How agriculture works thread

[aczlan]

The Midwest might be different than NY,,,, but all cut grains and foliage is generically called "silage". Most of the time its corn but if you ask they might say "I'm chopping Milo for silage" or something like that.

Usually if it's going into a bunker or bales wrapped in a line or a tube, it'll get called silage, if it's being baled and then wrapped they call it balage

Aaron Z

 

[Buggs67]

Usually if it's going into a bunker or bales wrapped in a line or a tube, it'll get called silage, if it's being baled and then wrapped they call it balage

Aaron Z

That video wasn't worth the click. Way too much Laura, not enough farming.

 

[ArlyA]

That video wasn't worth the click. Way too much Laura, not enough farming.

I just wanted to show that she was copping silage which was not corn for acslm sake. Again, in the midwest, many crops are copped to feed cattle and call it silage.

 

[ArlyA]

Kate in Montana has a nearby fire. She repeats the same words over and over again. I didn't say its great video.

 

[ptsg]

And because farming doesn't necessary needs to be done in big/huge scale with large/huge equipment, I'll show a couple videos of a small vegetable farm here in Portugal.

Actually these small farms are a big part of agriculture around here. People will grow vegetables to sell at the local markets to make a little more income. Most keep their main job and this is done after work hours. They use tractors ranging from 20 to 50 HP, compact to get easily in the small fields and nimble to move around nice and easy. Some of the European 50 HP tractors are actually the size of a big frame SCUT.

I would like to show a lot more stuff on these smaller farms but it's very hard to find any good videos yet.

Here a video of a LS R41 plowing a small field:

And another video on tilling the another plowed field and making the furrows for potatoes I believe:

 

[ArlyA]

And because farming doesn't necessary needs to be done in big/huge scale with large/huge equipment, I'll show a couple videos of a small vegetable farm here in Portugal.

Actually these small farms are a big part of agriculture around here. People will grow vegetables to sell at the local markets to make a little more income. Most keep their main job and this is done after work hours. They use tractors ranging from 20 to 50 HP, compact to get easily in the small fields and nimble to move around nice and easy. Some of the European 50 HP tractors are actually the size of a big frame SCUT.

I would like to show a lot more stuff on these smaller farms but it's very hard to find any good videos yet.

Here a video of a LS R41 plowing a small field:

And another video on tilling the another plowed field and making the furrows for potatoes I believe:

Thanks for posting ptsg. I for one do like to see how everyone farms.

 

[ArlyA]

Great video of a commercial made in the 1950's for Allis Chamlers. Some years ago we meet a fellow of worked in that tractor plant in Milwaukee WI. Most of implments I'd seen but most were parked by the time I seen them. One i never saw was that disk plow. Has anyone seen one?? What were they for?

 

[Torvy]

What happens to the corn stubble after the field is cleared, does it just rot down before the next planting cycle?

Corn stubble becomes an excellent place to hunt pheasant in that part of the country. I miss it.

 

[Torvy]

I remember in HS, hearing some of my classmates laughing because somebody snuck into the field and stole a few dozen ears of fodder corn... I suspect they never did that again.

Nothing wrong with eating field corn in milk stage. Not as sweet as 'sweet' corn. Heck, we used to eat it fresh out of the field without cooking it. Teenage boys are always hungry. Sure, sweet corn tastes better, but when you're hungry, you're hungry.

 

[ArlyA]

How does that no-till work as far as keeping weeds down? What happens to the corn stubble after the field is cleared, does it just rot down before the next planting cycle? I presume that they are harvesting the entire plant for feed, not just growing the corn for human consumption.

Corn stuble or stocks, will mess with the planters the next season. In general they must cut it into smaller sections or move it to the middle of the rows, which it then helps to keep more moisture in. What they do with it depends on what they are planting the following year and the weather/soil they are farming in.