Cows love alfalfa leaves and will take forever to clean up the stems. That’s where a mixer wagon comes in, they can’t eat just the leaves when mixed with some grass or corn silage. Plus the silage moisture softens the alfalfa stems.
We also seeded down alfalfa with oats as a cover usually combined the oats for bedding. We mixed timothy seed with the alfalfa in a Minneapolis moline grain drill. Then pack the fields with a brillion cultimulcher.
Wow. Fescue takes over in my area. We would usually plant either Timothy or orchardgrass with alfalfa, and seed into fall planted oats no til. No farmer is wrong doing what they know works for them! Great video!
I like the way you farm . I used plant 40% Red Clover, 40%Alfalfa 20% Timothy. 3 cuts each year, for 3 years, and ploughed down for corn silage. Hay was large round wet wrapped. And I always sowed Oats and Barley mixed together as a cover crop for hay seeds. Mixed grain gave me higher straw yields. And I always swathed the grain and combined with a pickup, because some years the hay would start to grow up into the grain before harvest. And cutting with the swather and letting it dry a few days. All of the green hay would go right through the combine without plugging. You have very nice equipment and maintain it very well.
One of the coolest planting videos I ever saw was when someone got their camera in a perfect position to see the furrow get opened, the seed drop in and then the furrow was closed, it was really cool.😎
Getting it done. Here the winter wheat is being chopped for silage, liquid manure being spread and soon corn will go into the ground. Here by our milder winters and no till double cropping is standard
We were taught from birth in Tennessee not to farm the side of a hill. All you have is the side of a hill. Cool how people learn how to do with what they have. Great job guys!
We always seeded down alfalfa/orchard grass with oats and then chop oats at the milk stage but we cut it a little higher so the hay eastablishes a little more.
Just a little suggestion rolling your field afterwards would probably help with eroding and the push any rocks back in the ground to help with when you harvest you don't damage your equipment as much lol
Wow Aaron you can grow a full beard in a week 😂...must be a pre-video😊. Thanks for sharing another great video, always enjoyable and interesting, also enjoyed the drone footage
I grew up with a four section drag like you have. We had a 12 foot John Deere press drill for saving oats and alfalfa mixing them together. West of Glenwood Minnesota. We got about 100 Pushaw, the Acre on her oats
Enjoyed this. Would imagine little rivers of water flowing down the hill if the furrows if you didn't drag it.. I also appreciate getting a birds eye view of the fields. It does give a little better understanding of the hilly nature of the farm and is beautiful. You are doing fine with the drone. Thanks.
Just thinking when it comes time to harvest those oats you're going to really have to move really no hauling involved you're right by the storage building and how are the other Farmers crops growing especially those that planted really early are they coming along okay
looks a nice seed bed , here we would always roll it as the last pass to get good soil to seed contact and keep any moisture in the soil , and push in any stones for mowing , just wondering why you do not use a roller ?
I could listen to George all day. His knowledge, wisdom, and experience are beyond measure.
AARON we need sweatshirts and t-shirts😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀we have a couple of your hats already….. very relaxing watching it from the drone.
It is neat to see Wisconsin green in the spring. Also looking forward to watching it grow all through the summer.
Cows love alfalfa leaves and will take forever to clean up the stems. That’s where a mixer wagon comes in, they can’t eat just the leaves when mixed with some grass or corn silage. Plus the silage moisture softens the alfalfa stems.
We also seeded down alfalfa with oats as a cover usually combined the oats for bedding. We mixed timothy seed with the alfalfa in a Minneapolis moline grain drill. Then pack the fields with a brillion cultimulcher.
Great video. What you call a drag we call a harrow here in the UK. Thanks for the video. All the best 🇬🇧.
That sounds exactly what my dad used back when farming mixtures of alfalfa, Timothy, etc. bring back many spring memories.
Wow. Fescue takes over in my area. We would usually plant either Timothy or orchardgrass with alfalfa, and seed into fall planted oats no til. No farmer is wrong doing what they know works for them! Great video!
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO AARON 😊
Interesting video! Good discussion! Enjoy these days working with your dad and learn as much as you can from him. Take care and be safe...
Thanks, you too!
I like the way you farm . I used plant 40% Red Clover, 40%Alfalfa 20% Timothy. 3 cuts each year, for 3 years, and ploughed down for corn silage. Hay was large round wet wrapped. And I always sowed Oats and Barley mixed together as a cover crop for hay seeds. Mixed grain gave me higher straw yields. And I always swathed the grain and combined with a pickup, because some years the hay would start to grow up into the grain before harvest. And cutting with the swather and letting it dry a few days. All of the green hay would go right through the combine without plugging.
You have very nice equipment and maintain it very well.
Yes, t-shirts!
Looking forward to seeing the new seeding emerge and the corn planting videos. Thanks for sharing.
One of the coolest planting videos I ever saw was when someone got their camera in a perfect position to see the furrow get opened, the seed drop in and then the furrow was closed, it was really cool.😎
Getting it done. Here the winter wheat is being chopped for silage, liquid manure being spread and soon corn will go into the ground. Here by our milder winters and no till double cropping is standard
Certainly a beautiful day to start the spring planting season. Like watching how your family handles the machinery on sloping land.
That drill is the trick.
We sure have had nice weather to get field work done. Hope some rains show up to help the seed sprout. Thanks 😊.
Really enjoyed the drone footage. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to watch the machinery working.
Excellent video 📷
Oh ya I worked on a dairy in the early 90's and it was alot of Timothy alot lol
That beater is something I wish our older Great Plains drill had.
We were taught from birth in Tennessee not to farm the side of a hill. All you have is the side of a hill. Cool how people learn how to do with what they have. Great job guys!
We always seeded down alfalfa/orchard grass with oats and then chop oats at the milk stage but we cut it a little higher so the hay eastablishes a little more.
Yes Arron on hoodies and. Tees plz
Good job men
Just a little suggestion rolling your field afterwards would probably help with eroding and the push any rocks back in the ground to help with when you harvest you don't damage your equipment as much lol
Wow Aaron you can grow a full beard in a week 😂...must be a pre-video😊.
Thanks for sharing another great video, always enjoyable and interesting, also enjoyed the drone footage
I grew up with a four section drag like you have. We had a 12 foot John Deere press drill for saving oats and alfalfa mixing them together. West of Glenwood Minnesota. We got about 100 Pushaw, the Acre on her oats
Enjoyed this. Would imagine little rivers of water flowing down the hill if the furrows if you didn't drag it.. I also appreciate getting a birds eye view of the fields. It does give a little better understanding of the hilly nature of the farm and is beautiful. You are doing fine with the drone. Thanks.
Great video!
We would mix the Timothy in with the Alphalpha....Brome Grass with the 0ats...😊
Nice video Aaron
When is your first cut hay in this field ? Here in Holland we seeding grass before winter after cornsilage harvest
Great video
Looking good guys....i dont order tee shirts from videos because none have pocket tee's
Just thinking when it comes time to harvest those oats you're going to really have to move really no hauling involved you're right by the storage building and how are the other Farmers crops growing especially those that planted really early are they coming along okay
Just wondering why the drag was not behind the seeder
Let's get to work you say, You mean like" A little less horse manure, and a lot more horsepower"!🤣
When will you start on the new field you leased
When we seed ryegrass we seed it with fertelizer spreader and finer hay with drill and Roll it to flaten corn rootballs and stalks
I see you have what looks like three full corn bins, and only one empty, is that normal for April ?
looks a nice seed bed , here we would always roll it as the last pass to get good soil to seed contact and keep any moisture in the soil , and push in any stones for mowing , just wondering why you do not use a roller ?
Ever considered a no till set up?
Is your farm near Whitehall or Blair, Wisc??
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Do you roll the field after drag harrowing it?
Hilly and sloped land. What part of Wisconsin?
❤😊 My Old IH M GRAIN DRILL PLANTS IN PECK'S
I suppose that makes for some extra figuring at planting time my Case IH 5100 plants in bushels