@rauloropeza7496]

Wonderful videos thank you Mike Less

[@jeffreyhoover2105]

Mike I enjoyed this video thank you very much for all your videos thank you for all you do to put them together .thank you Mike keep up the good work

[@29rosslyn]

Best farming videos on YT! Thanks for all your efforts Mike.

[@LtColDaddy71]

That is really amazing. Our practices and procedures are considerably different than neighboring farms in the corn belt, so I love seeing others doing their own thing. I'd imagine that's a farmer feeder, or being produced as a product for sale, because of how large they are scaled. We pull off some silage, but with old 1940's-50's towed equipment, and we pick some high moisture ear corn that we grind, again, vintage machinery, just for our own use. As silly as this sounds, we still use a JD 730 with a mounted picker for carving out some airways to speed up dry down on the rest of the field, and get our ear corn that way. It's million dollar combines aside from that, but sometimes their are little niches that only the antique stuff can do. But what they are doing would sure be fun! We still hand pick some ornamental corn. We're just all over the place. LOL

[@DefaultName-yl2jw]

Thanks for posting this Mr. Less. Never seen it done this way

[@rebelgaming7718]

Mike you should get in touch with some of these big feedlots and do some silage videos on them and the ones here in Colorado idk if I ever gave you that idea or not

[@jimmyreitz6220]

Mike. I like the video I’ve never seen it before. Thank you for putting it out there.

[@udo5479]

The 990 is a hell of a machine.We have 2 of them.

[@2cylinderjohndeere720]

That is impressive, It must be a big cattle operation there! I worked for a farm that once had a beef operation where they had a John Deere 5400 SP chopper running a 343 3 row head for earlage filling John Deere 125 and 714 A silage wagons. They used a 4430 John Deere with HWFD running a 1000 rpm Gehl 1580 blower filling a 25x90 and 20x60 Harvestores. The farm is Fairview Evergreen Nurseries in Northwest Pennsylvania but they discontinued the beef operation several years ago.

[@justinbourget1560]

Awesome video mike,as non farmer and as a Farming simulator player,i learned a much more by playing farming simulator and watching your video,greeting from Montréal in Canada 🙂🇨🇦

[@jameslipe4080]

I remember hand picking corn.hauled to the local mill every sat.to have feed ground.added salt mineral and molasses. My job as soon as I got dl.will never forget growing up on the farm.

[@tonyburelle6633]

This was another excellent video, liked it as much as the silage videos

[@slabrankle9588]

That older pile is incredible. Plants have taken root on it and it's as tall as a cliff. Mike can get his PhD on the unique biosphere of silage piles.

[@franciscosandiego3026]

I like watching Mike less videos on KZbin, from the imperial co California.

[@davidstewart9370]

Just amazing, man, we just don't see farms like that here in PEI Canada,

[@formerfarmer1718]

Back when I was a kid we fed cattle ground ear corn. We had a burr mill. This was back in the WD-45 diesel/D-17 diesel days.

[@udo5479]

Top as always Mike.In Germany we call it CCM CornCobMix.Mostly used for pig feed,

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

INTERESTING DO THEY MIX THE CCM WITH ANYTHING ELSE ARE THE COBS CHOPPED FINE FOR THE PIGS

[@udo5479]

@@JohnDoe-gq8tt The CCM get in a mill before they pack it in the silo.

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

@@udo5479 THANK YOU

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello! That 12 row header is a good option regarding an efficient alternative use of a costly equipment!

[@keithpowell2786]

Man what an another awesome video, I’m used to seeing the chopping but never just taking the ear

[@MrDabaja]

Great video Mike👍

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

I WAS EXPECTING SOMETHING FROM THE NATIONAL FARM SHOW FROM YOU THIS IS JUST AS GOOD EVEYONE ELSE HAS A FARM SHOW VIDEO THANKS THIS WAS GREAT

[@farmhandmike]

Thanks. I’m working on a show video

[@ScottPykare]

Cool video Mike. Lots of cattle to feed there. 👍

[@beebop9808]

Hmmm that's interesting. Haven't seen that kind of silage. Looks like a lot of leftovers from the past season if that's what I'm seeing? And it's uncovered with weeds growing on top. If my eyes aren't lying to me then I'm guessing that it's a whole nother bag of beans when it comes to storage and how that feed ferments or breaks down for the cattle. Got my curious meter bouncing around. lol

[@marcelocunico5341]

Great vídeo Mike.

[@georgephillips1185]

🤙enjoyed thank you for sharing this information

[@rburli]

Mike, I really enjoy your farming videos. You are correct things are differently than when I was growing up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Keep up the great work. Would love to know the name of the songs you use in your videos. Thanks again for what you do.

[@colinreibel2689]

Keep up the great work 👍👍

[@danw6014]

I still pick ear corn for steers on my small farm. Its great feed and the cattle stay healthy on it. I wonder how a ration would balance out for dairy cows. Most farmers in my area had New Idea pickers but most people don't know that New Idea had a grinder attachment so you could pick and grind at the same time. I assume the idea was to blow this feed up a silo.

[@sandrodalazem5834]

🚜 Love videos Mike😀

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Grand video! Thanks a lot for that! 😊👍🏻

[@Erik-ce3hq]

surely you get more product by doing it the "regular" way of using a forage header that uses the entire plant and chops it up? seems a bit wasteful to only take the cob.

[@jeffreyshier9021]

Love the explanations, even if I don’t understand them sometimes.😉

[@404nitro]

If you mentioned this, I missed it, but what was the moisture of the corn here (if you heard/know) ? Bad Axe is actually quite a ways north in the state and many do not realize it since it is in the thumb. They get some pretty tough weather there at times due to the latitude and the way weather tends to cross the state. There's almost nothing but farms in the thumb.................and great deer hunting :-) It's a nice area to drive around in. Looking forwards to seeing the 520 on the chisel!

[@CCFPerformance]

We also use this process out in the interior of British Columbia but bag the product as we are a much smaller farm!

[@eshqinaliyev6738]

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[@keyfarmer3730]

I work on a 6,000 cow dairy west of badaxe, was wondering what farm this was harvested for.

[@TqSNv9R0iG5Ckxew]

On the side of the truck, it says Wil Le Farms

[@ericrudgers6816]

Saw ya at the farm show

[@noelking7215]

Great video, as always! What moisture range do they shoot for on ear-lage?

[@charlesgarrett]

😁Normally 14%_16% is desired but can run a little lower.😁

[@kennethgreen2829]

Really interesting video as always mike and your explanations are spot on. Would this be for beef or dairy? Here in the UK we do whole crop Maize silage but I have not heard of Ear Corn so I have learnt something new, That artic ford pushing up looks a fair beast.

[@Livoirienyvoitrien]

Luv yur work!

[@Livoirienyvoitrien]

If I ever make it to the states again before I die, I want to drive on of them Versatiles and disc some stalks on those gigantic field, those pastures of plenty. Combine some wheat in the Palouse, dig some potatoes in Idaho, and pick some fruit in California. Bless your beautiful country.

[@paulpochan9631]

Hmmm.....never thought about the use of combine heads on a chopper.....mount connections must not be too much of a nightmare.....makes a nice set-up....

[@jimmystrain883]

Very informative 👏

[@andreasbergman4017]

Hello mike! I see some of the trailers got quite a few axles, whats the legal weight on them trucks? I know 80000 pounds was the limit when I was working in usa 25 years ago. Here in sweden the limit has been around 60 metric tonnes for decades and some roads 74 tonnes nowadays. There has been some trials with 90 ton roadtrains for timbertransports up north to look at roadsafety and so on but thats just for highways in areas with low traffic.Thanks for a great show Andreas Bergman

[@jamesrobinson1022]

It's the typical 80,000 lb. for an 18 wheeler in Michigan but the state allows up to 11 axle trucks without oversize permit up to 180,000 lb. The rear axles weight is slighty decreased but the steer axle weight is increased. Most trucks run doubles trailers. The extra axles are there for spreading their weight on bridges but our roads take an extra beating next to the constant freeze thaw cycles and the extra tire debris from running all those wheels.

[@udo5479]

In September our silage pile for the gas plant was 52.5 ft high.

[@DanGwyn]

Hi Mike. What is the easy listening music at end of this video. It is great, and I would like to get a CD or 2 by these musicians. This is another excellent video. I am a grain corn grower in Moses Lake, Washington

[@JoshuaSmith-xw6jp]

What was the moisture? Excellent video Mike!

[@ileenmcminn2062]

they should have a safe-t-pull on the chopper then the truck driver could take a nap when they are opening up!

[@cliffordgiffen4015]

Can you tell us about the old silage with the weeds growing on it? What is the tractor following the trucks and harvester for?

[@alanmcgregor4909]

Do you know what the Moisture of the Corn was? I'm guessing 22 - 24%. Does the Claus Chopper have Auto fill for the long trucks?

[@farmhandmike]

I was thinking I heard around 28%

[@Knickyloewen]

Great video👍 is there a reason they flail chop it yet, do they bale it?

[@cliffh8486]

well that takes the tub grinder out of high moisture corn through the combine.

[@udo5479]

At first i hear Bad Ass Michigan,😁

[@noahater5785]

My question is though how is it even possible to attach a corn head from a combine to a forage harvester? wouldn’t that require fabricating some sort of adapter?

[@farmhandmike]

An adapter

[@maximejodoin9651]

@@farmhandmike John deere manufactured that kind of adapter?

[@weldonwilhelm1513]

What brand adapter are they using to hook header up to the chopper?I know the adapter I use would not let you go that fast it couldn’t handle the material

[@farmhandmike]

Not sure on the adapter.

[@dickblownoff1409]

Probably a koomia or kooima however it's spelled.

[@allenschmitz9644]

And how many 'rock' stars can Bad Axe Michigan boast about?

[@farmhandmike]

I don’t know. Tell us?

[@allenschmitz9644]

@@farmhandmike Mike...zero.😂.

[@anderspedersen6750]

What's the John Deere doing driving in front of the semi in the field? Teaching a new semi driver their line?

[@Ellison89Brett]

The tractor is there, ready to pull the truck through soft spots if needed.

[@beebop9808]

I noticed that naked deere running around with the equipment too. Thought it might be Mike chasing his UFO around?

[@anderspedersen6750]

@@Ellison89Brett ok, was just weird as it appeared to only drive in front of the red semi.

[@farmhandmike]

It had a 3 point hitch safety pull to grab a stuck truck and pull it to the road if need be. It was borderline wet and I think one part of the video shows them pulling a truck out of the field

[@jimmystrain883]

Mike ,how many tractors does the average farms run on a average

[@dcw1540]

Did those guys say which corn head they Perferd? Thanks

[@farmhandmike]

They did not.

[@josephmccarry6700]

Must be a big beef operation

[@outlawjamgaming4642]

i was wondering if you ever come to husker harvest day farm show in a town called grand island nebraska

[@farmhandmike]

I was at that show only once. Probably back in 2015

[@jaybernieschoep3491]

you still working for deutz equipment?

[@rebelgaming7718]

Is high moisture corn better then regular corn silage?

[@brianjonker510]

It has a higher energy density and nearly no fiber. It is beneficial in certain rations at a low to medium level. Will always be bad at a high level.

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@brianjonker510 gotcha

[@Pociagdopociagow...iWidawy]

👍

[@billbrooke2776]

At the price of corn awful lot of money being wasted blowing it away loading trucks the way you do for silage and quite a lot of ears bouncing out of the head going the faster speed but it looked like if that was a beef farm they're finishing holstein steers just like the video you did where they were bedding with corn stalk stacks

[@dickblownoff1409]

True. It's obvious these guys have no idea what they're doing. Especially at the small scale they're doing it at.

[@ronloomis8245]

That's nice, but real corn farms are in Iowa!

[@formerfarmer1718]

Any idea what the moisture was?

[@farmhandmike]

I think they said around 25-28%

[@autumnvanliere7160]

What is the farms name?