High Moisture Ear Corn Harvest near Bad Axe Michigan
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2022
- In this video I am out in the field north of Bad Axe Michigan as they chop high moisture ear corn for silage Class Jaguar 970 & 990 self propelled forage harvesters with 12 row corn heads (Case IH & Gerringhoff) to harvest the corn. This process pretty much takes in the completed ear of corn where it is hauled back to the farm and pushed and packed onto a silage pile and will be used to feed the farms holstein steers over the next year.
This farm also runs a Versatile 520 tractor and a Versatile 610 track tractor (Delta Track) and I was able to get some footage of the 520 pulling a chisel plow and will have an upcoming video of that. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
When I was a kid we picked the ear a stored in the corn crib
I find these harvest videos veru relaxiung. Brings back so many memories from years gone by for me. To old to partake but would love to try the new equipment. I'm from the era where you sat out in thew open and knew what your gear was doing by the feel through your pants.
These agriculture machines are revolutionizing the farming industry!
Michigan, home of the multi axel truck! A Michigan cucumber harvest video would be sweet.
Mike you should get in touch with some of these big feedlots and do some silage videos on them and the ones here in Colorado idk if I ever gave you that idea or not
That looks like some awesome feed. Great video.
This is the first time seeing high moisture corn being harvested, I knew of it but never seen it. I knew it being stored in silos but not bunkers. Thanks
04:40 Mike, your farm practice explanations are really informative. I really have leaned a lot from your videos these last 4 years
Thanks,
Wonderful videos thank you Mike Less
That is really amazing. Our practices and procedures are considerably different than neighboring farms in the corn belt, so I love seeing others doing their own thing. I'd imagine that's a farmer feeder, or being produced as a product for sale, because of how large they are scaled.
We pull off some silage, but with old 1940's-50's towed equipment, and we pick some high moisture ear corn that we grind, again, vintage machinery, just for our own use. As silly as this sounds, we still use a JD 730 with a mounted picker for carving out some airways to speed up dry down on the rest of the field, and get our ear corn that way. It's million dollar combines aside from that, but sometimes their are little niches that only the antique stuff can do. But what they are doing would sure be fun!
We still hand pick some ornamental corn. We're just all over the place. LOL
That is impressive, It must be a big cattle operation there! I worked for a farm that once had a beef operation where they had a John Deere 5400 SP chopper running a 343 3 row head for earlage filling John Deere 125 and 714 A silage wagons. They used a 4430 John Deere with HWFD running a 1000 rpm Gehl 1580 blower filling a 25x90 and 20x60 Harvestores. The farm is Fairview Evergreen Nurseries in Northwest Pennsylvania but they discontinued the beef operation several years ago.
The 990 is a hell of a machine.We have 2 of them.
Thanks for posting this Mr. Less. Never seen it done this way
Best farming videos on YT! Thanks for all your efforts Mike.
It's cool to see a chopper with a combine head on it😉👍
Nice video again👍👍
Top as always Mike.In Germany we call it CCM CornCobMix.Mostly used for pig feed,
INTERESTING DO THEY MIX THE CCM WITH ANYTHING ELSE ARE THE COBS CHOPPED FINE FOR THE PIGS
@@JohnDoe-gq8tt The CCM get in a mill before they pack it in the silo.
@@udo5479 THANK YOU
Just amazing, man, we just don't see farms like that here in PEI Canada,
This was another excellent video, liked it as much as the silage videos
Hello! That 12 row header is a good option regarding an efficient alternative use of a costly equipment!
Grand video!
Thanks a lot for that! 😊👍🏻
Cool video Mike. Lots of cattle to feed there. 👍
Great vídeo Mike.
I remember hand picking corn.hauled to the local mill every sat.to have feed ground.added salt mineral and molasses. My job as soon as I got dl.will never forget growing up on the farm.
🤙enjoyed thank you for sharing this information
Man what an another awesome video, I’m used to seeing the chopping but never just taking the ear
Great video Mike👍
Keep up the great work 👍👍
Awesome video mike,as non farmer and as a Farming simulator player,i learned a much more by playing farming simulator and watching your video,greeting from Montréal in Canada 🙂🇨🇦
I like watching Mike less videos on CZcams, from the imperial co California.
🚜 Love videos Mike😀
Back when I was a kid we fed cattle ground ear corn. We had a burr mill. This was back in the WD-45 diesel/D-17 diesel days.
Mike I enjoyed this video thank you very much for all your videos thank you for all you do to put them together .thank you Mike keep up the good work
That older pile is incredible. Plants have taken root on it and it's as tall as a cliff. Mike can get his PhD on the unique biosphere of silage piles.
Hmmm that's interesting. Haven't seen that kind of silage. Looks like a lot of leftovers from the past season if that's what I'm seeing? And it's uncovered with weeds growing on top. If my eyes aren't lying to me then I'm guessing that it's a whole nother bag of beans when it comes to storage and how that feed ferments or breaks down for the cattle.
Got my curious meter bouncing around. lol
Wow that's a slick way of doing it One step and your done You have the horsepower to go do it And good for put in a upright silo or a pit Same way as silage Great video
Very informative 👏
Luv yur work!
If I ever make it to the states again before I die, I want to drive on of them Versatiles and disc some stalks on those gigantic field, those pastures of plenty. Combine some wheat in the Palouse, dig some potatoes in Idaho, and pick some fruit in California. Bless your beautiful country.
Mike, I really enjoy your farming videos. You are correct things are differently than when I was growing up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Keep up the great work. Would love to know the name of the songs you use in your videos. Thanks again for what you do.
Love the explanations, even if I don’t understand them sometimes.😉
I still pick ear corn for steers on my small farm. Its great feed and the cattle stay healthy on it. I wonder how a ration would balance out for dairy cows. Most farmers in my area had New Idea pickers but most people don't know that New Idea had a grinder attachment so you could pick and grind at the same time. I assume the idea was to blow this feed up a silo.
We also use this process out in the interior of British Columbia but bag the product as we are a much smaller farm!
Saw ya at the farm show
I work on a 6,000 cow dairy west of badaxe, was wondering what farm this was harvested for.
On the side of the truck, it says Wil Le Farms
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Mike. I like the video I’ve never seen it before. Thank you for putting it out there.
At first i hear Bad Ass Michigan,😁
Really interesting video as always mike and your explanations are spot on. Would this be for beef or dairy? Here in the UK we do whole crop Maize silage but I have not heard of Ear Corn so I have learnt something new, That artic ford pushing up looks a fair beast.
I WAS EXPECTING SOMETHING FROM THE NATIONAL FARM SHOW FROM YOU
THIS IS JUST AS GOOD EVEYONE ELSE HAS A FARM SHOW VIDEO THANKS THIS WAS GREAT
Thanks. I’m working on a show video
Great video, as always! What moisture range do they shoot for on ear-lage?
😁Normally 14%_16% is desired but can run a little lower.😁
If you mentioned this, I missed it, but what was the moisture of the corn here (if you heard/know) ? Bad Axe is actually quite a ways north in the state and many do not realize it since it is in the thumb. They get some pretty tough weather there at times due to the latitude and the way weather tends to cross the state. There's almost nothing but farms in the thumb.................and great deer hunting :-) It's a nice area to drive around in. Looking forwards to seeing the 520 on the chisel!
In September our silage pile for the gas plant was 52.5 ft high.
they should have a safe-t-pull on the chopper then the truck driver could take a nap when they are opening up!
Hmmm.....never thought about the use of combine heads on a chopper.....mount connections must not be too much of a nightmare.....makes a nice set-up....
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What was the moisture? Excellent video Mike!
Hello mike! I see some of the trailers got quite a few axles, whats the legal weight on them trucks? I know 80000 pounds was the limit when I was working in usa 25 years ago. Here in sweden the limit has been around 60 metric tonnes for decades and some roads 74 tonnes nowadays. There has been some trials with 90 ton roadtrains for timbertransports up north to look at roadsafety and so on but thats just for highways in areas with low traffic.Thanks for a great show Andreas Bergman
It's the typical 80,000 lb. for an 18 wheeler in Michigan but the state allows up to 11 axle trucks without oversize permit up to 180,000 lb. The rear axles weight is slighty decreased but the steer axle weight is increased. Most trucks run doubles trailers. The extra axles are there for spreading their weight on bridges but our roads take an extra beating next to the constant freeze thaw cycles and the extra tire debris from running all those wheels.
Hi Mike. What is the easy listening music at end of this video. It is great, and I would like to get a CD or 2 by these musicians. This is another excellent video. I am a grain corn grower in Moses Lake, Washington
Great video👍 is there a reason they flail chop it yet, do they bale it?
And how many 'rock' stars can Bad Axe Michigan boast about?
I don’t know. Tell us?
@@farmhandmike Mike...zero.😂.
Can you tell us about the old silage with the weeds growing on it?
What is the tractor following the trucks and harvester for?
surely you get more product by doing it the "regular" way of using a forage header that uses the entire plant and chops it up? seems a bit wasteful to only take the cob.
Must be a big beef operation
What brand adapter are they using to hook header up to the chopper?I know the adapter I use would not let you go that fast it couldn’t handle the material
Not sure on the adapter.
Probably a koomia or kooima however it's spelled.
Do you know what the Moisture of the Corn was? I'm guessing 22 - 24%. Does the Claus Chopper have Auto fill for the long trucks?
I was thinking I heard around 28%
Did those guys say which corn head they Perferd? Thanks
They did not.
i was wondering if you ever come to husker harvest day farm show in a town called grand island nebraska
I was at that show only once. Probably back in 2015
Mike ,how many tractors does the average farms run on a average
My question is though how is it even possible to attach a corn head from a combine to a forage harvester? wouldn’t that require fabricating some sort of adapter?
An adapter
@@farmhandmike John deere manufactured that kind of adapter?
What's the John Deere doing driving in front of the semi in the field? Teaching a new semi driver their line?
The tractor is there, ready to pull the truck through soft spots if needed.
I noticed that naked deere running around with the equipment too. Thought it might be Mike chasing his UFO around?
@@Ellison89Brett ok, was just weird as it appeared to only drive in front of the red semi.
It had a 3 point hitch safety pull to grab a stuck truck and pull it to the road if need be. It was borderline wet and I think one part of the video shows them pulling a truck out of the field
Is high moisture corn better then regular corn silage?
It has a higher energy density and nearly no fiber. It is beneficial in certain rations at a low to medium level. Will always be bad at a high level.
@@brianjonker510 gotcha
you still working for deutz equipment?
Any idea what the moisture was?
I think they said around 25-28%
What is the farms name?
At the price of corn awful lot of money being wasted blowing it away loading trucks the way you do for silage and quite a lot of ears bouncing out of the head going the faster speed but it looked like if that was a beef farm they're finishing holstein steers just like the video you did where they were bedding with corn stalk stacks
True. It's obvious these guys have no idea what they're doing. Especially at the small scale they're doing it at.
That's nice, but real corn farms are in Iowa!
Mike, I really enjoy your farming videos. You are correct things are differently than when I was growing up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Keep up the great work. Would love to know the name of the songs you use in your videos. Thanks again for what you do.