American agriculture at its finest. Really am getting an appreciation for how modern farmers are able to utilise the land for maximum productivity. Great video as always.
For chopping this is the way this farm likes to harvest sorghum. The sorghum has a very thick juicy stalk. The frost helps making it chop better. Even though the plant is brown on the outside the stalk is still pretty green on the inside and can jam up the chopper hard in a second despite all the horse power. .
bigtractorpower No kidding? Wow! The only thing farmers bag in Southern Manitoba is grain and very few of them. Ranchers wrap some round bales in high moisture alfalfa either bale by bale or on the farm with a inline bale wrapper. But you don’t get the extreme cold winters so that may be a reason?
That's one tough plant, thick too. That head looks like a movie prop, a scfi Corman flick. I liked you got close with wagon off loaded into plastic the silage, very cool. Another fine BTP Presentation 🚜🌽🐮🇺🇸
I love watching your forage harvesting videos. I have always wanted to run one of these machines, but never got the chance to do so. Back in the 90s I worked at a feedyard. We had 2 box choppers and several 2 row choppers.
Bigtractorpower, thanks for all these awesome great video's! Do you think at some point future you could do potato and sugar beet planting, potato and sugar beet harvest? Is there much canola grown in western Kentucky?
There are a few thousand acres of canola. I have potato planting and harvest filmed. Stay tuned. No sugar beets yet but they are on my wish list to film.
Hard corners are not friendly to pto shafts is one reason. Some of the newer wagons or carts run off hydraulic only, having hoses hanging is much safer and hard corners do not matter.
@@bigtractorpower I have been following you for almost a year. Finally commented and I will continue to. I think you are one of THE BEST tractor channels on RUclips. My family and I own a small organic vegetable farm near Rochester NY and my obsession with tractors started when I was a little boy! Thanks, keep up the good work!
Thank you for watching. Always an honor to have viewers from over seas. I enjoy watching UK farm channels. It’s neat to see how farming differs from place to place.
It's interesting how on this farm they use a 9420 to pull that 9 shank ripper but on one of the earlier farms they used the 9620. Is there a lot more clay in the soil of the previous farm?
I am not sure. The two farms are about 40 miles apart. This 9420R is really weighted up where there is no weight on the 9620Rs. The 9620Rs also pull several over big 60ft tool bars and air seeders in the season.
Different way of storing silage in long plastic bags, I wonder how they compress air out of the bag? Or apply some chemical to slow decomposing of silage? Great vid👍bet you can’t wait for ride in new JD forage harvester.
@Jamie Shields The natural bacteria in the bag use up the oxygen, preventing rot. The silage should be usable for a couple years, as long as the bag doesn't get a hole in it.
I have seen some farms storing the forage in a silo. Is that the same process just stored in a silo instead of a giant bag or is it a totally different prossec.
It is a similar forage process. Farmers in my area favor big concrete bunkers, basically a concrete floor with 3 10-12 foot tall walls, the forage is just dumped in and a very large articulated FWD tractor with a huge dozer blade moves it around and drives over it to compact it. Then they cover the bunk with a big tarp when it gets full. The very tall, round silos are getting to be antiquated. The issue is with those, it is about impossible to unload the wagons into that type at a rate that is comparable to the modern forage harvestors. It also takes too long to get the feed back out later to feed the hug e mega farms we have nowdays. Bags and bunker type storage allows the farmer to just scoop up a big bucket of feed at once. Personally, I miss the old ways. I think the animals were better cared for, I think more care was taken in our food production overall back when farms had 50 milking cows instead of 10,000. At first these huge machines allowed for that type of expansion, now they are required to stay financially sound as the economics of it all has evened out over time.
My guess would be that sorghum would do better in the hot, hot heat of the late summer in the southern US (temperatures in that part of the world often top out at 95-105 degrees Fahrenheit [35-40 degrees Celsius]). Sorghum tends to grow better in extreme heat like that than oats, which I think of as more of a cool season crop.
The sorghum creates a good feed for the calves. After the sorghum is cut then the fields are open to apply manure over the winter months until Corn planting in March.
Can you explain a non-farmer why corn is always cut way over the ground, when for example wheat does not have nearly as much stalk left? I'd think that would be extra yield, but maybe that little extra is even more useful when incorporated back into the soil? Thank you, for info and your videos! :)
Because there is not really and nutritional value at the bottom of the plant and that is where most of the mycotoxins and other diseases can be. This can cause problems with milk production and cow health.
According to the John Deere web site, the front end attachments are driven by a hydraulic motor located at the bottom left corner of the front end equipment attachment plate, when viewed in the machines normal direction of travel. The hydraulic motor receives its oil from a pump driven off the main gearbox mounted to the engine of the machine. Please note, the 8600 is no longer being produced. Its replacement is the 9600. The drive system for the front end attachments are of similar design between the 8500 and the 9600. www.deere.com/en/hay-forage/harvesting/self-propelled-forage-harvesters/8500-forage-harvester/ I work for John Deere, but not on the design of forage harvesters.
I'm a little surprised that the farm doesn't knock down the corn stubble with a roller or bush hog...it seems to be a little hard for the planter discs to manage the stalks...great video tho
It’s an extra pass. With Martin Row Cleaners on the 1795 there is no issue planting in the stalks. On fields they plant with an air drill that will run a drag harrow over the stalks.
I do not know as I have not asked but it’s a good sized farm raising feed crops including corn, alfalfa and grass hay. They also raise grain crops including wheat, soybeans and corn plus tobacco. There are two 8600 choppers, four S670 combines and four 1795 planters used to get all the crops done so they cover some acres.
It all depends. Some of the fields do have manure applied through a drag line. They harrow those fields and seed the sorghum with an air drill. They have a bunch going on at chopping time. For this video I kept to a basic description of the process.
American agriculture at its finest. Really am getting an appreciation for how modern farmers are able to utilise the land for maximum productivity. Great video as always.
Thank you for watching. It is a fast paced business.
Lovely story telling - thank you from over the Pond!
Thank you for watching.
I love seeing these JOHN DEERE MACHINES. Including the forage HARVESTER.
John Deere builds some impressive harvesters.
Never knew that you had to let a frost kill off the sorghum before they cut it. Learn something new every day 🚜👍
For chopping this is the way this farm likes to harvest sorghum. The sorghum has a very thick juicy stalk. The frost helps making it chop better. Even though the plant is brown on the outside the stalk is still pretty green on the inside and can jam up the chopper hard in a second despite all the horse power. .
I had never even heard of sorghum before, not something I have ever seen in the UK I don't think.
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I figured ya'll would have the climate in the Uk to grow it
We had trouble with toxins in our sorghum haulage this year
*baylage
There's just something soothing about watching that monster cut silage
Forage harvesters are one of my favorite machines to film.
Wow awesome video! Silage in a bag? Never seen or heard of that before! Here it’s all huge silage piles. Thanks!
This farm bags corn, alfalfa and sorghum. It’s a neat process.
bigtractorpower No kidding? Wow! The only thing farmers bag in Southern Manitoba is grain and very few of them. Ranchers wrap some round bales in high moisture alfalfa either bale by bale or on the farm with a inline bale wrapper. But you don’t get the extreme cold winters so that may be a reason?
I know that burst of sunshine sure feels good on a cold January night!
Very true. It seems like only yesterday I filmed this.
That's one tough plant, thick too. That head looks like a movie prop, a scfi Corman flick. I liked you got close with wagon off loaded into plastic the silage, very cool. Another fine BTP Presentation 🚜🌽🐮🇺🇸
The Kemper heads are mean machines. Not something you want to get to close too. Thank you for watching.
I love watching your forage harvesting videos. I have always wanted to run one of these machines, but never got the chance to do so. Back in the 90s I worked at a feedyard. We had 2 box choppers and several 2 row choppers.
Very cool. Thank you for sharing. What brand of choppers did the feed yard run?
@@bigtractorpower We ran Hesston choppers. We used a D7 Cat to push and pack the silage.
What is the name of the farm in the video
What a pleasure it was BTP to sit and watch this informative video
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Awesome silage harvesting video. Liked seeing the JD forage harvester
Thank you for watching.
One of the most interesting videos you have produced! Thanks!
Glad you liked it. Thank you for watching.
Bigtractorpower, thanks for all these awesome great video's! Do you think at some point future you could do potato and sugar beet planting, potato and sugar beet harvest? Is there much canola grown in western Kentucky?
There are a few thousand acres of canola. I have potato planting and harvest filmed. Stay tuned. No sugar beets yet but they are on my wish list to film.
Nice video, I notice you always explain things very well, Thanks for the video!
Thank you for watching.
Thank you BTP i hope 2019 brings you good finds on older iron working in the field.
Happy New Year. Thank you for being a top BTP viewer and fan.
Super j'adore👍👍
Why don’t they leave the pto connected to the tractor after dumping or was that a special case at 5:30
Hard corners are not friendly to pto shafts is one reason. Some of the newer wagons or carts run off hydraulic only, having hoses hanging is much safer and hard corners do not matter.
The pto is always discontented. The wagon turns tight and the pto shaft would flex with the turn and break.
True. Hadn’t thought about it in that light. The only rig we run on our farm with a pto is a 3pt shredder so was t thinking about it that way
Nice video keep up good work love those big chopper Dan canada
Thank you for watching.
Cows love corn silage because of the ethanol. : )
Excellent video, love all that JD equipment and tractors
Thank you for watching.
That was a really cool video! Nice job.
Thank you for watching.
@@bigtractorpower I have been following you for almost a year. Finally commented and I will continue to. I think you are one of THE BEST tractor channels on RUclips. My family and I own a small organic vegetable farm near Rochester NY and my obsession with tractors started when I was a little boy! Thanks, keep up the good work!
You should check out Farmhand Mikes chopping video. It’s got big trucks and a big silage pile in it.
Mike is a friend of mine. He does great filming work. I really like his channel.
That whirring sound, my guess, is the chopping blades?
Awesome video...that so cool to see the whole process...
Glad you liked it. Thank you for watching.
Ok we don't see too much sorghum in GA we do have a right smart of brown top millet thanks for the info
Do they chop the millet or combine it? Father west in KY and into Missouri on the river bottoms sorghum/milo is harvested for grain.
6:40 why grease when you can lease? Lol
Great video! Lot of content covered here. Enjoyed!
Thank you for watching.
Great video! Don’t get to see this kinda thing in the uk! Awesome!
Thank you for watching. Always an honor to have viewers from over seas. I enjoy watching UK farm channels. It’s neat to see how farming differs from place to place.
nice video, as usual!
Hope you´ll get the new JD 9000 series forage harvester in front of the camera next season...
I should. The farm in this video will be running two 9600s. I am excited to see them.
It's interesting how on this farm they use a 9420 to pull that 9 shank ripper but on one of the earlier farms they used the 9620. Is there a lot more clay in the soil of the previous farm?
I am not sure. The two farms are about 40 miles apart. This 9420R is really weighted up where there is no weight on the 9620Rs. The 9620Rs also pull several over big 60ft tool bars and air seeders in the season.
Awesome video! How many cattle do they raise?
I am not sure. I have not asked. I would estimate there are a few thousand.
Wow one of those ole wagons every two minutes that is impressive.
They move allot of silage.
Different way of storing silage in long plastic bags, I wonder how they compress air out of the bag? Or apply some chemical to slow decomposing of silage? Great vid👍bet you can’t wait for ride in new JD forage harvester.
@Jamie Shields The natural bacteria in the bag use up the oxygen, preventing rot. The silage should be usable for a couple years, as long as the bag doesn't get a hole in it.
Thank you for sharing the info overbore
awesome machinery. The investment dollars must be staggering. Great video.
Self Propelled forage harvesters are a big investment. One of the more expensive farm machines to buy.
How long does a farm like this ceep there machines before they exchange it for a new machine??
I think they are traded each year.
Wow, the field of silage bags. How many head are on that farm?
I am not sure I have not asked. I guess it’s s few thousand.
I have seen some farms storing the forage in a silo. Is that the same process just stored in a silo instead of a giant bag or is it a totally different prossec.
Same thing.
It is a similar forage process. Farmers in my area favor big concrete bunkers, basically a concrete floor with 3 10-12 foot tall walls, the forage is just dumped in and a very large articulated FWD tractor with a huge dozer blade moves it around and drives over it to compact it. Then they cover the bunk with a big tarp when it gets full.
The very tall, round silos are getting to be antiquated. The issue is with those, it is about impossible to unload the wagons into that type at a rate that is comparable to the modern forage harvestors. It also takes too long to get the feed back out later to feed the hug e mega farms we have nowdays. Bags and bunker type storage allows the farmer to just scoop up a big bucket of feed at once.
Personally, I miss the old ways. I think the animals were better cared for, I think more care was taken in our food production overall back when farms had 50 milking cows instead of 10,000. At first these huge machines allowed for that type of expansion, now they are required to stay financially sound as the economics of it all has evened out over time.
davenhla and scruffy 61 thanks for the answer.
Awesome Video Buddy!!
Rolling out some big John Deere’s this week.
How does the bagger work, have you done a video of one before
I have not done a narrated video but here is a video showing more bagging at the farm m.ruclips.net/video/xgb4eHQmBRI/видео.html
So the sorghum is grown for silage as well (like the corn) and not for the grain, Is that correct?
That is correct. It is chopped for silage.
Why not plant oats over winter when dubble cropping? Will it not yield more than sorgum?
My guess would be that sorghum would do better in the hot, hot heat of the late summer in the southern US (temperatures in that part of the world often top out at 95-105 degrees Fahrenheit [35-40 degrees Celsius]). Sorghum tends to grow better in extreme heat like that than oats, which I think of as more of a cool season crop.
The sorghum creates a good feed for the calves. After the sorghum is cut then the fields are open to apply manure over the winter months until
Corn planting in March.
Did you get your 100 subscriber play button yet?Please if possible do more sprayers in action videos this year.
I have not yet. I will work on some sprayer footage.
How can I order BTP attire? Preferably
caps?
That is a good question. I do have some new hats. Stay tuned.
Yes, Id purchase and wear a BTP T-Shirt W/Tractor Logos same style fonts as OEM-s good idea !
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Combine it for feed👍
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Can you explain a non-farmer why corn is always cut way over the ground, when for example wheat does not have nearly as much stalk left? I'd think that would be extra yield, but maybe that little extra is even more useful when incorporated back into the soil? Thank you, for info and your videos! :)
Because there is not really and nutritional value at the bottom of the plant and that is where most of the mycotoxins and other diseases can be. This can cause problems with milk production and cow health.
The part that is cut is the most nutritious part of the plant also cutting up a bit avoids pulling in stones.
Grease me the loader says
Why do they plant the second crop on an angle to the previous crop?
Kevin Kenny ruts and roots.
Helps with water erosion also.
It changes the direction of travel a bit in the field keeping compaction of the same places.
How the Engine of Harvester is connected to the mower: belts or some kind of hidraulic motor?
Luiz Gustavo Padilha this specific chopper im not sure but most are drive lines to belts. At least the new holland I drove was drive line to belt
According to the John Deere web site, the front end attachments are driven by a hydraulic motor located at the bottom left corner of the front end equipment attachment plate, when viewed in the machines normal direction of travel. The hydraulic motor receives its oil from a pump driven off the main gearbox mounted to the engine of the machine. Please note, the 8600 is no longer being produced. Its replacement is the 9600. The drive system for the front end attachments are of similar design between the 8500 and the 9600. www.deere.com/en/hay-forage/harvesting/self-propelled-forage-harvesters/8500-forage-harvester/
I work for John Deere, but not on the design of forage harvesters.
Thanks for posting this info.
where is the farm located.and how many cows do they milk?
It is in Logan County, KY. I have not asked how many cows they milk but I would guess it’s a few thousand.
How many do they milk?
I am not sure I have not asked but I would guess a few thousand.
@@bigtractorpower Thank You, I really enjoy your videos.
Do you know how many tons of silage they store and how many cattle they have?
I have not asked. I would guess there are a few thousand cows.
That’s a bunch of bags. On a side note this video is proof there was more than one day in a row without rain.
Back when it was extra dry in July. Hopefully it does not rain so much now we stop seeing any in the summer of 2019.
I've never seen so many bags
This farm has a bunch.
I'm a little surprised that the farm doesn't knock down the corn stubble with a roller or bush hog...it seems to be a little hard for the planter discs to manage the stalks...great video tho
It’s an extra pass. With Martin Row Cleaners on the 1795 there is no issue planting in the stalks. On fields they plant with an air drill that will run a drag harrow over the stalks.
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Thank you for watching.
So many ag bags :O
They have a bunch.
@@bigtractorpower Must be easier than silo's, or cheaper, or both ?
Please grease the loader
Is it normal for farmers to plant corn in the same field two years in a row in Virginia and then plant wheat and then soybeans
This farm will follow the double crop sorghum with another crop of corn and then probably wheat and double crop soybeans.
bigtractorpower thank you
how many acres do they have?
I do not know as I have not asked but it’s a good sized farm raising feed crops including corn, alfalfa and grass hay. They also raise grain crops including wheat, soybeans and corn plus tobacco. There are two 8600 choppers, four S670 combines and four 1795 planters used to get all the crops done so they cover some acres.
bigtractorpower That’s a big operation they have with all that equipment. Great video!! Really enjoyed it.
Might want to buy a Milwaukee grease gun holy cow lol
Farm not a fan of 15” corn?
This farm raises 30 inch corn and 15 inch soybeans and sorghum. They could plant 15 inches on everything but seem to prefer 30 inch corn.
There is no manurespreading? They've got enough i should think.
It all depends. Some of the fields do have manure applied through a drag line. They harrow those fields and seed the sorghum with an air drill. They have a bunch going on at chopping time. For this video I kept to a basic description of the process.