Well, we appreciate all Farmers who taking good care of their animals, treat them like their own children, their diet, etc, etc. So May God bless all Farmers, their animals or crops of the whole world. Amen
Overgrazing is actually a problem and causes desertification. This is a lot better system because the cows can't pull out the root system of the grass, keeping it intact.
Really sad, especially if you've ever seen how happy cows are to get out to pasture in the spring. Then again, seeing how people treat their own pets, it's not hard to believe.
Hi, our cows are out on pasture year round but this isn't possible everywhere especially not with dairy cattle. At least these cows don't have to live in a tie- stall, some cows are chained up all there lives.... Just google "tie-stall, dairy cattle"
why are you people hating cattle farming?! this is my future! I don't care weather the moo moos are outside or inside, you guys are saying it's bad to feed. cows grass and silage, WHAT ELSE WILL THEY EAT?! ITS NOT A PRISON, ITS A CATTLE FARM!!!!!!! good vid
Its Funny how everyone complaining about the cows not going out to pasture are not farmers, have no idea about modern agriculture, and are just keyboard warriors.... I live/work on a 480 milking cow farm where they run a zero grazing system, all the cattle never see a field apart from calving time in the summer. This brings more benefits than hindrances... Haven't had mastitus in 8 weeks, No foot problems, Less disease, Healthier cows, more content cows, Tighter calving index and overall its cheaper for the farmer! now all the keyboard warriors who say the cows are not happy or that they deserve to go outside, you might be shocked at this but most of the cows given the choice would prefer to stay inside, on a dry clean bed, eating tasty nutritious food, rather than out in the rain, in the mud eating the little grass they have to fight there friend over... Now learn something about agriculture before going on about enjoying life and there well-being, they are enjoying life and are being looked after...
robert bridger Heffier calfs are reared to go back in to the milking heard and bull calves are reared until 4 weeks when they get shipped to another farm on a BLADE calf program, i can assure you all you are doing is making an argument out of nothing as you are clutching at straws trying to abolish factory farming..
***** But how many cows do you have? its respective if you have less cattle you have more time for each cow.. we have 5 staff to about 1000 total animals on the farm, thats a ratio of 200 cattle to each member of staff, im guessing your ratio isnt out of the twenties...
You say that keyboard warriors would be shocked to know that cows would prefer to stay inside. Are you really telling me that you have NOT noticed the reaction of cattle when they are turned out for the first time in spring? What is all this nonsense about cows having to fight over a small amount of grass in the mud? It is laughable that you cannot grow enough grass to be grazed when you have no problem growing enough when you want to make it into silage. Ever heard of grazing management? You also say its cheaper for the farmer. So then you do not have to cover the extra costs of making more silage, storing and feeding more silage, storing and spreading more slurry, and additional labour?
***** Yes i agree cows go dappy when first let out to pasture, but we have found they soon get over that... Our cattle are giving approximately from 10-12 thousand litres each per lactation, and if you can get a cow to do that from grass and just grass i would love to know how! We have worked this out with our advisor plenty of times, to put our 480 cattle out to grass and keep them up to that amount of milk we would 4x the amount of grass in the ground and close to the farm, which is not paticually practical as we already have all the walk-able fields close to the farm in grass... We also worked out the cost of production inside vs outside, The outcome was that it is more labour efficient to keep the callte inside all year using the staff more efficiently to keep up together with the yard and field work, it costs us 0.9 of a penny less to keep the cattle inside than if they were out, that is including the price of feed and labour!
For everyone who thinks this is a terrible way to farm well your wrong if you opened the doors thise cows would run out for about and hour come back in and that would be it. We have beef cattle and they have the option during the winter and they will choose to stay indoors around 95%if the time. Also they are cows who care what they think they were made for this very reason nothing more and nothing less so grow up. Infact this is a brilliant way of feeding as they get the lush green grass all year round. Also the grass would not be sprayed with anything or need any treatment like some silage.
To all those people saying this is cruelty you have obviously never been on a dairy farm it is hard graft and even of the cows are inside they still get a great life sometimes it is even better as the farmer can keep a close eye on them so can stop a disease spreading through the herd!
I think it might cost more to do this but then again maybe not after you think of the cost of manufactured feed and transport, and you can't argue with a natural diet. They all seem happy and clean. I'm sure the milk is awesome.
I'm genuinely amazed at how many people are criticizing this when a lot of the time it sounds like they no idea what they are talking about... If this farm is using zero grazing system then its probably because they've worked out that that's the most efficient way to do it otherwise why would he be doing it? Different systems work best for different farms so its not like there's a right or wrong answer specifically. Chill your beans guys.
Looks easier but in time you gonna need fertilizer for the fields, plus espensive machinery. The natural way the cows cut their own grass and fertelize the land.
Is anyone not seeing the glaring inefficiency of this system. Now you must deal with the manure, instead of having it spread on your pasture for you! That will require more gas and equipment. Right?
Beats feeding them corn and soy, but still would be better to have the cattle on the land manuring to add fertility to replace the material taken; otherwise they will likely resort to/require petrochemical fertilizer inputs to keep this system productive.
Fair point, although that's also diesel powered so from an energy perspective still dependent on off farm resources, still much better than corn and soy, and using animal fertility much better than using fertiliser.
I feel the same as you... I thought its a better way to feed them devoid of soy and corn. But what about relieving the stress hormones that accumulate in their systems. That's a part of their hormone balancing that is ultimately a part of the milk they give. Well... Baby steps I guess (:-/
The fertilizing benefit of manure is over rated. It is not a closed system where all the nutrients are returned. Most nutrients leave the farm as meat protein.
lindentr33 tell that to our ancestors who used compost, manure, resting land and green manure exclusively. Chemical fertilisers are a recent invention which have simply ushered in an unsustainable and unhealthy mono cultural industrial farming model which requires constant inputs from off site, basically a form of strip mining farming land. The use of modern conventional industrial farming destroys soil and is worse for the animals, worse for the consumers and worse for the land. Plenty of good information about Manure as fertiliser is available on Wiki, which includes a reference to is successful usage by humans for centuries. To the best of my knowledge, plants use NPK and trace elements to synthesise amino acids which are then combined to form protein; therefore low protein levels in a herbavoires manure is not surprising or concerning, but the removal of the trace elements and reduction in NPK are important factors. Application of manure and use of farming systems which leverage nitrogen fixing green manure plants appear key to maintaining high levels of productivity on land without compromising on sustainability or food quality. Polyface farm is a good example of a highly productive animal system which is not only sustainable, it is restorative, it heals the land and builds soil; they use no imported fertiliser products to achieve this.
When cows graze, they don't just eat the tops of the grass, they often eat roots and dirt. When you mow and give them the clippings, you miss important minerals and roughage. Also, this is saddening! Poor cows kept inside for "efficiency". They should be free to live out their lives, not be milked three times a day and kept for human profit.
better keep quiet than expose your stupidity....are cows rodents???...the problem of letting the cows graze in the fields is that there is alot of pasture wastage...it is all about management..once the cow steps on the grass it won't eat coz of the dirt....ZERO grazing is one of the efficient methods
Edgar kimutai Kemoi I don't disagree with that. But, these cows live on are covered in the collective groups feces and, my personal favorite is that they don't even pretend to sanitize the teats in any way! My God. I mean I'm all for efficiency, but there's no reason in a factory farm like this can't operate much cleaner for very little cost. The obviously already have hoses hooked up to clean the floor, at least they could spare a few drops water for the cow, who I'm sure doesn't relish living in a state of caked on manure it's whole life. No one's asking for them to spray disinfectant or get their hands in to any soap and water for God sake! They evidently can't hose the area the cows are maintained in ordinarily either. That wooden floor with miniscule slats for the crap not to fit through. Guess that's not a milk industry standard. I'm also not keen on the over milking and less than comfortable existence these creature must endure.. Tsk, Tsk and No Sale!
Most people would think "grassfed" meant that the cows are out in the pasture, free to roam and soaking up the sun's rays so that their bodies can produce Vitamin D. I would like to see a nutritional analysis on this milk. I can see it's a better operation than a lot of others I've seen.
In the normal farm the dining room is also the toilet. Cows spend most of their time walking over their food sniffing to find clean feed. Contary to perceptions, this is hard work,especially in winter How would you like to pick up your cornflakes from the floor, when you could have them clean from a packet? There's lots i dont like about the dairy industry, but this isn't one.
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This is crazy. It is absolutely unnecessary to keep cows indoors all-year-round, use a machine to cut grass, and milk three times a day to get a milk yield of 9,000 litres. This is especially so in Ireland that has a huge advantage in being able to grow lots of grass. Any good dairy farmer could achieve the same yield with the cows outside grazing and twice a day milking. A lot of farmers have lost the ability to farm.
show me the cows then and the farmers?? a 9000ltr herd average is amazing, that's 30ltrs a day per cow every day in a 301 day lactation. ireland is mostly outdoor grazed with low amounts of concentrated feed about 500kgs per cow a year. and the production average in around 5300ltrs a cow. that's about 17.5ltrs a day per cow. now add to that the stocking rate on a outdoor grazed low concentrated feed input system needs far far more land per cow to get this level of production and you'll see that it's actually quite inefficient.
JCB411abuser There are plenty of herds that achieve 9,000 litre lactation yields without being housed all year-round. I am aware that Ireland is mostly grass-based systems with low yields and low concentrate inputs. That doesn't make 9,000 litres on a non-zero grazing system impossible. The highest NMR recorded herd in the UK in 2012 was managed on a outdoor grazing, semi-TMR system - a farm in Shropshire.
***** not impossible but very very hard to do as efficiently as a zero grazed system, and i'd wager impossible to get the same amount of milk from teh same amount of acres. TMR systems are superior again to zero grazing as the level of precision of feeding can be very easily managed.
JCB411abuser You are now saying that TMR is superior to zero grazing, because TMR has a higher level of precision of feeding. Surely both have a high level of precision? I wasn't actually comparing the two. Moreover, I originally said that zero grazing is unnecessary to get yields in the region of 9,000 litres. You say you get more milk per acre (I assume you mean with an indoor system) but you also get all the additional associated costs of making more silage, storing more silage, feeding more silage, scraping and storing and spreading more slurry, more bedding, more lameness problems, almost certainly higher labour, and also more electricity. I doubt very much that margins are any higher. It may be worth it for high yields (10,500 litres plus), but not for 9,000 litres. Yields of 9,000 litres are achievable under a grazing and semi-TMR system without incurring a lot of unnecessary costs.
***** no actually zero-grazing can be very varied, but easier to manage than grazing. in a wet day bringing in the same volume of grass won't get you the same milk, plus it upsets the cows and makes them skitter, saem thing with grazing but with zero grazing you can just cut a bit more if needed whereas you'd have to change the fence position in a grazing system, which is harder to do while being efficient. a TMR system is far more stable, you cut on a dry day a few times in the year and make top quality feed. as you say you can get over 9000ltr yeilds in semi grazing and grazing systems but very few without losing a substantial amount of grass in the field. for a cow to clean a paddock like a mower does she has to be hungry, and grazing lighter covers to get enough feed takes more energy. you either put cows into enough grass to feed them but lose the grass that they won't eat, or put them in lighter covers that they will clean up but leave them hungry and lose milk and condition on cows. now a semi-TMR system you'll top up those hungry cows with silage, but there is a fine line between giving not giving them enough to top them up and giving them far too much, causing alot of headaches measuring grass covers in the field and changing the TMR accordingly. a full TMR system is much easier managed, you give them a certain amount per cow per day and top them up with concentrate in the parlour for cows that need it. we used to graze and changed to zero grazing them to zero grazing and TMR and now for the last 3 years we are indoors on just TMR and it is the best most stable system of them all.
Look at Joel Salatins work. He has a very large operation. He is also probably the best short term intensive grazing farmer I have ever seen, but it is still something that is possible. Also look at Allan Savorys work. They are both prime examples.
Is this supposed to sound good? Zero grazing? All year inside system? I am confused trying to figure out if this is a whistleblowing video about bad animal welfare management or a bad taste commercial.
If all you critics care so much about the animals welfare why didn't you start your own farms with the methods that you espouse. You may find that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Those cows should be out in that field enjoying life, not cramped together like they are. Anyone who wants to argue that, needs to move into a studio apartment and then be expected to share that studio with 15 other people. And be unable to walk outside into a yard.
paulandashia but these are very different animals, they have a huge shed there to walk about in, plus outside on most days it wouldn't suit these type of cows. they produce so much milk it's hard for them to get enough energy by grazing and walking around a field finding food to sustain their milk production and body condition and grow a calf inside them. it's not always as simple as it looks. plus this makes more money and at the end of the day that's what matters. but i must stress a cow that isn't cared for won't produce milk, cows that make money are happy cows.
runningstrong46 explain your point, go on explain to me, i just told you why cows like these need to be fed indoors, so you tell me why it's bad for them, change my opinion.
+Debbieanne Marsden research has shown that cows been treated like this are less stress full an produce better milk and meat people complain all the time yet there probably eating or drinking some thing that comes from dairy milk or eating a chunk a meet
So let me get this straight, the farmer provides the inputs needed to collect the feed, and collect the waste, and fertilize the crops? The cattle may get fatter, but they don't appear to get much exercise and probably need more medication to remedy the ensuing illnesses. Are the cattle healthier? Are the fields reliant on human intervention? It seems as though the farmers are missing something. Wouldn't it be more efficient for the cattle to mob graze, fertilize the fields, and get their exercise through a more natural means? How can it be more profitable to do all the things for this system with human and energy resource investments than to let the cattle graze? Doesn't make sense in any manner!
Everything the farmer does is worked out to make a more efficient system, so you can afford to buy the product. "Doesn't make sense"? This is a business system that is as finely tuned as Formula 1 racing. But I'm sure the Ag. Science people will be looking at your comments and implementing your "new" suggestions in their next field research programmes.
We've already done this type of system. It's called a feedlot. It's great at getting the most production out of each unit. Problem is the waste collection and disposal, more drugs needed to combat illnesses that result from the sedentary nature of the cattle. Why pump drugs into the cattle and then through to human consumers? The cost vs. benefits are good only short term. For this system to be sustainable it really needs to be more natural. What are the fertilizer loads on the fields? Add up the infrastructure costs and tell me this is more efficient.
Mars Rover You are half right and half wrong. It is more expensive in many ways to keep the cows indoors, and cows will fertilise the fields themselves when outdoors, rather than storing slurry and then using machines to spread it on the fields. However, cows kept indoors will generally achieve higher milk yields, and this dilutes some of the costs of keeping them inside. Cows kept indoors, also, do not actually need a lot more drugs than those kept outdoors, but they do tend to have more lameness problems. Nevertheless, there are plenty of farms that keep cows outdoors and also achieve high milk yields.
You are totally right, Fazz. This is sickening and disgusting that men can think of creating a business like this. The feed lots, in California, are even worse and these companies pretend that they produce the best meat ever? To vomit for :-(!.
Please reply to my inquiry, calf died during childbirth The question is:Can we do the milking process in this case??? If yes, how many liters of colostrum is Pulled from the cow daily, and how long does cow production become milk instead of colostrum? Thanks in advance my teacher
+jimthorne73 - I grew up milking a cow and 2 goats twice a day and I know without any doubt that they do communicate their feelings. When my cow's calf died - she literally bawled and tears ran down her face for days afterward. When one of my 2 goats died the remaining goat literally mourned her death - again with tears and crying sounds - I knew something was wrong before I realized one of my goats died because I could hear the other goat and the cow crying. My cow and goats made definite "happy" sounds and the goats would wag their tails in different ways for different emotions. Right now I have turkeys, quail, and guineas and they all communicate their feelings - you just have to observe and listen to what they are saying. BTW, guineas never stop communicating - they talk constantly.
Would it make sense to throw some salt on the ground after the cleaning or prior or add a hose that moves with the tractor that cleans...what do I know...
Oh great, now they dont get the one joy they had left- standing in a field and eating grass. You invented a way to make life easier for you guys but worse for them.
I would rather have the food brought and served to me! Who wants to walk around in the blazing hot sun and cold all year picking grass and then be at risk for coyotes to kill my ass at night, hummm? Yeah, I'll stay in thank you farmers for making my cow life easyyyyy MOOOooooo!
+CromemcoZ2 you might pay extra, but the truth is, most of the consumers are governed by price. That is what drives the industry forward in terms of cost cutting and production increases per cow.
Are you saying that free range farms are lying? I think there are free range farms that do not treat their cows like this... they do not make as much money and they are being regulated out of business because Monsanto (in the USA) and other big agra businesses have a bought federal government to keep the CAFOs unregulated and the organic- free-range- organic farms over-regulated- ready to put them out of business.
HOw about having the cows out in the field, doing what they do best? This is absolutely insane. I can totally understand keeping them indoors during winter (much due to the erosion they would inflict on the ground during the off season, for those of you who do not get it) but during summer?! That is plain stupidity.
That's why i only eat organic meat. I do not support farmers who does this. Animals has to be able to move, and believe it or not, you can taste it in the meat if they were stressed
lol... the supermarket love people like you, cause they just slap a "free range" sticker on the same beef out of the slaughter house and people like you will pay twice the amount of it..... the truth is that you can't feed the world by doing organic farming.... the world population is 7billion people and about to be over 10 billion people by the year 2030... we need to feed the people not live some hippie fantasize, people will die if we don't produce enough food....
actually this farm is much much better than any factory dairy farm in the USA - these stalls are much cleaner, and the cows are getting real grass. In the USA the factory farms are filthy, animals walking over their own poop, and they get fed corn or whatever cheap crap
What happens to all the shit? I mean, this looks great, but it seems completely unnatural. The end product isn't only great milk. The unseen end product is that slurry of shit. What happens to it?
I remember when I was on the farm. Now I am free. Though my species is nearing extinction, I am grateful the humans have decided we are exotic now. They treat us so well, pampering those of us who remain. Quite the moo-topia if you ask me. Thank Bu-allah that fast food restaurants decided to serve Mediterranean cuisine instead. The humans that come to see us bring hummus and pita. My heart melts. And my sisters here are back to feeding their young, who are growing quite plump. No wonder the humans are getting healthier now that they're drinking other beverages like juices and sparkling waters. I am content with my weight. They say it is natural for us to be this size. Since we have been freed, I have taken up drawing. It was difficult at first, to draw with the pencil in my mouth. I went through many boxes. But I have gotten quite used to it, as you can see by my profile picture. "First cow to illustrate and learn the internet," they're saying. What an honor. God Bless the humans change of heart.
So now they can sell this and call it grass-fed and people will think of pastured cows. So sad how we twist everything around. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19620671
I love farming and am so happy for this. However we still lack this in Africa. Is there a way we can also connect introduce this technology, forexample in Uganda where i am a native? We can do that and increase the quality and quantity of our produce. Thank you.
Maybe you should stop going to the super market. By not watching every action of the making of your food, you're encouraging it to be done in the easiest way possible. Move to Amish country and good luck.
JWQweqOPDH Well, Im quite self sufficient. I live on a small farm and i grow most of my food myself, or I buy it from local, organic farmers. It is very few things that im buying in the super market. I live almost off the grid (my only monthly costs are electricity, garbage and enviroment tax bills). If more people could live like I do, the world would be a better place. Btw I dont live in USA, we dont have Amish people here.
InvisibleOne You may boast about your own way of living, but the point is most people do not want or do not have the time and land to produce their own food and live like you do. We are in a modern world, and not everyone in the world could live like you do with the population we have got. People always complain about modern farming, and make comments that it is only done to benefit the farmers. Almost nobody understands the power that supermarkets have, and that farmers are not paid as much as they used to be. As a consequence they have to find ways of producing each unit of food more cheaply, which usually means larger farms and more intensive farming. If the majority of the public hadn't given power to the supermarkets in the first place, and instead continued to big food from local shops, then farmers would not have been forced down this path. You also have to appreciate that supermarkets rip off the public just as much as they rip off farmers.
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Modern dairy farm and managed very well ... !!!
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very scientifically managed and uses state of art modern dairy management equipments and techniques. Good job.
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this is very great ...... how i wish this type of technology is brought to our small country Uganda
I love agriculture, very good video, I love this video, good job. Keep farming lads!
Overgrazing is actually a problem and causes desertification. This is a lot better system because the cows can't pull out the root system of the grass, keeping it intact.
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Is it normal that I'm crying in tears while watching this .. ???????????????
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Really nice setup, lots of great ideas. Thanks
These Irish farms are indeed the greatest in the world for cows. Ireland must have the best beef and steaks
Really sad, especially if you've ever seen how happy cows are to get out to pasture in the spring. Then again, seeing how people treat their own pets, it's not hard to believe.
Hi, our cows are out on pasture year round but this isn't possible everywhere especially not with dairy cattle. At least these cows don't have to live in a tie- stall, some cows are chained up all there lives.... Just google "tie-stall, dairy cattle"
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My dream is to start a dairy farm in Ghana. This vid is extra motivation!
Fresh grass is one of the foods that cows on every farm want
why are you people hating cattle farming?! this is my future! I don't care weather the moo moos are outside or inside, you guys are saying it's bad to feed. cows grass and silage, WHAT ELSE WILL THEY EAT?! ITS NOT A PRISON, ITS A CATTLE FARM!!!!!!! good vid
+ger mc it's just crazy vegans hating on cattle farming.
The world has doing a lot to invert Agriculture.Thanks to this world.
Its Funny how everyone complaining about the cows not going out to pasture are not farmers, have no idea about modern agriculture, and are just keyboard warriors....
I live/work on a 480 milking cow farm where they run a zero grazing system, all the cattle never see a field apart from calving time in the summer. This brings more benefits than hindrances... Haven't had mastitus in 8 weeks, No foot problems, Less disease, Healthier cows, more content cows, Tighter calving index and overall its cheaper for the farmer!
now all the keyboard warriors who say the cows are not happy or that they deserve to go outside, you might be shocked at this but most of the cows given the choice would prefer to stay inside, on a dry clean bed, eating tasty nutritious food, rather than out in the rain, in the mud eating the little grass they have to fight there friend over...
Now learn something about agriculture before going on about enjoying life and there well-being, they are enjoying life and are being looked after...
by the way what happens to their calves .
robert bridger Heffier calfs are reared to go back in to the milking heard and bull calves are reared until 4 weeks when they get shipped to another farm on a BLADE calf program, i can assure you all you are doing is making an argument out of nothing as you are clutching at straws trying to abolish factory farming..
***** But how many cows do you have? its respective if you have less cattle you have more time for each cow.. we have 5 staff to about 1000 total animals on the farm, thats a ratio of 200 cattle to each member of staff, im guessing your ratio isnt out of the twenties...
You say that keyboard warriors would be shocked to know that cows would prefer to stay inside. Are you really telling me that you have NOT noticed the reaction of cattle when they are turned out for the first time in spring? What is all this nonsense about cows having to fight over a small amount of grass in the mud? It is laughable that you cannot grow enough grass to be grazed when you have no problem growing enough when you want to make it into silage. Ever heard of grazing management? You also say its cheaper for the farmer. So then you do not have to cover the extra costs of making more silage, storing and feeding more silage, storing and spreading more slurry, and additional labour?
***** Yes i agree cows go dappy when first let out to pasture, but we have found they soon get over that...
Our cattle are giving approximately from 10-12 thousand litres each per lactation, and if you can get a cow to do that from grass and just grass i would love to know how!
We have worked this out with our advisor plenty of times, to put our 480 cattle out to grass and keep them up to that amount of milk we would 4x the amount of grass in the ground and close to the farm, which is not paticually practical as we already have all the walk-able fields close to the farm in grass...
We also worked out the cost of production inside vs outside, The outcome was that it is more labour efficient to keep the callte inside all year using the staff more efficiently to keep up together with the yard and field work, it costs us 0.9 of a penny less to keep the cattle inside than if they were out, that is including the price of feed and labour!
For everyone who thinks this is a terrible way to farm well your wrong if you opened the doors thise cows would run out for about and hour come back in and that would be it. We have beef cattle and they have the option during the winter and they will choose to stay indoors around 95%if the time. Also they are cows who care what they think they were made for this very reason nothing more and nothing less so grow up. Infact this is a brilliant way of feeding as they get the lush green grass all year round. Also the grass would not be sprayed with anything or need any treatment like some silage.
I'm amazed at how many people think they know what makes cows happy.
To all those people saying this is cruelty you have obviously never been on a dairy farm it is hard graft and even of the cows are inside they still get a great life sometimes it is even better as the farmer can keep a close eye on them so can stop a disease spreading through the herd!
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I think it might cost more to do this but then again maybe not after you think of the cost of manufactured feed and transport, and you can't argue with a natural diet. They all seem happy and clean. I'm sure the milk is awesome.
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I'm genuinely amazed at how many people are criticizing this when a lot of the time it sounds like they no idea what they are talking about... If this farm is using zero grazing system then its probably because they've worked out that that's the most efficient way to do it otherwise why would he be doing it? Different systems work best for different farms so its not like there's a right or wrong answer specifically. Chill your beans guys.
Looks easier but in time you gonna need fertilizer for the fields, plus espensive machinery. The natural way the cows cut their own grass and fertelize the land.
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Is anyone not seeing the glaring inefficiency of this system. Now you must deal with the manure, instead of having it spread on your pasture for you! That will require more gas and equipment. Right?
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How many cows are they?
Beats feeding them corn and soy, but still would be better to have the cattle on the land manuring to add fertility to replace the material taken; otherwise they will likely resort to/require petrochemical fertilizer inputs to keep this system productive.
It's called a manure spreader.
Fair point, although that's also diesel powered so from an energy perspective still dependent on off farm resources, still much better than corn and soy, and using animal fertility much better than using fertiliser.
I feel the same as you... I thought its a better way to feed them devoid of soy and corn. But what about relieving the stress hormones that accumulate in their systems. That's a part of their hormone balancing that is ultimately a part of the milk they give. Well... Baby steps I guess (:-/
The fertilizing benefit of manure is over rated. It is not a closed system where all the nutrients are returned. Most nutrients leave the farm as meat protein.
lindentr33 tell that to our ancestors who used compost, manure, resting land and green manure exclusively. Chemical fertilisers are a recent invention which have simply ushered in an unsustainable and unhealthy mono cultural industrial farming model which requires constant inputs from off site, basically a form of strip mining farming land. The use of modern conventional industrial farming destroys soil and is worse for the animals, worse for the consumers and worse for the land. Plenty of good information about Manure as fertiliser is available on Wiki, which includes a reference to is successful usage by humans for centuries. To the best of my knowledge, plants use NPK and trace elements to synthesise amino acids which are then combined to form protein; therefore low protein levels in a herbavoires manure is not surprising or concerning, but the removal of the trace elements and reduction in NPK are important factors. Application of manure and use of farming systems which leverage nitrogen fixing green manure plants appear key to maintaining high levels of productivity on land without compromising on sustainability or food quality. Polyface farm is a good example of a highly productive animal system which is not only sustainable, it is restorative, it heals the land and builds soil; they use no imported fertiliser products to achieve this.
What's so great about compacted soil for one.
This is why I happily pay for the expensive milk, that comes from cows who can walk around outside if they feel like it.
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Which type of grase is this? Please
When cows graze, they don't just eat the tops of the grass, they often eat roots and dirt. When you mow and give them the clippings, you miss important minerals and roughage. Also, this is saddening! Poor cows kept inside for "efficiency". They should be free to live out their lives, not be milked three times a day and kept for human profit.
***** Not always, of course, but sometimes roots do get pulled up and they will eat dirt.
better keep quiet than expose your stupidity....are cows rodents???...the problem of letting the cows graze in the fields is that there is alot of pasture wastage...it is all about management..once the cow steps on the grass it won't eat coz of the dirt....ZERO grazing is one of the efficient methods
Edgar kimutai Kemoi I don't disagree with that. But, these cows live on are covered in the collective groups feces and, my personal favorite is that they don't even pretend to sanitize the teats in any way! My God. I mean I'm all for efficiency, but there's no reason in a factory farm like this can't operate much cleaner for very little cost. The obviously already have hoses hooked up to clean the floor, at least they could spare a few drops water for the cow, who I'm sure doesn't relish living in a state of caked on manure it's whole life. No one's asking for them to spray disinfectant or get their hands in to any soap and water for God sake! They evidently can't hose the area the cows are maintained in ordinarily either. That wooden floor with miniscule slats for the crap not to fit through. Guess that's not a milk industry standard. I'm also not keen on the over milking and less than comfortable existence these creature must endure.. Tsk, Tsk and No Sale!
By not grazing the cattle, they must use fertilizers, they must use antibiotics and the pastures will deteriorate. You like deserts?
Thank you for that more educated and deeper evidence that this is still not the way to go for producing less toxic and better milk supply!
Most people would think "grassfed" meant that the cows are out in the pasture, free to roam and soaking up the sun's rays so that their bodies can produce Vitamin D. I would like to see a nutritional analysis on this milk. I can see it's a better operation than a lot of others I've seen.
it's exactly the same as all other milk.
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In the normal farm the dining room is also the toilet. Cows spend most of their time walking over their food sniffing to find clean feed. Contary to perceptions, this is hard work,especially in winter
How would you like to pick up your cornflakes from the floor, when you could have them clean from a packet?
There's lots i dont like about the dairy industry, but this isn't one.
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No cleaning the udder before you put the milking machine on ?????????
Wow that's amazing man
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Even the herd looks happy.
I can't say I'm happy that I watched this
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Actually these cows look very happy. They are content.
And i forgot, they are much much happier.
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when the cows came into the parlor they put the the units on with no fore stripping or washing of the teats ?????? wth is the lpc and the scc at ??
This is crazy. It is absolutely unnecessary to keep cows indoors all-year-round, use a machine to cut grass, and milk three times a day to get a milk yield of 9,000 litres. This is especially so in Ireland that has a huge advantage in being able to grow lots of grass. Any good dairy farmer could achieve the same yield with the cows outside grazing and twice a day milking. A lot of farmers have lost the ability to farm.
show me the cows then and the farmers?? a 9000ltr herd average is amazing, that's 30ltrs a day per cow every day in a 301 day lactation. ireland is mostly outdoor grazed with low amounts of concentrated feed about 500kgs per cow a year. and the production average in around 5300ltrs a cow. that's about 17.5ltrs a day per cow. now add to that the stocking rate on a outdoor grazed low concentrated feed input system needs far far more land per cow to get this level of production and you'll see that it's actually quite inefficient.
JCB411abuser There are plenty of herds that achieve 9,000 litre lactation yields without being housed all year-round. I am aware that Ireland is mostly grass-based systems with low yields and low concentrate inputs. That doesn't make 9,000 litres on a non-zero grazing system impossible. The highest NMR recorded herd in the UK in 2012 was managed on a outdoor grazing, semi-TMR system - a farm in Shropshire.
***** not impossible but very very hard to do as efficiently as a zero grazed system, and i'd wager impossible to get the same amount of milk from teh same amount of acres. TMR systems are superior again to zero grazing as the level of precision of feeding can be very easily managed.
JCB411abuser You are now saying that TMR is superior to zero grazing, because TMR has a higher level of precision of feeding. Surely both have a high level of precision? I wasn't actually comparing the two. Moreover, I originally said that zero grazing is unnecessary to get yields in the region of 9,000 litres. You say you get more milk per acre (I assume you mean with an indoor system) but you also get all the additional associated costs of making more silage, storing more silage, feeding more silage, scraping and storing and spreading more slurry, more bedding, more lameness problems, almost certainly higher labour, and also more electricity. I doubt very much that margins are any higher. It may be worth it for high yields (10,500 litres plus), but not for 9,000 litres. Yields of 9,000 litres are achievable under a grazing and semi-TMR system without incurring a lot of unnecessary costs.
***** no actually zero-grazing can be very varied, but easier to manage than grazing. in a wet day bringing in the same volume of grass won't get you the same milk, plus it upsets the cows and makes them skitter, saem thing with grazing but with zero grazing you can just cut a bit more if needed whereas you'd have to change the fence position in a grazing system, which is harder to do while being efficient. a TMR system is far more stable, you cut on a dry day a few times in the year and make top quality feed. as you say you can get over 9000ltr yeilds in semi grazing and grazing systems but very few without losing a substantial amount of grass in the field. for a cow to clean a paddock like a mower does she has to be hungry, and grazing lighter covers to get enough feed takes more energy. you either put cows into enough grass to feed them but lose the grass that they won't eat, or put them in lighter covers that they will clean up but leave them hungry and lose milk and condition on cows. now a semi-TMR system you'll top up those hungry cows with silage, but there is a fine line between giving not giving them enough to top them up and giving them far too much, causing alot of headaches measuring grass covers in the field and changing the TMR accordingly. a full TMR system is much easier managed, you give them a certain amount per cow per day and top them up with concentrate in the parlour for cows that need it. we used to graze and changed to zero grazing them to zero grazing and TMR and now for the last 3 years we are indoors on just TMR and it is the best most stable system of them all.
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wonderful and very commentable work
so sad... if he just used a paddock shift system with some permaculture applications their farm would be much more profitable.
more sustainalbly? Problably......more profitable? How? Please explain.
When your inputs go down, your profits go up.
KwoodNationRevlation but in an operation this big....how???? explain. What you said before is obvious but in an operation this big....how???
Look at Joel Salatins work. He has a very large operation. He is also probably the best short term intensive grazing farmer I have ever seen, but it is still something that is possible. Also look at Allan Savorys work. They are both prime examples.
Hopefully this is helpful. If you have anymore questions ill try to help.
Is this supposed to sound good? Zero grazing? All year inside system? I am confused trying to figure out if this is a whistleblowing video about bad animal welfare management or a bad taste commercial.
If all you critics care so much about the animals welfare why didn't you start your own farms with the methods that you espouse. You may find that you have no idea what you are talking about.
or how about set them free in general
Najee Benton start your own farm! You will learn a lot. Start with a couple cows on pasture and go from there
So the animals never walk on grass or see sunlight
It should be cleaned udder handkerchiefs or towels before placing the milking device
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Those cows should be out in that field enjoying life, not cramped together like they are.
Anyone who wants to argue that, needs to move into a studio apartment and then be expected to share that studio with 15 other people. And be unable to walk outside into a yard.
you don't sound like you've ever been on farm, these cows have loads of space.
paulandashia but these are very different animals, they have a huge shed there to walk about in, plus outside on most days it wouldn't suit these type of cows. they produce so much milk it's hard for them to get enough energy by grazing and walking around a field finding food to sustain their milk production and body condition and grow a calf inside them. it's not always as simple as it looks. plus this makes more money and at the end of the day that's what matters. but i must stress a cow that isn't cared for won't produce milk, cows that make money are happy cows.
JCB411abuser You are a total idiot if you think those cows are happy! Who gave us the right to treat animals this way..
runningstrong46 explain your point, go on explain to me, i just told you why cows like these need to be fed indoors, so you tell me why it's bad for them, change my opinion.
Walking long distances in the hot sun just to graze sounds fun to you?
That cow wanted to feel the grass beneath it's feet. What a bloody awful life for them, they're just a commodity. Very sad it needs to stop.
Debbieanne Marsden We have a couple acres of pasture and our cows rarely go out to feel the grass beneath their hooves
+Debbieanne Marsden research has shown that cows been treated like this are less stress full an produce better milk and meat people complain all the time yet there probably eating or drinking some thing that comes from dairy milk or eating a chunk a meet
You do not know what you are saying
Camilla Johansson Camilla Johansson you have no idea what you are talking about.
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What kind of grass that is
So let me get this straight, the farmer provides the inputs needed to collect the feed, and collect the waste, and fertilize the crops? The cattle may get fatter, but they don't appear to get much exercise and probably need more medication to remedy the ensuing illnesses.
Are the cattle healthier? Are the fields reliant on human intervention? It seems as though the farmers are missing something. Wouldn't it be more efficient for the cattle to mob graze, fertilize the fields, and get their exercise through a more natural means?
How can it be more profitable to do all the things for this system with human and energy resource investments than to let the cattle graze? Doesn't make sense in any manner!
Everything the farmer does is worked out to make a more efficient system, so you can afford to buy the product. "Doesn't make sense"? This is a business system that is as finely tuned as Formula 1 racing. But I'm sure the Ag. Science people will be looking at your comments and implementing your "new" suggestions in their next field research programmes.
We've already done this type of system. It's called a feedlot. It's great at getting the most production out of each unit. Problem is the waste collection and disposal, more drugs needed to combat illnesses that result from the sedentary nature of the cattle. Why pump drugs into the cattle and then through to human consumers?
The cost vs. benefits are good only short term. For this system to be sustainable it really needs to be more natural. What are the fertilizer loads on the fields? Add up the infrastructure costs and tell me this is more efficient.
Mars Rover You are half right and half wrong. It is more expensive in many ways to keep the cows indoors, and cows will fertilise the fields themselves when outdoors, rather than storing slurry and then using machines to spread it on the fields. However, cows kept indoors will generally achieve higher milk yields, and this dilutes some of the costs of keeping them inside. Cows kept indoors, also, do not actually need a lot more drugs than those kept outdoors, but they do tend to have more lameness problems. Nevertheless, there are plenty of farms that keep cows outdoors and also achieve high milk yields.
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They're kept in all year round? They aren't even allowed to go frolic in the spring? Poor little buggers.
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+Kenazzle Is it better for them to be outside in the pissing rain howling wind and up to their knees in mud? It does rain a bloody lot in Ireland
William Beattie But... but... the frolicking!
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You are totally right, Fazz. This is sickening and disgusting that men can think of creating a business like this. The feed lots, in California, are even worse and these companies pretend that they produce the best meat ever? To vomit for :-(!.
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Please reply to my inquiry, calf died during childbirth The question is:Can we do the milking process in this case??? If yes, how many liters of colostrum is Pulled from the cow daily, and how long does cow production become milk instead of colostrum? Thanks in advance my teacher
Please tell me that the cow are still allowed outside !
+Chas Waldron No, that's what zero grazing means, once they can't produce milk anymore they slaughter the cows and serve them at McDonald's.
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+jimthorne73 - I grew up milking a cow and 2 goats twice a day and I know without any doubt that they do communicate their feelings. When my cow's calf died - she literally bawled and tears ran down her face for days afterward. When one of my 2 goats died the remaining goat literally mourned her death - again with tears and crying sounds - I knew something was wrong before I realized one of my goats died because I could hear the other goat and the cow crying. My cow and goats made definite "happy" sounds and the goats would wag their tails in different ways for different emotions. Right now I have turkeys, quail, and guineas and they all communicate their feelings - you just have to observe and listen to what they are saying. BTW, guineas never stop communicating - they talk constantly.
+David Duvall Good to hear from someone who lives on a farm and knows animals. Do you think the cows in the video feel good?
+jimthorne73 Don't care. all I know is that they are tasty.
+TheVolatileExplosion They are tasty.
Would it make sense to throw some salt on the ground after the cleaning or prior or add a hose that moves with the tractor that cleans...what do I know...
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Poor cows they should be in that field
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why not let these cows out to eat the grass in the field?
profit and greed is the problem.
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Oh great, now they dont get the one joy they had left- standing in a field and eating grass. You invented a way to make life easier for you guys but worse for them.
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They looked pretty damned happy chomping down that grass to me, probably the same way you look when you woof down that bigmac at McDonalds everyday.
I dont eat animal products any more. Would you rather roam a pasture as a cow or would you rather sit in a line like a prisoner
I would rather have the food brought and served to me! Who wants to walk around in the blazing hot sun and cold all year picking grass and then be at risk for coyotes to kill my ass at night, hummm? Yeah, I'll stay in thank you farmers for making my cow life easyyyyy MOOOooooo!
coyotes get stomped out by cows, at the farm sanctuary near me the cows protect the smaller animals from predators with ease.
Have any problem using brest feeding?
Fine, I'll pay an extra half-dollar a gallon for milk! Let the damned cows walk in the sun, okay?
+CromemcoZ2 you might pay extra, but the truth is, most of the consumers are governed by price. That is what drives the industry forward in terms of cost cutting and production increases per cow.
+William Beattie this is what drives it downwards in the race to the bottom
Are you saying that free range farms are lying? I think there are free range farms that do not treat their cows like this... they do not make as much money and they are being regulated out of business because Monsanto (in the USA) and other big agra businesses have a bought federal government to keep the CAFOs unregulated and the organic- free-range- organic farms over-regulated- ready to put them out of business.
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What constitutes food and what quantity needed for each cow every day?
HOw about having the cows out in the field, doing what they do best? This is absolutely insane.
I can totally understand keeping them indoors during winter (much due to the erosion they would inflict on the ground during the off season, for those of you who do not get it) but during summer?! That is plain stupidity.
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That's why i only eat organic meat. I do not support farmers who does this. Animals has to be able to move, and believe it or not, you can taste it in the meat if they were stressed
lol... the supermarket love people like you, cause they just slap a "free range" sticker on the same beef out of the slaughter house and people like you will pay twice the amount of it..... the truth is that you can't feed the world by doing organic farming.... the world population is 7billion people and about to be over 10 billion people by the year 2030... we need to feed the people not live some hippie fantasize, people will die if we don't produce enough food....
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Why no udder washing before milking?.
actually this farm is much much better than any factory dairy farm in the USA - these stalls are much cleaner, and the cows are getting real grass. In the USA the factory farms are filthy, animals walking over their own poop, and they get fed corn or whatever cheap crap
This farm is Energy Intense. not Eco-friendly.
What is the approximate price of this plant?
This is stupid, the cows should be allowed to roam freely and graze themselves
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Why?
They do say grass-fed less ecoli. Better but more expensive.
What happens to all the shit? I mean, this looks great, but it seems completely unnatural. The end product isn't only great milk. The unseen end product is that slurry of shit. What happens to it?
its used to grow the grass
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its widely used in all countries not just developing countries,from farmers with 1acre to farmers with 10000acres
***** depends how far away the field is
because they have to be milked twice a day so they cant be too far away
He didn't wash the utters before milking
I wonder how much of Monsanto's rbgh is pumped into these cows along with other antibiotics?
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I remember when I was on the farm. Now I am free. Though my species is nearing extinction, I am grateful the humans have decided we are exotic now. They treat us so well, pampering those of us who remain. Quite the moo-topia if you ask me. Thank Bu-allah that fast food restaurants decided to serve Mediterranean cuisine instead. The humans that come to see us bring hummus and pita. My heart melts. And my sisters here are back to feeding their young, who are growing quite plump. No wonder the humans are getting healthier now that they're drinking other beverages like juices and sparkling waters. I am content with my weight. They say it is natural for us to be this size. Since we have been freed, I have taken up drawing. It was difficult at first, to draw with the pencil in my mouth. I went through many boxes. But I have gotten quite used to it, as you can see by my profile picture. "First cow to illustrate and learn the internet," they're saying. What an honor. God Bless the humans change of heart.
Grass fed! But no sun so no Vitamin D?
that's correct and these cows are still not free range.
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He does not come down before placing udder cow milking device
So now they can sell this and call it grass-fed and people will think of pastured cows. So sad how we twist everything around.
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this is known as cut and carry system ...on feeding system
I love farming and am so happy for this. However we still lack this in Africa. Is there a way we can also connect introduce this technology, forexample in Uganda where i am a native? We can do that and increase the quality and quantity of our produce. Thank you.
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I hate industrial farming.
Maybe you should stop going to the super market. By not watching every action of the making of your food, you're encouraging it to be done in the easiest way possible. Move to Amish country and good luck.
JWQweqOPDH Well, Im quite self sufficient. I live on a small farm and i grow most of my food myself, or I buy it from local, organic farmers. It is very few things that im buying in the super market. I live almost off the grid (my only monthly costs are electricity, garbage and enviroment tax bills). If more people could live like I do, the world would be a better place. Btw I dont live in USA, we dont have Amish people here.
InvisibleOne You may boast about your own way of living, but the point is most people do not want or do not have the time and land to produce their own food and live like you do. We are in a modern world, and not everyone in the world could live like you do with the population we have got. People always complain about modern farming, and make comments that it is only done to benefit the farmers. Almost nobody understands the power that supermarkets have, and that farmers are not paid as much as they used to be. As a consequence they have to find ways of producing each unit of food more cheaply, which usually means larger farms and more intensive farming. If the majority of the public hadn't given power to the supermarkets in the first place, and instead continued to big food from local shops, then farmers would not have been forced down this path. You also have to appreciate that supermarkets rip off the public just as much as they rip off farmers.
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do you live in Canada or Europe or the land of Oz?
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I live in Slovenia, which is like Oz, I guess....
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