Chopping Corn Silage near Greensburg Indiana

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Chopping Corn Silage at a large dairy farm south of Greensburg Indiana. In this video I made two different visits to this farm to video them chopping corn silage and hauling it back to the farm and building a large silage pile for their dairy cow herd.

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@AgritechFutureUS 8 ай бұрын

*I'm a fan of your combine and silage videos! The diverse angles and footage are top-notch. Your content stands out with the best variety I've seen. It's truly enjoyable to watch and learn about the equipment and techniques. Keep up the fantastic work!* 🚜🎥🌾

@thomasmccardle725 8 ай бұрын

When the quality of the video is as good as yours the longer the better, stay safe and keep these awesome farm videos coming please!

@davidspringer4019 Жыл бұрын

I like the long videos, thank you. Im older now, but back in the day I worked for Furman's Foods in central PA and these videos bring back memories, of course using different equipment. Take care and thanks again.

@herbhouston5378 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I live in Greensburg and several years ago I visited this farm, and since I had a history in farming, I walked around with the owner and we talked about the farm operation. It was a great time for me a I really enjoyed talking with the boss. Quite an operation! Very impressive!!

@dannaumann9758 2 жыл бұрын

My grandad built the first self-propelled chopper in the country. His model “G” JD didn’t have the power to suit him, so he mounted a 550 c u tank engine on the hitch, put a model “B” tri-cycle front end under the tongue, and a seat on it! He would have been amazed to see how these machines gobble up the corn! Thx Mike!

@timothyosborn1697 2 жыл бұрын

I used to watch a huge farm plot get combined, when I was a young teenager. I remember the stalks being thrown away and the corn kept. It looks as it the whole corn plant is used for this silage. I never knew that. Cool. I have to say that it's kind of satisfying to see the combine going through the lush field and mowing it down so slick and clean. Sweet operation.

@DavidThomas-qu8mh 10 ай бұрын

By the way, that's not a combine, that happens to be a forage harvester which chops the stalks into silage.

@danstraughn295 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to make these video. My daughter and I have learned so much about tractors now.

@tractorhunter 2 жыл бұрын

Now it's time for learn something about combine's:) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZ9ld5qkp8CnlIk.html

@swagzoneus 4 ай бұрын

I really enjoy the combine videos but these silage videos are my favorite. You get awesome footage from every angle. You have the best footage and variety of anyone else I've seen on here. Really fun to watch! I can spend hours just watching all the big equipment and think it's really interesting how each one does things and why.

@kladpapier 2 жыл бұрын

My God that's a huge farm!! So many tractors and trailers o.O Fun to watch though, thanks for recording ;)

@masonsmith9222 2 жыл бұрын

Was great to meet you mike. All of us drivers are always very proud of this huge, efficient operation

@farmhandmike 2 жыл бұрын

It's definitely quite the operation.

@raynere4154 2 жыл бұрын

@@farmhandmike hi Darren

@MrKaba1985 2 жыл бұрын

nice to see the Fliegel Trailers build only 10 km or about 5 mails away from my home town in Germany nice to see them in other Countrys also.

@user-tj2df5rs3d 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Mike !! I would like to see this whole farm, feeding, keeping and caring for the animals .. 👍💪

@tomkaraitiana6136 2 жыл бұрын

I've got to say that I'm a Mike Less fan, I watch all you videos or as many as I can find and if I may say, rock on. Big tractor power is another favourite of mine. Keep up the good work.

@thomasallen4340 3 ай бұрын

Love huge farms like this. The way that forage harvestor shoots the corn just wow

@jessberg4763 2 жыл бұрын

Great job Mike! That's some excellent footage! 👍

@billwhitman1529 2 жыл бұрын

Good video, I can almost smell it! They put up in 6 hours what we used to take 6 weeks to do. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

@ndtschau 2 жыл бұрын

Another first CLAAS silage video!!!😉 Thanks a lot for showing! 😊👍🏻

@sunkings5972 Жыл бұрын

Something about the way the Forager turns a lush green field of mutant grass into a barren wasteland with a little hp left over is mesmerizing to watch. Amazing photography Mike.

@coryfritz295 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could double like this video!! What an operation! Thanks Mike!

@CountyLineCowpokes 2 жыл бұрын

It really is an incredible operation! Farmhand mike does a great job with these videos, also! If you want to see a much smaller multi-generational family farm with a few antics sprinkled in check out the County Line Cowpokes channel!

@Fedharrison5634 2 жыл бұрын

One word says it all WOW... That's for sharing Mike.. God Bless from Georgia...

@rebacorddesignstudio7470 2 жыл бұрын

The smell of silage reminds me of fall. Grew up around a feedlot and that smell always coincided with the start of school. I remember riding the school bus with the windows down and the silage trucks would sail past and that smell would fill the bus. Good memories.

@sarragount5141 2 жыл бұрын

🤔👍Très joli ccommentaires psychanalytique. ✋✋🍀🇫🇷🍀✋✋

@briand5521 2 жыл бұрын

Great movie Mike really enjoyed it what an incredible amount of equipment.

@SimonKL11 2 жыл бұрын

That's a serious operation😁👍 that silage pile is massive👍👍 Nice video😉👍

@tonyburelle6633 2 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy your chopping footage, even year old, still great

@davereynolds6145 2 жыл бұрын

Nice big flat fields, no mud, what the heck! To do that much silage is a monumental job, I know I help the very large dairy near me. Around 85,000tons, running 3 choppers, 5 tractor trailers and 7 straight trucks! One thing that caught my ear was them having a drivers meeting, I wish we would do that! Good work Mike!

@get__some 2 жыл бұрын

meetings mean bad things have happened

@davereynolds6145 2 жыл бұрын

@@get__some yep bad things happen, one truck on its side, 3 others that radiators got backed into!

@get__some 2 жыл бұрын

@@davereynolds6145 oh no. tell em "slow down, turbo" some of these youngins are full of beans

@winkletown8828 2 жыл бұрын

There's something about watching forage harvesters eating everything in sight so quickly that just mesmerizes!!!!! Love these videos!!!! Thanks Mike!! You rock for this. I needed this today.

@johnmccarter5541 2 жыл бұрын

WOW! Great video, Mike!!!

@Zeke-yv3nw 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Mike! Man thats one heck of a farm!!

@tonymckeage1028 2 жыл бұрын

Great Mike Less Video, thanks for sharing

@charlesjenkins8078 2 жыл бұрын

Mike,great video. I wish I was there.

@pavelkubes1 8 ай бұрын

Great job, very very nice harvest.😃😃😃

@NaTech94 6 ай бұрын

*Observing the corn swaying from up above, I couldn't help but notice that your Mavic Pro creates quite a powerful prop wash.*

@29rosslyn 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at the corn blowing from overhead, I was thinking your Mavic Pro has a pretty strong prop wash.

@Snowtruckdriver 2 жыл бұрын

I used to work for my Dad doing custom chopping back in the 70's. I've seen 100's of thousands of tons done but I've never seen a pile built like this.

@Madswiss600 2 жыл бұрын

Just a few Fliegl wagon herd😍😍

@rauloropeza7496 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Mexico Mike Less you are the best

@kiwidiesel 2 жыл бұрын

ahhh i still remember that sound of a Claas Jaguar forager chopping maize. Done thousnds of hours driving them. My neck still hurts from looking out that left side all day and night long.

@TheMilwaukieDan 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Oregon Willamette Valley we grow a wide variety of crops. Some of it is corn silage. I never seen how it’s accomplished though. One day the corn is there. The Baxter day it gone. At some point later I gave dairy products snd meat available. Thank you for feeding America

@gr82bcrazy1 2 жыл бұрын

That was such a good video I could smell the silage.

@mw9953 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, Thanks Mike!!

@randyoesch64 2 жыл бұрын

Loved it Mike great video.

@donmedford2563 2 жыл бұрын

I am a trivia nerd. I love details. Thanks for saying the pile had 80,000 tons but in future videos please tell how many total acres, how many acres per hour they harvest, how many tons her hour, etc. Great video.

@rbwplwjd 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always!!! I'm curious about how they take silage out as the open face would be more than 50 feet high.

@jeffschwering1300 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Where I was born..Our farm is 10 miles south of Greensburg, near Millhousen

@Growplantss 20 күн бұрын

very good video, thank you for sharing❤

@jeffhumpert7228 2 жыл бұрын

That farm doesnt look that big in person but man seeing your footage that place is huge, my wife even said the same thing. I remember Honda chopping all the corn and donating it to them when they bought the land to build the plant so they would have a stockpile to start out with as a welcome to Greensburg from a fellow new comer to Greensburg. I have a bucket list item to be able to drive a couple different types of those massive 4 wheel drive tractors like they use to pack the silage with.

@slabrankle9588 2 жыл бұрын

Now I know what those piles covered in tarps and tires are. Lots of 'em in Pennsylvania. It's satisfying to watch the process.

@scottpykare801 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME Mike really AWESOME!!👍👍

@Chisszaru 2 жыл бұрын

I love big farms and big farm equipment

@stormlantern5199 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't help but to watch the entire video.

@verdagarner5112 2 жыл бұрын

Great video and fantastic music

@danvanninhuys745 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, what a massive dairy farm

@martincowley815 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see the JCB fastrac making a appearance. Don’t see many of them over in the states.

@farmshoffman8475 2 жыл бұрын

Great awesome video mike, biggest corn silage video ever

@paulchill458 Жыл бұрын

love the corn siliage vidoe,s mike keep them comming great as i did do that at 1 stage in my life but great mike

@hubertwebb9869 2 жыл бұрын

Great mood music, i love the cowboy stuff.

@wadewalker6231 2 жыл бұрын

I think the music is "the year of the cat"...?

@Kiwimaihifishing Жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, iam Alan from Tokoroa New Zealand, awesome videos of your AGG Contracting over there, I will come over one day an meet you, cheers from the Kiwi land,

@frantisekleiterman2082 2 жыл бұрын

Krásné záběry!

@christiangauthier1264 2 жыл бұрын

Magnifique vidéo 👍😉

@gardnermiller6820 2 жыл бұрын

Those Claas Jaguar's are corn eating machines!

@toddmorris2353 2 жыл бұрын

They are great folks down there i live about 35 miles from them and use to deliver fuel and oil to them it is an amazing operation

@craigsimon935 2 жыл бұрын

What an incredible operation! That is a lot of activity going on and the corn started pretty green but was getting pretty dry by the time they were wrapping up. I have to agree with you o the way they build that pile. Minimal moving of silage, the wagons just drive in and never stop and back up, they are not pushing the edge of the blade into the pile but getting a nice even spread across the blade with each push making it a nice even spread on the pile. Nobody was in anybody's way. There is not an unsafe activity, i.e. not backing up where they cannot see, not an edge of the pile with a steep slope that is unsafe, lots of space for each to work. It makes a lot of sense.

@tomcleghorn4005 2 жыл бұрын

My goodness that farm sure is big!

@donaldlewis9734 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks 😊

@jasonkmaylee 2 жыл бұрын

Love the long video!!!

@DrMGomezJr 2 жыл бұрын

Great drone shots...

@sasquatch5680 2 жыл бұрын

Thats some nice team work

@marcusnord1267 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Interesting video. I'm wondering why are the packing the corn with the tractor? I'm not from USA, I'm from Sweden....so, at home we uses a packning machine for roads, it's like a big cylinder with a vibrator machine in the machine for packing the roads. So we can uses a smaller tractor that don't cost so much in fuel capacity? I might spell something wrong, hope you understand 😅 love to see how it works in the US!

@MrDabaja 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!!

@lasereyes555 8 ай бұрын

I’m curious, since they shredded everything into pieces, what do they use all that shredded corns for?

@Highriskroller 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video! Why do they use twintyres only on the rear axle?

@jeanneg6550 2 жыл бұрын

wow wow ,, j'avais jamais vue ça ,, très bon travail d'équipe ,, Bravo

@paulpochan9631 2 жыл бұрын

Nice Mike...... don't see many JCB tractors around....!!!

@masonsmith9222 2 жыл бұрын

I was mostly running that jcb! It’s a Cadillac!

@boagrious101 2 жыл бұрын

looks like the CIH and JCB tractors have the faster hydrualics with the JCB having a slight edge. The John Deere's appear to take a little longer. Not a dig at all just an observation I love these silage videos see you at the national farm machinery show 2022 Mike.

@coreysandness2529 2 жыл бұрын

The John Deere are pulling larger wagons, they have three axles and are longer. That could be the difference in time

@boagrious101 2 жыл бұрын

@@coreysandness2529 Figured since we were both interested I'd do some digging and these are specs a pulled from tractordatabase.com. JD 8120 has a 37 gallon capacity, and flows at 33.5 gpm and 2900 psi max pressure. A CIH magnum 275 has a capacity of 45.5 gallons and flows at 44 gpm but they have a 59 gpm option as well as a twin flow pump option that flows 75gpms, they didn't however have the max pressure listed. Finally and I kind of guessed at the model number but the specs on a JCB 8330 is 39.6 gallon capacity and flow rate of 36.2 gpm or 47 gpm depending on the option and a max pressure of 3045psi. Would really like to try one of those JCB's on my hay roller just to see how it rides. All that said they were several minutes at the beginning and end where the CIH and JD were pulling tri-axle wagons together.

@otismartin132 2 жыл бұрын

Selling silage is a great business opportunity! The machine cleans the fields, and the only lost cost that I can think of is the manure and chemicals for growing. Other than that, EASY MONEY!!!

@kennethcarlton2860 2 жыл бұрын

Does the farm leave any corn to combine it for grain ? Thanks Mike for your great videos . And Thanks for also showing the pile of silage .

@gerhard583 2 жыл бұрын

No, they make silage off all the corn they grow

@404nitro 2 жыл бұрын

That 8300 is such a great looking tractor. 160,000,000 lbs of corn.......that' a lot of corn! Maybe you said and I missed it, but do you know the total number of acres it took to make all that corn?

@rnpasupalanfarm 2 жыл бұрын

wow lovely .. this work in very impressive . we dont know when can we be doing husbandry like the way you guys are doing ,,,, wow lovely and ,, even im engaged in farming life of animal husbandry. keep on supporting and sugesting us.

@IronGears.186 9 ай бұрын

Machines are a great friend to man

@paulpeters5199 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah good cup of coffee and snacks and I'm good to go I was curious how fast are the choppers are running great video and keep up the great work

@paulpeters5199 2 жыл бұрын

Roughly how much is each wagon weighing in at

@ovidiuciuparu6421 2 жыл бұрын

Do you plan to get any footage with the farm operation? I will be curious to see how big is the mixer that they use to feed the cows and other equipment that they have for daily activities.

@Adshop Жыл бұрын

Loving the content. Please indicate size of farms. Wouldn't mind just a tard bit more commentary with some details on the farms. Great content all the same!

@jerrymoore471 2 жыл бұрын

On packing ground silo didn’t I see a BIG BRUTE with 8 tires front and 8 in back and were they the biggest tires made if so they would pack a sili

@robertogonowski9027 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video, specially in night time :)

@westernwifarmer9770 2 жыл бұрын

All the land must be close to the dairy im assuming since they are using all them pull boxes????

@loyaltyndrespect24 2 жыл бұрын

Woo i wonder how many cows you milk up in here, beautiful farm, i work in the biggest dairy in connecticut. I love farming

@emadeldinhessain3272 2 жыл бұрын

Great. Well done.

@bickabraham2397 2 жыл бұрын

They ought use the same wheel configuration as what they use in garbage dumps for compacting the silage .

@puttyputt5074 8 ай бұрын

Mike how many head do they feed?

@michaels4841 2 жыл бұрын

Claas Jaguar and Fliegl push-off trailers, it is surprising to see so much German vehicles in the USA. At 25:05 the cam crashes with a chain - bad luck.

@annkus3 2 жыл бұрын

How do you get the rest of the corn out of the ground. Those roots really grab on.

@markbrett4273 Жыл бұрын

Mike, I love watching your videos very informative. Mike I would like to get one of your farm hats.How can I get one?

@hubertwebb9869 2 жыл бұрын

How long does that 80,000 ton of silage last the dairy cows?

@arzamumma1202 2 жыл бұрын

Viewed 8-7-21 12:17 PM from Illinois With this size operation I would use a Krone 1180 with Krone's 14 row header. More capacity machine rather running 8 row unit. Wagons would fill faster, more volume to the pile, more efficient operation.

@MrKaba1985 2 жыл бұрын

The claas is better in Crops as i know from many german farmers they used both and now switched back to claas as the got many problems with krone. The Header's are both same sice 9 rows or about 10m. and the New Claas Jaguar 960 or 990 with tracs is also realy good in Green rey or gras silage

@hubertwebb9869 2 жыл бұрын

Do they cover those giant piles of silage with tarps after a period of drying?

@i.ottowan5426 2 жыл бұрын

What fertilizers do you put on the soil for wheat, corn, barley? can you give me information? We are farmers, but we can't get that much yield.

@watomb 2 жыл бұрын

Local AG university should have a program to help you out guessing you had detailed soil survey.

@catrionasloanei6847 2 жыл бұрын

I love the farming simulator games because of this reason I'll never probably get a chance to operate any of this equipment so that is as close as I will ever get but I always wondered why corn for silage? I mean is it a special breed of corn or just generic corn.

@somersfarm1921 2 жыл бұрын

Greensburg is only about a hour and half south of me. I didn't realize there was a mega dairy farm down there. I've always found Dairy farming interesting, and always wish we would have had a dairy farm, instead of hogs on the farm. I loved raising hogs and had raised hogs my entire life up until about 16 or 17 yrs ago, when I finally got out, but I've always been interested in dairy farming. I wouldn't want to a dairy farm like that, as I'm not a fan of mega livestock operations, or confinement operations for that matter.

@hubertwebb9869 2 жыл бұрын

How hard is it to drive that combine and steer that chute?

@lllllRBlllll 10 ай бұрын

This is the only chopper operator I've seen yet on youtube who puts the deflector up when someone's cab is coming under the spout. I don't know why more people don't do it. If not for the obvious safety reason then at least to keep equipment clean.