Packing 36,800 tons of Corn Silage

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3 жыл бұрын

Green Earth Ag Services Packing Silage Pile at Stone Ridge Dairy Farm in Central Illinois.
Music is Sweet Release and The Twister by Dan Lebowitz

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@lordofhowell7158 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. V impressive kit!

@DeLandbouwSpotter 3 жыл бұрын

Good video nice to see.

@gidget8010 3 жыл бұрын

All I can think while watching this is what a bomb ass snow hill this would be

@cntslesfabrication 3 жыл бұрын

That's 191 loads per day that's hustling pretty good

@TheCattlekings 3 жыл бұрын

We are doing this right now and have 4 John Deere articulating tractors pushing the pile

@freddyfreddy42 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had a job like this...

@MississippiMudMX Жыл бұрын

me too brother.

@neptune4167 3 жыл бұрын

turning fuel into milk and milk into fuel with a little bit of cash left over to make ends meet.

@markthefarmer 3 жыл бұрын

Where do you get this much people to work? Friends or pay people?

@asadfaruqbuttar5264 3 жыл бұрын

What's the covered area of the pit ?

@markiowa5437 3 жыл бұрын

cool

@nikieltaylor9799 3 жыл бұрын

That is quite impressive, I’m curious of how many acres of corn fields that took?

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

1,606 acres

@Lala-me6no 3 жыл бұрын

Well that answers that

@asadfaruqbuttar5264 3 жыл бұрын

@@JimBaltz what's the covered area of the pit?

@samkom33 Жыл бұрын

@@asadfaruqbuttar5264 if you mean the smaller silage pit totaly coverd-not opend with white plastic, im guessing haylage cut earlyer in the summer. IF its a cow farm in full production they always need some ovelap becouse it usually take several weeks from you covering a pile of any silage until its stable and you can feed from it.

@TheWarrior68 3 жыл бұрын

Tractors much lol love it

@Allnightgamer25 3 жыл бұрын

city slicker question here, does none of it blow away? I mean I assume they don't use a silo because of the sheer volume of it, but just leaving it outside?

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

Very little blows away as it wet and as soon as they are done it gets covered with two layers of plastic. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd9ndaV5ta2xmKs.html

@chollettgarrett 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite part 2:45 “Whoops, ‘scuse me”

@coltchristman5888 3 жыл бұрын

we chopped 100,000+ tons it took a month with 4 choppers

@dwaynekoblitz6032 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t imagine doing that for 7 hours. Much less 7 days. Maybe about an hour and I’d be done.

@Luuk-ur3sp 3 жыл бұрын

7 hours? at least 12 hours.

@diarmuid858 3 жыл бұрын

It wouldn’t be that bad either because you can see progression and there’s probably good banter over the cb radios in the tractors

@mihasladic6051 3 жыл бұрын

this looks like those little RC models

@lukebriggs501 3 жыл бұрын

Where is this at in central Illinois

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

By Bellflower Illinois

@keystonecarpenter3002 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't walls help? Seems like you would loose a lot of good silage this way.

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

Walls are expensive and from the times I have visited the farm I have seen little spoilage.

@TheKreshica95 3 жыл бұрын

how many cows are they feeding?

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

I believe around 3,000 cows

@chriswhite4596 3 жыл бұрын

7 days is a Walk in the Park !!!! Come down to Texas and we will show you 18 hour Days of Packing and Chopping !!!!

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

That sounds too much like work :-)

@albacete9210 2 жыл бұрын

@@JimBaltz sir how many days we can continue fill bunker?thank

@michaelstrick4293 3 жыл бұрын

How many dairy cows do they have

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

I believe when they are full they can milk 3,200 cows but not sure what numbers they are running currently.

@gethinjones7501 3 жыл бұрын

Is it all on a concrete pad?

@lounatic7370 3 жыл бұрын

Only the very bottom is 🙄

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

It is one huge concrete pad.

@gethinjones7501 3 жыл бұрын

Jim Baltz jeez there would be some rainwater coming off it in a storm.

@samuelcook7588 3 жыл бұрын

hi Billy

@kennethdow7075 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine, not imagining.

@oakleyschenefeld9509 3 жыл бұрын

I’m a 5th gen farmer and hate packing silage

@albacete9210 2 жыл бұрын

Sir how many days we can continue fill bunker?

@JimBaltz 2 жыл бұрын

Should try to fill a bunker as fast as possible to minimize spoilage.

@albacete9210 2 жыл бұрын

@@JimBaltz sir maximum days?thanks

@JimBaltz 2 жыл бұрын

@@albacete9210 Too many factors to give you a maximum numbers of days. It will depend on moisture of silage, temp, preservative being used, how well you are packing, and how much you are adding every day. The longest I have seen a pile open is two weeks due to rain. They did at least get in the field to add to the pile every couple days to minimize spoilage. Hope that helps.

@chrisgriffiths2533 3 жыл бұрын

A Bit over the Top, but Hope it must make sense.

@suresure267 3 жыл бұрын

They dont pack the sides?

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

Sides are packed as they go up. Everything is slopped

@suresure267 3 жыл бұрын

@@JimBaltz gotcha, time lapse just didnt show any tractors side packing

@oe542 3 жыл бұрын

Sure Sure they don’t run on side slope because it’s already packed during each lift they’re adding.

@suresure267 3 жыл бұрын

@@oe542 what they drive on is packed but anything outside the blade is fluff unless you run a side pack..

@oe542 3 жыл бұрын

Sure Sure it would be whatever their tires didn’t hit which would only probably be maybe a foot from the edge. Maybe before they cover it they run up and down to pack it.

@modziwobiektywie3949 3 жыл бұрын

Dla nich 10k to jak 100$ dla normalnego obywatela

@econchino 3 жыл бұрын

In six months all that green will be brown and much worse smelling

@JimBaltz 3 жыл бұрын

Guess it is what you are used to. When I dairy farmed I used to love the smell of good corn silage.

@econchino 3 жыл бұрын

@@JimBaltz I have never smelled corn silage so I don't know what it smells like. What I was joking about was in six months the cows will have eaten the whole pile and turned it into a pile.

@oe542 3 жыл бұрын

It’s funny because it will actually turn brown and the smell will change that’s why he didn’t get your joke. Personally I love the smell of corn silage, but I grew up on a dairy farm.

@samkom33 Жыл бұрын

@@JimBaltz i can just imagine the smell of corn silage, since i grew up in northern norway working on a little farm where we madite only hay and hay silage which nowadays i guess is cald haylage.. as long as it was packed right and not spoiled it had cind of a sweet smell.

@jcstang8952 3 жыл бұрын

Little advaice...some people don't know what's going on here so, why don't you start off by telling people what Silage is, where it comes from, how it resulted and what exactly you are going to do with it. I down voted you because you seem to not understand that there are people who don't know what is going on here. When they watch the video, they don't know what they are looking at and what the purpose is.

@samkom33 Жыл бұрын

most people that are awake and know how to google CORN SILAGE have good idea about what it is, and what it is used for. 😁 A few years ago i thought it was used mostly for TMR -cow-animal food but now at least in europe the last years, BIG quantitys are also used for BIOgas production. To run power plants.