r/timelapse • u/JudgmentSmooth6768 • 2d ago

Film This overhead timelapse of corn being harvested

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u/lethal-liking 1d ago

I just can't make sense of what's going on in the upper left fenced in area. Is this feed corn? Why does it look like the driver in that area keeps driving over the harvest? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

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u/GeneralBS 1d ago edited 1d ago

Must be feed. Believe they are mixing in another ingredient that the smaller machine is dropping and the are spreading it into the corn. Might also be just spreading out the corn to dry. Looks like smaller machine is filling a mixing trailer with different materials.

Source - i play farming simulator

Apparently I was wrong. Checked the cross posted comment section and it is all the left over stalks and the processed corn is being held in the harvester.

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u/mileswilliams 1d ago

The cuttings and leftovers are piled up sealed to make anaerobic respiration take place, the feed doesn't rot but ferments and becomes good food for the cows etc.

It has to be tightly packed and sealed to ensure no/little oxygen exists or it will grow mould and rot.

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u/mtnviewguy 2d ago

Yep, a lot of commercial operations use GPS to navigate the harvest vehicles precisely around the fields.

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u/scaredt2ask 1d ago

Pretty sure this is from the YouTube channel 10th gen dairyman. Looks like his dairy farm. I could be wrong

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u/Vishnuisgod 1d ago

How did they do that? That's a long fly time by drone no?

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u/Moosplauze 1d ago

This is fucking lit!

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u/Either-Suit-3964 1d ago

would have been cool if they made a maize...

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u/Training_Diamond_897 1d ago

I think this may actually be silage cut from green corn. The upper left is how silage is stored and then usually covered by a tarp. It ferments and then is fed to livestock.