Silage Pile on a Dairy Farm (106)

[@verdagarner5112]

That is the biggest silage pile I ever seen, looks really nice good job.

[@shirleysousa1133]

Such a cool drone video of them putting the plastic on. Like how the kids sit on the edge

[@vincentdevos8982]

Piet ! Thats the best drone video of you and the guys covering the silage stack ! Impresive , well organised .

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

My wife operated the drone, she'll be happy to see this comment! Haha

[@vincentdevos8982]

@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 well well ! We've just discovered a very good amateur drone operator !! Hope she has time for more sometime leave the kids with ouma !

[@jeremy1350]

Hello Piet, Greetings from Montreal. That is a whole lot of silage. Yes, the weather is certainly changing, here as well. Hope you get the piles completed soon.

[@mikecox9214]

Cool video! Many hands make light work!

[@alithemagicbum]

Hope everything gets resolved so you can get the silage done and get it covered up. You mentioned the wrestling team, I'm sure takes quite few people to accomplish the covering on such large pile. Seeing all of people, you get the real feal for size.

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

The more people we can get to help the better!

[@johnmulder4121]

Piet, Great videos, keep making them 😊

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

Thank you!

[@johnmulder4121]

@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 your welcome!!

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thank you.

[@shirleysousa1133]

Wow that’s a lot of feed.

[@jansky7063]

Thank you all!

[@MichaSkolimowski-be2nh]

Amazing 👍😱😱😱😱🇵🇱

[@Tentoooooo]

Petje af met kuil toedekken, mooi team :-) !

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

Dank je wel!

[@486kyle]

the new concrete is under the earlage pile, or under the section of the sileage that you're working in this video?

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

The new concrete is under a section of the silage pile.

[@shirleysousa1133]

It must take alot of hands to put all those tires over the plastic

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

The more the better!

[@patrickburgmeier7902]

That's a lot of tires. I see why you need the high-school wrestling team out there.

[@DaveG7920]

Great video, just wondering why you go long and low with your clamps rather than a bit higher and shorter? Just face size when you come to feed out?

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

If we make the pile more narrow, it makes it more difficult to do a good job with packing. At this height and width, the packing tractors can move around the pile comfortably.

[@RickyCervo]

What are those round things you use as weights to hold the tarp in place?

[@486kyle]

tires cut in half so they don't hold water because held water makes mosquitoes

[@RickyCervo]

@@486kyle I imagined they were wheels but I wasn't sure, but isn't the weight light compared to a whole wheel?

[@486kyle]

@@RickyCervo don't need a lot of weight, gotta sling them around those truck sidewalls got steel in them so they're like 20lb apiece

[@user-zu2bw7ig5v]

​@@486kylejust sidewalls no steel belts in them

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

They're truck tire side walls, they're easy to handle and do a good job of keeping the plastic in place.

[@benjaminskuhblog6034]

Do you still use the Koster tester? A few years ago I switched to Bakuis drogestoftester from the Netherlands. European Quality!

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

Yes, we're using a koster tester.

[@JoeBachmann-ry7wm]

May I ask what the cost per ton of corn silage is for chopping, trucking and packing? What are your thoughts on hiring a custom chopping crew verses doing the job yourself?

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

We should be around $11 to $12 per ton. Yield/acre will have some impact on that number. We've thought about doing it ourselves, but have never been close to going that way. I like having a custom crew come in because we don't have to deal with the break downs, finding extra labor for a few weeks and having a huge investment into equipment used for only a few weeks out of the year.

[@JoeBachmann-ry7wm]

@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 thanks for the reply, around our area finding the people to run big expensive equipment for only short unpredictable times is the biggest challenge if you choose to do the job yourself. Depreciation on the equipment is also very big when the cost is only spread over one farm.

[@jerseyscows8553]

Salut, quelle est la ration des vaches laitières ? Puis je avoir les quantité de matières seches de chaques ingrédients, merci

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

This would be our current high production ration in drymatter lbs; 12lbs alfalfa baleage, 4 lbs canola meal, 1.9 lbs wheat midds, 4.5lbs mineral/protein mix, 5lbs corn distillers, 1lb durum flour, 5.9lbs earlage, 25lbs corn silage, 0.5lbs molasses.

[@jerseyscows8553]

@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 D'accord, merci pour votre réponse, je suis en stage au Canada dans une ferme laitière de 370 vaches laitières, la ration distribué est assez similaire à chez vous, la ration est composée 60% de maïs ensilage et 40% d'ensilage d'herbe de luzerne multicoupes, en concentré il y a de maïs grain, tourteaux de soja et canola, on remet de l'eau dans la ration pour arriver à 50 % de matière sèche. La moyenne d'ingestion est de 30 kg de ms par jour Bonne soirée

[@DickvandenNoort]

Hoeveel ha mais hakselen jullie?

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

1000 hectare dit jaar.

[@richardpeter1935]

With the amount of silage you do why don’t you build bunks you could put a lot more in bunks and less waste then in piles I would think

[@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047]

I'd like to build bunks for our earlage at some point in the future to keep the face of the pile small, but for silage I preffer a drive over pile. We won't have any waste on this pile.