No one asked....

@Kyle Peters Be quiet. If you’re not interested just shut up

Cow farmer here local to the same area and thats way too dry. Dairy cows deserve higher quality food than that.

Local dairy near me uses the dry small grains as a blend in the ration. Their ration is too hot and they need straw filler to blend it down. This is normal.

Yup, money. Gain the world and lose your soul.

Oh yeah spray poison on it what harm could that do. And we wonder why cancer is killing millions. Dear lord.

Добрый день. А чем опрыскивают перед уборкой?

Fills it with nasty chemicals too

It can't be good at all

True. So? Would you rather have half of the world have a perfect diet? Or starve to death?

Yes I had the same thought that the herbicides would probably contaminate the meat/ milk of the cows and that this affects our consumers health. I‘m not a fan of spraying the crop down and then harvesting it

Hell looking at it standing you can tell its to dry

I agree, spraying does not sound smart at all in this case and I can't see any reason for this as well except spending unnecessary money. Practices like this don't help the public opinion on farming at all and only lead to more regulations (like the glyphosate ban in Europe...).

Cereals (such as wheat) are routinely grown for silage in Europe. It’s called whole crop. There they use a whole crop header, which is effectively a disk mower that feeds the crop directly into the forager. I’d imagine there’s losses with this method. In Europe the crop isn’t sprayed or wilted but is stored in a clamp. Often the field of whole crop is added to a bigger clamp of grass silage.

Are you also an experienced forage silage?

I agree Neil. I would think a dry crop would struggle to ensile properly and would be difficult to compact in the bunker. Seems counter intuitive to spray a silage crop also. In NZ, Glyphosate use is becoming a lot more regulated.

Nothing is stopping you from going out and doing it the “right way”. But your probably a farmer already doing it the “right way”.

They didn’t spray that.. that is winter wheat

This s harvest time for winter wheat educate yourself before you speak Tom

@@jonathanware9179 - Educate myself??? 🥴🥴🥴Maybe you shouldn't comment when you clearly don't take the time to read the description of the video from "Jim Baltz" the original poster who stated " Wheatlage is the process of cutting and ensiling wheat as a silage crop, similar to corn silage, to preserve forage quality". "The wheat was sprayed two weeks ahead of harvest to kill it"..

@@8tomtoms8 well Tom do you use crisco or eat pies, rolls, or biscuits at restaurants?

I updated the description with more details from the people that actually do the work as all I do is fly a drone as a hobby. :-) Here is what they said. The wheat was sprayed 2 weeks ahead of harvest to kill it. The reason it is killed is because it will always be a perfect crop. Otherwise, you cut it all down and let it start drying to find out a random 4 inches of rain in the forecast and now we can't chop it since its to wet, killing helps dry time we chop it at 50% and if it rains it's still standing so it don't matter if we have to go home for a day or two because when we get back it always be standing. Every night everything is chopped that is cut down in case of rain which is a common occupancy in this area. Killing the wheat also helps to minimize the molding of the crop when stored.

Way more feed value cut green protein better all you have is straw with a little wheat in it. Most got shelled out in this process

@G. Holman Obviously your not familiar with crop harvesting for a dairy. smh

@G. Holman Did you read the description?

That’s also better for consumers health when the stuff is not contaminated by them herbicides

To keep the feed flowing through the chopper and induced inoculant.

Looks are deceiving. Here is more details from the people that did the actual chopping: The wheat was sprayed 2 weeks ahead of harvest to kill it. The reason it is killed is because it will always be a perfect crop. Otherwise, you cut it all down and let it start drying to find out a random 4 inches of rain in the forecast and now we can't chop it since its to wet, killing helps dry time we chop it at 50% and if it rains it's still standing so it doesn't matter if we have to go home for a day or two because when we get back it always be standing. Every night everything is chopped that is cut down in case of rain which is a common occupancy in this area. Killing the wheat also helps to minimize the molding of the crop when stored.

Central Illinois in the United States

What are they applicating out of the trailer behind the chopper?

Dairy farm located in Mansfield, Illinois.... Mclean county

It is just like corn silage but instead of using corn they use wheat which allows them to get two crops off the field in one year. The wheat is chopped, packed in a pile, then covered with plastic, and then allowed to ferment. When fed to the dairy cows, it will mixed with other feeds in a TMR (Total Mixed Ration).

@@farmdoc Thank you for the explanation. I love this Farm stuff and learning about it.

Is animal farming still "allowed" in Europe?

@@freddexta3363 yeah but you have to follow the cows around with a jar to catch their farts lol

Yes that is what I was thinking too. Saves a guy and a tractor and the fuel to run it, a bit more of a challenge for the chopper guy though and you couldn't drive at that speed, and any wheat that's lodged is much easier to cut with a discbine.

Not only straw as it still has grain in the dough stage.

I think they add the moister, its the trailer behind the forage harvester.

@@Lehosoosilla acid.

@@hansgrehoner9847 yum!

Yes, they are chopping the entire plant.

@@JimBaltz For animal feed?

@@MustangsTrainsMowers They are using it to feed dairy cows.

The world needs milk also.

Looks are deceiving. Here are more details from the people that did the actual chopping: The wheat was sprayed 2 weeks ahead of harvest to kill it. The reason it is killed is that it will always be a perfect crop. Otherwise, you cut it all down and let it start drying to find out a random 4 inches of rain in the forecast and now we can't chop it since its to wet, killing helps dry time we chop it at 50% and if it rains it's still standing so it doesn't matter if we have to go home for a day or two because when we get back it always be standing. Every night everything is chopped that is cut down in case of rain which is a common occupancy in this area. Killing the wheat also helps to minimize the molding of the crop when stored.

@@JimBaltz We have a prohibition for doing that in Europe for combined crops as well as chopped ones. I'm not sure if the average consumer of your products would be so keen about consuming them if he/she'd knew about what you are doing there . I'm a conventional farmer myself and a fan of using glyphosate. But I think it's not ok what you are doing there.

@@jakobwehling6699 I agree 100% all my family is dairy. There is no data saying that the glyphosate can be passed in the milk, and there is no data just opinion that the glyphosate does'nt get passed.. I don't agree at all that this is a sound practice.. I know now that if @Jim Baltz is doing this that many others are as well.. I am grateful for my wife for getting me on to Organic, At least I know more about what is not in my childrens food.

Think so to

They use a spray to kill it a few days ahead of cutting. I did see a few plants that were missed along the edge of the field and they were in dough stage.

@@JimBaltz why would they spray it before chopping?

Enlighten & educate us all then with your intelligence 🎓🎓

Looks like they’re treating it with some form of liquid based preservative or innoculant which Im sure would turn it into good quality feed. With less straw & a higher quantity of grain this would be superb feed when treated with a urea /ammonia based additive as it turns the forage more alkaline & also raises the

Protein level

...and then some fool drinks the beer, and 15 minutes later it's been turned into piss!

Please explain

Ah yes, go live with the Amish for a year or so first and then see if that is the lifestyle that you would still be advocating for. Milking cows by hand at 4.30 am is really not a barrel of fun, believe me. And neither is forking hay by hand onto a trailer day after day to feed those cows.

the population of people has increased and this food is no longer enough, 1% does not solve the problem. it's shadow chasing. And in general, tall forest should grow on these fields.

@@user-jm4qu6ut3q What is tall forest?

@@chrisford9045 Something that would save you from degradation and extinction and the planet from dying .

​@@user-jm4qu6ut3q You have a very poor appreciation for the value of a 1% increase in production. Also, you don't make logical sense. First you say that the population has increased, so 1% more will not feed that increasing population. Then you say that the field should be planted with trees, thus taking those hundreds or thousands of acres out of food production. So are you going to volunteer not to eat anymore? It's been nice knowing you, but soon you will be dead from starvation. Now, concerning your lack of appreciation for the value of 1% increase in production.... The current human population of the world is nearly 8 billion people. Let's assume that each person in world has enough food to last one more day, given the current level of agricultural production. Now assume that every farm in the world could increase production by just 1% in the next year. If the current population being fed is 8 billion people, then just 1% of that population is 80 million people. So in this hypothetical situation, a modest 1% increase in food production could feed an additional 80,000,000 people in the world. That would be a huge benefit. Also, I grew up on farm, raising crops including wheat, barley, dry peas, lentils, garbanzo beans, and bluegrass seed. We also raised cows, pigs, and chickens. Believe me, a 1% increase in profit can sometimes mean the difference between making a financial profit or having financial loss for a year. The profit margin of many farm crops is quite small, so efficiency makes all the difference. That chopped wheat that was being blown out of the truck already had 100% of the cost inputs added to it. The only thing left to do was to harvest it and make an income off of it... But it was wasted by spilling it on the ground because the truck was too full. The only way to recover that loss now is to let a herd of cattle graze in that field to clean up all of the silage that was spilled. Otherwise, it is just lost profit.

@@edschultheis9537 By increasing the amount of food, you increase the number of people, you catch up with your shadow until you fall, as I said. Your Ed Schultheis humanity is good, but resource depletion and changing conditions will make you think sometime.

Now that is funny! :-)

Btw : I’m also familiar with those same people saying wait so many days , then it’s ok to eat as if heavens gates open back up and everything turns magical and mystical again.

Have you ever produced silage?

Here is a video of them producing corn silage this year kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e9ylZa6ku6nDeKc.html