Chopping Corn Silage!!! (Full Video) -
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2021
- Re-upload of the full version
Chopping Enogen Corn
Border View Farms is a mid sized family farm that sits on the Ohio-Michigan border. We raise corn, soybeans, and wheat on a little over 3,000 acres.
My name is Nathan. I run this channel and farm with my dad, Mark and uncle, Phil. I started making these videos in the fall of 2019 as a way to help show what I do on a daily basis as a farmer. I get questions about how and why we do things on the farm frequently, even from my own family members, so to help explain things it's easier to just show you. I hope that I can address questions or concerns that you might have about farms and agriculture in general as well as dispel some of the common misconceptions.
I hope you enjoy my content and please ask questions as you have them. I do my best to answer anything I can.
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You can reach me through messages on Facebook or Instagram @borderviewfarms or by email bakernth@gmail.com. Please don't call my parents house! - Zábava
It is nice to see your customers letting you come out to film their harvest.
Making “Cow Chow”. Great video Nathan
One of the best smells of farming is fresh silage .
Great video Nathan.
Hope you and your family had a great weekend, too.
My neighbor has five 9900 JD chopping for his custom operation. The three brothers use two and two and keep one ready. They each have V12 950 hp engines to burn 2 transports of fuel in a week. The trucks and silage packers also burn fuel.
Nice drone driving!
Great video, loved watching the chopper and the packer tractor.
Good one Nathan! enjoyed the change of pace👍🇺🇸😎
Great job with the drone under the chopper shot! Thx for the video on the holiday!
Haha that one was risky!
Cool video Nathan, I do remember the 2 or 3 row pull type choppers back in the 60s when we used to raise hogs we had a bunker type silage pit, that’s amazing how much horsepower it takes!! But those small choppers back in the day took a lot of power too!! I can’t imagine the fuel bill, WOW!! I’m sure it’s pretty thirsty!!
Great video.
How about a house tour?
Good video. Thanks for showing this process.
Great job, Nathan!
Hi Nathan, this is a boys custom dozer with a quick question. Where do you guys located and when you guys start shopping season yet? Say corn season what is the month you guys start?
We used to chop corn but not like that thanks for showing us that
Real cool to watch enjoyed watching the corn get chopped.
Great video!
Love those forage videos!
Very cool video sir👍🏻👍🏻
Good afternoon.
They just cut it down with the chopper and nothing added to the silage? Here in Finland they usually make the silage from clover/rye/grass mix, cut it down and let it dry for a day or so and then use a choppwer that collects the silage, and ads acid (Formic acid) to the mix. Corn is really not farmed here at all, only about 3500 acres in total for the whole country (acordng to estimates by authorities), and no idea for what it is used, probably not silage.
And great videos by the way, got me hooked! Better than most (or all!) Netflix reality series...
They will blend the feed ration when its time to feed it. Everything is kept separate now.
2 for Tuesday Nathan. 👍
Kinda only because I messed it up the first time
Great footage... some looks like 30+ to me.
The equipment is cool, but you could literally hold your breath for the total of all time you'll ever see bare dirt on my land and live to talk about it. Pulling that many tons off per acre then dousing it with chemicals to grow another crop doesn't make any sense to me at all. I do take a little silage off of end rows, and I'll run through some fields and take some ear corn, and high moisture shelled corn to make some channels to speed up dry down.
By the time most guys get in the field, I've taken off a 140-160 bushel crop at $10/bushel, run the cattle over the cover crops for 50k lbs of beef gain,, 10klbs of lamb gain, and 100k lbs of of poultry gain (with grain supplement), and recovered to a knee high cover crop ready to be grazed a 2nd time.
Is that your field
Great video ! Does the semi driver have a camera in the back?
I don't think so.
I think someone said there was a camera on the harvester blower pipe
@@georgedavidson7986 👍
Do they use auto steer on the chopper?
Yes usually. It wasn't working when I was there though.
I just saw on the internet that some guy in Virginia was able to obtain 616 bps off of 1 1/4 acre, what gives, no else even came close
Could you remind us again what's hoped/expected from the Inogen v the competition/"normal"?
Enogen improves the starch digestibility of the corn. Increases feed efficiency.
@@BorderViewFarms Cool, thanks.
@@BorderViewFarms Evan I am missing why it can’t go to the elevator with the red kernels
I know it is for feed but it could still go to an ethanol plant
I am missing something here
The Enogen trait makes the corn produce the enzyme Alpha-amylase in the kernels. Alpha-amylase breaks starches into sugars. The trait was developed for ethanol production as a way of more efficiently processing the corn without the need for adding liquid Alpha-amylase which required the right temp, pH, etc. It was later discovered that this is also very good for feed specifically in beef and dairy cattle. Essentially the same thing is happening in a cow as in an ethanol plant. Enogen makes that cow more efficient in digesting the corn and getting all the nutrients out of it. Enogen is great for ethanol and livestock production, what it's not great for is making corn flakes or Doritos. The Alpha-amylase would break the corn starch into sugars and the sugars would burn or make a mushy pile of not corn flakes. It's perfectly fine to eat but won't make the food products we are used too. Because of that Enogen is a contracted and closed system where the end use must be predetermined before planting and it must be segregated and isolated to ensure none of it ends up in the general corn supply. If growing for ethanol a contract is made with the ethanol plant before planting saying they musty buy it and the grower must deliver it to them. In a feed situation the farmer must be able to feed all the will produce and ensure it will not get sold at the local elevator. It's a precaution. For 95% of what corn gets used for it would be beneficial but in an effort to keep things as they have been (and avoid lawsuits) it's treated as an identity preserved specialty crop.
@@BorderViewFarms thanks for the info, very interesting.