What a great time you have work together with your dad. What I wouldn’t give again to have time to work with my dad who is now on his heavenly home. Enjoy every minute of I love your videos. Thank you for showing us what you do.
Everything about you guys farm is unique ! Main reason why I watch your channel. There’s of course More efficient and newer ways to do things probly like a proper bunker with rear unload wagons and just push up with a loader but it’s super cool watching you guys do it the way you do. And it works for you so it don’t matter anyways !.
I really enjoy listening to you and your dad talk about your everyday process on your dairy farm. Thank you for taking us along! Maybe a powered wheel barrow that can hold more feed? Other than that I think you have a good approach to feeding your cows.
I noticed every farmer has a unique approach on how and what to feed cows. Weirdly enough, I know a farmer that almost has the same approach as you guys. and that's in Belgium. It is always nice when a farmer shares his experience.
I always love to watch your videos involving the diary herd . The way your feed systems are setup ,l feel is why you are still in the diary business. Keeping your cost low and willing to use wheel barrels to haul feed into the barn . The way you pack the piles to keep a firm tight pile . I still am a big fan of small square bales . I love seeing the older equipment still in use helping keep your cost low . Your ear corn videos are great too .
Watching ur videos ,brings back lots of memories,grew up on a small dairy farm farm milked 40/55 cows farmed 250 acres ,lots of work I admire your way of life it’s a seven day a week twice a day job plus all the farming in between kept up the good work 🤠👍
You guys are great! I love Dad's explanations of the "whys and wherefors" of everything. What you guys, Alan @ Trinity, and Eric 10th Gen provide is a cliff notes version of farmer training, as I see it. Now if only there was smellivision.
The small motorized feed cart might work for you. But the big thing is every farm is different. So put it this way, you can play around and try things. But you do what works for you. Not every farm is the same. There was things my German grandparents did that other farmers didn’t understand. But that’s what worked for them. Thank you for your time and your videos. You all stay safe and have a blessed and fun Christmas with your family.
The dairy I work on currently has about 400 cows. Back when I started there in the mid 90s we were using a Knight Reel Augie on a powershift 3020 to feed 150 cows and the heifers and dry cows. That would be a good size for your herd, and the Ollie would have a full time job. If you had silos and enough hay ready to go at corn chopping time, you could alternate between corn silage and haylage and have a 50 50 mix.
20 years ago we had kinda the same setup… we would layer silage and hay in an old manure spreader we had up in the barn powered with an electric motor. It would dump it down into a Weaverline electric feedcart which worked real nice for our narrow feed alleys
Y'all feed a blended ration instead of a TMR. We did something similar with 2 silo's, corn in one, haylage and chopped spring grain silage that had to be balanced by the amount of time each unloader ran, no scales for precision. Very interesting way of using the pile as your "mix wagon"! Pretty neat! 👍👍
With your silage piles it looks like the feed keeps well for a low cost storage approach. You have flexibility without the investment in permanent structures. A considerable amount of corn silage, haylage, and triticale is piled/packed/covered on large dairies to the east of our region in Ohio. Small squares of hay and straw are becoming less common on larger farms, but remain popular among producers who have a good customer base for sales to horse, goat, and sheep owners.
I remember we did a similar set up. Only because our 60 ft poured concrete silo that was built in the 1920’s chunks of concrete would fall from the roof here an there quit filling that silo an just filled the 80’ stave an did a pile similar to yours . Tried the ag bag once…..that was an experience.
I really enjoy your channel and trinity dairy. I have brood cows and feed round bales handling the square bales isn’t a job I could say I enjoyed. But it sure is convenient for a setup like yours.
I do the bunker like you do I put haylege on the bottom about 3 feet tall then 3 feet of corn silage for beef cows and some for the feeders then I chop big round balesblow that in the shed load off the cement and put in a feeder wagon with no waist at all
We have sandwitch bunks as well and we use self loading tmr mixer for you guys ideal will be silage block cutter it leaves nice surfuce and dont disturb the face and u have that open station tractor with fwa and yu just hook it 3pt and slam in reverse in pile cut it and put block in front of barn and pich it in wheel carts layer by layer and yu can cut bales as well with it
Many use upright silos in our area and in the feeding of corn and hay silage. Really, in the end it works the same I think. When you can feed it already mixed like how you do it seems to eliminate a step in the feeding process. As far as feeding we use wheel barrows too, not much different than you. Our infrastructure is almost identical to yours except we have no hills.
i had the tires of my B clear at the end of the axles.. id seen too many tractors turtle when i was young.. i used two wheel wagons.. all my neighbors thought i was nuts.. but they worked good
Looks like you still can’t keep up with the old man! Cherish that brother! When you see your dad slowing down it’s like a kick to the gut. That’s how I feel about it anyhow.
For someone that has never worked on a dairy farm, I find this very interesting. Did some crop farming and very small cattle farming/ranching back in the day. Enjoy your channel.
I know what you mean.. I've never been on a farm of any kind,, and no nothing about farm work at all, I was born and raised in a big city.. Half the time I have no idea what they're talking about but I find this fascinating to watch ..
Ive never heard of putting corn ontop of hay. What a great idea tho. Grandpa had a mta and a international crawler with the exact same damn engine. That was the very best packing tractor ever. Ive packed silage with a tractor and that lil crawler. The crawler was by far the best damn way tooo do it. You can actually pack it like straight up n down. And its twice as compact.
I have always wanted to know how much and what you feed a milking cow per day? How much hay, silage, corn, etc summer/winter ..... how much fresh grass do they need in the summer??
We used to display piles of the various commodities in a daily ration at the Middletown Grange Fair in Bucks County, PA. The water is the most important nutrient.
I watched a dairy use bags where the blew the product in .. They added an enzyme to help keep the feed & when they started feeding it , their milk production increased .. I assume they way you store your feed is similar , but you place it & run over the pile to compact it ... What is the difference ? They simply blow it into a long bag .. No compressing involved ...??
Back in the 1960's in England my Dad allways kept the face of our silage clean by using a sharp hay knife, thats a hand tool. I have heard of farmers using chainsaws to cut the face too.
Thanks for the forecast! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
every body different it works had a neighbor that kept adding to his pit silo wasnt big enough he made timber extensions to go up 5 ft that want enough o he used round bales 3 rows out 2 rows next 1 roow on top that was a scary thing digging out with 4020 loader all way up stil long way to top but it held silage he had close to 600 to 1000 head though
Good video,you must have a high butterfat and low cell count since you all sell to cheese plant that pays more, is milk price around $19.00 ? I'm 82 and still miss my dairy good luck.
I’m sure that there are ways to spend money to save time and sweat, but unless that leads to improved output it would seem to be a questionable investment - and farmers don’t do leisure and aren’t afraid to sweat….
From Africa we got nice weather our caws stay out doors and grace outside thank God who give us this warm weather enjoying human being and Animals .the problem we got a Hynes attack during night likely our guard 🐕 dogs Alert us before Hynes Coming
as long as you get payed over the cost of production for the milk ........otherwise she is not regardless of age ..........seen cows go for 10 lactations ........the one that stays under the radar gets to live longer ........have a 19 year old beef cow here .....never put a hand to her ......
@@BillDalby much like an employee at any business, each cow is an individual. Some are going to produce more protein or more milkfat (our Holsteins were averaging 4% in the 1980's--oh so tasty!) or a high volume with lower fat or protein. About once a month the "milk tester" came to our farm and hooked up sampling devices to each machine and took an individual sample from each cow; labeled each sample to correspond to the cow's name or number; then shipped the samples to the lab. We found out the cows total pounds that milking (or day- back in 1970's and 80's and 90's the tester was there for both am and pm milkings), the fat, the protein, the scc (somatic cell count), and other data i never looked at. In the 90's the dairy herd improvement association (DHIA) trialed going to am or pm testing. That came in handy for the testers to spend less time on each farm. The pounds of milk shipped was used to figure out each cow's daily production relative to 1 milking sampled. We used the test data to determine the "do not breed list" and the "cull list." Very high scc cows we used a CMT paddle and solution; aseptic sampling and striking on a bi or tri-plate; and incubating the sample to determine if we would treat with antibiotics in 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 quarters. The bi/tri-plate incubation reading class was tough, but our herd vet clinic tech helped coach me to get up to speed. I used that aseptic sampling for all mastitis cows my coworkers found to determine which antibiotic, if any, to use on a quarter. The herd vet wrote protocols for all treatments that we used: mastitis, pneumonia, metritis, off feed, twisted stomach, systemic infection, pinkeye, ... We had to learn to diagnose and treat our own animals because milking 750 head plus dry cows, heifers and heifer calves needed constant watch and frequent treatment. Weekly vet checks and occasional emergency calls when we did not know how to do something occured. Emergency calls were usually when we needed help with a very difficult calving. We were trained for the common calving issues.
Self unloading wagon with sides cut down, conveyor going through window of the barn. Two people feeding with wheelbarrows. The barn would be fed in 30 minutes tops. Estimated cost conveyor 1500, cheap wagon 4000. Done deal. Back story I'm the make do with what you got, in the neighborhood guy.
What a great time you have work together with your dad. What I wouldn’t give again to have time to work with my dad who is now on his heavenly home. Enjoy every minute of I love your videos. Thank you for showing us what you do.
I think that you have a pretty good setup and operation, it's a joy for me to watch your videos. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.😊
Everything about you guys farm is unique ! Main reason why I watch your channel. There’s of course
More efficient and newer ways to do things probly like a proper bunker with rear unload wagons and just push up with a loader but it’s super cool watching you guys do it the way you do. And it works for you so it don’t matter anyways !.
Interesting to hear about your feed mix. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
I really enjoy listening to you and your dad talk about your everyday process on your dairy farm. Thank you for taking us along! Maybe a powered wheel barrow that can hold more feed? Other than that I think you have a good approach to feeding your cows.
I noticed every farmer has a unique approach on how and what to feed cows. Weirdly enough, I know a farmer that almost has the same approach as you guys. and that's in Belgium. It is always nice when a farmer shares his experience.
I always love to watch your videos involving the diary herd . The way your feed systems are setup ,l feel is why you are still in the diary business. Keeping your cost low and willing to use wheel barrels to haul feed into the barn . The way you pack the piles to keep a firm tight pile . I still am a big fan of small square bales . I love seeing the older equipment still in use helping keep your cost low . Your ear corn videos are great too .
Watching ur videos ,brings back lots of memories,grew up on a small dairy farm farm milked 40/55 cows farmed 250 acres ,lots of work I admire your way of life it’s a seven day a week twice a day job plus all the farming in between kept up the good work 🤠👍
Love the Chanel very enjoyable thank you for farming and feeding the family !!
You guys are great! I love Dad's explanations of the "whys and wherefors" of everything. What you guys, Alan @ Trinity, and Eric 10th Gen provide is a cliff notes version of farmer training, as I see it. Now if only there was smellivision.
The small motorized feed cart might work for you. But the big thing is every farm is different. So put it this way, you can play around and try things. But you do what works for you. Not every farm is the same. There was things my German grandparents did that other farmers didn’t understand. But that’s what worked for them. Thank you for your time and your videos. You all stay safe and have a blessed and fun Christmas with your family.
The dairy I work on currently has about 400 cows. Back when I started there in the mid 90s we were using a Knight Reel Augie on a powershift 3020 to feed 150 cows and the heifers and dry cows. That would be a good size for your herd, and the Ollie would have a full time job. If you had silos and enough hay ready to go at corn chopping time, you could alternate between corn silage and haylage and have a 50 50 mix.
Really good video. Thanks for taking me with you!
I enjoy seeing all your videos pop up on suggested shows to watch.
20 years ago we had kinda the same setup… we would layer silage and hay in an old manure spreader we had up in the barn powered with an electric motor. It would dump it down into a Weaverline electric feedcart which worked real nice for our narrow feed alleys
Y'all feed a blended ration instead of a TMR. We did something similar with 2 silo's, corn in one, haylage and chopped spring grain silage that had to be balanced by the amount of time each unloader ran, no scales for precision. Very interesting way of using the pile as your "mix wagon"! Pretty neat! 👍👍
Another great video!
With your silage piles it looks like the feed keeps well for a low cost storage approach. You have flexibility without the investment in permanent structures. A considerable amount of corn silage, haylage, and triticale is piled/packed/covered on large dairies to the east of our region in Ohio. Small squares of hay and straw are becoming less common on larger farms, but remain popular among producers who have a good customer base for sales to horse, goat, and sheep owners.
Love watching your videos!! You have a beautiful farm.
I could smell that hay 😁. Always nice to see the Oliver moving around . Great video fellas .👍
Nice video. Reminds us old codgers what has to be done to feed the moo moos. Always hand work that has to be done. Some things never change.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting
We fed corn silage, clover/timothy hay and often we'd have potatoes mixed in the silage being from Maine
I remember we did a similar set up. Only because our 60 ft poured concrete silo that was built in the 1920’s chunks of concrete would fall from the roof here an there quit filling that silo an just filled the 80’ stave an did a pile similar to yours . Tried the ag bag once…..that was an experience.
I really enjoy your channel and trinity dairy. I have brood cows and feed round bales handling the square bales isn’t a job I could say I enjoyed. But it sure is convenient for a setup like yours.
Another interesting video!!
It’d be cool to see what you feed and how you feed at every age from calve to milk cow.
If its working 💪 keep doing it 😊
Good video ❤ you guys make me tired the hard work you guys do...
I do the bunker like you do I put haylege on the bottom about 3 feet tall then 3 feet of corn silage for beef cows and some for the feeders then I chop big round balesblow that in the shed load off the cement and put in a feeder wagon with no waist at all
We really enjoyed this video. As a future video idea if George’s brother is willing it would be cool to see his Gierok farm!
7:50 - That seems to be a pretty good sized hill in the background, for Wisconsin.
The SW corner of the state is unglaciated. Lots of hills.
We have sandwitch bunks as well and we use self loading tmr mixer for you guys ideal will be silage block cutter it leaves nice surfuce and dont disturb the face and u have that open station tractor with fwa and yu just hook it 3pt and slam in reverse in pile cut it and put block in front of barn and pich it in wheel carts layer by layer and yu can cut bales as well with it
One good pickle in the sandwich . . . Love it!
Many use upright silos in our area and in the feeding of corn and hay silage. Really, in the end it works the same I think. When you can feed it already mixed like how you do it seems to eliminate a step in the feeding process. As far as feeding we use wheel barrows too, not much different than you. Our infrastructure is almost identical to yours except we have no hills.
To help with labor have u ever feed one feeding of silage out side with bobcat
Dads a pro at backing equipment around
Hey Arron,does your family still own the farm dad grew up on? If so,it would be great if you guys could do a video about it on location.
I got hay fever watching this video. I do miss getting Hay for my moms horse, i miss that bugger
Nice job
i had the tires of my B clear at the end of the axles.. id seen too many tractors turtle when i was young.. i used two wheel wagons.. all my neighbors thought i was nuts.. but they worked good
Looks like you still can’t keep up with the old man! Cherish that brother! When you see your dad slowing down it’s like a kick to the gut. That’s how I feel about it anyhow.
Nice video
Rissler makes some cool tmr feed carts
For someone that has never worked on a dairy farm, I find this very interesting. Did some crop farming and very small cattle farming/ranching back in the day. Enjoy your channel.
I know what you mean.. I've never been on a farm of any kind,, and no nothing about farm work at all, I was born and raised in a big city.. Half the time I have no idea what they're talking about but I find this fascinating to watch ..
Itd be kinda neat to see the milk man picking the milk up and even a small interview!
@@RyBergDairy if you want news to travel fast... telegraph, telephone, tell a hauler (aka milk man)
Ive never heard of putting corn ontop of hay. What a great idea tho. Grandpa had a mta and a international crawler with the exact same damn engine. That was the very best packing tractor ever. Ive packed silage with a tractor and that lil crawler. The crawler was by far the best damn way tooo do it. You can actually pack it like straight up n down. And its twice as compact.
❤❤VIDEO ❤❤ very informative ❤❤
thank you
I have always wanted to know how much and what you feed a milking cow per day? How much hay, silage, corn, etc summer/winter ..... how much fresh grass do they need in the summer??
We used to display piles of the various commodities in a daily ration at the Middletown Grange Fair in Bucks County, PA. The water is the most important nutrient.
Great video and love hearing your dad explain things on your farm.How often do you have to through the week do you have to get into your pile?
They do make really small self propelled feed carts for like old tiestall barns and such. Might work good for you guys
Could you get a small .csf powered feed cart in your barn? That's what we have
Great video Do you put any kind of Salt in when you pack it
In a previous video, I believe you put some 3rd Cutting on top of the corn silage. Does it matter what order you pack the mixed forage?
I watched a dairy use bags where the blew the product in ..
They added an enzyme to help keep the feed & when they started feeding it , their milk production increased ..
I assume they way you store your feed is similar , but you place it & run over the pile to compact it ...
What is the difference ?
They simply blow it into a long bag ..
No compressing involved ...??
Back in the 1960's in England my Dad allways kept the face of our silage clean by using a sharp hay knife, thats a hand tool. I have heard of farmers using chainsaws to cut the face too.
One good pickle in the sandwich 😂. What a classic line from a ole school farmer ❤
Weaverline feed carts are nice! But you would need to scoop or fork it into it though.
How are your components now that you’ve been feeding from the pile a month now compared to last year and this summer on pasture?
Thanks for the forecast! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
Have u guys ever used ag bag's?
every body different it works had a neighbor that kept adding to his pit silo wasnt big enough he made timber extensions to go up 5 ft that want enough o he used round bales 3 rows out 2 rows next 1 roow on top that was a scary thing digging out with 4020 loader all way up stil long way to top but it held silage he had close to 600 to 1000 head though
“Horse a piece”, haven’t heard that in years!🙂
Good video,you must have a high butterfat and low cell count since you all sell to cheese plant that pays more, is milk price around $19.00 ? I'm 82 and still miss my dairy good luck.
Watch several different channels. I like the diversity, each farm does things little different. Is no one way to do anything.
I’m sure that there are ways to spend money to save time and sweat, but unless that leads to improved output it would seem to be a questionable investment - and farmers don’t do leisure and aren’t afraid to sweat….
Web there done that, run a dairy in western Arkansas!
Does your milk go to Blair?
From Africa we got nice weather our caws stay out doors and grace outside thank God who give us this warm weather enjoying human being and Animals .the problem we got a Hynes attack during night likely our guard 🐕 dogs Alert us before Hynes Coming
why does youre dad look like he is 40 years old MAX he look really young for having a grown child good genes?
hard work ........no sitting at an office desk there ..........the 5 day cow has still to be invented .......!
Very nice, thanks, please try Cow Master Herd Management App in your farm.
T that’s a lot of hay to move twice, no offense guys😢. Maybe another ground shed and a NH bale stack wagon,I know laze here! Thanks so much men !!!
How long is a milking cow profitable
as long as you get payed over the cost of production for the milk ........otherwise she is not regardless of age ..........seen cows go for 10 lactations ........the one that stays under the radar gets to live longer ........have a 19 year old beef cow here .....never put a hand to her ......
Depends on an individual cow's production, components, fertility,... and continued good health.
The first lactation hopefully pays off the cost of raising her for 2 years before she has her first calf and begins to produce milk.
Thanks
@@BillDalby much like an employee at any business, each cow is an individual. Some are going to produce more protein or more milkfat (our Holsteins were averaging 4% in the 1980's--oh so tasty!) or a high volume with lower fat or protein. About once a month the "milk tester" came to our farm and hooked up sampling devices to each machine and took an individual sample from each cow; labeled each sample to correspond to the cow's name or number; then shipped the samples to the lab. We found out the cows total pounds that milking (or day- back in 1970's and 80's and 90's the tester was there for both am and pm milkings), the fat, the protein, the scc (somatic cell count), and other data i never looked at. In the 90's the dairy herd improvement association (DHIA) trialed going to am or pm testing. That came in handy for the testers to spend less time on each farm. The pounds of milk shipped was used to figure out each cow's daily production relative to 1 milking sampled. We used the test data to determine the "do not breed list" and the "cull list." Very high scc cows we used a CMT paddle and solution; aseptic sampling and striking on a bi or tri-plate; and incubating the sample to determine if we would treat with antibiotics in 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 quarters. The bi/tri-plate incubation reading class was tough, but our herd vet clinic tech helped coach me to get up to speed. I used that aseptic sampling for all mastitis cows my coworkers found to determine which antibiotic, if any, to use on a quarter. The herd vet wrote protocols for all treatments that we used: mastitis, pneumonia, metritis, off feed, twisted stomach, systemic infection, pinkeye, ... We had to learn to diagnose and treat our own animals because milking 750 head plus dry cows, heifers and heifer calves needed constant watch and frequent treatment. Weekly vet checks and occasional emergency calls when we did not know how to do something occured. Emergency calls were usually when we needed help with a very difficult calving. We were trained for the common calving issues.
My aching back.
Instead of moving hay all the time , why don't you build a lean on the far shed just for hay storage
You have to do what works best for you! If you are efficient at it and your product is good why change.
would you ever consider having a one day open house ? viewers could actually stop in and see in real life your operation.
There’s a lot of British farmers that could learn a lot from your Dad about how to build a silage stack and cover it.
It sure would be nice to have a 80x100 shed just for hay wouldnt it? lol but you know money doesnt grow on trees
Make your own feed don’t bring in feed that might have PAFS it really hit some farmers bad
Self unloading wagon with sides cut down, conveyor going through window of the barn. Two people feeding with wheelbarrows. The barn would be fed in 30 minutes tops. Estimated cost conveyor 1500, cheap wagon 4000. Done deal. Back story I'm the make do with what you got, in the neighborhood guy.
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