Boys With The Big Toys - Chopping Grass Silage In New Zealand

[@lukecowley3438]

I love your videos ☺

[@jimmurray2965]

Beautiful countryside, Greetings from Ireland!

[@john0032]

Gods country

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 👍👌

[@nickycoyne100]

Great video…… interesting how they mow the grass…. Maybe to fit more with the rake OR teadder???? I know this is a old vid…. So I’d say the field made some crop of maize!!!

[@ohdeere904]

Brilliant video, Finches have some yard of top notch equipment. Nice neighbours to have Andrew

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep and if I get to 20k subs one day I’ll do a machinery tour of it 😉

[@robcaseltine2484]

Here from the great state of Indiana in the USA. You all sure do have some of most beautiful country I've ever seen. Great video.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 👍👌

[@roberthiggins6401]

Smashing film Andrew. They've great machinery.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

They do! Thanks 👍

[@alastairduncan1944]

I really miss this time of year on the farm, was also such fun as a kid, so much going on everywhere l!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep absolutely 👌👍

[@melvinforshaw433]

Nice video very good job. I live in the United States it's always interesting to listen to your talk

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😂👍

[@gerryoconnor3414]

You are so lucky Andrew, here in Ireland our winter starts very soon and we have our cows indoors from November 1st until March and we would be feeding silage until mid April. At least 10 tonnes per cow. And we get the same price for milk as you do. Keep safe.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yeah it’s a Massive cost and labour saver not having to put cows in sheds down here. That’s a lot of silage too! Thanks for watching Gerry 👍

[@purplerunner1715]

Great video, top of the line equipment there, red rims in the field (Fendt Or Class) and yellow ones on the loaders (JCB or Volvo) Then you really have a great peace of kit. Hope your son and the rest of his family are having a great day. Greetings from Denmark.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks mate yeah pretty mint machinery alright 👌

[@tonymckeage1028]

Great Video, First time viewer of your channel, New Sub, thanks for sharing

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Awesome thank you! Hope you enjoy

[@stevedarcy9542]

Awesome video as always Andrew. What are doing to me mate, not a cow in sight haha. Fantastic to see the machines in full cry. Beautiful scenery and nearly a bluebird day as well. Thanks Andrew for sharing.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha don’t worry there’s a lot of cow stuff coming up as we get into mating 😂 Thanks for watching Steve 🤙

[@edenfarms5523]

That's the best harvest video I have seen, well done!! Wouldn't like that truck on my paddocks tho......

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks, we do a lot of cartage with trucks for silage. Bit quicker than tractor and trailers and way more comfy 😂

[@michaelc1634]

Living in london love watching ur videos this vid is awesome thanks for sharing

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

That’s awesome man, you made my day. Love it when people from the city’s are watching 👌

[@garymadden2656]

Great video Andrew I’ve said it before New Zealand and Ireland are so much alike 👌

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

They are, we’re just missing the stone walls 😉😂

[@gregmiller726]

Did a season in Taranki to riverlea contractors a decade ago, I was ploughing behind the chopper to plant out in maize. Recommend heading over to nz to anyone, beautiful country. Nice video

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks mate 👍

[@globetrotter683]

Top video Andrew. Real gun with the drone.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Cheers mate, still got a long way to go 😂

[@shivcharankumar4924]

Very nice videos

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks

[@jillesboer]

Nice video,

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@john0032]

Top quality production mate surprised you have time left to farm the farm

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

😂 yep editing is the hardest part 👍

[@santiagopujol1077]

Beautiful video. Why the cutter (0.40) have the side rigth "open" and the left "close"? Sorry for my inglish jajaj, greeting from argentina

[@markwade1789]

So the tedder will catch all the grass in one pass and not leave half a row behind.

[@wangrz2222]

@@markwade1789 but then if u see at 2:38 he is going up only getting one row but if it wasnt mowed like that he would be getting all of it but then i suppose it dont really matter

[@wangrz2222]

@@markwade1789 actually i think they done it like that so the rake will get 6 rows instead of only 4

[@carlwereld5131]

its not a cutter they call it a mower

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It wasn’t supposed to be Tedded but pretty much so the rake can get more in a pass 👍

[@georgedunn2450]

Excellent video 👍👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@jeffreygeorge3942]

When you said annual did you mean Italian Ryegrass that was tilled after maze and grown over the winter then tilled to maze again .It looked like Finches yard the pits were in so is that silage used there or sold on and i’am guessing your son could end up working for them if he likes tractors that much .here’s hoping for a more settled spring to you

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep I did. It will probably be used on farm for there cows I’d say. There’s probably a high chance he will, I did 😂👍

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi I like your video

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed

[@Shotgunnzzz]

Your a gun the drone Andrew 👍

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Getting better slowly 😂👌

[@judyengland2615]

Hello from Michigan USA Why are you doing silage when it's just starting to be spring? It's fall here so spring there. Nice vidio and I like your cattle. I think Jersey's are pretty especially the calves

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It’s surplus grass which will be fed out in summer when we go into drought. Plus it needs to come up so the maize can get planted. Thanks for watching Judy 🤙

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi i like your video

[@matthewpeck4487]

How's the grass growing up where you guys live? Here in Canterbury it's a struggle, lots of guys are having to feed out a lot of supplement.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

It’s finally warming up so seeing some growth now, but it’s been a challenging spring for sure!

[@Bbbb12-j8o]

Nice video thank you! I saw the preview on Tiktok and got quite excited for this video. You said Finch's are winter milking in the comments somewhere does this mean there housing the cows on a feed pad or free stall over the winter months?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Haha yeah I finally uploaded something to TikTok. There’s no housing for them but they do have a composting barn that they use when the weathers not so great 👍

[@Bbbb12-j8o]

@@TheOnceADayFarmer Yea nice. There are a few compost barns going in near me as full time housing for the TMR based operations

[@themanclancymm6302]

Nice video u deserve more subscribers

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Cheers mate 👌 maybe one day 😂👍

[@bigears4426]

Man that is such a beautiful area you live in , just like a English park

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@j.scottvanderbeck2849]

Nice video!

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

👍

[@Williamfm262]

Might sound like a stupid question but when do u feed out the silage. Here in Ireland it is fed as a winter feed as we rarely get droughts in summer. As a rule in nz is it a winter feed or do you normally feed it in summer as well

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Nah that’s not a stupid question! We’re the total opposite, most of our supplementary feed is fed over spring till autumn and definitely in summer when we tend to go dry more often now than not. Because we don’t supply during the winter we can get by just on grass 👍 hope that answers it 🤙

[@sheepmr2]

Have to wonder why they used the groupers on the mowers if they were going to ted it out, before a quad swather🤔

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I don’t think it was supposed to be grouped 😂🤷

[@cdemo1186]

Super stuff Andrew. 👍🏼 Is it very early in the season to make silage, as it's October here, last month of autumn I'm comparing season's, so it's early spring with you guy's? Would there be alot of silage made this time of the year? 🤔

[@FamilyFarmingandFun]

This season’s been late, last season silage got made a lot earlier in our area.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

All depends on the season but not really, last year some people around here were making silage in our winter 😂 Theres a lot being made at the moment but mostly annual grass which will be going into maize ground 👍

[@leightonwatty8740]

where in Aaotearoa are ya???

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Te Awamutu 👌

[@heltonrural9001]

TOP

[@robertrecher254]

Beautiful soil, do they milk cows too??

[@rileyshearer678]

Yep we winter milk 500 cows

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

⬆️👌

[@goldfire1676]

Awesome

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

👍

[@FamilyFarmingandFun]

Roughly how many silage bales do you make in a season? Great video

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Approximately 80-100 maybe 🤔

[@_multiverse_]

I wonder why they’re only swathing one side on the rear?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Means the rake can rake can fit more in the swath 👍

[@shane-kj9wn]

Would this not be considered too early to Cut silage?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Nah last year some people were making silage in winter 😂

[@leandalynch975]

dont you make baled sialage on farm??

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep I do, this is the neighbours 👍

[@wangrz2222]

never seen anyone mow grass like that before

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

👍

[@gregmiller726]

Means the rake (swather in NZ) can catch 6 rows not just 5

[@wangrz2222]

@@gregmiller726 ik

[@carolcurtis2220]

I guess piling silage is the same the world over. Tom Pemberton has often shown the process also.

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep pretty much, the only difference is that in the UK they store they’re silage mainly for the winter and here we do it for the summer 👍

[@nicoqui6223]

you can see the traces of a vehicle passing through the grass before mowing. why?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

I think it’s from when it got sprayed out with a tractor possibly 👍

[@johnjordan4647]

Is the lake in the background is where your farm drains to?

[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

Yep sure does 👍

[@whatyourname8547]

COW

[@rancher4911]

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[@TheOnceADayFarmer]

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