I believe you have more heads to feed now with the new barn also. It's been a tricky year for many farmers let's pray for a decent harvest this fall for all. Hopefully your milk count won't hurt too much. Cheers 🇨🇦
Don’t think you’ll be alone in making tough gameday decisions due to feed levels from this drought. We’ve got plenty of farmers in WI in severe drought areas who I’m sure will face similar decisions. I do think leaving the alfalfa in might be a nice hedge in case next year is also dry, those deep roots being established could really help bridge some gaps in forage!
I am always amazed at how fast your custom harvest team can chop your forage crops. Sure sorry that you have to deal with a feed shortage right now. I know it is always a concern when you have to shake up the milk cow feed ration with wet forage. One year I chopped dry hay bales and blended them in to help offset the wet corn silage. The cows really liked it, and production did not suffer too badly. Of course I was only feeding about 60 milk cows back then. I hope you have an abundant corn silage crop. And that your milk output stays stable, and the girls stay happy. I really enjoyed the video footage your took from the top of the Harvestore silo. Thanks & have a blessed weekend with your family.😊
Try to keep all that juice with the silage as it ferments, as that will provide the cows with lots of lactic acid!! You might be missing out on some starch as you said, but the higher sugar content will be converted to more lactic acid. The cows will need less feed, as it will be more digestible. As I mentioned below, the higher moisture content silage will be like Sauerkraut for cows!!
I always enjoy watching the corn silage harvesting, that crew sure does an awesome job for you. Sure is a lot different from when I did it back in the early 70's, of course it was a lot more mature and not as advanced method. When the neighbor hog farmer did his, he would use a wagon that I would help pull the silage from the back of a push wagon and we used hook forks. I enjoyed watching, Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a safe and wonderful weekend!
Still the driest year on record here eastern Montgomery County, MD, and we've been seeing some of those not-filled-out ears in the sweet corn. Hope the main harvest goes well.
On a trip to New Zealand a number of years ago I briefly worked on a daily farm. They asked me if I wanted to cut hay & I responded I would when it quit raining. I was told if they waited for the rain to quit the field would never get cut. I have never got so wet in my life driving a tractor with no cab. I had chills for days as was soaked to the bones
Always a challenge. Seems like you’ll have enough after all the harvest is done, then by spring the cows have eaten a lot and we have to start adjusting corn silage to make it through. Maybe this year will be differnt
Hi Eric, the crazy weather this year has changed your schedule but as usual you find a solution and the Ag bag is a good idea for the short term fix. So with your corn together the Alfalfa will give you enough feed to keep milking. Thanks for sharing. Chris from Australia 🇦🇺.
Very interesting! Adapting to different conditions by harvesting some corn early. I also follow Jan's channel. On a regular basis, he gets milk from each of his cows to check production and for possible mastitis. This also allows for optimal breeding. They, too had some crops not grow as well as they would have liked due to drought. I think it was worse where he is* compared to your operation.
Maybe when they do Hay or corn silage you could do an interview with the custom chopping company. Explain their equipment and what models and make the run and why they run those. (For example I think most of their carts are and blowers are field line, that's a small company why do they choose field line. And etc with each PCs equipment they have.)
I like your videos, you do a great job making them. I see you work very hard, and are very knowledgeable in what you do. Best of luck for a very hard job, that does not get recognized by the public.
We will be chopping corn around middle of September or could be first of August with all the dry weather same as you just a little late on growth but that is mother nature for you
Good luck with the feed my guy, best video production to date for sure and I watch all of your vids. Can we maybe just get a family photo? I think you have like 3 kids now!
No fun running out of feed with that many cows. We ran out of dry hay a couple years when we were milking but with only 40 cows it wasn’t to expensive to buy hay
How many bushels of core did you produce from a acre? I remember the John Deere combine on my grandfather's farm in McConnellsburg back in 60's. These new machines have come a long way.
Would you not find it easier to put all your silage in bunkers as opposed to towers. I know over here in the U.K. we only use bunkers also what is the difference with alfalfa silage and ordinary grass silage. Cheers great videos keep them coming
That’s what I used to do, because the alfalfa can’t grow well in my region. And when I had the forth drought in five year; I have to sell my herd… Double crop may be a good option if you have enough rain and don’t seed later the corn. Eric seems to know what he is doing.
I hate the fact that every time you see people from Europe dragging logs and even on the wagons they hitch so high. Then they cannot keep the front of the tractor on the ground.
Bummer u ran out of feed with being so close to harvest time but try not to beat urself up to much over it it happens hopefully u will get a big crop in those bunkers this year
I'm assuming they don't do that because it takes more or less 15 minutes to grind up a silage bale and they use a lot of silage, which would add up to a lot of time spent just chopping it in the mixer.
Probably best not to stand close behind the cows for a few days!😀
😂😮😅
Hopefully they dont get diarrhea
Ha ha! That is really funny. Also be careful when you do the AI yourself.
😂 would be a good idea to mix some dry hay into that fresh silage
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I believe you have more heads to feed now with the new barn also. It's been a tricky year for many farmers let's pray for a decent harvest this fall for all. Hopefully your milk count won't hurt too much. Cheers 🇨🇦
Hey Eric, I learn more every video. I’ve never shied away from work - I admire everything our farmers do for us !!! John
Same man. After playing the game(FS22) and watching so much irl content I have a whole lot of respect for farmers.
Don’t think you’ll be alone in making tough gameday decisions due to feed levels from this drought. We’ve got plenty of farmers in WI in severe drought areas who I’m sure will face similar decisions. I do think leaving the alfalfa in might be a nice hedge in case next year is also dry, those deep roots being established could really help bridge some gaps in forage!
I am always amazed at how fast your custom harvest team can chop your forage crops. Sure sorry that you have to deal with a feed shortage right now. I know it is always a concern when you have to shake up the milk cow feed ration with wet forage. One year I chopped dry hay bales and blended them in to help offset the wet corn silage. The cows really liked it, and production did not suffer too badly. Of course I was only feeding about 60 milk cows back then.
I hope you have an abundant corn silage crop. And that your milk output stays stable, and the girls stay happy. I really enjoyed the video footage your took from the top of the Harvestore silo. Thanks & have a blessed weekend with your family.😊
Keep the faith, your family has a beautiful family farm!
Thank you for taking the time to share your videos with us. 😊
Love the way you adapt and improvise and roll with the punches.
Hope your weather holds out. Love to watch the harvesting process. Thanks.
You are lucky to have the reliable custom harvester who can come when you need them.
Try to keep all that juice with the silage as it ferments, as that will provide the cows with lots of lactic acid!! You might be missing out on some starch as you said, but the higher sugar content will be converted to more lactic acid. The cows will need less feed, as it will be more digestible. As I mentioned below, the higher moisture content silage will be like Sauerkraut for cows!!
I always enjoy watching the corn silage harvesting, that crew sure does an awesome job for you. Sure is a lot different from when I did it back in the early 70's, of course it was a lot more mature and not as advanced method. When the neighbor hog farmer did his, he would use a wagon that I would help pull the silage from the back of a push wagon and we used hook forks. I enjoyed watching, Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a safe and wonderful weekend!
Love your positive attitude, in tough times. Awesome videos thank you
Good luck with the feed for the cows. Stay safe
Some of the farms where I pick up milk have run out of corn silage also. Thanks Eric
Great video. Having good contractors is a great blessing.
We have our own unit exactly because of the reliability of a custom crew. It is an older claas but it works
Great view from the top of the silo. Beautiful farm land Eric. God bless all you farmers.
Oh my...hope the situation works out alright.
Awesome video Eric. Sorry that y'all ran out of feed. thank you and your family for feeding us buddy
Still the driest year on record here eastern Montgomery County, MD, and we've been seeing some of those not-filled-out ears in the sweet corn. Hope the main harvest goes well.
Frederick county is terrible dry
We can't harvest hay here in Maine. Started raining in late May and has not stopped.
On a trip to New Zealand a number of years ago I briefly worked on a daily farm. They asked me if I wanted to cut hay & I responded I would when it quit raining. I was told if they waited for the rain to quit the field would never get cut. I have never got so wet in my life driving a tractor with no cab. I had chills for days as was soaked to the bones
It's crazy we are a few hours west of you and can hardly get any crops harvested because it rains so much!
Stay faithful friend
Excellent video Eric! Best wishes on the corn harvest and interim feed mix. Enjoyed the video. Thanks!
Cow chow! It's good that you were able to get a 4th cutting. Hope the weather holds out for the rest of the harvest. 👍
Praying the ladies transition well!
Always a challenge. Seems like you’ll have enough after all the harvest is done, then by spring the cows have eaten a lot and we have to start adjusting corn silage to make it through. Maybe this year will be differnt
Hi Eric, the crazy weather this year has changed your schedule but as usual you find a solution and the Ag bag is a good idea for the short term fix. So with your corn together the Alfalfa will give you enough feed to keep milking. Thanks for sharing. Chris from Australia 🇦🇺.
I love it when I see comments from outside the USA. Thankyou.
Wish you would have had more rain. Glad you at least got a good amount of silage. Great video and thanks as always.
Very interesting! Adapting to different conditions by harvesting some corn early. I also follow Jan's channel. On a regular basis, he gets milk from each of his cows to check production and for possible mastitis. This also allows for optimal breeding.
They, too had some crops not grow as well as they would have liked due to drought. I think it was worse where he is* compared to your operation.
Good info on feed hope everything goes well. Iam sure you will get it work out!
Wow I never thought we would see those 3 bunks empty!
That Ag Bag machine is pretty cool. Looks like a sausage when the bag is filled.
Maybe when they do Hay or corn silage you could do an interview with the custom chopping company. Explain their equipment and what models and make the run and why they run those.
(For example I think most of their carts are and blowers are field line, that's a small company why do they choose field line. And etc with each PCs equipment they have.)
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!
I google 'milk line and found a good image comparing different cobs with different progressions. It's an interesting concept.
I like your videos, you do a great job making them. I see you work very hard, and are very knowledgeable in what you do. Best of luck for a very hard job, that does not get recognized by the public.
I sure hope the feed does well by your cows.
Did Y'all have more cows last yr or they eat more sees like you ran out a little bit early this yr ! GOD BLESS !!!
Especially intersting. regarding moisture content. Thanks
We will be chopping corn around middle of September or could be first of August with all the dry weather same as you just a little late on growth but that is mother nature for you
That ant good😢 prayers thanks 😊
The Great American Farmer, I salute your drive, your a strong man, You are Blessed By the Almighty...Great Vid
تحياتنا ليك تحيا الفلاحة وتربية المواشي الله يعاون
Good luck with the feed my guy, best video production to date for sure
and I watch all of your vids. Can we maybe just get a family photo?
I think you have like 3 kids now!
The machine is like a companion to work quickly with humans
Great video brother from the imperial county California 👍👍🇺🇲
Great video Eric, have you had a vacation yet this summer?
Yea another awesome video god bless y’all
Good stuff Eric
Hey Eric, I learn more every video.
We love milk in our family. Thank you.
No fun running out of feed with that many cows. We ran out of dry hay a couple years when we were milking but with only 40 cows it wasn’t to expensive to buy hay
Good show Eric
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊
I used to love the smell of corn silage.
Good video
God bless all farmers
How many bushels of core did you produce from a acre? I remember the John Deere combine on my grandfather's farm in McConnellsburg back in 60's. These new machines have come a long way.
Corn isn’t shorter, you’re taller.
Would you not find it easier to put all your silage in bunkers as opposed to towers. I know over here in the U.K. we only use bunkers also what is the difference with alfalfa silage and ordinary grass silage. Cheers great videos keep them coming
I’ve always had it inoculated can feed after 10 days. Just have plan ahead little further is all?
Is this a shredlage chopper? The chopped corn pieces look big. We aim for about 60% moisture on or normal chopped corn.
Less beans, more corn. You can always get beans by picking up the phone, but you can't get silage that way
Right on
Just need to get the corn out of our gas.
Is the shortage of feed a result of having a larger herd, or are you feeding them more daily to increase the milk output?
Love your videos
Love the videos and I love you by the way how is duches your dog
Duchess made a quick cameo appearance about two or three vids back!
@@mmurphy2317 ok thank you
No alfalfa, more spring crops.
Rye and double crop corn?
What will your protein source be?
That’s what I used to do, because the alfalfa can’t grow well in my region.
And when I had the forth drought in five year; I have to sell my herd…
Double crop may be a good option if you have enough rain and don’t seed later the corn.
Eric seems to know what he is doing.
Kinda concurred ... it’s been getting dryer the last few years ... crop yield is slowly decreasing ... is irrigation starting to be considered ?
Cheers.
Looks like you need a few of those fake owls to perch on your silos, will keep the birds from pooping all over them
How much do you figure you save by having your silage work contracted out ?
Does this mean that you will run out of feed earlier next year too? Did you have more cows this year?
ALWAYS GOOD VIDEOS
I don’t know much of anything about silage. Is there a reason you put the alfalfa in the wet bin instead of a bag or bunker like the corn?
Corn knives are different shaped from grass knives
Just wondering how many trailers would it take to fill one of those bags🤔
Will you have enough silage for next year?
Love from India 🇮🇳
Cow spinach!
Plan B sometimes is the only option
Great video
Not sure what happened to the algorithm but i haven't seen a videk of yours in my feed for over a month.... Well since this video came out.... 🤷
Starch is the key
Just curious if that corn you harvested is unified from brevant?? Hearing a lot of good things about it!! How has it yield for you in years past??
Yes it is Brevant Unified corn. Usually yields 22-23 ton/acre
At the farm i work on we have 10 foot tall corn, and we started chopping, and then the chopper broke
What are you planning to replace the alfalfa as a protein source? More soybeans?
Did they have to put the kernel processer in for the day ?
Hey Eric what port of landcater pa you form I go too landcater all the time like to meet you
You definitely need a European style hitch on them tractors save all that jacking up and down
I hate the fact that every time you see people from Europe dragging logs and even on the wagons they hitch so high. Then they cannot keep the front of the tractor on the ground.
@@scrambler69-xk3kv it’s not actually true. That does not happen at all. It’s not like the movies 😂😂
If you are replacing Alfalfa with spring cropping will you double crop every acre?
Plan to double crop about 2/3 of our acres. Will rotate in soybeans every third year.
Wait a week or so ,then the cows eat it,and The milkyeild is maybe gett upp a little😮
Nice!!!!!
how do you ever get caught back up with feed. using some of next years to finish this year. Just hope for a bumper crop next year?
Growing more acres of forage next year
Bummer u ran out of feed with being so close to harvest time but try not to beat urself up to much over it it happens hopefully u will get a big crop in those bunkers this year
Thats some green forage what tell you haur stomach problems,
Assuming no more alfalfa to be able to plant more acres of corn?
What about loaders..will you get one
Maybe a suggestion why you don't make bales from your alfalfa fields next year?
Maybe not because he said they aren’t growing any alfalfa next year.
@@phil6465 oh
The cost would be a major factor
@@torrenwalker1203 true
I'm assuming they don't do that because it takes more or less 15 minutes to grind up a silage bale and they use a lot of silage, which would add up to a lot of time spent just chopping it in the mixer.
You could buikd a new bunker but uf you add three feet in tio if your bunker thats like building a new 4:45 bunker
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