Chopping Milo For Silage in Self-Propelled Chopper

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Chopping Milo For Silage in Self-Propelled Chopper

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3 жыл бұрын

In today's video, I take you along in the buddy seat to run the silage wagon back and forth and back and forth. Trust me, its more exciting than you think!
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@Pimporly 3 жыл бұрын

Laura even if I saw your show today at night here in the Miami area you increadible Smile and attitutde make me happy I enjoy seen you like this that how every person Should be happy Joyful. I'm that way to even if I'm a Handicap person I enjoy my life as fully to. Oh Today I walk and Run with my Crutches at the Park and I'm 63 years old Laura I don't let anything slow me down. God bless you Keep those videos coming with a Great Smile.

@jimcarlisle2309 2 жыл бұрын

I like all your videos and your Dad’s videos, down to earth!

@milanstraka1107 2 жыл бұрын

What a bautifull sunshine girl you are!! So glad to have found you for inspiration! The best attitude! All the best you! Hats off!

@sterlingspencer2934 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Laura! That smile will chase those clouds away.

@clintonwilkie8142 2 жыл бұрын

No matter how miserable I am at work, I just squeeze in a video from You’all and your infectious smile and happy attitude seem to always brighten up the day. I’d like to add/girl you make farming look fun!! Enjoyed this one. Thank you.

@bobbyboucher5309 3 жыл бұрын

You could sell blocks of ice to Eskimos with that smile!

@jaco_oosthuizen 2 жыл бұрын

You make farming look very romantic, but I know it is a tough job. Well done!

@johnmulkins7473 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome as always. Silage is a type of fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by acidification, achieved through fermentation. It can be fed to cattle, sheep and other such ruminants. The fermentation and storage process is called ensilage, ensiling or silaging

@edgewood99 3 жыл бұрын

You are really Farmer John in disguise.

@pencilwan1628 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for explaination

@earlhollar1906 3 жыл бұрын

@@edgewood99 Google Google Google

@KaziusAzran 2 жыл бұрын

"Fodder refers mostly the crops which are harvested and used for stall feeding. Forage may be defined as the vegetative matter, fresh or preserved, utilised as feed for animals. Forage crops include grasses, legumes, crucifers and other crops cultivated and used in the form of hay, pasture, fodder and silage."

@godoftheinterwebz Жыл бұрын

milo silage = mileage

@manelson647 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! What a day… 🎶 Rolling, rolling, rolling…keep those wagons rolling 🎶 Steady and focused for a job well done 👍 ❤️😊Love you, Grammy

@philipcollings985 2 жыл бұрын

You have such a wonderful way with life, Laura. Love watching you, Grant, your Dad and Mom during your days. Thank you xxxx L

@johnhelbig7110 8 ай бұрын

Many years ago, on our eastern Missouri hill farm, we chopped alfalfa and put it into a small trench silo that had been bulldozed into the ground. We packed it in and covered it with about 2 inches of crushed limestone.

@robbhester6600 3 жыл бұрын

Speeding up the video with music is to funny. Thanks for being such a beautiful and shining light- All Y’all - much love from Texas

@davidignacio3009 3 жыл бұрын

I learned something new, When you said Milo, my first thought was the powdered milk chocolate produced by Nestle. I had to look it up to find out milo is a variety of sorghum. Also, I admire your spunk. You make a hard job an easy one, and full of smiles. Your dad must be so proud of you young lady.

@jamesbomar7979 3 жыл бұрын

If this tractors rocking don't come knocking!

@group447 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely the best yet. No wasted time and your look and personality are so positive! You have got to be exhausted after all that work. Great job Laura and the editing was incredible. Hope the chopper is ok. Keep up the good work.

@stevewalton7668 2 жыл бұрын

Her energy, spunk is intoxicating! Maybe it's her good looks that help add to my day! Wow!

@johnwyoder 3 жыл бұрын

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! (and my favorite) 😀 Also, kudos to you for crediting your mom for her part in keeping you guys going.

@adamjavorcak4605 2 жыл бұрын

i saw one of your video totally by accident, but now im your regular viewer from small country Czech republic

@schandler45 3 жыл бұрын

That "Good Morning" makes my day, I love this Vlog

@8056443232 2 жыл бұрын

You are SUCH a cutie - smiling all day, positive attitude, working so well with the whole family (shout out to Mom was very nice!) and keeping those trucks clean! Good camera work, good editing, I'm hooked! Cheers!

@mikelhall 3 жыл бұрын

It's so nice and refreshing to see your beautiful smile. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.

@exploidur 2 жыл бұрын

We are bombarded with bad news, so to hear someone say the crop is "growing excellently" is one of the reasons we watch your videos. Laura. 💙

@jeffvandenberg8422 3 жыл бұрын

I've never knew about milo. Thanks for teaching me something new. Don't work too hard. Stay healthy.

@joefudd 3 жыл бұрын

I love that Laura is always so happy! Today she was SUPER DEE DUPER HAPPY! :-) Made my face ache from smiling right along with her! That's still a good thing! Maybe I need to add more caffeine to my diet? LOL! WE LOVE YOU TOO LAURA! YOU GO, GIRL! You've made my day much brighter and helped me to forget my troubles for awhile!

@WhiteisrightNationwhite 3 жыл бұрын

Who else watches just to see Laura say "good Morning" everyday? Coffee and Corn Ya can't beat it!

@avgeek78x 3 жыл бұрын

I just love it!😁❤

@mindtricky 3 жыл бұрын

I dont like it. Thinking of unsubscribe if i hear it again.

@johntolvstad7210 3 жыл бұрын

She just a bundle of energy. Makes my day Thanks Laura

@rodcharlton1889 3 жыл бұрын

I agree... it's a trademark now and I look forward to it as well.

@user-hb8be5wb4q 3 жыл бұрын

She has a wonderful face and smile. Thanks for posting and sharing this vlog. GREAT JOB LAURA!!! And you didn’t even break a nail! Lol!

@denniswalston1217 3 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy watching farm videos. I was in the equipment business for 46 years. Now, my son is involved. We sell the Big Red stuff, ya know the other good brand. Just wanted to say hi all the way from Delmarva. Farmers are the best. We feed the world.

@scottrichardson999 3 жыл бұрын

Love your enthusiasm for working on the farm . Thanks for making your videos . Keep up the great work

@markgreenough5327 3 жыл бұрын

Laura always good to see you Working with your Dad .. you are a hell of a Good WORKER ... Keep up doing the great job 🐱.... We never Eat in the morning at the Farm . We eat at 12 noon... Ware is Mr. Brent today...

@snappingbear 3 жыл бұрын

Laura's dad: "improvise, adapt, overcome". That is a great recipe for success.

@bay9876 3 жыл бұрын

That kind of good advice would be very useful in our worldwide events

@rickharms1 3 жыл бұрын

Clint Eastwood. In”Heart Break Ridge”

@dacboyz8 3 жыл бұрын

@@rickharms1 also Gran Torino

@Q-Man-9137. 3 жыл бұрын

I love your tractor Nothing runs like a Deere

@8287tjsaboe 3 жыл бұрын

Your wonderful smile and attitude is infectious! Be safe, and God bless!!!

@earllutz2663 2 жыл бұрын

The best to you and your families. It is nice to follow all of you, on your videos.

@marknewman5847 3 жыл бұрын

Great video very interesting I think that's the first time I've seen Milo being chopped for cattle thanks for sharing

@nathanvigesaa3387 3 жыл бұрын

Silage made from milo...I would call "milage"😁

@charlesward8196 3 жыл бұрын

My understanding of silage is any green crop that is chopped and stored in a bunker, silo, or ag-bag to keep out the air and prevent spoilage. There may me some fermentation going on, as well. Eric in PA (10th Generation Dairy Farmer) differentiates between silage and “haylage’” though I am not sure whether the “hay” is rye, triticale, or alfalfa because they cut all three. Their corn goes into three huge bunkers and gets covered with air-tight plastic.

@Theplumber711 2 жыл бұрын

You seem like a sweet kind young woman. Thanks, cool video.

@keithkremer672 3 жыл бұрын

I like your facial expressions. Very awesome

@changhsieh459 2 жыл бұрын

learned something new today...Milo, city folks...

@dwightstebner2345 2 жыл бұрын

i have chopped grass, corn barley, wheat and sunflowers, it all made sileage

@donaldmcleod4758 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to a family that works together, stays together, your awsome , has anyone told u , u r gorgeous.

@LtColDaddy71 3 жыл бұрын

I plant every border to a road with sunflower and lavender. It kind makes us us, people are always asking about it, farmers are rude and skeptical … but believe it or not, they are great cash crops. It’s also a huge pest deterrent. The birds used to decimate the sunflower, but over the years, as I let the chickens basically revert to wild and they get to roam, propagate on their own, it’s attracted some meat eating birds of prey. American bald eagles, hawks, owls, osprey. Sure, they fly off with quite a few chickens, but I almost need them to. I pride myself as a quality producer, but chickens are so much work, I want them for fertility and pest control. We’re pretty much selling pound and a half yard birds. It’s all natural organic yard bird though. So put a little chicken coop with an open top in the milo field. They are eagle food, and the eagles will keep the seed eating birds away.

@fat_biker 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like quite a creative set of ideas...

@darrylphipps2221 2 жыл бұрын

Laura is looking so beautiful from Darryl Phipps in Tennessee 👍👍

@deesmykla10 3 жыл бұрын

thank's Laura's mom... You're the best👍👍👍

@JamesJones-gk5jd 3 жыл бұрын

Good morning Laura, not cool here in Alabama this morning 100+ heat index today

@SpicySteve-tz2so 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome ending to the video with the American flag waving in the background. Your smile never fails to brighten my day Laura!

@dwightarnold6980 3 жыл бұрын

YOUR DAD IS SO AWESOME 👌 HAVE A GREAT DAY! YOU MILO CHOPPERS!

@geistbike 3 жыл бұрын

That`s a workflow in best form. Every Chief like this. You, Laura and your best dad of the world is a absolut perfekt combination.....

@vk2ig 3 жыл бұрын

I remember as a little kid first seeing milo and thinking it was corn because of the leaves. The parakeets, rosellas, lorikeets, and other birds would love eating it: you'd hear lots of squawking out in the milo paddock ... chuck a clod of dirt and this big flock of colourful birds would rise up, fly around a few times squawking, and then settle back into the milo to resume eating. Milo was harvested using a header, and the grain would be taken into town where the co-op would turn it into chook food, etc. After harvesting, the stalks could be bailed up - the cattle didn't mind eating it. BTW Laura, re hydraulic fluid: never, ever spill aircraft hydraulic fluid ("Skydrol") on yourself - it burns! And it happily melts some plastics, e.g. certain boot soles.

@FalconXE302 2 жыл бұрын

I like "Laura on a caffeine high" Laura... LoL...

@waynemorgan1577 3 жыл бұрын

Improvise, adapt, overcome... Clint Eastwood - Heartbreak Ridge.. also is the unofficial slogan of the Marine Corps.

@johndavidson6867 3 жыл бұрын

Yes seeing Laura and her ever perky, bubbly continence makes every day better. Laura, silage can be from many different grains, here in my part of Alberta it is mostly barley, although corn is becoming more and more prevalent. When conditions aren't conductive to good hay the field is often taken off the same way (haylige). Corn is straight cut where as barley and hay are swathed then silage d. Hope the rest of your harvest goes well, for both you and Grant.

@Sam16034 3 жыл бұрын

Silage is fermented green matter. Chaff is chopped corn.

@davenwpg1 2 жыл бұрын

Good morning Laura Farms :)

@caolan25 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, use a dry erase marker on your window, to help keep track of loads. also easy to wipe off.

@chrisanthony579 3 жыл бұрын

Mom is ALWAYS the rock star of the show

@walterscott7227 3 жыл бұрын

I love those rotary chopper heads.

@petruzzovichi 3 жыл бұрын

I just happened onto your video and bingo...I'm a new subscriber! What a wonderful sweetheart worker deluxe you are. Your videos are everything combined from educational, informative and entertaining. Very Well Done...

@danielharder9085 3 жыл бұрын

Crows and blackbirds love it! It’s about 95 degrees here in southwest Missouri!

@keith3717 Жыл бұрын

Good job Laura xx

@hotbug597 3 жыл бұрын

Laura, did you know you are using the exact same skills fighter pilots use to fly into battle with the other fighters. When you are driving beside your dad so he can blow milo into the wagon you use exactly the same skills for distance, timing and separation. You go girl. Your are your dad's wingman.

@erickamekonapeper4007 3 жыл бұрын

You should try the Grain Berry Cereal it’s made with ONYX Sorghum I got the shredded wheat but they have 6 different verities. I don’t feel tired or anything after eating it. I sometimes feel tired and sometimes dizzy from other Cereal. I am truly trying to have a Whole Foods diet. I have Emphysema COPD. I’m 46 and I have a lovely Daughter like you and I want to stay around awhile at least until she figures out my jokes! 😏 she’s almost 24 you would think she’s used to me by now.🤔 Keep going you’re doing great! I’m absolutely sure your Dad’s completely proud of his wonderful Daughter! God Bless you Guys! ❤️😏🖖🏼🇺🇸

@petersandberg2770 3 жыл бұрын

I always get in good mode when locking at you videos :-) B.r Peter from Sweden.

@jawick 3 жыл бұрын

All of our silage is haygrazer. Somewhat similar to grain sorghum. What you call milo. All of our farm trailers are trailers except for the grain carts. Our grain and corn harvests are done. Now, we are on to cotton here in South Texas. Our corn harvest was rather poor this year . Grain was about average.

@jawick 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes, we bale grain stubble after we combine it. We prices quite good this year, I am surprised you didn't harvest the heads/seeds and then use the stubble for silage.

@travissteinkraus6307 3 жыл бұрын

Milo is fun to chop!! It gets quite in the cab compared to chopping corn. But man is it itchy

@harlanroeser7546 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty big lawn mower!!!

@samuelmatz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a wonderful video. I am not surprised since you and your family are nice and truly inspirational .

@pmbair 2 жыл бұрын

Sileage can vary by location and need. For instance, up in Michigan, you see a lot of alfalfa or Timothy. Cows like alfalfa and horses prefer Timothy. Virginia, however, doesn't have either. They use something altogether different, such as orchard grasses and fescue

@rolandhemmann5952 3 жыл бұрын

Milo will pop like like corn. Kind of a little snack Thanks for the good videos

@tomcampbell815 2 жыл бұрын

Chopped hay is also known as silage, along with any other crops that can be fermented in a silo.

@jackhulsbosch2215 3 жыл бұрын

love your videos,jack from the netherlands

@fredrickgross5515 3 жыл бұрын

Can I just tell you that you are the food for my soul, my day is always refreshed after watching your awesome videos, thank you Laura!!!

@fredrickgross5515 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely an Angel among us, you and Grant. Your faith and belief in our Heavenly Father just shines so brightly! Keep em coming!!

@petewhite8725 3 жыл бұрын

Grass silage,oat silage you can pretty much insil any crop.

@masajhn Жыл бұрын

Hey Laura trust me the following months are going to be crucial, I hope your and your family keep farming cause due the hard situation going on in Ukraine , Be a farmer is going to be very profitable, just keep working and learning ...

@johnrae4633 3 жыл бұрын

Silage, here in the UK we consider regular silage is 'made' with grass, and what Laura is using would be called Arable Silage, and tends to be used more on our dairy farms. Over here arable silage is sometimes made with using peas.

@davidgriffith7564 2 жыл бұрын

She has a Beautiful smile

@nickmcdonald9935 2 жыл бұрын

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), also known as milo, has a variety of uses including food for human consumption, feed grain for livestock and industrial applications such as ethanol production. The area planted to sorghum worldwide has increased by 66 percent over the past 50 years, while yield has increased by 244 percent.

@dasarathtripathi1630 2 жыл бұрын

Good Afternoon

@AlaskaErik 3 жыл бұрын

Milo is the big German Shepard across the street from me. Anytime I say his name my Labrador Retriever goes berserk, because they are not on friendly terms. Fortunately, she didn't go berserk when Laura was talking about the stuff.

@RiDankulous Жыл бұрын

Since I eat whole food-plant based that means eating lots of starches and sorghum (milo) is a starch, but the prices are more expensive. I stick to wheat, black beans, oats and rice, including whole wheat pasta and whole wheat bread. I might try some of the unusual grains for consumption in the future but I'm super happy with my choice of starches. It would be cool to get some of the grains in flour form for somewhat near what I can get regular flour. I pride myself in keeping my exclusive plant diet less expensive than what I paid for the standard diet in the past. By the way, I did it to lower my cholesterol which went from high (210 mg/dl, being over 200) to ideal (120). LDL has been as low as 70 but last checked was 76. Blood pressure is near normal usually around 123/83. Used to be on meds for that but don't need them now. Further, my weight is where I choose it to be, which is very healthy now and stays that way. All this for 6 years I have been healthy, more or less.

@sterlingspencer2934 2 жыл бұрын

That's how you harvest sage with a silage cutter and ride along silage wagon.

@earllutz2663 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video.

@oldfarmer3001 3 жыл бұрын

Always smiling, nice to see !

@fmxstar101 3 жыл бұрын

farming really is a lifestyle

@philhague9923 3 жыл бұрын

hello laura have a awesome day

@mauriceupton1474 3 жыл бұрын

Silage season was always Hard Yakka. but it's a good way of preserving all the sugars in the grasses. Unfortunately quite a few Farmers come to grief they get too close to the edge of the stack in tip off the edge.

@ethanderemer3188 3 жыл бұрын

hi Laura I’m a new subscriber to your channel. I love your videos

@edgewood99 2 жыл бұрын

si·lage /ˈsīlij/ noun noun: silage grass or other green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter.

@scottsasser7607 3 жыл бұрын

Okay all you people are commenting I want you to read my comment I don't know how many of you people out there watch comedy but you know the comedian fluffy right everybody brings in cakes everybody is likes watching Laura's channel should send her a cookies

@russellrattys6581 3 жыл бұрын

I know exactly how that feels, i used to lay paving slabs as part of a previous job, and some days all i would do is drive my tipper truck between the job site and a farm where we dumped the soil The farmer used it to fill dents in his fields, the more he could get the better the fields were Note, that farmer had a tracked challenger tractor among others 😉

@GKsGS400 Жыл бұрын

Improvise , Adapt and Overcome are Gunny Highways' famous words. Thank Clint Eastwood. LOL

@according2petey25 3 жыл бұрын

HELLO0O0O0O0 miss Laura 🚜 here in Vermont the young ladies don't use hydraulic oil to shave their leg's🤣🤣🤣 Enjoyed another video from miss Laura 🌽 Hope everything is going great for poppa curt🙏🙏 take care

@charlesjenkins8078 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks

@timblackmon3581 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Laura....that is alot of silage you hauled and dumped.. cows will be happy this winter....have a good day

@farmerallis 3 жыл бұрын

Silage is the process, regardless of what's being used to ensile. Alfalfa, milo, corn, etc. can all be made into silage. Silage is simply the preservation of a crop by "pickling" it; acidic, anaerobic conditions are used to create silage. Awesome content btw