JOHN DEERE 9600i Chopping Corn

In this video Big Tractor Power spends time out in the field with a 616 hp JOHN DEERE 9600i Self Propelled Forage Harvester chopping Corn. This corn silage harvesting with this big JOHN DEERE 9600i and eight row 778 corn head filling dump semi trailers pulled by FREIGHTLINER trucks and H&S HD Twin Auger Forage boxes . The video follows one of the FREIGHTLINER trucks back to the dairy farm where it unloads the corn silage in a Kelly Ryan silage bagger.
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[@scottpykare801]

I'm always impressed with how these forage harvesters absolutely devour corn and not miss a beat!!! Weather it's a John Deere, Krone, Class or New Holland their appetite for corn is amazing!! Thanks Jason, BTP!!👍👍

[@johndowe7003]

tht thing eats corn like a mother in law

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[@fisherh9111]

Agree BTP - that header startup was very cool. Thankyou again for another great video.

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@ethanwaltz1836]

0:03 i wish they had that as the start up sound on the header in FS19

[@bigtractorpower]

That would be cool.

[@Dlz901]

Yes I like your videos we run 9500 john deere chopper we love it

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. The farm in this video went to 9500i models in 2023.

[@tylerbentz1119]

I’m a retired dairy farmer at only 22 years old but I still use our John Deere pull type cutter for silage as I use silage in the feed ration for feeder cattle.

[@coryfritz295]

My favorite time of the year is corn silage season!! Although it means winter is around the corner here in Southeastern PA. Great footage as usual!!

[@elamnissley4099]

I just love this ! Hazy, dusty, thunderhead is building up, sweet smelling corn silage.well... I can almost smell it. Keep on working folks, we need to keep the economy going. My corn not ready yet.

[@vincentvanpaepeghem4844]

Great video! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!

[@jdfarmer576]

I was looking foward to see corn silage harvest videos this year thanks Big Tractor Power

[@joepernsteiner5691]

we use a fp240 new Holland with a 2009 case 190 magnum with a 2017 case puma on a H&S hydro swing merger we live in Wisconsin it would be cool if u could come and film us once

[@SkidderKev]

Thanks for sharing these, they are so cool to watch.

[@davidschlecht3016]

It is fun and interesting to see the corn being devoured covering a lot of acreage putting up good quality feed to keep the cows milking!👍

[@bradolsen9981]

I’ve always wondered how much work you put into these videos I can’t imagine that it’s not always easy to do

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video, I'm amzered that the bagger can keep up with the harvester

[@jeffmichel4442]

Hey Mike. I also like the sounds of chopping firing up and winding down.

[@franktrierweiler371]

We have 2 970 Claas’s. I like watching your videos 👍

[@josspatel9179]

0:03 the noise he makes is making Mummy come to him

[@ArchersView]

Very nice harvester & great sound!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@floydjensen8308]

We use a john deere 9600i 10 row. We have semi's we and 10 Wheelers I pack the dome pit with a John deere 9300 with 14 feet doser. I have always enjoyed the sound of a chopper winding up even when we used a gel one row with a Wisconsin engine pulled with an Oliver 60 tricycle front

[@floydjensen8308]

We don't chop till September

[@christopherbarrette7686]

Nice video....seeing the process....very cool

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. Forage harvesting is one of my favorite things to film.

[@derekweatherford8989]

Best advice I've gotten backing a trailer ( use the mirrors and turn to the trouble) lol

[@jgvgjv2980]

Hi from the UK, great video and as always, interesting facts and good to see the whole process from chopping to bagging, thanks Jason

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@user-snowman5]

Favorite time of the year for when silage is being cut

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍

[@SebastianWarth]

Awesome Video Buddy!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Big green rolling. I have a part two to this video when a large thunderstorm rolls in.

[@markreetz1001]

Can't believe it's silage time already!

[@samm9174]

We got ours done this week. Barely silage

[@SimonKL11]

Chopping corn is always nice😁👍 the big ag bags look good😉👍 Great video, keep up the great work👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@onionfriend9799]

SWEEEEEEEET! We are 30 days from the start of silage harvest here in southern Colorado and everybody is pulling equipment into their shops getting ready. It’s exhilarating

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Colorado has some big dairies. 👍👍

[@onionfriend9799]

There’s an 80k hd feedlot about 15 miles from my farm and they buy everything and anything I can grow for silage. It’s a great way to get a crop out of the field

[@Mark-uq9km]

@@onionfriend9799 I have a cousin in western KS who owns a feedlot. Not sure about the number of animals but he's been doing this for years and seems to be doing really well financially.

[@thayhai1994]

Thu hoạch ngô quá 🌽 đã luôn

[@canadiantractorspotter9969]

Nice.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@DoEverythingWell]

Love Dairy farms, we only cut alpha for our cows with a New Holland Swather

[@thegermanshepherd5634]

Fascinating process to witness. Thanks for taking the time to film something we see everyday but blindly pass by. I have a non-farmer question, why isn't the harvester cutting closer to the ground?

[@novakcustomharvesting6930]

We custom harvest with a 2003 John deere 6850.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. I filmed a 6810 recently.

[@peteparker7396]

Why are they leaving the stalks so high? I have never seen someone do it like that.

[@RoughRiderBB]

Was about to ask the same

[@barrybardo3249]

Me to

[@coryfritz295]

I do believe in a video from this same farm from last year, they said they cut it higher bc there is not much protein source towards the very bottom of the stalk.

[@peteparker7396]

Cory Fritz that makes sense. But I have never seen anyone do that. Thanks man.

[@fernandogonzalezfarinas9685]

@@peteparker7396 if you have enough corn, you can do that. I had seen one chopper cutting corn at 0.70 metres.

[@jeromeellis668]

I grew up in the 60s when choppers where we lived were pull behind one or two row if you had a big enough tractor. Most were still gas powered units.

[@rickcoats4015]

We use an old 5830 here in upstate N.Y. chopping starts around september

[@paulofrancisco565]

👏👏👍👍

[@grahamsobieski2507]

We have 3 of those John Deere 9600 i

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. This farm runs two. They are impressive.

[@bendocherty9429]

We use Claas Jaguars we have 2 and we Chop maize end of August beginning of September.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Great video! I was wondering why that Deere was so brown when the vid first started. Boy, was that some dust being kicked up by the truck at 1:05. Then at 7:15.... Ah! There's the rain! Lol! Even caught the first lightning flash at 10:03. I'm always a sucker for a good storm. :vD

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. Just wait for part 2 of this video. He storm arrives and it is a monsoon.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

@@bigtractorpower Ooooh! Can't wait!

[@scruffy6151]

👍👍

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@chuxtuff]

So we know corn that's gone through a combine is worth XX dollars per bushel. So how do they figure what corn silage is worth?? Does it's price fluctuate like other feed commodities?? You have some of the best videos of farm equipment around anywhere!!

[@matteomenthemoleta]

Hello

[@garlynwieck1956]

Great video. G

[@falcon9158]

Wow we won’t start chopping until at least early September. They must plant early

[@bigtractorpower]

Corn planting takes place here starting around March 15 into the first week of April. Chopping is normally the last week of July first week of August and then corn shelling starts around August 20.

[@oldben1800]

sexiest chopper on the market

[@RyTrapp0]

At this point, these gotta be considered the hot rods of the field - absolutely ridiculous amounts of horsepower that they're packing into these harvesters

[@bigtractorpower]

The largest ones are pushing 1,000 hp. They are impressive to watch.

[@bobbysears6626]

It’s that time in southeast Georgia also and my neighbor uses a contractor to cut there silage. Thanks again for sharing BTP

[@2xKTfc]

Are the corn stalks abrasive on the truck tires? Those things are mighty sturdy if you step on one wrong, anyway! Owww

[@bigtractorpower]

Corn stalks do wear tires. Weather it is harvesting or tillage the stalks take their toll on a tire over time.

[@wilsonandrade6246]

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[@leesteele9290]

Must be really dry to have that much dust flying where the chopper is running in that green corn !!!

[@bigtractorpower]

It started out as a dry day. Part 2 of this video will show a monsoon hit the field and the chopper driving out in blinding rain. You can see the storm rolling in at the ag bag as some light rain is falling.

[@isaacschute6761]

We hire ours done but we put our 4430 with 220hp on the bagger the people we hire have a John Deere 7580 chopper and big four wheel drive tractors

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice.

[@americanaerialagriculture803]

I've been a fan for quite some time and have now started my own channel with drone footage of farm equipment! It's all at American Aerial Agriculture

[@MrPummi88]

Why do they cut it that high?

[@dmc3742]

I was wondering that myself. Most of the nitrates this time of year are in the lower part of the stalk but this crop didn't look drought stressed.

[@gidorants]

Hi from Mexico ask how the bagger it's working to compact the silage?

[@perrypavlat6909]

There is a steel rotor that packs the silage into the bag, usually run by the PTO from a large tractor. That bagger probably using at least 250 HP. Hard to explain but a simple system. Hopefully Jason could video it once.

[@gidorants]

@@perrypavlat6909 hi, thank's for the ℹ

[@codyludwig2811]

how long does corn have to stay in one of those ag bags before you feed it to cows

[@bigtractorpower]

Right around 35 days. They are chopping a year’s worth of feed. Some will be fed out by early October and some will not be fed out until September 2021.

[@GaryLX870D]

Why do they leave so much stubble?? We always cut as close to the ground as possible. Less trash in the field, and easier for the trucks

[@maxhallman1036]

Mainly to plant sorghum into

[@kennethcarlton2860]

Do they ever feed the cattle green corn straight out of the field ???

[@perrypavlat6909]

It can be fed green but is more digestable after it ferments

[@edkauffman4808]

Why do they cut so high, stalk damage to bottom of truck.

[@matthewtaliaferro4902]

How many acres of the field do they usually cut?

[@bigtractorpower]

This entire field was chopped. The farm chops just under 1,000 acres with two 9600is. They shell the rest with four S770 combines.

[@robcondit8488]

If I remember correctly from my high school biology, cows have a ruminant stomach or 4 part stomach designed to eat grass, how does eating corn affect them?

[@bigtractorpower]

I am not sure. Corn silage is a big big part of their daily diet. It is mixed with alfalfa, soybean meal, cotton seeds and other supplements.

[@deanlarsen1389]

Why do they cut the corn so high, if they cut lower they would get more silage.

[@maxhallman1036]

They have more than enough corn for chopping so they leave it high plus they plant sorghum into it

[@CiRtriX]

Why they use trucks in the fields? In germany we use tractors with silage wagons. 😆

[@maxhallman1036]

The distance between this field and the farm is such a long distance trucks are needed plus some wagons are used normally when extra tonnage is needed along with being used in a field closer to the farm

[@loisgustafson1558]

If the driver would lower the head more, the tonnage per acre might go up, looks like a lot being left behind!

[@bigtractorpower]

The reason it is high is their nutritionist recommend cutting higher as the lower stall has less feed value. The corn is York’s so high they have more than enough feed being harvested so they can leave the stalk higher. Also sorghum is planted right behind the chopper as a second crop which will be harvested in November.

[@loisgustafson1558]

Thanks for the info, things are done a lot more different now than when I was on the farm, I'm 74 yrs young and silage season was a fun, fast paced time of year! Ron

[@keifer33comets]

They have to avoid the lower part of the stalk as that’s where the nitrates settle too

[@bigtractorpower]

Certainly. I am 44. I have watched corn chopping change allot in my lifetime. You have seen a huge progression in chopping tech.

[@Mark-uq9km]

@@bigtractorpower All great information. Thanks.

[@robertobrien2652]

Question what is the yield per acre?

[@bigtractorpower]

Right around 24 tons an acre.

[@robertobrien2652]

Wow thank you

[@barackobama8664]

Btp you made a video 11 months ago with the exact same title and chopper

[@mariafrontera8498]

Ours is in repair the spout wasn’t working🤷‍♀️

[@bigtractorpower]

Hopefully it is a quick fix.

[@kirklothert3435]

If it ain't green... It ain't mean

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@jasonprocai1020]

How many cows do they milk?

[@maxhallman1036]

2,100 cattle for milking 2,500 in total

[@GIGOLD-cp2or]

Why is it that tractors always drives with hazard lights on when they are doing silage? It looks so wierd.

[@bigtractorpower]

It takes just over two minutes to fill the 10 ton forage box in the field and then the tractor is in its way back to the farm. It is just easier to leave them on.

[@kevinnash5429]

A lot people asking why the corn ish chopped so high. The bottom portion of the stalk has less digestible fiber. Corn is a grass which is energy. Most of that comes from the grain itself. Some dairy nutritionist push for the higher energy feed. Not discrediting anyone, but the chopper operator in last years video said protein. Corn, again is energy, not a good protein source. To answer the question, looking for higher digestible energy feed. I myself need the tons so I don't chop that high.

[@coltbitz1667]

Does the truck have

[@dwightl5863]

Sometimes.

[@coltbitz1667]

How many horses

[@robwoods5537]

616

[@ronaldpiper4812]

Maintance minded a lot or cooling engines lots of trash.