Farms: Straight pipe 7980 silage chopper topping off a truck in Queen Creek Arizona
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John Deere 7980 with STRAIGHT PIPE topping off a truck in the middle of Queen Creek Arizona. Brian grew up in the Farmhand chopper days and can't get enough of listening to Jackie's chopper with Robinson Farms Custom Harvesting. He was wearing a few different ear protections just to be out there on the chopper. lol Be sure to like our page! www.facebook.com/SouthernPlainsLLC
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I have checked some of those out too. More interesting videos for sure, thanks.
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It is a pretty fascinating aspect of our food chain that 99.999% of the world don't know about. You don't have to have a fb account to view the pictures and videos. I have it open to everyone. Have a great day!
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Yes, I do like the videos, and thanks for the extra info. I find the handling of silage fascinating, and am blown away by the shear volume of it in some of the videos I've seen. I've always just thought silage was a byproduct of a harvested crop. The rate at which the chopper moves through the crop, cuts it, chops it into what looks like a coarse pulp, and blows it into the trucks is amazing! Super efficient machines and crews. Sorry, but I'm not a member of FB, but again, thanks.
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Sorry, this came while I was on vacation and I forgot to reply when I got back. Yes, 98% of what we chop here is grown strictly to be used as silage and are silage varieties. There are a few times we will cut some not very good grain corn that is very poor or maybe was hailed on. But for the most part it's all just for silage. :) Hope you like the videos! There are photos on our fb page too. facebook . com / SouthernPlainsLLC
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Thanks. I was just watching some of your other videos and I did see ears going through the chopper. I assume these crops are grown strictly to be chopped as silage? Anyway, it is fascinating to watch the process and the speed at which it all goes down!
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There are quite a few crews working in this same area, but it sure could have been them! :) There are ears on these stalks, they are too low to see on the corn that is in front of the chopper, but if you look to the other chopper you can see the ears as small yellow spots about halfway up the stalk that are pointing down. There are 2 ears per stalk. Thanks for watching! There are more pictures and videos on our facebook page facebook dot com/southernplainsllc
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I saw about 6 or 7 of these trucks traveling westbound on the US-60 thru Apache Junction, AZ about a week and a half ago. I wonder if it was this crew heading to that farm in QC? Another question is, what happened to the ears of corn? I mean I don't think I see any on the stalks before they get chopped, but I thought the corn stalks were chopped at the time of harvest? This field wasn't harvested by hand was it? I can't see growing a corn crop just to chop it up as silage with the stalks.