Kelly Garrett's Double Crop Cows

18 Sep 24

In this video, Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg explains the importance of baiting the cows to make sorting easier, sharing insights into cattle management practices, including fly control, vaccinations, and castration. He also provides an overview of silage operations, detailing how corn plants are chopped, packed, and stored to feed cattle during the winter. With efficient techniques like using heavy tractors to compress silage for fermentation, this video offers valuable insights for farmers looking to optimize their crop and cattle operations.

00:00 Come back. Come back. Here they come. Good morning. Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag here. I'm going out in the wheat field. 00:16 We've got the comfort crop going up a winter wheat and sorghum. We're patching about a hundred peas out here now. 00:23 This is our double crop. The other guys in extreme ag put in wheat, then they double crop soybeans. 00:29 We put in wheat, then we double crop chows. We are going out here today 'cause like I said, there's a hundred young pears out here 00:36 and, uh, I'm in the feet wagon. Sweet pea and burn are in the rocker and the four-wheeler. And I'm gonna bake these cows down into a little 10 acre 00:46 catch and then we're gonna get 'em in the corral and sort 'em. So we're up here today to bait 'em 00:51 because it's so much easier when the women want you than when you want the women. It doesn't matter what walk of life we're talking about, 00:59 this is something Chad Anderson Temple Wrotes have a master gift. Everybody's in the ground. This is a burner strain. 01:07 And for fly control, the flies are incredibly bad because the flies can tell the end of summer's coming and that first frost is not a great day for red. 01:18 So we'll get 'em sprayed. Get the cas. Sure. Get 'em all vaccinated. Get 'em banded to castrate 'em. We're making steaks today. 01:28 It's hard to get started sorting, but once you get started, they run like water chopping silage. 01:35 Today I just got full. Here comes Jordan. The chopper takes the corn, plant the ear, everything, flips it through the machine 01:49 and creates a silage. We pack it in the pit and it feeds the cattle throughout the winter. It's always interesting to get out in here 01:58 and see, uh, what the corn looks like. Looks like there's gonna be, be a fair amount of yield this year. 02:07 Richie's in the 84 10 Vern's in the nine Rx. Gotta spread the silage out and pack it with the big tractors to get all the air out. 02:15 So it fer permits. And in siles you can see the wagon dumps it down here and then Richie pushes it up on the pile. 02:23 That big old heavy tractor just packing it down.

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