Chopping Silage 2024 | WE GOT A NEW CHOPPER!

Meet the Peterson family. Our dad, the three Peterson brothers, and our families farm together in central Kansas. Our family farm started in 1882 and has been raising cattle and crops ever since. Please subscribe to this channel and give us a like and a comment if you enjoy the video. We've started, we cleaned out a little bit of the older corn silage so we can transition for another day or two over onto the Triticale. My mom's hauling like the third or fourth load back there. Back in our truck, fresh off the lot. Only 151 miles on this baby. Really kept it inside the shed, taking really good care of it over these 20 years to They're gonna top the semi off for it. Three trucks right now, plus the cutter and Evan and the push tractor. All right, it's Monday afternoon and we just got done with a large barrage of speaking events all over western Kansas. We did four events in three days and had a lot of fun, got to meet a lot of people, but we are back on the farm today. We are chopping corn with the new 7550, new to us anyway, John Deere 7550 forage harvester. It's working great. We can go a lot faster than the 5830. We're taking eight rows instead of six and it's all we can do to keep up with our three trucks, so working good. I did catch that rain last night at my house, but out here at the farm it did not rain, so plenty dry out here still. Very thankful for that 70 hundredths in my house. That's gonna help that corn quite a bit, but we're gonna have to keep hoping it rains out here at the main farm, out here at the home farm. We sorted this morning, putting out the big heifers, already put back the little or medium-sized heifers. So they are taking a walk back. Dad said yesterday he really liked the cutter. That was when Nathan was running it, so now that he's running it, we'll see if he still likes it. All the controls, the controls are set up similar to a 9770, but you know there's a couple extra hydraulics and stuff, so he's not going as fast as Nathan was, but you can't teach an old guy their tricks. Also welcome to Kansas on the last day of July. It is 102 and extremely windy, so it's like an oven out there blasting heat. That's why we got silage flowing, flying in the air. So our normal push tractor is having a hydraulic leak. We are pushing with the M7 because it's got them floater tires on there, and it holds the blade and everything, so it's our push pack tractor right now. Oh, it's a 7720! Nice! One, two, three, four, tractor! One, two, three, four, tractor! One, two, three, four, tractor! One, two, three, four, tractor! Chopping with the neighbors. Corn's got good spots, and it's got drowdy spots, like any corn in the area. See two spots right next to each other. Okay, finished that chopping. Now I'm getting hooked up to this Aeroquip Heeler. Got it locked on there, and gotta go catch my Uncle Bruce's heifers first this week before we can catch our cows. There's no heavy lifting. It just has this solar-powered hydraulic unit on there, lifting up the jack up there, putting the weight back on the truck, and then I do the same thing when I do that, is when I put the pressure on the jack off the tires. All right, folks, we're chopping! Nathan and I are back from Nebraska. We were gone for maybe 24 hours. They chopped a little bit while we were gone with the skeleton crew, but we're back in full swing now. Nathan's in the chopper, Mom's in a truck, I'm in a truck, Dad's in a truck, and Kendall's in the push tractor. Corn is toning out pretty good. If you've been following along with us, we had pretty good winter moisture, and we had decent moisture on June 8th. We got two and a half inches of rain, and that's really what made this corn crop, because since then we've only had about an inch since June 8th, and so it definitely gave enough for the corn to get good height on it and put decent ears on, but everything's going downhill fast this week. It's been a feels like temperature of 110 the last two days with 20 mile an hour wind, so things are going downhill fast, and we're trying to stay ahead of things. Okay, Mom's dumping here. I'm pushing today. We thought we had the loader fixed, but it was still leaking hydraulic oil. Nathan's interrupting me on the middle of the radio. We're going without duals, but it's got plenty of power to get up here. Okay, the third truck is in use. To keep up with this new cutter, we pretty much have to have three trucks, so we did it with two trucks yesterday on this close field right there, but this next field's not even quite two miles away. It seems like we still need three trucks. Here comes Greg. Everything is working pretty good once we got this thing all shined up. It seems to be going pretty well knock on wood, so the corn is drying down in a hurry with these hot winds. It's normal in a way, but we're still just be nice for things to turn around. It's going to make decent tons, but we've definitely had taller corn. Usually we can get a little more height on it, but we're used to the heat turning on and making it dry up pretty fast, and there's tons out there, so that's good. That's what we need. Okay, it's raining northwest of Salina again, and we're still chopping. My dad has done his chores. I have not done mine yet. I'm using this new function. It was not available on the old M7, but I can actually reverse with this button here and this button here on my loader, and I don't even have to change this shifter over here. I can just reverse on my loader, so I can keep my one hand on the steering wheel and just leave my other hand on the loader, and I forgot about that feature when I first started pushing and packing, and then I realized it would be helpful. That's what I've been doing these last several loads. Over there is where the field is, and Nathan said the whole chopper's shaking. What I think happened was there was a burned wheat stubble field over here, and this wind picked up all the ashes from that burned wheat stubble and just took them. It was a huge, huge gust shook the truck. Well, this got a little western. There's a storm coming in. I don't know if it's going north of us, but we just thought we'd fill dad to the end, but the fright came in. I guess we'll try to chop that far, but it's windy. Well, this is like a dust bowl storm. It's basically just blew a whole bunch of dust in. Now, it's blowing all the dust from chopping. I guess we're calling it a night. It is quite the windstorm. I was up on that hill, and it's just blowing crazy amount of dust around. You can just see dust. Crazy amount of dust. Lightning over there. Can you hear that? Well, I think we lost power. Kendall said he lost power in the house. Oh, my goodness. Over to here. Thanks for watching, everyone. Check out our music videos linked in the description. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat, and explore our website, www.petersonfarmbrothers.com. See you guys next time.