Hugh silage pile being made/covered!!!

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JD Seller

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Here is a video of a custom operation harvesting and building a HUGE silage pile.
2017 Corn silage harvest

 

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shinnery

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• Sep 29, 2017

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BE advised the audio on that video almost rattled my speakers, maybe I had the volume set wrong but..........

 

casecollectorsc

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E central SD.

• Sep 29, 2017

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Wonder how many acres are in that pile!?

 

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Phil9N3667

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Wow! A little bigger than when I helped my cousin in '74/75, using a one row chopper and a 2020 JD to pull the wagon with!

 

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coonie minnie

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Watching videos like that makes me grateful the equipment I've got now... maybe I'm getting old. Jd, you posted pics the other day of chopping some contour strips. I've got fields like that too... I wonder how effective a rig like in this video would be there!

 

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Greg K

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• Sep 29, 2017

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That's impressive. There's a cattle feeder south of me a ways, and if I remember right,for 1 of his lots they cut 29 quarters for silage. I drove by one of the lots and it looked like the pile here, of course I was on the ground over a quarter mile away so it probably wasn't this big.

 

grandpa Love

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• Sep 29, 2017

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As a small business owner I looked at all those folks pulling the cover across that pile and said,thank God I'm not paying that payroll!! 50-60 folks? That ain't a small operation

 

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Donald Lehman

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Not exactly the kind of equipment you trust to min. wage help either.

 

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paul

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Wonder what they do in a miserably wet fall. The sweet corn processors around here have some really fun equipment to walk through standing water and get the crop out to the road, when it's time to go it's time....

Paul

 

rockyridgefarm

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• Sep 29, 2017

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While it is neat, to me it just represents many dead small farms in the area. Big pile of Greed.

 

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JMOR

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• Sep 29, 2017

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(quoted from post at 11:09:40 09/29/17)
While it is neat, to me it just represents many dead small farms in the area. Big pile of Greed.

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ooks like they put something's on the cover....to hold it down I guess. What is it?

 

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coonie minnie

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• Sep 29, 2017

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It gets ugly. We saw that around here last fall. Dump carts to drag feed to the road, dump into trucks on the road, mud on the road 6 in plus deep... you get the idea. No, the guys who did that did NOT grow a pretty crop this year...

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Sep 29, 2017

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The cover is held down with car tire sidewalls. Used to be that whole tires were used, but they are heavy to handle, and hold rain water....makes mosquitoes!

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Just talked to one of the drivers for a mega dairy here, about how do they work it in a wet Fall. I remember one Fall when we couldn"t pull a half wagon load out of the field with a 4430- had to switch on the road...had the 2470 on the chopper. Driver said they have about 5 side dumps, like Richardtons...they can keep up in the field and deliver to trucks on the road. Chopper is a Claaus with 12 row head, running at 5 mph! No way they could have enough wagons for that machine, and they never stop while chopping- trucks switch on the go. Driver says he can feel the box shift sideways when the chopper starts loading him.

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Typical mega dairies around here milk 1500-2000 cows or more, often 30-40 employees year round. Roughly 50 cows/employee, not much different than the single family dairies.

 

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coonie minnie

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• Sep 29, 2017

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There is a lot of force coming out of that spout. A man was killed last fall around here when he was driving the truck, the truck got stuck in the mud, the silage took out the truck windows, and broke the guy's neck.

 

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tom stalker

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• Sep 29, 2017

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WOW......252,000 tons in 13 days

At 25 tons per acre....that's around 800 acres a day

Big diesel fuel bill !!

 

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WGM

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• Sep 29, 2017

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Probably GMO's and huge government subsidies
also. There oughta be a law.....

 

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Aaron SEIA

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• Sep 29, 2017

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What is wrong with GMO? I doubt much gov subsidies and either way, there are plenty of laws. We don't need more governing ag.
AaronSEIA

 

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notjustair

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• Sep 29, 2017

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I was just reading about them this morning on my farm futures app. Quite an operation. There's a lot of guys banded tog there to make that happen. It seems like it make a sense of community to them. Modern day threshing crew I guess.