First Cut Sorghum Baleage & Our 15,000 Gallon Water Silo (149)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- This week, we're setting up our 15,000 gallon water silo and making first cut yield max baleage. Yield max is a forage mix of sorghum, Italian Ryegrass, 2 Clovers, and Harry Vetch.
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Nothing like working with your kids those are memories you will have forever.
Thanks for sharing Piet.
Always something interesting, nice drone footage. Nice to see the kids with you, memories been made. 👍👍💪🗽✌️🍻
When done properly, that epoxy system for anchoring the silo is very strong. It yields tremendous "kip" ratings. I've used it many times over the years for various projects. The concrete you are anchoring into will break out and shatter before the rods and epoxy. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
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Should have wrapped those bales individually; they have to be heating a great deal already. Experts say for best results baleage should be wrapped within maximum 4 hrs after baling.
Awesome video I really enjoy your Channel you're Dairy is so beautiful we're really dry here in Utah saying hello from Central Utah thanks for taking me along I would really love to try your squeaky cheese do you guys send that to take care God bless
Thank you! They don't currently ship cheese curds, just gouda cheese and gelato at the moment.
What a great looking farm you have and the boys are great.
Thank you!
when we did these bale clamps we made compartments of about 30? bales. wrapped in plastic. Ifv u have one big compartment as u do en u start feeding air goes in the clamp bij the sides.
This is something we did talk about. We'll likely feed these out over the winter at a high feed rate to move through the stacks quickly.
Interesting video Piet! Balage ah? Never seen that done before! Going to be interesting! I sure admire how You take Your Boys with You! They will forever remember that! 👍
Interesting stuff
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights with us
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Thank you!
There was a couple dairyman in my area that did that with all their haylage. Square baled it and stuffed it in their bunker silos covered it with plastic. did it that way for years until they were big enough to justify their own SP harvester.
It will be interesting to see how those bales turn out. Individual or tube line wrapping might be better but more expensive. They really need wrapping straight away too.
Farm is looking super tidy as always👍
We've tube line wrapped rounds in the past, that has its problems also. If we decide to continue to make baleage in the future we'll likely look for an individual wrapper.
You do a great job, wish I was still on the farm. N.D much different than Washington. Keep up the videos Piet. Thanks
Thank you!
one farmer here used to put a vacuum cleaner on the covered pile for a while . you could see it suck in .
We tried that once on a silage pile that had steep sides, I think we needed a more powerful vacuum. That's a good idea!
Hey Piet great video. With the moisture content already in the bails and with all that rain on them is that not too much moisture? I was wondering about them rotting.
It's not ideal, we'll see how it turns out.
When you have an opportunity, can you explain your TMR? Does the mix change with the season?
looks very tight with the new water tank, generator, condensers, 2 more tanks all crowded in that small space. No doubt that was the best option but - it's still tight.
We placed the new tank on the same spot as the original tank was, so nothing really changed as far as space. It's the same diameter, just 4x the height.
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Man the baling rig traveled a long way to bale that for you.
They do a lot of straw baling in North Dakota, this baler will likely be in the state for several weeks.
Great quality videos
Thank you!
Great video. Love watching your videos. Keep it up. Are you guys gonna bale the next cutting too? Or, did you just dodge it because of moisture content in material?
Thank you! We will likely bale the next cutting also, we're baling instead of chopping because we don't have concrete space to make a pile.
Could you wrap the bales and then stack
Yes, if we continue to grow this drop in the future and make baleage ,we'd likely look for an individual wrapper.
Great footage .Love the little ones involved. How many ton per acre did this Sorgum Sudan yield please?
I don't have our sample results back yet, so I don't have a dry matter yet. I'm estimating 1.5 Tons dry matter per acre.
I want to see how that works out doing balage that way
Surely an inch of rain on your haylage bales, before you managed to seal them, will cause some real deterioration.
It's definitely not ideal.
Interesting sorghum mix never seen it before like this. Would a tedder work for drying? your letting it regrow can you get a couple of harvests in a year? Nice Farm
A tender would probably help it dry, but I'm not sure if it would be worth it for us. That's something to consider in the future if we continue to grow this crop. The plan was to harvest 3 times, but with a wet cold spring it pushed 1st cut back. We'll harvest this again in September.
Good morning, how many bells you had? When you cut it
We had a little over 2 bales per acre of the sorghum sudangrass mix.
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When you bale at 35 percent or more moisture do you have problems with the bale's getting hot, molding or even catching fire.
Not if we're able to keep the oxygen out of the stack.
How many head of cattle do you have on your farm? And how many do you milk
Around 3000 total calves, heifers and cows, milking 1600 cows currently.
Hey Piet, als je de sorghum-mix gaat ontleden kun je dan de inhouden delen in een video. Thanks
Dat kan ik doen.
Dat kan ik doen.
Is water silo insulated ?
Yes, it was a used milk silo we bought from a bottling plant that closed down.
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Cut Sunday!! Good luck baling Tuesday!! Do you do anything but film on your “family dairy”!!! Would like to see you milk one shift! I’m sure you’d pay workers more after one shift!!!
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Some people just cant see anyone else getting ahead! And by the way Piet works very hard! Way more than You may think!! There is not a job on the farm he hasn’t done!
I don't have a lot of experience with sorghum, but we harvested about 1200 acres a few years ago. 2 days was about what it needed, we typically have good drying conditions. I milk on occasion, but it doesn't happen very often. We're fortunate to have a good team working with us, most of our guys have been with us 10+ years.
A little more time spent editing and you’d get a lot more views. Now it gets tedious watching a silo being placed 😂