When the Ag-Bag is Full

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:06]I just got back to the farm from chopping wheat with Gerard. Ry's got load number five for the day and Tony's headed out to get load number six.

[00:00:17]All right, here out the silage pad.

[00:00:20]Looks like they filled in some of the soft spots with some rock here.

[00:00:26]It's pretty windy.

[00:00:30]Yesterday, Gerard chopped 12 loads of wheat and grass from smaller fields around the farm. So, what you see here is about 16 loads. But today's wheat liage has a lot of volume, so it's probably not all going to fit in this bag.

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[00:02:15]Watch the 5088 real close and you'll see it inch forward every so often. And that's all part of the pressure, the brake, and the cable system.

[00:02:39]One of the viewers wanted to know what the purpose of the cable is. Uh I guess we talk about that part in the setup this year.

[00:02:49]It's uh it's connected to that drum. The cable is wrapped around that drum and then there's a brake on there that's you set your pressure and when the pressure is met, it releases the brake a little bit and then that extends the cable out and that's what lets the machine move forward as you're filling. So, this brake just got pads in there that squeeze tight.

[00:03:18]You set your pressure and then as that hits that pressure, it releases and then that slips on that rotor and lets the cable go out a little bit at a time.

[00:03:31]And being it's new, it's not it's getting better. At first, it was a little jumpy, but it's getting wore in. And I did clean it good before I started this second bag, and that seemed to help. So hopefully it just I needed to wear in.

[00:03:49]>> My question is then what causes the tractor to move forward and what causes the tractor to stop?

[00:03:57]>> It's the brake here.

[00:03:58]>> That's what I thought that >> this holds everything and when it releases it just you got to make sure the tractor's in neutral so it can't roll forward or it'll put things in a bind and you can tear a lot of stuff up.

[00:04:13]>> Has that happened? not here, but I've heard of people snapping uh gearbox shafts and stuff with this park brake not left.

[00:04:23]>> And it looks like you got the 5088 back.

[00:04:26]>> Yeah. Rebuilt PTO.

[00:04:28]That took care of that. Run good in this whole bag so far. So, >> very good.

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[00:04:35]>> All right.

[00:04:37]>> I do like the wider conveyor is very nice on this machine.

[00:04:43]And Uh, I think it will definitely handle silage really good cuz this wheat halage is fairly loose like silage and man, you can feed that stuff in there fast.

[00:04:56]>> The the wheat or the regular hay is a little clumpy and it doesn't feed quite as good, but it's definitely uh I think it definitely does a better job than our last.

[00:05:11]>> Very good.

[00:05:13]Wonder what Hank's doing here.

[00:05:21]My guess is that he's getting some dry compost.

[00:05:28]Or what are you getting there over there?

[00:05:32]>> Oh, he's getting sawdust for his daughter's sheep.

[00:05:41]This is our brother Hank and he is Kyle's dad, Kyle and Jacob. And he has daughter Emma. So he is getting some sawdust for Emma's sheep and goats. She shows sheep and goats. But this is her last year for 4, right?

[00:06:01]What do you think about that? Does that Are you excited that it's her last year?

[00:06:05]>> Yeah.

[00:06:06]>> Yeah.

[00:06:12]The other day I saw you at 8:00.

[00:06:16]>> What were you doing?

[00:06:18]>> Going to What day was it?

[00:06:23]>> Tuesday morning maybe.

[00:06:27]Was it the previous week?

[00:06:29]>> No, it was I was bringing the dog too.

[00:06:36]The dog was sick.

[00:06:37]>> Oh, you had to go to the vet.

[00:06:39]>> Yeah.

[00:06:40]>> What's wrong with Banjo?

[00:06:41]>> He got the baby shot and it made him really sick.

[00:06:45]>> Oh, >> it usually gets him down a little bit, but this time it made him like sick.

[00:06:51]>> Is he back to better at being better?

[00:06:58]Randy, did Hank ask if he could get some sawdust out of your sawdust barn?

[00:07:05]>> I I would feel better about it if Emma would show up and actually do it, but she sends daddy.

[00:07:12]>> She's supposed to come over and help Jordan artificially inciminate some cows.

[00:07:17]>> And I guess there's the tradeoff.

[00:07:19]>> Is When's that going to happen?

[00:07:21]>> I don't I told her.

[00:07:24]>> Okay, >> cuz she's off school here in a week.

[00:07:27]>> All right. Well, maybe we'll catch that one morning.

[00:07:29]>> Talking about that right by these bulls.

[00:07:31]They get jealous.

[00:07:32]>> Look at that one. It's really giving you the side eye.

[00:07:40]>> So, they chopped a little too much. And so, this is their solution to put it on the concrete.

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[00:12:29]Randy, thinks that the viewers that you would like for me to be in the skid loader bucket and give you a real bird's eye view of spraying this off, which it really doesn't need much.

[00:12:59]Okay.

[00:13:19]Okay, >> we got an aerial view. Ariel, hang on.

[00:13:28]>> Yeah. Is that going to be it?

[00:13:29]>> I don't think we would chop any more.

[00:13:35]>> When they're calling for rain, the guys like to blow off the roofs of these wagons so that the waste doesn't dry and then stick to it. And now that chopping is all done for the springtime, they're going to be checking the wagons over, greasing them in, and then they'll store them until it's time to chop silage.

[00:14:12]Heat. Heat.

[00:14:41]And this load is going on the little silage pile, too.

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[00:17:26]Hi, Dad.

[00:17:30]>> Good.

[00:17:36]>> Windy enough to be I'm sure dad wishes he could get on the tractor and drive down this pile, but he'll have to do the next best thing, which is take the GMC Envoy over It made sure I got you driving it down.

[00:18:26]Yeah, >> I guess that was enough. Once his tires started spinning, it was time to stop.

[00:19:09]Heat. Heat.

[00:19:45]That can't Good for that wagon.

[00:20:08]Let the pressure off the brakes so the cable will drop and we can hook them.

[00:20:36]I'm not sure if you heard Randy, but he's unhooking the cables, removing the back stop, and then they'll roll up the cable.

[00:20:45]Now we got to clean up all the equipment.

[00:20:47]>> Not today.

[00:21:25]And now he's using the cleanout feature.

[00:21:34]Oh, this baby's full.

[00:21:41]>> Too full.

[00:21:41]>> Oh, it's full.

[00:21:42]>> Yeah, I know. But that's just >> You can just scoop it out of the way.

[00:21:56]Put it harder.

[00:22:18]>> Yeah, that's that's much more nicer.

[00:22:21]>> Well, it's easier to get to.

[00:22:25]than that other one was.

[00:22:42]>> They must have enjoyed doing this if they all want to take a turn driving this down.

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[00:23:23]It just got too full.

[00:23:40]We're almost done with the cleanup.

[00:23:47]So, the plan is to do the cleanup and then he'll mix some of this in with the heer feed.

[00:24:00]He'll leave it covered like this and allow time for the gas to escape.

[00:24:08]And then he'll seal it all the way around like this one.

[00:24:15]Maybe without all the junk plastic though.

[00:24:21]Today they sorted heers.

[00:24:24]There's some wild geese.

[00:24:29]Shoot. There's a lot of noises around here and lots of activity going on here.

[00:24:38]They just sorted some heers, young heers from the north barn and they're going to run them through to the south barn. And >> where do you want to stand?

[00:24:47]>> Right here. And Randy is strategically placed so they can't go very far that way. We'll guard this spot.

[00:24:54]>> Are you >> right here?

[00:24:58]>> In Spain, they have the running of the bulls. Here on the Beckman Brothers dairy farm, we have Running of the Heers and Sam Seems like it could go one of two ways.

[00:25:38]Good or bad.

[00:25:44]>> It's one that Sam keeps having to run back.

[00:25:47]>> About a month we'll end up with my twice.

[00:25:51]This group will >> Donnie just said that in about a month this group of heers will go to his place and be on pasture.

[00:26:14]Apparently they did not want to be on film.

[00:26:40]>> You had a price.

[00:26:49]Maybe I should have stood over there.

[00:26:51]>> No, that's why we shut the gate.

[00:26:56]>> Did all right.

[00:26:57]>> There was one just turned and went back.

[00:26:59]>> We saw Sam.

[00:27:01]>> He became a liquid.

[00:27:03]>> They got past >> running of the bulls. Running of the heers and Sam.

[00:27:19]You're just a kick.

[00:27:34]It's May 10th and now it's just a little pile, but they did have the pile covered in plastic.

[00:27:42]Randy said they started mixing it in with the heer feed uh right away and within 10 days it'll be gone.

[00:27:57]And here we have both a bags all sealed with the lime. And so as long as the fermenting goes well, it should make very good feed.

[00:28:08]It's May 14th. It's about 4:30 in the evening and by the looks of things, they've been very busy. Uh, the ditch diggers here, so I know they planted some beans and corn. Let's see if Gerard's in the milking parlor and we'll get the low down.

[00:28:30]So, what do you want to talk about? What you guys all did today?

[00:28:35]We worked ground, planted corn, worked more ground, planted beans, hauled manure, cleaned out the second tank, hauled two loaves of sawdust.

[00:28:47]Um, now the neighbors down the road by the airport, Andy, they drawing another I think around 100 bales is what they're bringing. First cutting off alpha that we're going wrap right now.

[00:29:02]>> And you guys are buying that from them.

[00:29:04]We're buying today.

[00:29:08]>> So Tony got to haul manure and then clean out the septic tank and so basically you did a lot of waste management today.

[00:29:24]>> Yes, I spread a lot of fertilizer today.

[00:29:28]>> Spreading fertilizer with the manure spreader.

[00:29:33]Well, I just wanted the viewers to know that you were busy and so if Gerard had to call you in case, you know, in case he had a breakdown or something, you were busy.

[00:29:45]You would have had to stop what you were doing to go help him, wouldn't you?

[00:29:50]>> I didn't call.

[00:29:51]>> Today, you had to call him again.

[00:29:54]>> I did not.

[00:29:56]No, the other day one of the viewers said that when I said you you said, "Yeah, I called Tony. He wasn't doing anything." And I said, "That's not very nice."

[00:30:08]They thought that I should not correct you and that I should listen to my elders.

[00:30:14]So, I don't know what part of that I I don't know that I like any part of that.

[00:30:18]>> What day was it? We were >> just across the road is when when you had to call Tony, you shared the pin.

[00:30:29]>> Yeah.

[00:30:32]>> So, >> you keep saying that.

[00:30:40]>> Yeah.

[00:30:43]>> Oh, boy.

[00:30:52]Um, at what point do you guys start turning some cows dry to get down to like the lower part of summer when you're milking less?

[00:31:02]>> Just was it last week you turning three dry?

[00:31:08]>> Three. So now you're at Now you're milking what? 238.

[00:31:14]>> Oh, you're still at 241.

[00:31:16]Okay. So, >> right now, >> did you have your last calf?

[00:31:24]>> Still waiting on a heer. Just one.

[00:31:28]>> Okay.

[00:31:31]Every year the viewers ask, why do we not have calves through the summer? So, it's because the heat's too hard on them on the cows. And actually the chaos do not do good in hot weather either.

[00:31:47]>> So there you have it.

[00:31:55]>> So the viewers and I want to know what was the problem with the 656.

[00:32:02]Well, first of all, the starter did break.

[00:32:08]The gear starter gear broke in half. So, we had to get we took the starter off, took it up to the KMW where they work on starters and alternators and generators.

[00:32:20]They put a new gear on, checked it all over. I brought it back home, put it on, and all it would do was it would click like five or six times and it finally would start. So, I called him back about the starter. He said, "Try to cross the terminal with a screwdriver." He said if that starts right away, he said you've got a power issue or wire or something where you're losing power that it will not have enough bolts to kick that starter in and make it turn. So then we had a cousin who was a mechanic come out and he uh was started looking at some wiring but then it on the key switch he found the terminal was kind of corroded plus the terminal actually coming out of the key switch was real loose. So we had he put a new key switch in and that took care of it.

[00:33:13]>> So a new key switch and some work on the starter. They did have to work on starter, but it's all good. Starts right up now. So, >> okay. Now, what about the 766?

[00:33:25]Cuz I really never followed up on that.

[00:33:29]>> We had uh Bruce Lighty, local mechanic that works for us and he took care of the he he was able to get it in because it rained and he was caught up kind of with farming, had time. He overhauled it and we've got it back and it's all working good. So, got that taken care of also.

[00:33:51]>> Wow. He did that pretty quickly. Um I thought it was going to take a lot longer.

[00:33:55]>> Once he gets something, he gets on him and he gets done with.

[00:33:59]>> Thanks, Bruce.

[00:34:02]All right, we'll check back with you guys later.

[00:34:08]Gerard's got the ditcher.

[00:34:10]He's got it hooked up to the 656.

[00:34:14]Let's check it out. Gerard started right up.

[00:34:37]That'll do it for this episode on Beckman Brothers Dairy and more. Check back on Wednesday. I might have a little something for you. And as always, have a great week and thanks for watching.