It's like driving on a BIG SPONGE 😊

I love seeing your guy’s cows out in pasture like that. You just don’t see that much anymore. You guys have a nice farm!

Like seeing those older tractors still a big part of farming👍👍👍👍

I used to work a small 40 cow barn dairy in Wisconsin in the early 80's. Your video's bring back some fond memories.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad we could do that for you! Thank You for watching!

Thank you for sharing your video with us... it's very educational...

awesome video! cattle love that silage!!

I love the simplicity of your farm and how you have everything done well.

So great to see cows out on pasture, the way they were meant to be. The big industial dairies just can not hold a candle in my opinion to the old way of raising cattle.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed Keith!

@rebelgaming7718

2 жыл бұрын

I second your comment Keith even some of the big feedlots are getting that way now

@keithkuckler2551

2 жыл бұрын

@@rebelgaming7718 Those have always been huge. I remember driving out to Denver and Grand Junction several times a year. You went right past the big Montfort of Colorado feed lots, and, youi could smell them from a long way off. That was thirty years ago, and, I imagine they are even bigger now.

@rebelgaming7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithkuckler2551 right

@jonathanwymore9690

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithkuckler2551 Yes, we have driven by them hundreds of times, don't like to see them.

I love how nice and clean the entire farm is, also milked and let back out to the fields to eat grass. The cows are taken care of very well they look great 👍

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul!

@paultighe3735

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms welcome

Great job guys..😃👌

Love your wagons tractors

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Love the cowbells on some of your cows!!! You can always find the cows that way. Beautiful farm!!!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

You Betcha! Thanks for watching!

Sutton, Nebraska Dryland corn fair, maybe 80 bu. Irrigated 200 bu. Very dry and hot (95°) with high humidity. Bad storms early on with many pivots turned over. Some just now getting back up. I'm 75 still have cows and calves. Had Harvestors and chopped as you do with some of the same equipment. Have rented out my farm ground, high cash rents are the norm. Land prices through the roof. Lot of memories in your voidios.

great video,in Southern Ontario we had lots of rain.and good yields. We have the exact same chopper we run with a 4640. Nice to see another still kicking around!!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a sweet setup!

You have a nice stand of corn , Another great video Thanks

Such a beautiful farm, a working farm. I see that in all of your great videos, safe operation of your tuff tractors and attached equipment whatever it is. All the informative knowledgeable in's and outs of your videos, incredible job. Dad's working with sons, such a wonderful thing.

south central Illinois finished chopping September 17 started shelling on the 18th corn yielding above average here y'all are so lucky to have such beautiful scenery great video keep up the good work

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like fall harvest is off to a great start down there, and Thank you!

We've had some dry spells but enough timely rain for what looks to be a good harvest. A lot of corn was chopped over the last week in the area, Plainview, MN. Thanks for the videos!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear! Thanks again for watching!

I’m in north central Kansas. Irrigated corn looks great , dry land so so. Where they got rain it’s good. Awful dry where I lived . Last year was super for dry land!!! I been at this since 1975, enjoy your videos....

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Karl!

@karljacobson1575

2 жыл бұрын

Gierok Farms 👍👍😊

I don’t grow corn myself but my brother in law has a great crop ,all put under plastic ,a cold spring but good dry summer with enough rain to keep things growing . Enjoying your videos 👍from northern England 🇬🇧

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to here about the corn crop over there is good! Would love to see how people farm over there! Thanks for watching Richard!

I would love to see an equipment tour. I see some really nice tractors!

Enjoy watching these farming videos. It lowers my blood pressure.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad we can do that for you ken, thanks for watching!

In Michigan we got the rite amount of rain. The corn looks amazing

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

You have a beautiful farm!

Great videos, we are subscribed, never miss one now. Chopping corn, fun to watch, you take care of your equipment very well. My wife likes your barn quilts, she saw a couple as you passed by. Oliver, the way to go!! We have a 1750 and a Super 77, grew up with Oliver's and Farmalls, farmed with my Uncle just south of La Crosse, near New Albin Iowa. Lots of great memories that I am reminded of as I watch your channel, thanks for creating these videos. Best wishes to you and your family. God bless and keep in farming!!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks God Bless you and your family too! Thanks for noticing the barn quilts my mother is very proud of them!

From south east Manitoba. We don't grow corn on our farms but neighbors are chopping now. Yield is decent despite our very dry summer.

Your silage looks great 👍 🐄🇺🇸

Thank you for sharing your video with us...

After a day like that sit back and enjoy a Spotted Cow beer. Best there is! Hats off to all you farmers who make it happen. God Bless Ya!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and God Bless you too!

Nice lookin' place you have. Corn silage makes good feed for cattle. Back when I was a kid (50s and 60s) the neighbor chopped only first cut hay....with all the weeds and very poor grasses. I don't remember the cows liking it, but that's what they had.

We have a 1085 Gehl also and recently switched to a 3 row head. Love it....really make headway with that! We are located in East Central WI near Sheboygan.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it! Thanks for watching Brian!

Great video. Farming is essential to the global humanity. God bless you all farmers

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You and God Bless!

The Gehl I chopped with didn't have the fancy controls, we used levers. Glad to see you do have some flat ground! Lol

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds sweet and ya we got some level ground too! LOL

That is some good looking corn 🌽👌

Jones county, Iowa. East Central. Perfect year for corn

I'm in central Wisconsin. We had a good year for rain. The last 2 weeks have been dry, so all the neighbors have been going to town on chopping.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear you got plenty of rain this year! Thanks for watching the video!

Welldone...reminds me of my aunts small farm in the 60s

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Just subscribed. That's a cool video. We had the same chopper but we chop into a dump wagon and added the chute/spout extension

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing! sounds like a sweet set up!

I have seen and heard of cows getting choked on apples you are not afraid of that? Nice silage video I love the smell of corn silage.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Nope Thanks for watching!

Brave young man on the Ollie, he probably wished he have duals on. Lol

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

It's interesting driving that around on the pile especially getting on and off the pile!

@tederdmann2993

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms I bet it is! Lol

Looks like you guys live in a beautiful area. We are too far south in🇳🇿 to grow maize but grew it in the North Island and miss it. All the best 👍

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve, I would love to see how you guys farm over there!

Hour south of Albany in new york. Were still a week or two away from corn chopping. Still really green. Everything really wet. 9 to 12 foot corn. Been good year. Just need rain to ease up

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

That corn crop sounds great, Good luck this fall!

Had good corn crop in pa

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear!

This last yr. We had a incredible crop of winter wheat and the cord was bummper crops even the beans put in after wheat got great rains like every 3 days all August and September. So the beans were great to I live in western KY. By the lakes and it was great Here and across the river in Southern IL. And parts of west TN. And southeast Missouri also .

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome Late season rains really make those beans grow!

Good year in southern Michigan now to get in the field after all the rain

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah!

You have a beautiful area there - interesting technology. Greetings from Switzerland

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome and thank you! Switzerland! That's awesome!

You guys farm like we did in the 60's, except we were still filling silos. Also we had a new 4 stall milking parlor, which the cows hated. Our cows were never pastured, always on concrete, the herd always seemed half wild to me. I envied our neighbor who had tamer cattle and a warm comfort stall barn in the winter.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Terrry!

Great video, always wanted to know how it was done. I couldn't handle being on the tractor and compacting the silage, am afraid of heights. Good work. Thanks

Your farm is kept very neat and everything looks so nice. Over the winter watch the auctions and get yourself some Bergman hitches for the chopper and wagons, at the end of the day your body will feel so much better l guarantee!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Charles! They are a good idea for most farms but In the hills I think it would be very dangerous. I have seen in person a wagon get away from a guy up on a hillside because of that style hitch. Probably works great for most farmer though!

Great video. Just crazy to me that you chose to use the Oliver to do that job

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Ya we are kind of nuts lol

It’s pretty wet here in NY. Corn looks decent in most spots just really slow going

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I think I would still rather have a wet year over a dry one! Glad to hear the corn looks good!

In littelstown pa great corn crop

Brough back a memory going back 58 years going on a wagon hand cutting corn loading in on the wagon With Adolf and then going to the barn. At the barn there was a small chopper belt driven off of another tractor and the corn blew into a cart to feed the cows. Adolf will tell me 1,2,3,4,5 scoops to which cow. The corn was 9 to 10 feet do to the fertilizer and he had 200 chickens that ran loose in the cornfield. Gierok Farms Than You!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, and commenting!

Just starting around me in sw Iowa Neibor started on early corn 2 weeks ago was about 218 - 265 bushel a acre at 19% moisture they have stopped and switched to beans and they are great at 45 to 70 a acre I have only hay on my place along way to go around here 😃🌽🇺🇸

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like some great yields!

@keithrobinson1331

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms got lucky with a few showers of rain at the right times some guys north of us didn’t get some of the breaks we did 50 miles north is terrible

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithrobinson1331 Ya some guys really had a dry year

would love to see a vid of you feeding off of this pile in the middle of winter when ther id 3 feet of snow on the ground !!!😁😁😁

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I will be releasing one of us getting silage off that pile soon but not with 3 feet of snow atleast not yet!

I think you guys should do a short 5 to 10 minute video of explaining how the chains on the floor in that gehl wagon moves the silage I think that be cool I'm used to big self propelled forage harvesters not the pull behinds seen them but never gotta actually watch one chop in real life

Best corn yield to date here in NW WI

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear the crops are doing well!

Love your videos. Your farm reminds me of the farm I grew up on in NE Iowa, lots of hills. One question, what is the purpose of the bells on the cows is it a old custom or is there a reason. I remember my dad having cow bells, but they were hanging in the shed and we never used them when I was growing up. Thanks for sharing your farm life.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

We have bells because of our swiss background, and because it is handy for finding cattle when they are on pasture! Thanks for watching the videos and commenting!

@thompasanski7076

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms I remember that our cows had bells on only the bossy ones to bring in for milking

Hello there. We never chop corn 🌽. We chop grass to 1/4" But with a self-propelled forage Harvester. It does 80As a day.

I chop with a 1275 with a 3 row head awesome chopper how come your duals are on back words on your 1066

Faimly got it together

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas

So you pile the corn silage over the top of the haylage right? Pretty cool, eliminates the need for tmr;) ever have a wagon tip over on the pile?

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yup that is how we do it! Not yet LOL, Thanks again for watching Andy!

Back when we worked 2 farms in Winnebago County WI, silage always went into the silos. I understand the piling of the silage, my question is: what do ya do in the winter to feed it to the cows? Love your videos ..... keep it up!!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIuqvNqMqbe7prA.html This video kind of explains it! For the milking cows its a bit more manual labor. Thanks for watching Ted I'm glad you enjoyed them!

@Butch344

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms my question is, how do you get the frozen silage from the outside pile to the cows?

Central pa . 12-14 foot heavy stalk big ear corn

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

What model is the open station Deere?

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Great video where is your farm located?

where in the states are you or are you in Canada ?

Trench silo ?

Nice video. Any trouble getting Gehl parts. Decent crops here in Central Ontario.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

not really, and glad to hear! Thanks for watching!

Is it a little risky close to the edge"

Are you guys starting to have trouble getting parts for the Gehl chopper yet?

Where is your farm located in what state and town ? I grew up in Yale Michigan in the thumb area on 80 acres 150 holsteins,1000 chickens and 1000 sheep, there was a woolen mill in town at that time early 50 to late 67.

Lost an uncle running a row crop on uneven terrain. Sketchy @ best.

I c silage is put on ground correct not cement?

where do y'all farm? nice looking ground

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Wisconsin!

Don't live there anymore but was born in Wisconsin Rapids and spent most of my young years in a little town of Taylor. Your country looks alot like it. What part are you in?

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Sweet I know where Taylor is!

like the setup. how many cows you milk?

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

40 to 50 cows

Do those gehl wagons have a rolling floor to push all that corn silage up when you put it on the pile?

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

It's a chain that bring it to the front!

@rebelgaming7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms oh ok that comes in handy so your not having to get in the wagon and start shoveling all that chaff up

Will you ever show a miking video?

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

That have a processor in it?

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it dose Danny!

How many cows do you milk and could we get Video of you guys in the barn what state do you guys farm in ??

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

40 to 50, and that video is soon to come! Wisconsin, Thanks for watching!

@duaneschmitz2694

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms what part of Wisconsin I am from mineral Point Wisconsin lol

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

@@duaneschmitz2694 West WI

Oh now that's just mean, shaking the apples down for the cows. Now the guy who milks them has gotta deal with a bunch of drunks...

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Never look at it that way, LOL. But I understand what you are saying! Thanks for watching!

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What date was this filmed?