Making Hay in South Dakota: Complete Process

In this video we start with cutting the grass with our John Deere 7330 hooked to the MoCo. Then we wait a few days to let the hay dry out and and then we start raking with the John Deere 7520, and baling with the 7530. The last job to be completed is hauling the bales which also gets done by the 7520. Thanks for watching this video and dont forget to hit that subscribe button!
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[@bhagyanawarathna7003]

So happy to see young peoples contribution to the agriculture ...love to see ..keep up the good work. From 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

[@statusd1180]

dunno why but grass cutting is really satisfying to me

[@knuterikringli4772]

Status D Yes!

[@peterlarson9970]

favorite part of haying

[@robocow1]

@Hudson Funk i have just uploaded a grass cutting compilation to my channel please feel free to check it out and drop a like sub and comment if you enjoy

[@robertssafonovs8547]

I really like baling tbh :)

[@JacobDoffing42]

Mhmm.

[@purchases1]

Great to see that you and your Dad can work so well together! He must be proud! You guys have a ton of money invested in your farm and equipment. You seem to have that "Gitter Done" attitude and I wish you all well.

[@tomcurtis197]

It's fascinating to me to see these videos! The amount of time it takes and the amount of equipment needed, plus the very satisfying outcome! Thank you Cole for making these videos! It's a lot if work but you make it very interesting and intriguing to watch! Look forward to seeing your videos! Love the Dad stories too, and Ellie!

[@tuckerhiller5065]

It’s nice to see a fellow South Dakotan show the world how we farm in this state. I just discovered your channel, loved the video and keep up the good work!

[@iMMORTAL-bn5rv]

Why not use tedder?

[@cookcattleco.5731]

Kit Carson they don’t work the best in SoDak hardly anyone runs em in our area.

[@cookcattleco.5731]

Tucker Hiller your exactly right

[@hairymanonetwo]

@@cookcattleco.5731 No need to use a tedder when your cutting .........standing dead grass........way over mature ! Of course theres no need for them ..... weeeeeee

[@KutWrite]

You seem like a cool guy, good family. You make the work and risk seem like a satisfying way of life.

[@albihalimi6425]

This vid felt like playing farming simulator hahah a great one, i loved it

[@peterkroeker753]

Forget farm sim I want to do it for real. Anyone hiring?

[@james3522]

albi636 farming was probably invented because of farming simulator

[@HariSingh-wo9ci]

Used to go to Punjab every summer during high school. Did lot of farm work. Farming life is tough physically but man so much better than city life. Milked buffalo and cows with hand helped lift bales of wheat.

[@gregoryyoung8819]

The great thing about your video is that you give your viewers the sights and the "sound". This adds "Realism". Many others play music during the entire video. In my opinion, viewers want to hear the tractor run and hear all of the other noises. We want to feel like we are there. You provided that in your video. Good Going!

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks so much Gregory!

[@bridgetcathie6716]

We shared this video with my preschool class! I loved seeing the lines you made while cutting, raking and bailing! It was perfect!! Great aerial photography, that was soooo cool!

[@briansonne814]

how fun!

[@johndeerelover766]

Idk what is so satisfying about haying but it is really satisfying

[@annoyingbananana]

Very interesting how hard work it is to make food for livestock. Even though "hay delivery day" (just 1 bale for my horse, we're boarding on a self-catering horse barn) is that one annoying day of the month, I always love to open up a new bale once it's in storage. Hay smells soooooo good. 😌😌😌

[@DarrensTruckzs]

Wow !!! Absolutely wonderfull crop of hey in that awsome long field.. excellent video good job on the footage an also nice to see that someone else does some thinking ahead before loading an unloading of bales an cropping ..we too did the same .. as well as the skipping of winrows .. sooo much better than taking sharp turns as it’s so hard on equipment making tight turns .. my dad taught me that too..👍👍 I can soo relate to you as you say you learnt from ur dad .. jus 4 yrs ago I got diagnosed with a incurable disease an crippled bad a year later my dad got lung disease an I lost him jus not too long ago.. my mother an I couldn’t keep going with the farm an had to sell everything .. I miss my dad so bad An miss the farming .. things happen so fast .. enjoy farming with ur dad all you can as one never knows what’s around the corner .. watching ur videos is an absolute pleasure , An the way yas do it is sooo much the same .. we too had beef cattle .. charlois an simmental cross.. big beautiful animals so quiet an easy to work with but eat us out of house an home .. needed lots hey for winter to get thru.. please keep the videos coming no matter what it is as for farming I will enjoy every bit of it .. I’m from Ontario canada..but have been down in your area several times over the years an love the farm land there .. thanks an stay safe while getting the crops in.. 👍👍

[@toaster_bathtub_8329]

I've actually learned so much from this content and its helped me in my own farming business.Thanks

[@RollinCoal72]

Today is Dec 21 2021, what a difference a couple years makes! That’s farming for you! This last summer was a heck of a drought. . Amazing!

[@staceyw.6608]

June 27th! My birthday! Nice video, dude! I never knew how it was done! So cool! The video angles are awesome!

[@SonneFarms]

Happy birthday!

[@TJ-cf7ro]

Not a farmer but really enjoy watching these videos and how you explain things.

[@SonneFarms]

Glad you like them!

[@brandastout228]

Why am I watching this? There’s a farmer in my back field bailing my hay right now 😂

[@LARRYLARRY704]

Always wondered how the hay I'm always hauling on my flatbed was rolled up. Thanks!

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

Don't be so hard on yourself, young man. Live, love, laugh and sing. Be sure to tell you how much your loved. Life is easy, joyful and we are powerful creators.

[@nanba25]

Very informative, precise and some fun, what else ? I see that american farmers (I'm French) don't all use brand new and expensive equipment, and high tech devices to run their business, but you're doing here quite a good job ! Thanks a lot for sharing

[@SonneFarms]

Thank you!

[@PinkRose2004]

The father must really be proud of his son,

[@JavierRodriguez-hz2cd]

Really enjoying your videos. Congratulations from Spain

[@SonneFarms]

Thank you very much!

[@ryanjohnson1265]

Grew up in Forestburg just a little ways north of y’all. South Dakota was, is, and will always be home!

[@Durpydurp4488]

It’s still magical even after seeing the process lol

[@tamardaniel2115]

I loved this video!! Thank you so much for filming your work and editing so well!! This was so aesthetically pleasing ❤🙏🏿 and your music choice was awesome 👌🏿 I love me some tall grass, it is such beautiful foliage! I also really love how grass is harvested and dried for farm animals food, it's like the rice and beans for livestock lol. Your equipment is so cool and I really appreciate how you explain your methodology and the history behind why your process is the way it is. I've wanted to learn how hay bales are harvested and im so thankful to have found your wonderful video. I'm looking forward to learning more about your farm life!

[@donnaparrish7638]

June 27? My birthday! Wooooohoooooo!

[@_broits_george]

Great video, showing and teaching others the way farming works👍

[@SonneFarms]

Thank you!

[@Pep8691]

The case of the disappearing bale... sneaky 👍😂

[@HHh-ej4rl]

I'm on a half acre, and would love more land. Love your videos!

[@derrickrr5516]

Great video! Well done. Just what I needed because we are getting ready to buy equipment soon. It’s good to start getting this process in my head and start the brainstorming before we even purchase the equipment.

[@jakespoon8723]

I was wanting to know if you could do a step by step video on how to hook up and unhook all of your hay equipment to the hay making tractors and which hydraulic hose and lever does what and the light plugs and wiring harnesses as well and how the hay equipment works and operates and how to operate the hay equipment and how to get the tractors and hay equipment ready for hay season and how to mount and hook up and dismount and unhook the round baler monitor and the power cords and wiring harnesses this summer and so if you could do a dedicated video on how to do all of that stuff step by step I would really really appreciate it?

[@680mudman]

smart fella, nice farm, good gear.. great video!!

[@spanky610321]

Impressive windrows,we ended putting on a guard around the MFWD shaft,it would wrap around,great videos

[@lolax6900]

I’d love to work on a farm.... now that is the life 😍

[@ionbobaru8921]

you guys are lucky with the weather you got there in my country almost all of the time when we make hay its gonna rain

[@talitslam7659]

I think I'd love to live in a farm...very interesting!

[@mikebonge7206]

So far it looks like good year

[@SonneFarms]

Great year for Hay!

[@burakirtel5015]

Farming Simulator 2019 in Real Life

[@Yabadoop]

Lol

[@penninefarmer5120]

You mean farming lad..

[@dpeagles]

KZbin is really giving me an insight into farming. Learning a lot of things I had no idea about. The one thing I already knew, farming is a lot of work.

[@KutWrite]

It's a lot of risk, too, esp. financially.

[@derrickrr5516]

More risk than work because I don’t count fun work as full work. It’s difficult to make good money from farming. It’s also very dangerous if you’re not paying attention. Man vs Machine = Machine ALWAYS wins. Absolutely must be thinking of safety with every decision you make around equipment.

[@TheAtemiles]

Got here going down the joel salatin rabbit hole

[@FTClipz.]

Farming hay is time consuming but a way to make it faster is u can get a baler where it has the rake behind da tractor and the baler behind the rake so it gets it done faster and u don't have to worry about the bale coming out all wonky

[@g_the_animal9662]

love these tractors dad has a 6910 and a 3140, 3350 they never go wrong. awesome vid mate. Im from the uk and all our grass fields are on a bank which makes hay making very uncomfortable in the cab :)

[@tattooguy94]

Gonna be starting a hay baling job with no experience, this video helped alot

[@jordanmathew8180]

Saludos. Desde McAllen Tx keep up the good work

[@MariaIsabelGreen]

Thank you, I learned a lot from this video. I am always fascinated by the large round bales of hays along the highways. How do you put the plastic wrap on them?

[@cryan9376]

flip flopping the arm is really cool, must save a lot of time

[@patrickyates4966]

Wow u guys do a great job

[@kfcmalaysia5580]

watching from Malaysia. went to Australia a few times but could not figure out how hays were baled. thanks for the help.

[@suepool450]

Very interesting ..wish i can work with those types of machines

[@keithbishop249]

cool vids and the right colour tractors

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks!

[@DLKHAY]

Drone footage was great, nice looking bales

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks!

[@robertmattox4908]

Nothing like watching someone bail haye at 3AM

[@deborrahdutra5599]

That was amazing

[@roberttaylor6918]

Hi The mower /tractor geometry seems to be a bit out sync because tractor wheel is running down last swath .This not a fault of farmer as I have seen the same thing with other mowers. Is here a reason for this or is it just the way they are all made. Love you videos thanks for sharing.

[@cykablyat473]

Greetings from Faulkton, SD. We had a crap ton of hay too so I feel you brother

[@SonneFarms]

Really the only nice thing about the crazy amount of rain, we have more than enough cattle feed. Better than a drought

[@curtweatherbee2523]

I like music so smooth🤠🇺🇸

[@lanniefield5499]

Aha, so that's how it's done!!!

[@blackstoneinvestmentsllc2705]

Love the channel. Keep it up.

[@thesoundpainterbkny3465]

GREAT VIDEO!!

[@thebestofDfoX]

here in the Netherlands we throw 19 on a flat cart 2x8 1x3 so fix 3 layers with straps and then accelerate😎🤣🚜

[@MongeziRobertMbanjwa]

My concept and idea of a rake was a handheld contraption that was fan shaped, that I hated as a kid coz it meant work🤣 Never thought I'd see a tractor pulling a "rake"

[@SonneFarms]

The more you know!

[@MongeziRobertMbanjwa]

@@SonneFarms yeah, keep the vids coming, keep up the good work, and you have a new subscriber from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@sulzbachfarms6410]

Nice vídeo, good edit

[@OutofTownwithRobinBell]

thanks for a good video 👍

[@2coolrun308]

Bruh when you “hire a worker” in farming simulator it’s actually just these guys that do it for you.

[@randallbyrd1973]

Awesome TY for sharing

[@svetlanarudovsky7459]

Thank You ❤️❤️🇺🇸💌🌹🌹

[@gatsheniboergoatstud8506]

this is great guys, i love fodder production cause the whole concept respond to climate change effects that has left kraals empty and farmers frustrated without pastures

[@GraceMattox]

this is so cool!

[@kennethconnors5316]

Dad has a thing with that bailer //////// and pull back !

[@Ratkill9000]

Man I'm impressed by the new Farming Simulator graphics! Oh wait it's real life

[@bastie2396]

Greetings from germany.

[@SonneFarms]

Howdy!

[@MysticalLlama]

I want to start a ranch and have some cattle and crops but I want to learn everything first plus save enough money

[@BWYinYang]

Awesome drone shots.

[@bhagyanawarathna7003]

Woow great

[@kylewasson7649]

Wow those are nice windrows

[@SonneFarms]

They sure were

[@chrisfastrakdavies2598]

Enjoyed the video well explained and great Machines. We like about 12 % moisture then bale wrap and haul.

[@SonneFarms]

Thanks!

[@michaelkoop5380]

Nice crop then.

[@evan5262]

We still do small bales, so its a slightly different process, but great video👍

[@piperdoug428]

Greetings from SW Manitoba.

[@SonneFarms]

Howdy!

[@grahamhicks7452]

If you didn't want the windrows so thick just bring your wheel take in a little

[@MrGjc310148]

cheers matey THANKS GNZ

[@ashton-blahey7663]

we have a 7520 just like that, you never see them like that to often they're always 4wd

[@kirkcattlecompany6803]

FarmToyMan2006 love our 7520 best tractor ever made

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

It goes to show everybody has a different opinion on raking I don't let anybody rake like that we do 3 or 4 round around baler and rake run together we always carry two tractors to the field and then run back in forth without skipping but like I say everybody is different great video good luck on your hay

[@thomaskroes4776]

When we farmed in manitoba we had a hay trailer for 23 5 by 6 bales

[@hamishkay3010]

Those are some damn thick windrows

[@hanksfarmvideos]

Impressive

[@fiveminutebushcraft4759]

Have u guys seen the hay trailers that pick up the bales for u so u don’t have to load it up with a spear

[@Keithmorrissey387]

I’m from Ireland and farming is a lot different over here but if your making hay how come you didn’t turn it? We turn it 3 times before raking and baling

[@rustygindt2157]

vemeer rollabar rake!

[@codyludwig2811]

everybody has a bad day, Your lucky you guys got feed for your animals cause my brother is struggling to find feed were having a bit of a drouty year in Northern Alberta.

[@kenlucas8252]

I hope yall get some rain,Cody.

[@bobcrone6151]

Also, do you run special hydraulics to make your baler pick up a bale like that, instead of ejecting it? 🤣

[@SonneFarms]

Haha sure do!

[@lelandneilson3535]

Unloading wise I personally would’ve done the top first then go from the back of the trailer towards the front so you wouldn’t have to worry too much about backing into a bale you already put down. Not an expert or anything by far but just my 2 cents

[@JohnDoe-fp1tv]

From that field size how many bales do you usually get? How often do you harvest?

[@b2617]

Got yourself a new sub. Love me a good farm channel. Take care

[@46rambo49]

monster windrows

[@ajskab99]

We use a Sitrex high flow rake. It’s nearly impossible to plug that thing.

[@lloydsjostrom1054]

I like your hay mower. What is length the mower I used ND one summer when I was 17 I mowed all summer with 6 foot mower .Didn't go over the same field twice the hay was put in 30 ton stacks I rack with a old dump rack with a M ih.

[@benburns5995]

Glad you always have drone footage makes the viewing varied and interesting. When you load the hay would it make it too unstable to load 2 bales on top instead of one in the middle? Also with Alfalfa do you mix the Alfalfa with the hay when feeding? Clever to include that you dropped a nickel after that comment that farming makes you rich. Appreciate that you always explain what your doing along with the video.

[@SonneFarms]

I think we would have many bales falling off if we stacked side by side and it would be dangerous when driving on public roads. Yes when we feed we grind alfalfa and grass together

[@adolphsfather4834]

Greetings from Herried SD

[@oakhillfarmer4839]

Our bale trailer gas square plates welded on the end of the two beams that the bale sits on so when back up the bale hits those plates and pulls off the spear much like how you guys use the center beam

[@SonneFarms]

Smart Idea

[@highlightsbottleflipnbanfl1847]

Rumor has it you can increase hay yeild, decrease compaction, and do far less rutting by using a 8rx deere tractor.

[@SonneFarms]

Well I better get me one of them!