This week we answer the most difficult of farming questions, should a farmer own their own silage equipment or pay a contractor!? Follow us on: TikTok - / farmtheoryni #smartfarming
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@DeanLee12 ай бұрын
We do our own silage too, defo agree that there is more work than you think maintaining/servicing/repairing all the kit! The fact that my brother can fix just about anything himself if [when] it breaks helps a lot! We're 50/50 maize & grass, we save money on the maize, probably on the grass too - but the main reason, as you said is being able to control the job ourselves. We had a trip to Belgium about 8 or 9 years ago to buy a Claas 695 Mega forager with both grass and maize header - took a bit of organising payment and getting it shipped but has paid for itself about 10 times over with better silage!
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I do enjoy all the prep work also tbh.
@wyldrushorchard10612 ай бұрын
Really appreciate your encouragement to do what we enjoy, totally different world but agree how much its doing the best job in what each years dice throughs our way
@fordnewholland832 ай бұрын
Great video nice to see someone else's thoughts on doing there own silage vs a contractor being able to lift when you want is key 2 videos a week would be good
@danmurphy7551Ай бұрын
Always a great vid..wellmade and thought provoking.a wellrun ship there😊
@user-ds7qu6rg6w2 ай бұрын
You're videos are amazing would love 2 a week such an intelligent person love them
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@dmcg6074Ай бұрын
You're a breath of fresh air, intelligent, honest and brave to put it all out there. love how you explain things, keep it up, youre hugely respected and admired
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Thank you! Will do!
@frazerstirling2 ай бұрын
For KZread videos - quality over quantity, I’d suggest you keep it flexible and add more content when you have it. Your videos are very thorough which I appreciated, but must take quite a bit of time
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
This is my thought also. One a week unless I have something I want to make a video with mid week.
@tonymckeage10282 ай бұрын
Great Video, I'm in the do it yourself school, it's about control, nothing is as stressful as waiting for the contractor, perhaps organising the gear and the drivers is a close second, thanks for sharing
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I have no experience of waiting for a contractor! Never considered that!
@68diggerman
2 ай бұрын
If you have the gear and can hire driver it down to cost. Equipment is not cheap anymore. We did contracting for year but that started cost more with repairs in the end good man power was a another issue aswell.
@georgeguiney3454
Ай бұрын
@@FarmTheoryNI Nothing worse than knowing rain is coming and just hoping they'll be here in time...
@stephenkelly20672 ай бұрын
Love your common sense weighing stuff up
@user-pu5ij9lc6z2 ай бұрын
Yes I'd love if you had 2 per week .you explain in detail how to do things and why you do them the way you do
@user-xn7cj3tv9g2 ай бұрын
That Puma is looking sensational with the new tyres and paint job. Fair play
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I know!! I'm so pleased. Well worth the bill. 😅
@mucksavageIrl16 күн бұрын
Ive just discovered your videos and i think they are brilliant
@FarmTheoryNI
16 күн бұрын
Well I think you are brilliant. 👏🫡
@farmboy-wd9fn2 ай бұрын
I think it will be a Good idea to keep makeind Wednesday videos and we used to use a contractor for pit but we stopped doing pit an moved on to bales and we got a contractor to do it for around ten years and we had a wrapper and a mower so we decided to buy a McHale baler and new Holland Rake and still have them working well
@pabr2405Ай бұрын
Nice video! I do my own silage in Norway aswell. Last year my mover broke down on the first cut and it was a big repair job, waiting for parts and so on. The biggest problem was that i had a hard time finding someone to do the job and my first cut got to old. On my second cut my baler broke down bad so horrible year last year.. hope for the best this year 😅
@FarmTheoryNI
25 күн бұрын
Hope this year goes better! 😅
@blaineriach24092 ай бұрын
Great video shows the pure madness of organisation
@videomandan262 ай бұрын
Brilliant I'm now watching and subscribed to another farmer :-) not even in the industry I seem to like real world content vs all the Netflix content etc.
@farmerjacobАй бұрын
Well, shoot, I reckon all I do is rake and tedder. Leave the mowin', silage cartin', and compactin' to them fancy contractors. Ain't no way I can keep up with their shiny new gizmos. They got them mowers with belts spittin' stuff out, them wagons drippin' liquid silage stuff, compact tractors rollin' around with heavy rollers, and big ol' spreaders for the silage. And would ya believe they even got them tractor tires adjustin' their dang air pressure for them wet fields? It's like watchin' magic happen, all in less time than it takes to blink. Dang genius, I tell ya.
@kierancooney56632 ай бұрын
If you can put 2 a week as we all look forward to see and hear your experiences aa alot happens on a farm in a week.i have learned lots from your down to earth expiations reasoning of difference situations .keep them trailers topped
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@user-xn7cj3tv9g2 ай бұрын
Have you ever used Ventusky for your weather forecasting? I always use it and find it by far the most accurate
@feirmfactor8592 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Keep them coming if you can.!!
@paulthompson8467Ай бұрын
Good video if you have an interest in machinery and need to make good quality silage for dairy cows cutting your own is a great idea but for us with beef and sheep cutting our own with older machinery was a nightmare so now we just mow our own it definitely suit us better
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Totally get that!
@keithaspin51602 ай бұрын
two videos a week would be amazeballs.......your content is always very engaging!!!!!!!
@concernedcitizen3163
2 ай бұрын
"amazeballs" ? Is that even a word
@keithaspin5160
2 ай бұрын
@@concernedcitizen3163 🤣
@concernedcitizen3163
2 ай бұрын
@@keithaspin5160 ypu might need to grow up a bit
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I appreciate the use of amazeballs. 😅 I will try and deliver!
@gaamad100Ай бұрын
Great video.
@patrickosullivan40212 ай бұрын
That case is mint, tyres & all
@Farmandbuild2 ай бұрын
We used to get a contractor and it was 15 acres of silo twice a year and came to around £5000 a year. Then we eventually got a baler and wrapper at 10grand total and have increased profit dramatically. And now farm 21 acres which gives 500 bales.
@liammurphy4937
2 ай бұрын
Ok explain to me here how many tractors mower rake baler etc etc just to do yer own for wat like 2 day work in the year,,explain to me thanks
@stephenkelly2067
2 ай бұрын
How did 30 acres cost 5 grand someone was taking the micky
@XtreamSheep
2 ай бұрын
@@stephenkelly2067 26 bales an acre @12.50 is 5000 for 400 bales
@XtreamSheep
2 ай бұрын
Across 2 cuts 13 bales an acre achievable enough
@Farmandbuild
2 ай бұрын
@@stephenkelly2067 he mowed and raked as well
@tomcochrane695125 күн бұрын
It’s cheaper to do your own our even a couple of farmers go together. Because help is number one . If you have none then you have to get a contractor and if you have big acres to do and long carts .
@mikeysky89172 ай бұрын
Excellent video again👍. We had planned to mow on Thursday but the contractor has taken on a new customer with bigger acreage than us and that customer wants theirs in this week so we have been put down the list and it will be two weeks now going by the weather. Getting a contractor has been a complete nightmare since we gave up doing our own silage during Covid and now this weekend we will be waving goodbye to the good weather for the time being.
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Oh my days, that stresses me out!
@brendanwhite97992 ай бұрын
The more the better your video's are always interesting .the more video's you do the more you get paid
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I will make more videos if I have something interesting to make one about. The minimum will be 1 a week. I think that's the best idea.
@mclarenrob2Ай бұрын
we've just managed to persuade my Dad to get contractors in. Our pit is usually open for 10 days per cut, with the silage heating up and losing quality.
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Woooooooow!! Contactors will be saving you money!
@richardcorbett84312 ай бұрын
Our biggest problem labour
@michaeldorn5330Ай бұрын
I mite not agree wit everything ya say but theirs one thing your very honest
@finbarreburn51122 ай бұрын
C'mon Tyrone you're on your Own 💪 💪
@padraigking51852 ай бұрын
Good stuff
@SimonDavies-ex2scАй бұрын
if you missed that weather window how much milk would it have cost you ? I day = 0.1 mje in quality, timing is everything
@johnmccarroll48452 ай бұрын
Two videos yes
@user-ds7qu6rg6w2 ай бұрын
Ploughed for years with a 3095 dynashift 4 fur kvernland refursible never any bother so that compacter would be wee buns lol 😅
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
It's rear linkage is rated at over 5t! 🤣
@mickgaffney50682 ай бұрын
Has to be a KZread video showing how to change a mower blade
@gerrymulligan26022 ай бұрын
Good man himself.best.luck silage some looking outfit thire good any contractor
@andrewbaird34312 ай бұрын
Surely you have enough horsepower to run a set of butterflies, so much more efficient. Just dropped 100 acres in 7 hours using 3 litres of diesel/acre so she was working, merging and chopping tomorrow pm. We cut, ted, and cart 2 trailers. Contractors merge, chop, buckrake and run 3rd trailer. I also cart for them occasionally which helps keep the bill sensible and most of there other customers are beef guys so we can get them whenever we want 👍
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
The capital cost of butterflies makes no sense. I'm mowing at 6.4m with then two mowers, like actually cutting that much.
@andrewbaird3431
2 ай бұрын
@@FarmTheoryNI you should be in your bed by now if you're chopping silage tomorrow 😂😂
@Mickjd822 ай бұрын
Biggest benefit of doing everything in house to me is you are not reliant on other people silage especially given our weather is the biggest benifit you can cut a field and grab it and that to me is worth a lot
@liammurphy4937
Ай бұрын
I understand in 1 way wat ur sayin,but to buy the machinery the cost of repairs get Labour etc etc dose it add up🤷
@Mickjd82
Ай бұрын
@@liammurphy4937 difference of farms im a sheep and beef farm we do everything ourselves we make round bales so have all our own stuff our neighbours are a big dairy they run all there own kit self propelled forager but have a big family so plenty of staff
@andrewlindsay507528 күн бұрын
You need a lesson on how to swing a sledgehammer but amazing an very interesting content
@jamesbartley3106Ай бұрын
Would you advise a farmer to mow their own silage if they couldn't afford all the machinery, would the financial saving be worth it?
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Yes!! Mowing charged per acre is a rip-off! Costs me under £5/ac.
@ciaranconeely85792 ай бұрын
As far as I'm aware that is a Category 3 toplink eye and the Massey ferguson probably has a Category 2 bank linkage system.
@6thcence8972 ай бұрын
How many acres would you put through the jf yearly If i made hay the same day you make silage which is better feed
@barrett2288
2 ай бұрын
Silage. Hay is dried grass. A fair portion of the energy is lost in the drying process.
@6thcence897
2 ай бұрын
@@barrett2288 thank you sir
@billbobby461
2 ай бұрын
So to clarify my answer I'll clarify what I'm taking as your question. If grass at the same stage of growth cut at the same time was divided into hay or silage which sample will be superior? My answer would be it's possible to make the hay better than the silage. But not always. In a very specific condition, its possible to make hay in 24 hours or even less. That condition is a sunny day and that there is 1 ton of dry matter of grass to harvest per acre(luckily this coincides with the stage of best quality and bulk for feeding dairy cows). The method is through maceration and mat making. Developed by the University of wisconsin. You macerate the grass like the way a mulching lawn mower would, to avoid losses you press the material into a thin(5-6mm) mat, and lay it on the stubble at a density equaling around 1ton/acre. A crop of fresh grass at 1ton of DM/acre will have 5 tons or 5m3 of water to remove, an acre is a little over 4000m2 so you'll have 1.25 mm of water spread over the entire acre to evaporate off, this is made easier through the maceration which frees the water from the plant by creating way more open pores for it to evaporate from. It will dry down to 20% moisture or 80%dm in several hours, 30%dm in 2-3 hours, and safe dry hay possibly in one day or by the next afternoon when the dew lifts. The drawback is the same as the benefit, in bad conditions water easily gets into the material as easy as it got out. A way to see it is to mulch your lawn with the lawn mower, gather up the material, put 120-140g of wet material in a baking tray 13x9inches, press it into a mat, and clear a patch of stubble on your lawn and lay the mat on the stubble to dry, best to do it in the morning say 9-10am.
@6thcence897
2 ай бұрын
@@billbobby461 would the protein levels be the same -what other metrics would you use to compare it with silage
@billbobby461
2 ай бұрын
@6thcence897 protein will be higher. Sugars will be higher. Its obviously less acidic so has less affect on the rumen. There are also more vitamins in hay compared to silage.
@caseycorcoran65562 ай бұрын
Do you think if you lived and farmed in the south of Ireland and your cows were dried off in the winter you’d still do your own silage?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Yes, the Irish system needs to take silage more serious, especially with the new nitrates banding and limits.
@JamesOBrien2253
2 ай бұрын
@FarmTheoryNI this spring will wake people up surely that poor quality silage just won't work for cows in spring
@fraserwithers8417Ай бұрын
Sorry good video just want to ask at 15:20 min in you tell us it cost a fortune to pay someone to mow but in the beginning of the video you say it’s roughly the same amount and it’s worth you doing it yourself, why is it now expensive to pay someone to mow ?
@Jackie.6412 ай бұрын
what size is ur silage pith shed ??
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
12.5m by 36m
@TheWiseKingMan2 ай бұрын
Would you have a big need for a tractor if you didnt do your own silage?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Definitely not.
@user-pu5ij9lc6z2 ай бұрын
Will you be able to show clips of you mowing your grass in fact the whole job??
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Come back Saturday! 👌
@olivercoleman9302 ай бұрын
Sure the tyres were a bargain when you subtract the nice Michelin jacket....
@faFsman
2 ай бұрын
Quite right.. buy a Michelin jacket and you get 8 free tyres😜
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Tbf, it's a great jack.
@finlaykeys4772 ай бұрын
Would it not be cheaper to get 2 forage wagons
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Nope, distance to the field is the killer.
@samfisher80562 ай бұрын
Ever wash the silo pit?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Nope, I know I maybe should but it's a lot of work.
@Shane123-st6ltАй бұрын
Excellent video and I never comment.
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Why thank you! I appreciate the effort!
@stevenbevis92902 ай бұрын
No maize or wholecrop then ?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Nope, I focus on making good silage.
@farmstyle92macd552 ай бұрын
Pros and cons of of using a rake. We got one last season I definitely wasn’t impressed with the quality of the silage seemed like there was more dirt in it and had a offy bad smell
@concernedcitizen3163
2 ай бұрын
operator error
@iian050
2 ай бұрын
Set way too low by the sounds of it.
@tomflynn5745
2 ай бұрын
Did you have the slurry put out with a dribble bar? I reckon raking or teddering could be more of an issue with the lines of not fully broken down slurry than people realise
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
To get the grass dry quick enough you have to use a rake? Correct cutting height and rake settings and you won't have any issues.
@68diggerman2 ай бұрын
Nothing like the smell of fresh grass been cut miss it
@williambowman75892 ай бұрын
Count me in🦼
@CarlosAlberto-ii1liАй бұрын
I really do not know.
@andrewjardine38202 ай бұрын
But it a night maer getting staf to help
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I am very fortunate I have some good people
@georgedoorley5628
2 ай бұрын
thats why i gave up doing my own silage ..........!
@denis-mf3cx2 ай бұрын
😆😆
@DanSmith-fu7ex2 ай бұрын
Get rid of that pile of crap massey 3115 an buy a case maxxam 5150 / MX
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I love my 3115!
@DanSmith-fu7ex
2 ай бұрын
@@FarmTheoryNI Enjoy your videos, luv the jf chopper and puma but still think that massey is crap
@seanfahy6062 ай бұрын
A great way to pinch your fingers, just reduce the tension
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We do our own silage too, defo agree that there is more work than you think maintaining/servicing/repairing all the kit! The fact that my brother can fix just about anything himself if [when] it breaks helps a lot! We're 50/50 maize & grass, we save money on the maize, probably on the grass too - but the main reason, as you said is being able to control the job ourselves. We had a trip to Belgium about 8 or 9 years ago to buy a Claas 695 Mega forager with both grass and maize header - took a bit of organising payment and getting it shipped but has paid for itself about 10 times over with better silage!
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I do enjoy all the prep work also tbh.
Really appreciate your encouragement to do what we enjoy, totally different world but agree how much its doing the best job in what each years dice throughs our way
Great video nice to see someone else's thoughts on doing there own silage vs a contractor being able to lift when you want is key 2 videos a week would be good
Always a great vid..wellmade and thought provoking.a wellrun ship there😊
You're videos are amazing would love 2 a week such an intelligent person love them
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you!
You're a breath of fresh air, intelligent, honest and brave to put it all out there. love how you explain things, keep it up, youre hugely respected and admired
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Thank you! Will do!
For KZread videos - quality over quantity, I’d suggest you keep it flexible and add more content when you have it. Your videos are very thorough which I appreciated, but must take quite a bit of time
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
This is my thought also. One a week unless I have something I want to make a video with mid week.
Great Video, I'm in the do it yourself school, it's about control, nothing is as stressful as waiting for the contractor, perhaps organising the gear and the drivers is a close second, thanks for sharing
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I have no experience of waiting for a contractor! Never considered that!
@68diggerman
2 ай бұрын
If you have the gear and can hire driver it down to cost. Equipment is not cheap anymore. We did contracting for year but that started cost more with repairs in the end good man power was a another issue aswell.
@georgeguiney3454
Ай бұрын
@@FarmTheoryNI Nothing worse than knowing rain is coming and just hoping they'll be here in time...
Love your common sense weighing stuff up
Yes I'd love if you had 2 per week .you explain in detail how to do things and why you do them the way you do
That Puma is looking sensational with the new tyres and paint job. Fair play
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I know!! I'm so pleased. Well worth the bill. 😅
Ive just discovered your videos and i think they are brilliant
@FarmTheoryNI
16 күн бұрын
Well I think you are brilliant. 👏🫡
I think it will be a Good idea to keep makeind Wednesday videos and we used to use a contractor for pit but we stopped doing pit an moved on to bales and we got a contractor to do it for around ten years and we had a wrapper and a mower so we decided to buy a McHale baler and new Holland Rake and still have them working well
Nice video! I do my own silage in Norway aswell. Last year my mover broke down on the first cut and it was a big repair job, waiting for parts and so on. The biggest problem was that i had a hard time finding someone to do the job and my first cut got to old. On my second cut my baler broke down bad so horrible year last year.. hope for the best this year 😅
@FarmTheoryNI
25 күн бұрын
Hope this year goes better! 😅
Great video shows the pure madness of organisation
Brilliant I'm now watching and subscribed to another farmer :-) not even in the industry I seem to like real world content vs all the Netflix content etc.
Well, shoot, I reckon all I do is rake and tedder. Leave the mowin', silage cartin', and compactin' to them fancy contractors. Ain't no way I can keep up with their shiny new gizmos. They got them mowers with belts spittin' stuff out, them wagons drippin' liquid silage stuff, compact tractors rollin' around with heavy rollers, and big ol' spreaders for the silage. And would ya believe they even got them tractor tires adjustin' their dang air pressure for them wet fields? It's like watchin' magic happen, all in less time than it takes to blink. Dang genius, I tell ya.
If you can put 2 a week as we all look forward to see and hear your experiences aa alot happens on a farm in a week.i have learned lots from your down to earth expiations reasoning of difference situations .keep them trailers topped
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Have you ever used Ventusky for your weather forecasting? I always use it and find it by far the most accurate
Excellent video. Keep them coming if you can.!!
Good video if you have an interest in machinery and need to make good quality silage for dairy cows cutting your own is a great idea but for us with beef and sheep cutting our own with older machinery was a nightmare so now we just mow our own it definitely suit us better
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Totally get that!
two videos a week would be amazeballs.......your content is always very engaging!!!!!!!
@concernedcitizen3163
2 ай бұрын
"amazeballs" ? Is that even a word
@keithaspin5160
2 ай бұрын
@@concernedcitizen3163 🤣
@concernedcitizen3163
2 ай бұрын
@@keithaspin5160 ypu might need to grow up a bit
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I appreciate the use of amazeballs. 😅 I will try and deliver!
Great video.
That case is mint, tyres & all
We used to get a contractor and it was 15 acres of silo twice a year and came to around £5000 a year. Then we eventually got a baler and wrapper at 10grand total and have increased profit dramatically. And now farm 21 acres which gives 500 bales.
@liammurphy4937
2 ай бұрын
Ok explain to me here how many tractors mower rake baler etc etc just to do yer own for wat like 2 day work in the year,,explain to me thanks
@stephenkelly2067
2 ай бұрын
How did 30 acres cost 5 grand someone was taking the micky
@XtreamSheep
2 ай бұрын
@@stephenkelly2067 26 bales an acre @12.50 is 5000 for 400 bales
@XtreamSheep
2 ай бұрын
Across 2 cuts 13 bales an acre achievable enough
@Farmandbuild
2 ай бұрын
@@stephenkelly2067 he mowed and raked as well
It’s cheaper to do your own our even a couple of farmers go together. Because help is number one . If you have none then you have to get a contractor and if you have big acres to do and long carts .
Excellent video again👍. We had planned to mow on Thursday but the contractor has taken on a new customer with bigger acreage than us and that customer wants theirs in this week so we have been put down the list and it will be two weeks now going by the weather. Getting a contractor has been a complete nightmare since we gave up doing our own silage during Covid and now this weekend we will be waving goodbye to the good weather for the time being.
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Oh my days, that stresses me out!
The more the better your video's are always interesting .the more video's you do the more you get paid
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I will make more videos if I have something interesting to make one about. The minimum will be 1 a week. I think that's the best idea.
we've just managed to persuade my Dad to get contractors in. Our pit is usually open for 10 days per cut, with the silage heating up and losing quality.
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Woooooooow!! Contactors will be saving you money!
Our biggest problem labour
I mite not agree wit everything ya say but theirs one thing your very honest
C'mon Tyrone you're on your Own 💪 💪
Good stuff
if you missed that weather window how much milk would it have cost you ? I day = 0.1 mje in quality, timing is everything
Two videos yes
Ploughed for years with a 3095 dynashift 4 fur kvernland refursible never any bother so that compacter would be wee buns lol 😅
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
It's rear linkage is rated at over 5t! 🤣
Has to be a KZread video showing how to change a mower blade
Good man himself.best.luck silage some looking outfit thire good any contractor
Surely you have enough horsepower to run a set of butterflies, so much more efficient. Just dropped 100 acres in 7 hours using 3 litres of diesel/acre so she was working, merging and chopping tomorrow pm. We cut, ted, and cart 2 trailers. Contractors merge, chop, buckrake and run 3rd trailer. I also cart for them occasionally which helps keep the bill sensible and most of there other customers are beef guys so we can get them whenever we want 👍
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
The capital cost of butterflies makes no sense. I'm mowing at 6.4m with then two mowers, like actually cutting that much.
@andrewbaird3431
2 ай бұрын
@@FarmTheoryNI you should be in your bed by now if you're chopping silage tomorrow 😂😂
Biggest benefit of doing everything in house to me is you are not reliant on other people silage especially given our weather is the biggest benifit you can cut a field and grab it and that to me is worth a lot
@liammurphy4937
Ай бұрын
I understand in 1 way wat ur sayin,but to buy the machinery the cost of repairs get Labour etc etc dose it add up🤷
@Mickjd82
Ай бұрын
@@liammurphy4937 difference of farms im a sheep and beef farm we do everything ourselves we make round bales so have all our own stuff our neighbours are a big dairy they run all there own kit self propelled forager but have a big family so plenty of staff
You need a lesson on how to swing a sledgehammer but amazing an very interesting content
Would you advise a farmer to mow their own silage if they couldn't afford all the machinery, would the financial saving be worth it?
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Yes!! Mowing charged per acre is a rip-off! Costs me under £5/ac.
As far as I'm aware that is a Category 3 toplink eye and the Massey ferguson probably has a Category 2 bank linkage system.
How many acres would you put through the jf yearly If i made hay the same day you make silage which is better feed
@barrett2288
2 ай бұрын
Silage. Hay is dried grass. A fair portion of the energy is lost in the drying process.
@6thcence897
2 ай бұрын
@@barrett2288 thank you sir
@billbobby461
2 ай бұрын
So to clarify my answer I'll clarify what I'm taking as your question. If grass at the same stage of growth cut at the same time was divided into hay or silage which sample will be superior? My answer would be it's possible to make the hay better than the silage. But not always. In a very specific condition, its possible to make hay in 24 hours or even less. That condition is a sunny day and that there is 1 ton of dry matter of grass to harvest per acre(luckily this coincides with the stage of best quality and bulk for feeding dairy cows). The method is through maceration and mat making. Developed by the University of wisconsin. You macerate the grass like the way a mulching lawn mower would, to avoid losses you press the material into a thin(5-6mm) mat, and lay it on the stubble at a density equaling around 1ton/acre. A crop of fresh grass at 1ton of DM/acre will have 5 tons or 5m3 of water to remove, an acre is a little over 4000m2 so you'll have 1.25 mm of water spread over the entire acre to evaporate off, this is made easier through the maceration which frees the water from the plant by creating way more open pores for it to evaporate from. It will dry down to 20% moisture or 80%dm in several hours, 30%dm in 2-3 hours, and safe dry hay possibly in one day or by the next afternoon when the dew lifts. The drawback is the same as the benefit, in bad conditions water easily gets into the material as easy as it got out. A way to see it is to mulch your lawn with the lawn mower, gather up the material, put 120-140g of wet material in a baking tray 13x9inches, press it into a mat, and clear a patch of stubble on your lawn and lay the mat on the stubble to dry, best to do it in the morning say 9-10am.
@6thcence897
2 ай бұрын
@@billbobby461 would the protein levels be the same -what other metrics would you use to compare it with silage
@billbobby461
2 ай бұрын
@6thcence897 protein will be higher. Sugars will be higher. Its obviously less acidic so has less affect on the rumen. There are also more vitamins in hay compared to silage.
Do you think if you lived and farmed in the south of Ireland and your cows were dried off in the winter you’d still do your own silage?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Yes, the Irish system needs to take silage more serious, especially with the new nitrates banding and limits.
@JamesOBrien2253
2 ай бұрын
@FarmTheoryNI this spring will wake people up surely that poor quality silage just won't work for cows in spring
Sorry good video just want to ask at 15:20 min in you tell us it cost a fortune to pay someone to mow but in the beginning of the video you say it’s roughly the same amount and it’s worth you doing it yourself, why is it now expensive to pay someone to mow ?
what size is ur silage pith shed ??
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
12.5m by 36m
Would you have a big need for a tractor if you didnt do your own silage?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Definitely not.
Will you be able to show clips of you mowing your grass in fact the whole job??
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Come back Saturday! 👌
Sure the tyres were a bargain when you subtract the nice Michelin jacket....
@faFsman
2 ай бұрын
Quite right.. buy a Michelin jacket and you get 8 free tyres😜
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Tbf, it's a great jack.
Would it not be cheaper to get 2 forage wagons
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Nope, distance to the field is the killer.
Ever wash the silo pit?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Nope, I know I maybe should but it's a lot of work.
Excellent video and I never comment.
@FarmTheoryNI
Ай бұрын
Why thank you! I appreciate the effort!
No maize or wholecrop then ?
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Nope, I focus on making good silage.
Pros and cons of of using a rake. We got one last season I definitely wasn’t impressed with the quality of the silage seemed like there was more dirt in it and had a offy bad smell
@concernedcitizen3163
2 ай бұрын
operator error
@iian050
2 ай бұрын
Set way too low by the sounds of it.
@tomflynn5745
2 ай бұрын
Did you have the slurry put out with a dribble bar? I reckon raking or teddering could be more of an issue with the lines of not fully broken down slurry than people realise
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
To get the grass dry quick enough you have to use a rake? Correct cutting height and rake settings and you won't have any issues.
Nothing like the smell of fresh grass been cut miss it
Count me in🦼
I really do not know.
But it a night maer getting staf to help
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I am very fortunate I have some good people
@georgedoorley5628
2 ай бұрын
thats why i gave up doing my own silage ..........!
😆😆
Get rid of that pile of crap massey 3115 an buy a case maxxam 5150 / MX
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
I love my 3115!
@DanSmith-fu7ex
2 ай бұрын
@@FarmTheoryNI Enjoy your videos, luv the jf chopper and puma but still think that massey is crap
A great way to pinch your fingers, just reduce the tension
hello
@FarmTheoryNI
2 ай бұрын
Hi