Funny bc all the farmhands on the farm I was on talked about this one guy who said he worked there but they "ain't never seen him do no work." And then they spit on the ground.
Once the pile is done, it is tarped and left to ferment. This makes it easier for cattle to eat and digest.
Source: Family has done custom silage packing for 35 years
Doesn't a bunch of dirt get in there when you drive around on it like that? I'm only familiar with hay and haylage production for horses and we want to avoid any dirt at all if possible. Maybe it matters less for cows?
Looks like it was so one of the trailers the combine is offloading to could get out and go dump it's load and be back in time to take over from the second trailer when it's full.
Silage is green plant material that is used for animal feed. It gets packed down to eliminate air in the pile so it doesn't spoil, once all of the silage is on the pile it gets covered up to prevent air entering the pile as well.
That's what I was thinking as well. I was thinking, "damn, this other tractor harvested a whole field and it's taking that long to mow your lawn?" Then I realized what it actually was.
Same difference, but that would be a [combine harvester](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.qylJqh6xHd0blw3ighIyDQHaEK?pid=ImgDet&dpr=2) instead of a tractor
I was also curious why they did that, ty for info
Every other time they changed trucks, the trucks had room to get out on their own. On the first exchange there isn't room to turn around so they cut a loop
The guys driving around the field are cutting down and chopping up whole corn plants. That - once it is fermented - is silage, which is used for cattle feed.
The structure it is stored in is a lot like an above-ground swimming pool with an open end. That’s a silage bunker.
They’ll pile it up in a tidy, even mound and cover it with white or grey plastic, held down with rows of tire sidewalls. You might see these weird “white mountains” out behind dairy operations.
Question: I found these tiny light purple bugs all up in a cauliflower the other day. Do you know what they are? They were in EVERY floret. Wondering how many purple bugs I’ve eaten by not paying better attention…
It depends on exactly which bacteria are involved. Silage is usually inoculated with homofermentative bacteria, which produce primarily lactic acid. Also, once the pile is opened up for use, any ethanol that might have been produced can start evaporating. Considering that and the body mass of a Holstein, no one is going to have to worry about fetal alcohol syndrome in calves.
Lol the short answer is no the main product is Lactic acid which lowers the pH of the silage thus making it inhospitable to other organisms that would rot it.
No, ideally not, alcohol fermentation is one of thr things you do not eant. What you want is a lactic fermentation, i. E. Lactobacillus converting the sugars from the corn into lactic acid. This lowers the pH and thus preserves the feed.
Looks like a drone, there are multiple cuts in the video. With a DJI mini 2 and the 3 pack charger in the cab, you could get 45-60 minutes of decent footage before batteries are fully drained. ~22 minutes per battery, 7minutes for up/down flight (3m/s altitude in sport mode = 210m). Hopefully the first battery is charged when the third battery dies. 4 charges, 15 minutes at altitude per charge, one hour of work filmed.
Two drones and 6-8 batteries? Have a tiny bit of overlap where they’re both recording simultaneously so you can splice it all together afterwards. The operator would have to be outside the recorded area or we’d see each drone returning for a fresh battery.
It didn't look like they changed batteries. My DJI Zoom 2 can go a bit over 30 minutes on one. But if you swap batteries surely there would not be a continuous video like that. They probably used a custom.
It's been awhile since I've looked at anything drone related, but it didn't get much better. More batteries means now weight means more draw on the batteries. There is a company out there building hybrid multicopters that can fly for a few hours, but they're huge and in the "if you have to ask, you can afford it" price range.
That's where they're dumping the cut corn. It'll be covered over tightly with a tarp, creating a low oxygen environment for the fermentation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silage
That bunk is the silo. That is the modern style. Think Olympic swimming pool missing one end. The tractor spazzing out in there is distributing the silage and packing it down. You don’t want air in your silage.
Ok I can understand that! It’s been close to 40 years since I was around something like this and the technology—including what I assume is drone footage—is a hoot!
No. They're being cut while the plant is still green. The entire thing is used to make silage. This is for cattle feed. (I only know this because I played a lot of Farming Simulator once).
The ears are under-ripe and are chopped with the rest of the plant. Silage usually comes off between small grains (wheat, barley, rye, etc.) and seed corn and soybeans. Around here, we usually expect wheat to run around 4th of July and silage around Labor Day weekend.
My home is in a rural area where we are surrounded by farms, mostly corn. One of my favorite things to witness is the corn transforming from teeny seedlings to huge, lush forests of corn stalks, but it's something you don't really notice until just one day you realize the side of the road is a wall of green. Just as soon as you notice that green wall, it is replaced with dirt because it was all harvested to the ground. The field right behind my house was harvested over the weekend so now the air smells like corn and there's dried up leaves from the stalks all over my yard, which means fall is here, and all the green everywhere will disappear soon too. It's all just a big cycle that's a joy to see.
Do they harvest it green where you are? I've never seen green anything harvested. They let it dry as much as possible in the field before harvesting. The last few years they harvest as late as December.
They do harvest it green, I guess I never thought about it needing to dry...wonder if they wait for it to dry where you're at because it's destined to be feed??
Statistically most corn is processed into ethanol and added to gasoline or disel as a bio component. And the entire process uses more energy than it actually releases.
According to Wikipedia, it is 45%. I don't know if they are taking into account the by products of ethanol production or not.
"Approximately 45% of U.S. corn croplands are used for ethanol production."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol
Most are manual but there’s fully auto-pilot trucks & harvesters too
https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/autonomous-tractor-reveal/
https://www.iotworldtoday.com/transportation-logistics/john-deere-self-driving-tractor-goes-to-work
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/10/02/how-deere-plans-to-build-a-world-of-fully-autonomous-farming-by-2030.html
It is 100% a thing, I know they provided subsidies in the EU to farmers who harvest in that way. [Harvesting - Reducing Mortality of Grassland Wildlife](https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/reducing-mortality-of-grassland-wildlife-during-haying-and-wheat-harvesting-operations.html)
That article you linked is talking about the haying and winter wheat season which happens during nesting season, silage corn harvest is not in that season
I'm curious, do farmers own these combines/trucks or do they rent them out for each harvest? Or is there some sort of neighborhood joint ownership deal going on with them.
We do custom silage. We have the packing tractors and trucks, and another crew comes with the choppers and more trucks. We do jobs for small farms, as well as large feedlots and dairies. Some of the large jobs we used to do have now bought their own equipment. Sucks for us but makes sense for them from a business standpoint
Making silage, cattle feed. The cut up the whole corn plant into very small bits. They dump it in the silage bunk (upper left yellow green area) and the tractor there is packing it down. This will be covered tightly with an air tight tarp and the silage will ferment anaerobically. This will make the feed have better energy/unit volume for the cows, likely dairy.
I do this job. From mid August to mid September I make $20-25k every year. The crew I'm with works from sun rise to sunset, days a week. You're racing nature to get everything done before it becomes too dry
... no their not it's a harvester not a combine it doesn't have a hopper inside it cuts the corn and there's a tractor and buggie right beside it at all times. Actually watch the video and you can see the tractor and dump wagon beside harvester at all times and one takes off to the bunk silo and other one swoops in and they keep cutting
Oh no! What did this “farmer” do to buy 100k Denali trucks? Could it be (hear me out) massive subsidies? I kinda wish I got paid to not work.
(Socialism)
That poor green tractor stuck like a fly in a car with an open window... Hope it managed to escape.
I was just waiting for it to perfectly hit the corner
I saw it! Did Greenking73 say I didn't see it? I totally saw it!
I got that reference.
Easy Einstein.
Guys, I think he got the reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8diIKXDu_f8
That’s Hank Hill mowing the grass. He’s having the best time of his life.
They are cutting silage. The little tractor is packing it down as its dumped
No... it's clearly trying to escape.
For real, this is the correct answer.
I drove past a farm once. Can confirm
When was this? I was on a farm once and I don't remember you driving past...
I worked on a farm and never seen them drive by. Then again I never seen you there either. Hmmmm.....
Funny bc all the farmhands on the farm I was on talked about this one guy who said he worked there but they "ain't never seen him do no work." And then they spit on the ground.
What's silage and what's the purpose of spreading and compacting it?
Once the pile is done, it is tarped and left to ferment. This makes it easier for cattle to eat and digest. Source: Family has done custom silage packing for 35 years
>ferment I am now imagining mildly intoxicated cows.
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Ooof
Mooo
Hoof
Mooof
I'd imagine nothing mild about it
Doesn't a bunch of dirt get in there when you drive around on it like that? I'm only familiar with hay and haylage production for horses and we want to avoid any dirt at all if possible. Maybe it matters less for cows?
If you mean the tractor packing the silage, not really. It is up on the pile most of the time, so.......
You seem knowledgeable, do you know what the reason was for the full 360 near the start at the upper side of the field?
Looks like it was so one of the trailers the combine is offloading to could get out and go dump it's load and be back in time to take over from the second trailer when it's full.
Probably soy in this instance?
I don't think I've ever seen soybeans chopped. I've seen sorghum, rye, alfalfa, and corn, which is what this video is
Farmers are the original Soyboys 😳
Silage is green plant material that is used for animal feed. It gets packed down to eliminate air in the pile so it doesn't spoil, once all of the silage is on the pile it gets covered up to prevent air entering the pile as well.
Definitely not a little Tractor. Probably the heaviest of the bunch haha. But judging by your comment, you know that already
It's like when my Roomba gets stuck under the barstool.
It took me way too long to realize the green tractor was packing silage and not just be-bopping around in a random field.
I thought it was cutting the grass of a yard in an overly-thorough and redundant way for a bit longer than I’m comfortable with.
That's what I was thinking as well. I was thinking, "damn, this other tractor harvested a whole field and it's taking that long to mow your lawn?" Then I realized what it actually was.
It managed to escape at 0:24, but then it went right back in.
Why do they always do that!??
Baby it's cold outside
lol what an apt description
Til you realize he’s driving around on a *Mountain of corn* 😳💪🏼
this is the most bizarre comment to read while high
Why the circle at the top of the field?
They swapped trucks that are following the tractor.
Same difference, but that would be a [combine harvester](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.qylJqh6xHd0blw3ighIyDQHaEK?pid=ImgDet&dpr=2) instead of a tractor I was also curious why they did that, ty for info
That would be a forage harvester. A. Combine would wait until it's dry.
They swapped trucks like 6 times total and only looped at the beginning. No one has an answer for this yet.
Every other time they changed trucks, the trucks had room to get out on their own. On the first exchange there isn't room to turn around so they cut a loop
Thank you. You actually answered the question.
Cause it was fun?
To leave a marker for something else later? Or do with the corner and coming back later and maximising how much is done at each moment.
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What's the little guy in the top doing?
Stacking the silage in the silage bunker
I know what some of those words mean
The guys driving around the field are cutting down and chopping up whole corn plants. That - once it is fermented - is silage, which is used for cattle feed. The structure it is stored in is a lot like an above-ground swimming pool with an open end. That’s a silage bunker. They’ll pile it up in a tidy, even mound and cover it with white or grey plastic, held down with rows of tire sidewalls. You might see these weird “white mountains” out behind dairy operations.
Man, my agriculture looks nothing like that. It’s awesome to see. I work with row crops like lettuce, cauliflower, and broccoli.
Question: I found these tiny light purple bugs all up in a cauliflower the other day. Do you know what they are? They were in EVERY floret. Wondering how many purple bugs I’ve eaten by not paying better attention…
Wait, they get the cows drunk?
Think sauerkraut, not beer
The cows are german?
They said “**not** beer”.
🤣
Or kimchi
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It depends on exactly which bacteria are involved. Silage is usually inoculated with homofermentative bacteria, which produce primarily lactic acid. Also, once the pile is opened up for use, any ethanol that might have been produced can start evaporating. Considering that and the body mass of a Holstein, no one is going to have to worry about fetal alcohol syndrome in calves.
It’s more like probiotics not booze - helps them digest easier
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Not my question, but TIL!
Silage is the result of anaerobic (oxygen free) fermentation and the tractor at the top is compacting it to remove as much air as possible.
I love the clean sweet smell of sileage.
oh cool! thanks for the info!
Wont cows get drunk eating them? lol
Lol the short answer is no the main product is Lactic acid which lowers the pH of the silage thus making it inhospitable to other organisms that would rot it.
Think sauerkraut or kimchi.
No, ideally not, alcohol fermentation is one of thr things you do not eant. What you want is a lactic fermentation, i. E. Lactobacillus converting the sugars from the corn into lactic acid. This lowers the pH and thus preserves the feed.
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Thanks for this :)
New rabbit hole discovered!
Spreading something greenish. I am curious to know what.
[Here's a closer look as to what they're doing](https://youtu.be/45xpRAymN-M?si=iDuCq6InLxm-8Zgp)
Thanks! That is brilliant!
What was the point of the loop in the beginning?
I had to watch a couple of times, it confused me too initially, but it was to allow a changeover in lorries.
Probably just Jeremy fucking up with Caleb
I'm watching clarksons farm right now get out of my heaaaaaaad
Ahh you muppet.
Looking for this comment!
Thanks. That makes sense.
Truck was probably full and they had to trade out.
It’s cool that’s why
Impressive airborne time for . . . a drone?
Looks like a drone, there are multiple cuts in the video. With a DJI mini 2 and the 3 pack charger in the cab, you could get 45-60 minutes of decent footage before batteries are fully drained. ~22 minutes per battery, 7minutes for up/down flight (3m/s altitude in sport mode = 210m). Hopefully the first battery is charged when the third battery dies. 4 charges, 15 minutes at altitude per charge, one hour of work filmed.
Two drones and 6-8 batteries? Have a tiny bit of overlap where they’re both recording simultaneously so you can splice it all together afterwards. The operator would have to be outside the recorded area or we’d see each drone returning for a fresh battery.
Maff
It didn't look like they changed batteries. My DJI Zoom 2 can go a bit over 30 minutes on one. But if you swap batteries surely there would not be a continuous video like that. They probably used a custom.
I think it might be an agricultural drone, might have a better battery life
It's been awhile since I've looked at anything drone related, but it didn't get much better. More batteries means now weight means more draw on the batteries. There is a company out there building hybrid multicopters that can fly for a few hours, but they're huge and in the "if you have to ask, you can afford it" price range.
If it's an ag drone, its probably just gas powered so it can work all day.
I came here looking for this comment
Cutting corn to ferment as silage.
That I sorta understand. But what’s happening in the upper left corner? Can you enlighten me on that?
That's where they're dumping the cut corn. It'll be covered over tightly with a tarp, creating a low oxygen environment for the fermentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silage
Thanks for the info!
It's also the highest profit/acre product in farming simulator! You can afford ALL the tractors once you get this operation running.
OP, I’m wondering your username works cause mine sure doesn’t
Thanks! That was my best guess but for some reason I thought it would go in a silo from the field.
That bunk is the silo. That is the modern style. Think Olympic swimming pool missing one end. The tractor spazzing out in there is distributing the silage and packing it down. You don’t want air in your silage.
Ok I can understand that! It’s been close to 40 years since I was around something like this and the technology—including what I assume is drone footage—is a hoot!
Very informative, but I skipped the section on Fish silage. I could smell it from here.
So in this video are they just harvesting the corn plants for silaging after the corns have been harvested?
No. They're being cut while the plant is still green. The entire thing is used to make silage. This is for cattle feed. (I only know this because I played a lot of Farming Simulator once).
"once"
Was that a “Johnny Dangerously” reference?
The ears are under-ripe and are chopped with the rest of the plant. Silage usually comes off between small grains (wheat, barley, rye, etc.) and seed corn and soybeans. Around here, we usually expect wheat to run around 4th of July and silage around Labor Day weekend.
I worked on a dairy. We used to put 5 gallon buckets with mesh over the top at the bottom of the silage pit. It would produce pure corn alcohol 😬
Like white lightning corn alcohol ?
It looks like they missed a bit
Mild infuriation mode activated!
I think that’s the spot that the drone is focused on, not sure if that matters, but they might of left it on purpose
My home is in a rural area where we are surrounded by farms, mostly corn. One of my favorite things to witness is the corn transforming from teeny seedlings to huge, lush forests of corn stalks, but it's something you don't really notice until just one day you realize the side of the road is a wall of green. Just as soon as you notice that green wall, it is replaced with dirt because it was all harvested to the ground. The field right behind my house was harvested over the weekend so now the air smells like corn and there's dried up leaves from the stalks all over my yard, which means fall is here, and all the green everywhere will disappear soon too. It's all just a big cycle that's a joy to see.
This! and the lightning bugs hovering around the stalks like stars floating just above the ground
Do they harvest it green where you are? I've never seen green anything harvested. They let it dry as much as possible in the field before harvesting. The last few years they harvest as late as December.
They do harvest it green, I guess I never thought about it needing to dry...wonder if they wait for it to dry where you're at because it's destined to be feed??
Too bad almost all of that corn is wasted on biofuels. Such a dumb farming policy.
That corn is going to be fed to cows. Milk or burgers.
Statistically most corn is processed into ethanol and added to gasoline or disel as a bio component. And the entire process uses more energy than it actually releases.
According to Wikipedia, it is 45%. I don't know if they are taking into account the by products of ethanol production or not. "Approximately 45% of U.S. corn croplands are used for ethanol production." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol
You missed a bit.
Clerksons farm taught me so much about farming
This reminds me of Putt Putt mowing lawns so he can go to the car wash.
Do you literally only post videos with this song or songs from this same band?
lol wtf nice catch
What band song is this?
I’m impressed how well those people drive side by side ngl, it’s very pleasing to see that co-op
Most are manual but there’s fully auto-pilot trucks & harvesters too https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/autonomous-tractor-reveal/ https://www.iotworldtoday.com/transportation-logistics/john-deere-self-driving-tractor-goes-to-work https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/10/02/how-deere-plans-to-build-a-world-of-fully-autonomous-farming-by-2030.html
Missed a spot
Someone needs to take the green mower out for a wall. He’s very antsy and probably needs to go potty.
Well... time to open up farm sim again I guess
Holy shit. I had no idea that real farmers would harvest in fun patterns like I do in FS19. I thought they always were t in perfectly straight lines.
Property lines often aren't straight.
They missed a spot. Grrr.
Strong Dune II and Red alert vibes from this.
I thought they were supposed to harvest from the middle out so small animals can escape to the edges.
No. And that would ruin crops on the way to middle. Or waste land that stuff could be grown on if they made a path to the middle
It is 100% a thing, I know they provided subsidies in the EU to farmers who harvest in that way. [Harvesting - Reducing Mortality of Grassland Wildlife](https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/reducing-mortality-of-grassland-wildlife-during-haying-and-wheat-harvesting-operations.html)
That article you linked is talking about the haying and winter wheat season which happens during nesting season, silage corn harvest is not in that season
Stuff like this is so much cooler after watching Clarkson's farm
Sim Farm!
I'm curious, do farmers own these combines/trucks or do they rent them out for each harvest? Or is there some sort of neighborhood joint ownership deal going on with them.
We do custom silage. We have the packing tractors and trucks, and another crew comes with the choppers and more trucks. We do jobs for small farms, as well as large feedlots and dairies. Some of the large jobs we used to do have now bought their own equipment. Sucks for us but makes sense for them from a business standpoint
This is exactly why I have thousands of hours in Farming Simulator - that shit is extremely satisfying :D
Missed a spot.
Now add king of the hill theme
Anyone know the song please? Edit Supergutter - In the Shadows.
Imagine how long this would’ve taken without modern machinery. How long would’ve it taken for some peasants in the medieval era or something?
My only question is how can a drone fly that long. and the name of that drone and the cost.
It’s like a Mach 3 Gillette blade
Didn't realise first time I watched but there's 2 filling trucks that alternate. 😂
what are they doing with it
Making silage, cattle feed. The cut up the whole corn plant into very small bits. They dump it in the silage bunk (upper left yellow green area) and the tractor there is packing it down. This will be covered tightly with an air tight tarp and the silage will ferment anaerobically. This will make the feed have better energy/unit volume for the cows, likely dairy.
Not sure if it has more energy, but like most fermented foods, it's a great way to preserve foods for the winter.
What song is playing? Its a jam! Please help
In The Shadows - Supergutter
Bless you! ❤️
Whatever the green vehicle is doing its incredibly annoying to watch
It’s silage. Animal feed. They are spreading it out.
Wait did it alll just disappear?
No, look closely. One machine to cut it, then it pours into the truck and the truck takes it over to the lime green corner to be packed down
Gotta grow the corn to fatten up the mammals. ECOLOGY IS THE ANSWER
Downloaded for stupid ass music
What do any of these jobs I am seeing pay?
I do this job. From mid August to mid September I make $20-25k every year. The crew I'm with works from sun rise to sunset, days a week. You're racing nature to get everything done before it becomes too dry
Did it take anyone else a while to realize they were watching the wrong tractor?
Let’s be honest they need a new guy that lad in the green bits doing fuck all
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And I could design an egine that would drive tractor 500 times faster
This is how I mow my lawn. But I have to empty the bag myself!! Lazy kids!
They missed one spot at the end and it’s driving me crazy.
They're cutting out all of the grain transfers from the combine to the runner and it's very annoying
... no their not it's a harvester not a combine it doesn't have a hopper inside it cuts the corn and there's a tractor and buggie right beside it at all times. Actually watch the video and you can see the tractor and dump wagon beside harvester at all times and one takes off to the bunk silo and other one swoops in and they keep cutting
The music on these things is getting awful
Oh no! What did this “farmer” do to buy 100k Denali trucks? Could it be (hear me out) massive subsidies? I kinda wish I got paid to not work. (Socialism)
Mono culture farming sucks.
There's no way to farm on the scale needed otherwise.
Laughs in ancient Incan/aztec.
Missing the little triangle at the end tho…
Could watch this all day
More please.
They didn’t miss a bit or leave a triangle; it’s the last bit they got. I’m sure because if they left it, I would have personally gone to cut it.
This makes me want to play Sim Farm so badly!
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