Thanks for another year of sharing your farm life on a traditional dairy farm. This how I grew up and farmed myself when a young man. Now at 75, I enjoy the memories that you bring back.
You remind me of me and my grandpa back in the 80's.l loved going to grandparents, but the 80's wasn't to good for the farmers and grandpa sold is cows and just farmed grain for is remaining years. I always regretted not taken the farm over, but as one grandson was outweighed by sons and daughters,my uncle's and aunt's sold everything that was left. The farm is still there today, more modern the farm is now growing beef and grain is raised on the land today. I still venture by the old girl and her renewed land scape periodically and can still see grandpa and my grandmother sitting on the side porch with a group of people on the weekends and the evenings after planting or harvest,what a wounderfull past! Grandpa use to say spring was like a sprint to get everything planted and the fall was a marathon to get everything harvested. What I would give for those days back !!
What a great shot of you breaking the silage pile apart and the big fuel truck rolling by to fill your tanks! You needed fuel, and the farm elf called in for resupply! Merry Christmas to you all!
As my ole neighbor used to say. It’s what’s for dinner and they will eat it, just like when I was a kid. My mom made dinner and you ate it or you when hungry. I like the mix that you guys make and how you store it. You make your own TMR in the pile. Good way to do it. Keep up the great work !!
We/I always fuel when im done 😊 also for colder weather even warm weather minimum of 5 minutes warm up for equipment. I never started them and just took off. Happy farming 😊
I grew up in NW Oregon in the late 50s to mid 60s, 20 miles west of Portland. Farm milked 80 head, had a 6 cow stand up parlor, three wood barrel construction 60' silos. Alfalfa silage, used to really ooze the juice I'll tell you, changed to bunker later on, quit the cows in late 80's. Urban creep and all that.
When switching over as your dad was discribing, my dad always poured some molasses on the feed to prevent scours. To this day, I still love the smell of molasses.
I believe that rattling noise when your 7810 started is a broken weld on the exhaust. I had same thing happen on my 7810. Pull the side panel off the left side of the engine and it’s right there. Easy fix with a welder
I don't want to be that guy, but for the size of your operation, eight foot bagger would be a very good investment for you guys. You can stay ahead of the spoilage, you can separate your crops, separate your corn from your hay. If you get some spoilage, you can easily dig it out and set it aside to get ahead of it. Then when it comes to filling the bags, you can cut the bag off anywhere you want. We've had times already that we were going to make some dry hay, and rain was only a few hours away and we decided to chop it instead and it would only be a few loads in a short bag. Bagging is more versatile!!.
Back when we dairy farmmed We have two silo one was poured concrete from back in the 1920’s the other a 80’ft Rochester stave silo. The roof on the poured concrete was failing caused chunks of concrete falling not good both were filled with corn silage. We did some hayledge on the stave mix with the silage. Than started a tried the ag bag system, our biggest tractor was 85 h.p Massey that also used the chopper. That was time consuming chop two wagons come home unhook the Massey from chopper to ag bag. An back. Had some mold after letting it fermented. That was an expirence.
When you run into that blue mold. You could always use a mold inhibitor. It binds the mold and won't hurt the cows. We always put it into the grain we fed the cows. We had a small farm about 20 minutes south east of Green Bay. It stopped the cows from aborting calves. And that's what gets expensive when it comes to mold
Shear grab on the bobcat will keep the silage face clean and tight, don't go to deep with each grab, a few inches deep off multiple places will keep the silage face fresh. Google shear grabs uk or Ireland.
And you could use a TMR. You can feed the heifers and the calves, without any scooping, and field the wheelbarrows without any scooping , for the dairy barn.
Can you please do a video on on how the weather effects the cows daily as far and cold and warm and milk production and just over all health of the cows all winter long? Love your video`s i am learning allot about how people live and survive running a farm daily.
❤😊BACK IN THE 80s THERE WAS A FEW PITS AROUND THE LE SUEUR MN AREA AND UPRIGHT SILO'S THEY EACH HAD BENEFITS !!!! BUT MOST OF THE small DAIRIES ARE GONE HERE NOW !!😡😡BIG DAIRIES JUST MAKE BIG PILES NOW.THEY TAKE OFF THE NORTH SIDE ❤😊
if i was starting out i would dig into a hill pour concrete floors/walls put on roof but it would be long term invetment but what works for you is you,re business youmade it this long merry chresimas
I always picked up a empty grease gun! I'm going to assume your're starting some farming on you're own with you're dad. I want to wish you well in that endevor. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Ron
one year i opened the silage pile there was spoiled silage on the end with manure spreader hauled it out on rented ground crazy neighbor went out there with his tractor loader forked it up fed it to his black angus/hereford his entire herd died i asked him why did you do it he said because it had corn in there
What brand of water fountain is that round silver colored one.?? I have seen black ones that look like that that didn’t need power to run it. Thank you for your time and video. And you and your family have a blessed and Merry Christmas.
We always got weird lookin mould and stuff in our bunks any time we’d cover grass with corn to. The corn juice doesn’t mix well in the grass it seems like. Grass over top of corn seems to be fine but corn over grass not so much. Should never be able to get mould inside the pile only on the edges or top exposed to air. To many different types of feed together with different amounts of nutrients sugars proteins etc. different fermenting rates
With a small pile and multiple layers of plastic a bag would not cost anymore. I have done both piles and bags. Feed quality is amazing with bags. Zero waste and less shrinkage. If you try bagging once you will never go back to a pile. Different story if 200+ cows but at your size bags is the way to go. Jordan Ag Supply in Monroe is best place to buy bags or silage plastic
Your silage pile is so far away from where you need it. Is this not a problem during winter when there is lots of snow? Silo Diameters are much bigger than 12 feet actually normal diameters are from 15 to 30 feet I'm surprised you didn't know that. Industrial silos can even be 65 to 100 feet diameter.
I loved the smell of silage it always smelled like wine.
Thanks for another year of sharing your farm life on a traditional dairy farm. This how I grew up and farmed myself when a young man. Now at 75, I enjoy the memories that you bring back.
All the hard work over summer is now paying off good cattle feed for the winter merry christmas
You remind me of me and my grandpa back in the 80's.l loved going to grandparents, but the 80's wasn't to good for the farmers and grandpa sold is cows and just farmed grain for is remaining years. I always regretted not taken the farm over, but as one grandson was outweighed by sons and daughters,my uncle's and aunt's sold everything that was left. The farm is still there today, more modern the farm is now growing beef and grain is raised on the land today. I still venture by the old girl and her renewed land scape periodically and can still see grandpa and my grandmother sitting on the side porch with a group of people on the weekends and the evenings after planting or harvest,what a wounderfull past! Grandpa use to say spring was like a sprint to get everything planted and the fall was a marathon to get everything harvested. What I would give for those days back !!
I love the way you and your dad take the time to explain everything
I just love watching these videos. I grew up on a dairy farm in Connecticut. So this brings back such memories. Keep n farming 😍
I enjoy hearing the feed conversations, reminds me of talking with my grandpa when we use to feed cows
Cows are such lovely creatures. Love the farm experiences you bring. Thank you.
Have a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!! Love your videos !
Merry Christmas to the Gierok family. Keep the videos coming! Still would like to see your dads home farm, also your moms background.
Awesome to see what a skilled operator can do - especially how you handle maneuvering the dump trailer in the barn
Everything ita out of fuel
What a great shot of you breaking the silage pile apart and the big fuel truck rolling by to fill your tanks! You needed fuel, and the farm elf called in for resupply!
Merry Christmas to you all!
Pretty sure that was the milk truck.
Definitely the milk truck.
As my ole neighbor used to say. It’s what’s for dinner and they will eat it, just like when I was a kid. My mom made dinner and you ate it or you when hungry. I like the mix that you guys make and how you store it. You make your own TMR in the pile. Good way to do it. Keep up the great work !!
We/I always fuel when im done 😊 also for colder weather even warm weather minimum of 5 minutes warm up for equipment. I never started them and just took off. Happy farming 😊
I love seeing the brown swiss cattle! Stubborn but reliable! My Molly raised 26 calves
Great video. We used the bunk pits for our silage. Then used the silage wagon to run it in the feed aisle. Thanks for the ride.
I grew up in NW Oregon in the late 50s to mid 60s, 20 miles west of Portland. Farm milked 80 head, had a 6 cow stand up parlor, three wood barrel construction 60' silos. Alfalfa silage, used to really ooze the juice I'll tell you, changed to bunker later on, quit the cows in late 80's. Urban creep and all that.
Merry Christmas Gierok family thank you for the awesome videos
When switching over as your dad was discribing, my dad always poured some molasses on the feed to prevent scours. To this day, I still love the smell of molasses.
It's that time of year when you need to feed all the livestock that was prepared over the winter and fall.
I believe that rattling noise when your 7810 started is a broken weld on the exhaust. I had same thing happen on my 7810. Pull the side panel off the left side of the engine and it’s right there. Easy fix with a welder
get orange oxygen barrier tarp put underneath your black and white trap and it will help prevent mold and it will seal to the silage.
Merry xmas to everyone on the gierock farm thanks for all the videos they brought back alot of memories
You guys ever think of getting a tmr mixer to feed from your piles?
You’re not alone on empty equipment with no fuel I know you’re feeling
I don't want to be that guy, but for the size of your operation, eight foot bagger would be a very good investment for you guys. You can stay ahead of the spoilage, you can separate your crops, separate your corn from your hay. If you get some spoilage, you can easily dig it out and set it aside to get ahead of it. Then when it comes to filling the bags, you can cut the bag off anywhere you want. We've had times already that we were going to make some dry hay, and rain was only a few hours away and we decided to chop it instead and it would only be a few loads in a short bag. Bagging is more versatile!!.
I like when you are showing what you are doing. To much talking sometimes. Not being mean. Love your show ❤
We used to pile feed like you do. Then we built a concrete bunker. Less spoilage
Most of the midwestern farm channels I watch use bunkers..
The Amish are going to bags as well , but many still use the silo's ..
Just watching all this hard work made me lose 5 lbs and raised my credit score by 50 points.
Back when we dairy farmmed We have two silo one was poured concrete from back in the 1920’s the other a 80’ft Rochester stave silo. The roof on the poured concrete was failing caused chunks of concrete falling not good both were filled with corn silage. We did some hayledge on the stave mix with the silage. Than started a tried the ag bag system, our biggest tractor was 85 h.p Massey that also used the chopper. That was time consuming chop two wagons come home unhook the Massey from chopper to ag bag. An back. Had some mold after letting it fermented. That was an expirence.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOUR FAMILY 🎅🤶 . 🐄 🎄🐄 ANOTHER GREAT DAY ON THE FARM 🚜.
When you run into that blue mold. You could always use a mold inhibitor. It binds the mold and won't hurt the cows. We always put it into the grain we fed the cows. We had a small farm about 20 minutes south east of Green Bay. It stopped the cows from aborting calves. And that's what gets expensive when it comes to mold
When I was feeding the cows silage we only have one silo and upstairs hay loft even its cold in the hay loft
Shear grab on the bobcat will keep the silage face clean and tight, don't go to deep with each grab, a few inches deep off multiple places will keep the silage face fresh.
Google shear grabs uk or Ireland.
And you could use a TMR. You can feed the heifers and the calves, without any scooping, and field the wheelbarrows without any scooping , for the dairy barn.
Name for your Magnum "BIG RED" , love your videos.
Perfect name for it! That's what I call my combine lol
Can you please do a video on on how the weather effects the cows daily as far and cold and warm and milk production and just over all health of the cows all winter long? Love your video`s i am learning allot about how people live and survive running a farm daily.
You need a shear grab for your bobcat . They all use them in the UK don't get the waste with one of them. That's what you want .
What’s the little house on the hill
❤😊BACK IN THE 80s THERE WAS A FEW PITS AROUND THE LE SUEUR MN AREA AND UPRIGHT SILO'S THEY EACH HAD BENEFITS !!!! BUT MOST OF THE small DAIRIES ARE GONE HERE NOW !!😡😡BIG DAIRIES JUST MAKE BIG PILES NOW.THEY TAKE OFF THE NORTH SIDE ❤😊
You could load an atv dumping trailer that works as a wheel barrow spreading the feed. bucket to trailer dump away. less steps, less shoveling.
How about Red Rider? My fuel barrel always went dry two days before X-mas or a Sunday morning. Thanks 😊
Does the owl help with the birds
if i was starting out i would dig into a hill pour concrete floors/walls put on roof but it would be long term invetment but what works for you is you,re business youmade it this long merry chresimas
I know you guys like your dump wagon, have you ever thought about a small Kelly Ryan feed wagon. Just a thought
Aaron a fellow in my area did not cover his silage pile. I think mold would be a problem!
I always picked up a empty grease gun! I'm going to assume your're starting some farming on you're own with you're dad. I want to wish you well in that endevor. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Ron
Just keep doing what works for you I would like to see you try a skid steer on tracks maybe you have if so what is your opinion love to know thanks
Do you sell your bred heifers or use them as replacements?
one year i opened the silage pile there was spoiled silage on the end with manure spreader hauled it out on rented ground crazy neighbor went out there with his tractor loader forked it up fed it to his black angus/hereford his entire herd died i asked him why did you do it he said because it had corn in there
Do you have some Jersey cattle to keep the butterfat up in your milk ?
What brand of water fountain is that round silver colored one.?? I have seen black ones that look like that that didn’t need power to run it. Thank you for your time and video. And you and your family have a blessed and Merry Christmas.
We always got weird lookin mould and stuff in our bunks any time we’d cover grass with corn to. The corn juice doesn’t mix well in the grass it seems like. Grass over top of corn seems to be fine but corn over grass not so much. Should never be able to get mould inside the pile only on the edges or top exposed to air. To many different types of feed together with different amounts of nutrients sugars proteins etc. different fermenting rates
You gotta name your new to you tractor Maggie. Geez. Lol
With a small pile and multiple layers of plastic a bag would not cost anymore. I have done both piles and bags. Feed quality is amazing with bags. Zero waste and less shrinkage. If you try bagging once you will never go back to a pile. Different story if 200+ cows but at your size bags is the way to go. Jordan Ag Supply in Monroe is best place to buy bags or silage plastic
Tractor name--Roky
How about " Reddy Freddy " for the Magnum ?
Sitt down and pencil it out, bag vs silo
I assume your 7810 has glow plugs and block heater!
Likely just a Block heater, JD didn't start putting glow plates on until later, the R series in that HP range.
Big Red biggest red tractor on the farm/big green
how about Magnum PI for a name
Silo would be best. Would pay for itself
Call that Magnum The Leader of the Pack. Ha Ha
Just call the magnum, the magnum. My name is Magnuson, so call it the magnum or you could call the Magnum PI member that TV show.
Maggie May. May run. MAY NOT.
Don't worry, my brother still puts $5 gas in his truck. Who the hell does that?
Your silage pile is so far away from where you need it. Is this not a problem during winter when there is lots of snow? Silo Diameters are much bigger than 12 feet actually normal diameters are from 15 to 30 feet I'm surprised you didn't know that. Industrial silos can even be 65 to 100 feet diameter.
You call that a big silage pile 🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮🤮♥️
Ya they do, and so do I! Ron
Yeahaa it's 1950 again
😂😂😂😂
Just call the magnum, the magnum. My name is Magnuson, so call it the magnum or you could call the Magnum PI member that TV show.