First Cut Silage 2020 | Part 3
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- We live on a dairy farm in south west Scotland and made this channel to document our lives when the schools are closed.
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The day where Katie doesn't tell us to was our hands anymore will be a strange day.... ☺️🤗
It will be strange but it will also mean we are free to go back to normal again. We have a slight easing of lockdown so Finn had a riding lesson today, first in 11 weeks and we visited our grandparents and had socially distanced cakes in the garden, also first visit in over 10 weeks.
Thank you very much for our shout out! Two very pleased boys here 👍👍. Another great video!
Thank you Alfie and Flynn for sending us the video. We are very envious as we had to peddle our tractors when we were that size!
Who saw the Black Night go past in the background?
Well spotted!!! We wondered who would notice 😁👍🏻🐄
Me too! I said to myself, "Hey! We know him!" 😉
Anyone that watches Hoof GP knows that truck!
Hoof GP!
That crush is a dead give away. Think that's the only one in Scotland.
It was great to see the co-ordination in making the silage...my heart was in my mouth when I saw that tractor that was compacting so close to the edge!!...I saw a Hoof GP sneaking in...to see Gracie...
You spotted him! He was popping in to see a bull with a sore foot. The bull from the lost in the mist video. 👍🏻
Yeah the hoof GP!
Glad you have a good use for old tires!
You spotted him!!! Yes good old tyre recycling!
The three of you make a great team. Your vids are super entertaining and I have learned so much watching them.
Thank you, having fun making them and learning lots ourselves
You know when it's Summer when the silage is cut and farmers break out the old shorts.
Sure is!
White legs on show!
Another great video though I would not want to drive the tractor to compress the silage. Looks scary up there!
It’s scary to watch, must be terrifying actually doing it!!
Not as scary when u have a pit in a shed
I love the buckrake ma dad lets me have a shot some times and I’m only 12
Really good watched and enjoyed all 3 and loving the views of the Galloway hills
It’s a beautiful part of the world.
Thanks again for the video friends, and thanks for the look at the chopper!
Thank you, really appreciate your comments
Trying to catch up on the u-tube channels that I follow yours was first. Good lord the amount of work and man power and hours that goes into a glass of milk. Keep up the great job an I will C YA
Busy time of year, thank you and glad you chose us to catch up on first!! 😁
Wish the fishing was as good as the videos
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A good job done well👍
Thank you, appreciate your comments
👍👌🇨🇦❤, what an expressive opening, 👊, great mix of operations ans scenery shots
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Great video guys still loving your channel well done.👍🇬🇧🤘🤣😂
Thank you, your comments are always very much appreciated.
Such a beautiful landscape. Your farm is so clean and organized! You should be very proud of it! Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much
Rory, you are such a professional presenter. Keep it up. The next John Craven, perhaps? (Ask your parents!)
Hi, it’s Finn who presents, Rory is the cameraman. Katie is the clown!
Yes Rory is on camera, Finn presenting and Katie acting the goat!
Well Finn, I apologise for the mix-up! You are all doing a good job; I find your channel astonishingly good and educational.
What I like about you, Finn, is your unflappability, and your dry humour and ability to wing it as you go along. Like the windscreen wiper joke 👍🤣. What’s that Katie? Nothing!
Also your level of technical knowledge, but your willingness to say when it runs out. It is very refreshing. (‘This middle bit’).
Fast approaching 3K subscribers
It’s ticking away nicely. So exciting!!!! 😁
I think there is a place for Katie in movies!!! She is very energetic and dramatic. I just love it! And, If I'm not very mistaken, I believe I caught a glimpse of Graeme Parker driving in with his crush to care for the cows' feet. Am I right?
Well spotted, Graeme normally comes on a Monday but he kindly popped in to see the bull from the video ‘cows lost in the mist’. He suddenly went lame so Graeme popped in and got him sorted.
Great video there kids! It’s strange (to me) that silage is not going in a silo. But, that must be the Wisconsin farmer in me 😉. Say, who was that in that silver truck that was pulling the beautiful piece of APPLETON STEEL????? Was it the hair blown Craigie Boy and his sidekick? Or, was it the world famous The Hoof GP and the bus fare boy 😂🤣Lol! Thanks for the smile today. Cheers from 🍎ton 🇺🇸!
Think it was the Hoof GP on his own, we didn’t see Craig but it was windy enough for him to be out letting his hair blow! It’s a lockdown issue we are all having! The hairdressers are going to be very busy when this is all over! 🤣
I'm in agreement with Stephen Walker That compacting of the silage looks a very precarious job , needing to be keeping your wits about you ,doing that job and not wanting many distractions.. great video again crew keep it up
Thanks Mick. So your not up for helping when you next come over from S Ireland? You could roll it with the motor home! 😂
Farming Files The Motorhome has not rolled anywhere but hoping our Leo lets us off lockdown end of June
Now thats a lot of grass lol..I watch another farmer on YT who just did their first cut last week to.I think he might be a bit jealous of all that beautiful grass..lol.Nice surprise seeing the black knight make a cameo appearance..lol..Thanks for showing how the blower works ot was one those little things that I was curious about 👍🐮
You spotted him!!! 😁🐄
You spotted him!!! 😁🐄
Had to change the word you to he sorry about that 😲
Well done guys keep up the good work I go to a farm to
Where are you from?
@@FarmingFiles I am from scotland to
@farming files can I have a shout out please in the next vid
I liked your videos and I waiting for next video.
Great videos! I do have one question. How do you keep the silage from composting so that the cows don't end up eating dirt?
Good question, we’ll need to ask this question but it’s maybe because we stop the air getting to it completely?
First couple of times, I thought you called it a butt rake.
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@@FarmingFiles A butt rake ....mmmm, where is my inventer's hat? I'm off to my shed for a few hours £££££££££
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Amazing. I commend you and the family for doing this all. This isn't easy work. What is the duration of the silage(ing) process? This is soo fascinating!!! Love you guys. Such hilarious moments on footage. Stay safe guys. Sending love and hugs from Massachusetts.
Thank you! We cut the silage on day 1 and 2 then spread it out to dry. Day 3 we start to chop the grass we cut down on day 1. Day 4 still chopping and bringing in. Day 5 finished chopping by lunch and it took the whole afternoon to put the sheet on. So 5 days in total. We were lucky it was dry the whole 5 days, most years we have rained off days in between!
I could almost smell that Fresh silage all the way here in Wisconsin! 😊
It was great weather for the job, not often we get it so good. Usually chopping between the showers!
Did you spot the Appleton sneaking in?
is that the hoof gp sneaking in
Well spotted!!! 😁🐄👍🏻
Another great video we just got our silage in last week we are actually getting slurry out today if you could reply how many cows are you miking now we are milking 150 last count and how many fields do you get in for silage
We milk 300 cows and brought in 227 acres of silage this cut. 👍🏻
Wow that’s a lot of cows
Great video! Is silage better for the cows that bailing hay? Keep up the great job!
Fermenting has been a natural way of preserving foods for millennia, for us humans. I don’t know the history of Silage. Perhaps another edition of ‘Farming Files’ could tell us? There are many advantages, but one of the biggest is the natural probiotics which build up as fermentation processes are underway. This is very good for mammalian digestion.
Mike, good question. We aren’t 100% sure of the answer but we do know that we very rarely have weather here on the west coast of Scotland which allows hay making. It usually rains a LOT here so hay is tricky whereas silage just needs 24-48 hours before chopping it. The weather window is much easier for silage. It’s also very expensive to make bales compared to silage the way we make it. Much cheaper to put it in the pit and much more nutritious but we have a cow nutritionalist who comes every month ( he hasn’t been in person since lockdown) and we’ll ask him 👍🏻
@@FarmingFiles I live on the Oregon coast and we get a lot of rain also. That make sense. Our summers are dryer than yours.
Hey can I ask a question. I hope it's not a silly question. Is the Chopper a little brother to the Combine Harvester obviously with different settings for chopping ? Great video 🏴🏴🏴🚜🚜🚜🚜
Not silly! No they are different machines used for the different jobs! Around the same size but do their own special jobs. 👍🏻
@@FarmingFiles You're very kind 🙂 Thank you for that, now I know 🚜🚜🚜🚜
The heat generated must be intense. Is there ever a chance of combustion? Where does the second cut go?
Hmmm! Usually on top of first cut but there isn’t normally that much first cut! 🤔!!!
Never heard of combustion during silage but harvesting crops like wheat and barley it can happen.
Lots and lots of work.....I'm tired just watchin all that work...lol...question....does the silage ever get mildew?🤔...and if so can the cows safely eat it? 🤔
Hi, if the sheet isn't on properly air gets in and makes it mouldy. This cant be eaten and goes in the midden sadly
Doesn’t the chopper have a horn?
If Katie has been showing us around it we would know for sure! 😂 I’m pretty sure it will have.
How long does it stay covered?
Until we need it. Some won’t be exposed until next spring.
6 weeks to ferment
Why don't you use the telehandler on the pit
It was on the small pit rolling but it doesn’t make as good a job as the buck rakes. Slower!
I'm curious is cameraman Rory was named for Rory of Dr. Who fame?
No, we don’t watch Dr Who. We don’t actually watch much tv at all!
@@FarmingFiles Probably wise
Did you tell us how much Silage you use in a year or did I miss that ?
Malcolm, we use whatever we produce that year, if we have a bigger crop like this year it saves us buying in other things like potatoes and brewers grains to supplement the lack of silage. We had two very wet years and poor silage crops and it cost a lot more to feed the cows those years as we had to buy in silage from nearby farms and other supplementary feeds. It also took a couple of years for the fields to get back to normal.
Dad says between 4,000 and 5,000 tons a year.
@@FarmingFiles that's 400-500 trailers of grass. Have you ever told us how many cows on the farm ?
There are 300 milking at any one time and with young stock it’ll be nearer 600.
We had 298 loads in first cut which is superb
I would not like to be the person compacting as it looks a bit dodgy, as if they may tip over! What does the JW stand for on Katie’s hoody?
It’s a very skilled job on the buck rake. Not for the faint hearted! JW is for Jack Wills, the make of her hoody