I am here in the USA. I grew up in South Texas. My father was a hard-working farmer and rancher. I have so much respect for the farmers and ranchers across the world. Such a hard life, and we should be thankful for them!
When you have rain in down hay rows you have to turn the rows over to get the hay to dry out. The farming equipment sure has changed a lot. I always enjoy watching.
Combines always look so hard to drive . I would be really worried in the road at keeping to correct side and going round corners etc . Hehe a good days work done for you . As you say much faster than things used to be my hubbies family were farmers many years ago I must say .
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, Ant! Such an interesting process to learn how it changed from small bales to the current method. Nice to see country life.
Thank you Ant for the very interesting video. I grew up on a dairy farm in New York State, America. I’ve seen many of those square bales of hay put up in the barn for winter!
The things you do in your videos is very interesting to me because I have never lived in the country,only suburbs and cities. I had to Google Silage,lol ❤Thanks again for sharing your part of the world!
I thought of corn silage as well. The university I live near grows corn across the street from me & uses the silage for their livestock. Yep, still livestock & farming in Southern California! Thanks for the great learning experience!
Hiya Ant!😊 l can still remembermy cousins jump starting the ute and crossing the wire under the dash to keep her going,then later on coasting up o a peaticular tree and pulling the wires apart to bring it to a stop!! Lol 😅 ( noone had a licence, but being on a property it didn't cause any problems as everyone did it as a matter of course!)Thanks for these vlogs and the memories they invoke.😊❤ J.I.M.K Mrs. Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
I’m in Pennsylvania Amish country in the USA. I watch The Amish right out me door do all this with a team of horses and or mules. All the equipment is gas operated and pulled by the animals. After a crop is harvested manure is spread on the fields and then later cultivated. They still make the small bales. Some hire a tractor to make the large round bales. This was very interesting Ant. Thanks for sharing.
This is a very interesting video for those of us who do not live on a farm and what you do on the farm. I heard farming is a very hard work to do. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Growing up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina many years ago I am glad to see improvements in farming. But I can see the process is modern,but the process is still hard work for the farmer. I enjoyed this video. It brought back memories of families and how the family worked together plus friends.
Fantastic. So organised. Reminds me me of my childhood back in the 1940's on my grandad's farm, He used shire horses pulling hay carts loaded with hay. Thrashing machines were steam driven from a steam engine, Everyone on the farm helped. My sister and I loved the picnics we always had. We all have a lot to thank our farmers for. 👋Thank you all.
"She's alive again - She lives on!" and then onto the big, new, bright tractors and machinery. I am always amazed and so interested in farming and how things work. Hello Charlie and thank you, Ant. This was so interesting to watch and learn.
Thank you for showing us this process Ant. Very interesting to watch. I was amazed the old tractor was still working.. I thought it had been abandoned! My neighbour has a couple of vintage tractors which he still uses on a regular basis. Thank you to all farmers everywhere who work such long hours harvesting all crops.
When I saw the word silage my first thought was corn silage, grew up on a ranch, so this is good memories, at the time it was a lot of hot (or bitter cold) hard work! Total respect for what these lads were doing!
I love the smell of fresh cut grass but always makes me sneeze! I've mostly lived in rural areas my whole life (70-ish) but never knew all of this. It's amazing to think what farmers had to do before big equipment was common just to feed their animals in winter. Thank you!
Thanks Ant! I have always loved trucks and machinery of any kind, since I was a young child. It was so fun to watch the machinery work together to get the job done. The drivers are so skilled, they make it look so easy!!🤗
That was most enjoyable...I love sitting at the edge of my local fields watching them do the very same... quite fancy a drive of a tractor 🚜. Thank you for sharing that with us.love to you all.from Walter cat and me.😊
Thank you for sharing this, Ant! I live in Northwestern Montana U.S. The "cash crop" is beef cattle. I don't think we do silage (green grass) ... we do hay and typically it is the large round bales, sometimes the square on smaller areas. All fascinating and "we" who eat the results (beef!!) are not always privy to the process. Fascinating to see the silage process. One issue with hay bales here is the fire risk ... I am not sure if it is too much moisture or too little. I would think not an issue with silage being green and very moist, but is there a fire risk?
I am from nyc,but my parents were born in Norway. We would go back to Norway for summer “haying” time. In the 60s they had “a horse and buggy” and did the work completely by hand! What great fun as a little girl to help out. Makes me seem ancient 💚💜💙
Wow! Love to see the new technology. I grew up on a farm here in Ontario, Canada. We spent many a day baling hay and lifting those square bales!Ugh!! I can smell the sweetness.Thank you so much, Ant!
Thank you Ant. They certainly do have huge machinery. In NZ we do bayledge, they have a bailer and another machine that follows and wrap the bale, then the fork lift on the tractor lines them up along the fence. Its a big day for everyone when they harvest. Thank you for showing us the process. Regards to the Editor. Take care.
I worked small bales as a kid. The bailer wire was missing and we as kids had to fix so machine that picked up wouldn’t get hung up. We were small it took two of us to turn over the bail of hay.
I always wondered what those tires and black plastic tarps were hiding. It was also a interesting to see the transition from small machnery farming to what is being using today.
Hi Ant Thanks for keeping us up to date. I always thought silage was put in large vat towers and stored,and that hay was baled and wrapped in plastic all in one procedure. A lot of hard work either way( around essex they are now squared of instead of those big round bales). I suppose the farmer knows best👏💫🌟🌽
Thank you Ant! Very interesting to see how things are done in other countries. I live on part of a farm that has been in our family for 4 generations and still love learning how things can be done! Thank you for sharing!
Great video! I used to love the smells when the fields were being cut in Colorado. These days allergy issues would get me. But, I am in Florida now. Hmm. I still sniff Timothy hay in the pet stores to get just a whiff. Haha.
What a fascinating video! Thank you so much, Ant, for giving us this opportunity to see this process that most of us would never have been able to see otherwise!
Such an interesting process. Around here, farmers cut the fields and roll the hail into large round blaes. Is this equivalent to what we do here? Good job!
Wow! Fascinating! How much would it cost to bring in the crew to do that much acreage in a day? Their machinery looked brand new! I’m also surprised that the silage doesn’t begin to ferment under that plastic, even with compaction.
My son and family live in Iowa here in the US & this reminds me of what we see when we go visit. Where would we be without God who created & then the hard working farmers?!! Thank you for all of your wonderful videos❣️
Ant- did your parents and grands farm...do you all have a multi generation family farm? Just wondering if that still exists in England. Thanks! (ya don't want to hear want I think about releasing balloons!!! BIG problem in the states.) What is the name of the plant/crop that is used to make the silage.
Very interesting, Ant! Here in Denmark we have a plant called Jacobaea vulgaris in latin. It grows in some fields. It's poisonous to horses, and they won't normally eat it, but if it's in the silage, and they eat it, they will die. Do you have that plant, and if you do, what do you do to avoid it coming in the silage? I don't know, if other animals can eat the plant. Thanks for a always very interesting channel.
That was a really interesting video. Can I ask why are bales of hay are wrapped in ROUND bales now. Or is that silage? I’ve seen Lorries carrying around square bales of hay too. To my mind the square ones would be easier to stack and store. I hope this isn’t a silly question but I have wondered for a while when I see them out in the fields. Love your videos Ant. Thank you.
I liked that video. My grandparents had a farm and I liked riding along on the tractors but back then they weren’t as big as they are now. More like the little old one in the video. Do you also have silos in England? Used more for chopped corn silage in US Our hay was put in the top of the barns in bales.
love your channel - when you show us all these interesting activities, are these farms of your neighbors? And what about when you are repairing stone walls or stocking the pond with fish?
@@nancymandle5215 Hi Nancy the farm is where I grew up and is within a couple of minutes from where I live now running the fishery also the stonewalls are all on local farms
So do these groups of heavy machinery operators travel through the countryside together to various farms during harvesting season? Are they typically independent operators or do they work for a single company who own the machinery? Or, Do the guys own their own machinery? Together they represent an impressive investment!!!!!!!!!! Are the bales (unwrapped and wrapped) also silage? When is a bale silage and when is a bale hay? And what is straw? The pit should be called a hill! Can you tell I live in the city?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@marynimocks6791 the machinery operators are contractors who travel around the area doing many farms … we do bale hay and silage in to big round bales also hay is dry grass and silage is green grass … hope that helps
I am here in the USA. I grew up in South Texas. My father was a hard-working farmer and rancher. I have so much respect for the farmers and ranchers across the world. Such a hard life, and we should be thankful for them!
Very interesting to this ole Iowa farm girl!
This is so interesting! Great video - thanks so much!!!
When you have rain in down hay rows you have to turn the rows over to get the hay to dry out. The farming equipment sure has changed a lot. I always enjoy watching.
Combines always look so hard to drive . I would be really worried in the road at keeping to correct side and going round corners etc . Hehe a good days work done for you . As you say much faster than things used to be my hubbies family were farmers many years ago I must say .
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, Ant! Such an interesting process to learn how it changed from small bales to the current method.
Nice to see country life.
Thank you Ant for the very interesting video. I grew up on a dairy farm in New York State, America. I’ve seen many of those square bales of hay put up in the barn for winter!
I kept thinking this is very interesting, also very dangerous -- massive machines close together, especially in the barn. Respect!
So interesting thank you for sharing love seeing how other people do things
Thank you Ant. I love to see how things work. It’s still hard work even with modern machines.
The things you do in your videos is very interesting to me because I have never lived in the country,only suburbs and cities. I had to Google Silage,lol ❤Thanks again for sharing your part of the world!
I thought of corn silage as well. The university I live near grows corn across the street from me & uses the silage for their livestock. Yep, still livestock & farming in Southern California!
Thanks for the great learning experience!
I grew up with the small bales, lots of hours of throwing them on the wagon and then in the mow. Much more efficient now.
Wow, loved watching this video. What a lot of work, but the cows are worth it
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I have always wondered where that expression "Make hay while the sun shines"
Makes sense now😅
Jan from Jacksonville Florida
What an interesting video and interesting job! Make hay while the sun shines is in action! Ok, ok, I know it's not dry hay. ;) Thanks!
Hiya Ant!😊 l can still remembermy cousins jump starting the ute and crossing the wire under the dash to keep her going,then later on coasting up o a peaticular tree and pulling the wires apart to bring it to a stop!! Lol 😅 ( noone had a licence, but being on a property it didn't cause any problems as everyone did it as a matter of course!)Thanks for these vlogs and the memories they invoke.😊❤ J.I.M.K Mrs. Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃
@@damienk5011 your welcome
I’m in Pennsylvania Amish country in the USA. I watch The Amish right out me door do all this with a team of horses and or mules. All the equipment is gas operated and pulled by the animals. After a crop is harvested manure is spread on the fields and then later cultivated. They still make the small bales. Some hire a tractor to make the large round bales. This was very interesting Ant. Thanks for sharing.
Wowzers!❤
Thanks, Ant. I enjoyed this video.
Hi Ant another interesting video , how far we have come in farming machinery yet still the old ones are just as good .
This is a very interesting video for those of us who do not live on a farm and what you do on the farm. I heard farming is a very hard work to do. Thank you for this wonderful video.
That was really interesting. Thanks Ant.
Wow Ant! Thanks so much! What a fantastic video! You and Charlie are amazing! We appreciate you both!
@@Tichaba124 thankyou
Growing up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina many years ago I am glad to see improvements in farming. But I can see the process is modern,but the process is still hard work for the farmer. I enjoyed this video. It brought back memories of families and how the family worked together plus friends.
I always learn something new from you Ant! Beautiful countryside and interesting to see just a bit of the hard work that goes into raising livestock.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic. So organised. Reminds me me of my childhood back in the 1940's on my grandad's farm, He used shire horses pulling hay carts loaded with hay. Thrashing machines were steam driven from a steam engine, Everyone on the farm helped. My sister and I loved the picnics we always had. We all have a lot to thank our farmers for. 👋Thank you all.
"She's alive again - She lives on!" and then onto the big, new, bright tractors and machinery. I am always amazed and so interested in farming and how things work. Hello Charlie and thank you, Ant. This was so interesting to watch and learn.
Thank you for showing us this process Ant. Very interesting to watch. I was amazed the old tractor was still working.. I thought it had been abandoned! My neighbour has a couple of vintage tractors which he still uses on a regular basis. Thank you to all farmers everywhere who work such long hours harvesting all crops.
When I saw the word silage my first thought was corn silage, grew up on a ranch, so this is good memories, at the time it was a lot of hot (or bitter cold) hard work! Total respect for what these lads were doing!
The countryside is beautiful
Thanks, Ant, I so enjoyed seeing all the men and different equipment, doing their respective jobs.
@@marens8925 thankyou
very interesting although I always thought "silage" meant cow poop! now I know.
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I love the smell of fresh cut grass but always makes me sneeze! I've mostly lived in rural areas my whole life (70-ish) but never knew all of this. It's amazing to think what farmers had to do before big equipment was common just to feed their animals in winter. Thank you!
Very interesting, Ant! I love seeing the countryside, mostly I love the stone walls! ❤
I can smell the hay. Mmmmm
Thanks Ant! I have always loved trucks and machinery of any kind, since I was a young child. It was so fun to watch the machinery work together to get the job done. The drivers are so skilled, they make it look so easy!!🤗
That was most enjoyable...I love sitting at the edge of my local fields watching them do the very same... quite fancy a drive of a tractor 🚜. Thank you for sharing that with us.love to you all.from Walter cat and me.😊
Thank you for sharing this, Ant! I live in Northwestern Montana U.S. The "cash crop" is beef cattle. I don't think we do silage (green grass) ... we do hay and typically it is the large round bales, sometimes the square on smaller areas. All fascinating and "we" who eat the results (beef!!) are not always privy to the process. Fascinating to see the silage process.
One issue with hay bales here is the fire risk ... I am not sure if it is too much moisture or too little. I would think not an issue with silage being green and very moist, but is there a fire risk?
I loved seeing this. I've never seen the whole process before. Thank you, Ant! Love your channel.
@@SusanBAnderson Thankyou I’m glad your enjoying the videos and my channel
I am from nyc,but my parents were born in Norway. We would go back to Norway for summer “haying” time. In the 60s they had “a horse and buggy” and did the work completely by hand! What great fun as a little girl to help out. Makes me seem ancient 💚💜💙
Wow I love the old tractor; what a difference to the air-conditioned models used now!
@@gwennunn6137 yes it’s amazing sometimes how things have changed so much in a short space of time
Wow! Love to see the new technology. I grew up on a farm here in Ontario, Canada. We spent many a day baling hay and lifting those square bales!Ugh!! I can smell the sweetness.Thank you so much, Ant!
@@kathytowe2803 your welcome
Thank you Ant. They certainly do have huge machinery. In NZ we do bayledge, they have a bailer and another machine that follows and wrap the bale, then the fork lift on the tractor lines them up along the fence. Its a big day for everyone when they harvest. Thank you for showing us the process. Regards to the Editor. Take care.
@@mariehansen2534 we also do round bales here when the weather is good
Very interesting, Ant, thank you for enlightening us!
I worked small bales as a kid. The bailer wire was missing and we as kids had to fix so machine that picked up wouldn’t get hung up. We were small it took two of us to turn over the bail of hay.
Such an interesting process. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I'm looking forward to showing my grandson this video, he'll love it. Thanks Ant.
@@pickledellies your welcome hope he does enjoy it
I always wondered what those tires and black plastic tarps were hiding. It was also a interesting to see the transition from small machnery farming to what is being using today.
Thanks Ant, this brought back alot of memories. Also, my deepest respect to farmers because it is a very dangerous job and a lot of knowledge used. 😊
Hi Ant
Thanks for keeping us up to date. I always thought silage was put in large vat towers and stored,and that hay was baled and wrapped in plastic all in one procedure. A lot of hard work either way( around essex they are now squared of instead of those big round bales). I suppose the farmer knows best👏💫🌟🌽
Thank you Ant! Very interesting to see how things are done in other countries. I live on part of a farm that has been in our family for 4 generations and still love learning how things can be done! Thank you for sharing!
Always interesting to see how things are done. Thanks 😎
The video is so good that I can almost smell the grass. Fascinating as usual Ant. Xx
Well, I never knew! Thanks Ant!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Great video! I used to love the smells when the fields were being cut in Colorado. These days allergy issues would get me. But, I am in Florida now. Hmm. I still sniff Timothy hay in the pet stores to get just a whiff. Haha.
Those fields, the machinery, the harvesting, all so impressive! I enjoy your videos very much, Ant.
Glad you like them!
What a great video! A lot of people would never have known this process takes place, always great to watch ❤
So interesting. I have no exposure to farm life, appreciate the window you’re giving us Ant.
What a fascinating video! Thank you so much, Ant, for giving us this opportunity to see this process that most of us would never have been able to see otherwise!
@@merilynnecohen2941 I’m glad you enjoyed it thanks
Fascinating!! Thank you, Ant!
My pleasure I’m really happy that you liked it
Very interesting, I had no idea. How do you get them into rolls?
Very interesting...thanks, Ant.
I could watch this over and over again!
This was a very educational video for me. I've never seen this done before. Lots of giant equipment used for such an important job.
Those machines have some power on them!! And the guys working must know each other's movements so well...! great video.
Thanks again for getting me in the fresh air!
Loved this! Do the farmers own their own equipment or is this hired out? Fascinating to see and I now have so many questions😊. thank you farmers!
Most of the farmers have the tractors but contractors bring in the big machinery
Loving this!
Such an interesting process. Around here, farmers cut the fields and roll the hail into large round blaes. Is this equivalent to what we do here? Good job!
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Wow! Fascinating! How much would it cost to bring in the crew to do that much acreage in a day? Their machinery looked brand new! I’m also surprised that the silage doesn’t begin to ferment under that plastic, even with compaction.
It actually does start to ferment but the bi-product turns it slightly acidic which prevents any more fermentation
What an amazing process. And does that equipment make it easier although it's still a lot of work! Thanks for sharing!
The machinery makes it way easier than it used to be
I live in a rural area and this is done here as well. A great video! Thanks for sharing your experience and beautiful part of the world.
My son and family live in Iowa here in the US & this reminds me of what we see when we go visit. Where would we be without God who created & then the hard working farmers?!! Thank you for all of your wonderful videos❣️
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My dad would put up hay bales and corn silage. The hay went from the square bales to round bales over the years.
Big job!! Fun video 👍🏻
This was really interesting. Thank you.
What is the tractor attachment called at the beginning that merges the four rows together?
@@nbc911 we call that machine a hay bob or Tedder
Ant- did your parents and grands farm...do you all have a multi generation family farm? Just wondering if that still exists in England. Thanks! (ya don't want to hear want I think about releasing balloons!!! BIG problem in the states.) What is the name of the plant/crop that is used to make the silage.
Very interesting, Ant! Here in Denmark we have a plant called Jacobaea vulgaris in latin. It grows in some fields. It's poisonous to horses, and they won't normally eat it, but if it's in the silage, and they eat it, they will die. Do you have that plant, and if you do, what do you do to avoid it coming in the silage? I don't know, if other animals can eat the plant.
Thanks for a always very interesting channel.
@@lottesroom hi lotte in England it’s called ragwort and its very poisonous… it’s usually pulled out and burnt so that it doesn’t contaminate any feed
That was a really interesting video. Can I ask why are bales of hay are wrapped in ROUND bales now. Or is that silage? I’ve seen Lorries carrying around square bales of hay too. To my mind the square ones would be easier to stack and store. I hope this isn’t a silly question but I have wondered for a while when I see them out in the fields. Love your videos Ant. Thank you.
@@christinesmutek3856 both hay and silage are round baled and wrapped to keep them fresh large square are also still used
This is fascinating! Thanks, Ant. Is this northern England?
@@JC-hn7cm yes it is
I liked that video. My grandparents had a farm and I liked riding along on the tractors but back then they weren’t as big as they are now. More like the little old one in the video.
Do you also have silos in England? Used more for chopped corn silage in US Our hay was put in the top of the barns in bales.
@@davidselig6549 grain is usually stored in silos in the uk
love your channel - when you show us all these interesting activities, are these farms of your neighbors? And what about when you are repairing stone walls or stocking the pond with fish?
@@nancymandle5215 Hi Nancy the farm is where I grew up and is within a couple of minutes from where I live now running the fishery also the stonewalls are all on local farms
Also stop with the balloons! They're deadly.
So do these groups of heavy machinery operators travel through the countryside together to various farms during harvesting season?
Are they typically independent operators or do they work for a single company who own the machinery?
Or, Do the guys own their own machinery?
Together they represent an impressive investment!!!!!!!!!!
Are the bales (unwrapped and wrapped) also silage? When is a bale silage and when is a bale hay? And what is straw?
The pit should be called a hill!
Can you tell I live in the city??
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@@marynimocks6791 the machinery operators are contractors who travel around the area doing many farms … we do bale hay and silage in to big round bales also hay is dry grass and silage is green grass … hope that helps
@@ants_countrylife Thanks! It does! Hope you all had great harvests!!
Aren’t you afraid of fire putting it up wet?
Pizza cutter tyres are damaging the ground terrible 🤦🤦
My dad would have hay in our barn and when I was a small child the hay combusted and we lost our home and belongings from the fore….
@@inezwalsh2584 that’s terrible