Chopping Corn Silage near Mishawaka Indiana

Chopping Corn Silage near Mishawaka Indiana
Video from a dairy farm near Mishawaka Indiana as they harvest corn silage that will be used to feed their dairy cow herd through the next year. Lots of action in the video starting with a John Deere 9900i self propelled forage harvesting taking twelve 30 inch rows of corn per pass. Running beside the forage harvester is JCB 8330 Fastrac Tractors pulling silage dump cart and hauling the chopped silage from the field back to the farm. At the farm the silage is dumped and two John Deere 9560R tractors with front mounted silage bladed are pushing and packing the silage on a pile.

[@shoppingcart1505]

Mishawaka is like 25 mins away from me, pretty cool

[@joelg8004]

Noticed a lot of the newer tractors in your video as having front PTOs. Is that becoming more common in the US? Great video!

[@farmhandmike]

Yes for sure. Seeing more all the time

[@tigovanderbij3799]

Over here in Europe in the Netherlands almost every tractor is equipped with front pto’s, you can do so much more with your tractor like that

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[@jimpeters7931]

Nice looking trailers for sure, curious how much they hold tonnage wise. Big MAS semi trailers are around 30 ton, bet these are close. I cringe everytime I see the empty trailer pull alongside the full trailer and they try to blow over the full one, over the course of a season, thats alot of feed on the ground, I prefer stopping for 5 seconds, for the empty to pull away.

[@michaelharris5850]

We run the same setup here in Michigan with those wagons but 4 axles and we switch on the go but the loaded wagon moves outwards and the empty wagon comes in between the loaded wagon and the chopper headed we spill way less feed that way

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

That’s only about an hour north of us, we’re north central Indiana.

[@carlfalt174]

It's nice to see a small diary still in operation

[@ScottPykare]

Excellent video Mike. Those are very nice forage wagons. Quite big as well. These guys can move a lot of corn running only one harvester. Looking forward to more videos.

[@franciscosandiego3026]

I like watching Mike less videos on TH-cam from the imperial county California 👍👍🖐️🇺🇲

[@ronaldpiper4812]

Unbelievable. Cut grab feed it in.
Process the corn and blow into trailer. So cool what man can make!

[@mariarusso3790]

Hello Ronald how are you. Have a nice weekend 😊

[@SimonKL11]

The custom made silage trailers look cool😉👍
Thanks for the video👍👍

[@tonyburelle6633]

Great video as always Mike

[@planeiron241]

Heavy Duty silage wagons big big Great Vid👍👍👍👍🚜🚜👨‍🌾👨‍🌾🍺🍺

[@farmhandhank153]

Wow those are some ginormous silage wagons. Who needs semi trucks when you have equipment that big.

[@georgegozelski7330]

Rhat corn doesn't even look to be tassled out yet..........WTF?

[@farmhandmike]

Well it definitely was tassled and at the right moisture stage for silage.

[@AdriaanVerburg]

12 row head, 950 hp. Travel speed is not excessive and that chopper is working pretty hard. That’s some good yielding corn. Great video. Mike.

[@daveevans2710]

2x 9560 on the silage pile for one forage harvester is a massive overkill. Unless they are both learning.

[@newman_LaRue_Jr]

National farm machinery show Thursday 2/16/23

[@daveevans2710]

Great video Mike. Those trailers are brilliant. They look wider than normal, big capacity.

[@user-snowman5]

Grew up close to that farm, friends had that farm sold it moved to Missouri now I go to church with em, awesome video from the Wakarusa Indiana area

[@Flexiboom]

We sincerely want to work with you and hope you will reply to our emails(on farm)

[@chadrickdiefenbacher6033]

Nice video Mike! Hopefully you get back to get footage of the manure tanking sometime. These guys have a digester on farm as well

[@justinhargett7222]

Guys I work for run the spout to the right so that truck drivers can more easily see the chopper on the trucks left side. They also have a taller side board on the right side of the silage wagons to catch the corn as it nears the top.

[@kenh8334]

Cool video. I am very close to this farm & know the family well 👍

[@raymiller9391]

Thanks for posting these chopping videos. I like to watch corn harvesting!

[@carsonkirshner6849]

Wonder why they didn't chop the corn field closes to the pile. Everyone does things different as long as it works.

[@farmhandmike]

Not Sure, Most farms are always testing/sampling the silage as its being chopped so maybe that field didn't make the cut.

[@christopherdavies752]

I wondered if you went back awesome

[@landonepp8220]

I work there

[@camdenpletcher5724]

Cool

[@shobuddy]

Pardon my ignorance, do farmers feed cattle freshly chopped silage or does it have to be fermented first?

[@farmhandmike]

Normally corn silage will not be fed to cattle for a minimum of 30-45 days after chopped, once it is packed on the pile it will ferment. Most dairy farms have a carryover of silage from the previous season to get them through.

[@ledebuhr1]

Mike, Does it seem unusual to build a silage pile on top of dirt? or was there an oxygen barrier put down first? I wonder how tightly you can seal the silage.

[@farmhandmike]

I know where they are dumping looks like dirt but the pile itself may be on concrete. I was not here when they started or was very close to the pile. I was a few hundred yards away flying the drone as I didn't want to be in the way since it was tight.

[@jaycweingardt11]

corn is always interesting

[@tlspiker5341]

Amazing

[@hocahalil398]

👍

[@bobnistler]

😎😎

[@Andy-From-England]

Great video FHM

[@farmhandmike]

Thanks

[@td6460]

Mike, since Versatile is owned by the Russian Rostselmash, will you be parting ways with them?

[@jasonleckrone2577]

you should really pay attention

[@farmhandmike]

I really don't know. As you probably know I left Versatile back in June.

[@td6460]

@@farmhandmike Didn't know that, thanks for the update!