The smell of manure is what killed dairy farming here in Hawaii, but the same people who complained about the smell are the same people that complain about the price of milk brought in from the states. We have a bunch of cry babies here in Hawaii. Thanks Eric I love that little pup helping spread out that fabric. Aloha🤙🏼🤙🏼
Your attention to your dairy cow health and well being is commendable and I appreciate your conservation efforts! The land sustains us and you are, in my opinion, good stewards! Thank you and continued success. ❤
Excellent report...you explain so well what you are doing and why you do it...a good communicator. And your video work and editing are second to none. Good on you young man. FIVE stars
Great video Eric! Nice to see the guest appearances by the family and the horse. Fascinating equipment in farming and the slurry injector is interesting. Always nice to keep the neighbors sensitive noses happy if the neighbors wallets will pay a little extra for all the extra tubing, pumps, disc wheels, hydraulics, mounts, etc. Hopefully the yield will improve enough to offset the costs. Farmers do more than their fair share to keep costs down. Nice work on the new earth sculpture - looks like it will drain well. Enjoyed the video. Well done!
Been watchin your chanell for a year.. It relly pleasd me when you post som new video.. I cant never compet with so much acers.. Also family farmer, love to see someone doing it whit cheer.. Best wishes for you Eric and all the family.. Miha Kobarid🇸🇮
amazing video! injecting slurry is the right way to do it, we are doing doing strip till injection (injecting slurry right beneath the corn seed) for a couple of years now and it really is affecting the plant growth
There is a company in Germany named Vollmer, they make a kind of manure injector which can apply two strips of manure in different depths of the ground. If you work with satellite guiding systems you can seed your corn rows directly above those strips. That way the corn gets the nutrients at different times when it needs them the most. Plus nearly no smell and no evaporation.
Wow. I’m interested to find out how well this worked out for you guys. It’s good to innovate and look for new ways to do things you do every year, if this will improve yields and work out well for your operation then it will be well worth every penny!!
Great video. Learning new things again. Read up on the manure injection. Pretty good idea, hope it works well. Drainage channel looks really nice. And loved the way Duchess was "helping"...love those puppies.
This is gonna sound weird but I actually like the smell of manure. Especially in the early morning when it’s still cool and foggy out. My pappy was a farmer and the smell instantly reminds me of him
I have a question for you. How much are your operations going to be affected by a fertilizer shortage this planting season? Do you use much of the type the shortage will contain? I love watching how your family takes care of your farm! It's so interesting getting a first hand view of how everything works. Thank you for sharing!
That's a neat way to apply the manure if it truly keeps more nutrients in the ground where they won't degrade. It will be interesting to see if that process pays off in crop growth. Thanks for another good video.
I wonder if they could mix the manure and the water spray fertilizer in the tank and have them inject all of it, less loss in spray, less smell, less waste and more retained in the soil
Nope. Would plug the sprayers. To much fines. Injection is done a lot more in Europe because it also reduces odor while giving the benefits he talked about.
Lancaster County has the highest percentage of cover crops used on farmland in the US. The Chesapeake Bay is still in trouble but improving in terms of nitrogen and phosphorous levels. Lancaster County is part of Susquehanna watershed of the larger Chesapeake watershed. Hard work in terms of education by the environmental authorities makes it happen. Glad to see you're doing your part Eric. I've read the Amish and Mennonites are willing to accept govt assistance to improve their manure handling and animal facilities and it's making a difference. Animals are kept out of the streams and manure tanks and containment bunks are being built too.👍🐮
here in the UK they do similar injection spreading but they have the injection attachment only on a tractor which has oversized tires on it then has hundreds of feet of 6" flexible pipe and then have say two 3000 gallon tankers running back and forwards from the slurry pit to the fields and then pump into a large tank which has a pump on it to pump the slurry out to the injection tractor, this keeps the smell down and less compaction in the ground also keeps the roads clean
As someone that also lives in the area of the Chesapeake bay watershed I applaud any efforts you make to keep those nutrients on your land to do their job there rather than being washed downstream and causing problems degrading the bay and it's rivers.
Thank you, Eric! I really appreciate all your effort to record, edit and post your videos! Love your farm and how dedicated you and your family are to having a beautiful farm!
Interesting watching the manure injection. Hope that works well and helps with controlling costs of fertilizer. Also looks like a great job on the waterway project.
Real nice job on the prep for the grass , looks like all the family worked together on that even the little 4legged monster was a great help the farm looks beautiful
Great awesome video Eric. Wow your injecting manure that’s the way to go , top dressing has more run off. Perfect way to go, Glad the waterway is all finished, great job.
here in Switzerland, just spreading slurry like you guys did in the past is actually banned in most places (except for alpine / very steep land) so injecting or using a trailing shoe is what's usually being done.. very cool to see you guys using the same technique over the pond! :)
Very interesting way to fertilize your fields. My friends live in Middleburg Pa and they are surrounded by farm's and they say you can't complain about the smell because you knew where you were moving to. Installing the rolls of straw is a great idea and family affair. Stay safe.
Eric, great video as always. Very intresting on the injection system pray it works out for you guys. Thank you for all you do young man. God be with you and all the other farmer that keep us all fed.
I used to drive semi tanker for a dairy farm in central Ohio and we would spray it out and sometimes we would get stuck from the runoff or misjudged picking up from where we left off. Good times.
That manure injecting seems like a great idea ! At least you put something down to prevent erosion. Can you water the grass, or don’t you have a hose that’s long enough? That would help the grass get started, at least germinate. Also, have you considered “regenerative agriculture?” At least try it on 20% of your land. I think it will be more profitable for you. Check out this video series, titled: “Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown, Part 1, The Five Tenets of Soil Health.” I think you’ll like it.
I come from a 4th Generation mixed beef, chicken and cereal grains farm in Canada, and have had a bit of exposure to dairy farms over the years. I like the way you run yours, and your area looks very serene. You should be proud of carrying on the dairyman lifestyle and for working with your family and community every day. That said, I'm surprised automation hasn't hit your farm further. How are the cleaning robots working out? I saw you raising the shutters, and opening the doors for better airflow. Do you not have a gas sensors system and an automated system than can adjust for temperature, humidity and CO/C02 levels? Nice to see some custom application and direct injection of manure though, coming from a Canadian perspective I imagine we'll get paid carbon credits back to DI/J everything soon. Take care and please keep sharing your farm with us! Edit: Btw Southern Manitoba here, nowhere NEAR close to seeding or even cultivating due to a late thaw, and continued snow. Might be another 3 weeks before kicking everything into full gear.
Thats a one step closer to an more efficiency and better manure placement. I love how you guys change ways of farming. The only thing we do in Denmark is with either dripple bar or cultivate it down. It gives such bigger useage of the manure. Actually in Denmark just spreading the manure is illegal, just a little fun fact xd. I love you're videoes, keep up the good work sir
In the Netherlands it’s the only way allowed by law to inject the manure for years now. You may apply it on top, but then you have to cover it up by tilling for example. Nice to see you are trying this too, I’m wondering what you think!
Love the puppy helping roll out the netting. Good little farm hand!
Puppy is such a good helper! Looking forward to seeing how it all pans out.
The smell of manure is what killed dairy farming here in Hawaii, but the same people who complained about the smell are the same people that complain about the price of milk brought in from the states. We have a bunch of cry babies here in Hawaii. Thanks Eric I love that little pup helping spread out that fabric.
Aloha🤙🏼🤙🏼
So many people complain ab the smell of manure it's a good smell tbh 😂
If i may ask, what is the price of a gallon of whole milk in Hawaii ?
@@boathead22000 sale price is 5.09. Regular price $8-9. 18 eggs was $9.92
@@boathead22000 it could run about 5 bucks on up to 8 bucks
Cow poop is the smell of money to farmers and dairy producing folks...
Your attention to your dairy cow health and well being is commendable and I appreciate your conservation efforts! The land sustains us and you are, in my opinion, good stewards! Thank you and continued success. ❤
I disagree. Even the farmer health is a concern from what I've seen, but I'm not a farmer.
Almost all farmers and ranchers are like this. Their land and animals are their livelihood. They care for them like they're family.
So glad you kept your channel up Eric! Enjoy your videos.
13:07: the puppy playing with the roll made my day.
Eric. I love watching your videos. I've watched enough of them, I could go to work for you and your Dad, with little training.
The drone, the music, the land-beautiful. Thanks for another thoughtful video. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
That was great seeing jack Russell helping to roll out the Matt...🐶🐶🐶
Excellent report...you explain so well what you are doing and why you do it...a good communicator. And your video work and editing are second to none. Good on you young man. FIVE stars
Eric, your dairy farm is looking better and better. Y'all have done a lot of work. Really looks good buddy
'sup horse'. Not sure why but that had me rolling
Great video Eric! Nice to see the guest appearances by the family and the horse. Fascinating equipment in farming and the slurry injector is interesting. Always nice to keep the neighbors sensitive noses happy if the neighbors wallets will pay a little extra for all the extra tubing, pumps, disc wheels, hydraulics, mounts, etc. Hopefully the yield will improve enough to offset the costs. Farmers do more than their fair share to keep costs down. Nice work on the new earth sculpture - looks like it will drain well. Enjoyed the video. Well done!
We appreciate you Eric for doing the you tube vidoes!!
Farm just keeps getting better and better. Love to see it, Eric and Fam!
Your operation is LOOKIN GOOD! I'll be praying God takes care of you this growing season. America needs you and (many) more like you.
Love your channel. Thanks for putting in the time to show us how your farm works!
Same
Been watchin your chanell for a year.. It relly pleasd me when you post som new video..
I cant never compet with so much acers..
Also family farmer, love to see someone doing it whit cheer..
Best wishes for you Eric and all the family..
Miha Kobarid🇸🇮
I like ur “little” helper there at the end helping roll out the straw bed.
I think your channel get's better every new video. Great music for the drone shots and love to see the new puppy in action so cute!
amazing video!
injecting slurry is the right way to do it, we are doing doing strip till injection (injecting slurry right beneath the corn seed) for a couple of years now and it really is affecting the plant growth
"What's up horse" I don't know why but that just cracked me up.🤣🤣
Looking forward to seeing the difference in results. Great content mate 👍
@13:07 Love the new 4-legged helper !!
Another great vid, Eric. Thanks for sharing your farm life with us. God bless.
Great top notch content as always! Keep being great. The way you explain everything makes a city guy like me understand and enjoy every minute of it.
The puppy came close to being permanent resident under the water way netting. His curiosity was almost the end of him.
More thinking and a lot of hard work. You guys are superstars in my book.
Great that you show two jobs that are great for the environment and likely botton line with injection of manure
Great job on the water way. You’re homestead is really taking shape & looking good.
The water way is looking great. Your dad and you did a great job.
I want to let you know that your montage music is top tier.
Thank you so much Eric for taking us along on your adventures; I really appreciate it.
There is a company in Germany named Vollmer, they make a kind of manure injector which can apply two strips of manure in different depths of the ground. If you work with satellite guiding systems you can seed your corn rows directly above those strips.
That way the corn gets the nutrients at different times when it needs them the most.
Plus nearly no smell and no evaporation.
Wow. I’m interested to find out how well this worked out for you guys. It’s good to innovate and look for new ways to do things you do every year, if this will improve yields and work out well for your operation then it will be well worth every penny!!
This was an excellent video. Ditches had fun helping you unroll the netting. 🙋♀️😊
Truly enjoy watching your day to day operations
Great video. Learning new things again. Read up on the manure injection. Pretty good idea, hope it works well. Drainage channel looks really nice. And loved the way Duchess was "helping"...love those puppies.
Thanks for today's vlog. I enjoyed it a lot.
This is gonna sound weird but I actually like the smell of manure. Especially in the early morning when it’s still cool and foggy out. My pappy was a farmer and the smell instantly reminds me of him
No till is pretty sweet, but there is something about seeing those lines made by the cultipacker on freshly tilled dirt! Great job on the videos.
You know its spring when Eric brings out the shorts! Now just need some slides or flops! Thanks for the video.
“Sup horse.” I’d have said the same thing. Homie was just staring. It’s only polite.
I love the drone footage and the music is great.
Great drone work, good perspective of the land. Health and Happiness to you and your family.
Best video of the year so far! Good job Eric
Awesome work ! When leveling soil you might want to tilt back the bucket and put it in reverse
I have a question for you. How much are your operations going to be affected by a fertilizer shortage this planting season? Do you use much of the type the shortage will contain? I love watching how your family takes care of your farm! It's so interesting getting a first hand view of how everything works.
Thank you for sharing!
never run out of fertilizer on a dairy farm. cows produce more manure than milk.
@@trythinking6676 they still buy and spray a couple of different liquid nutrients. I thought I've heard him mention nitrates before.
That's a neat way to apply the manure if it truly keeps more nutrients in the ground where they won't degrade. It will be interesting to see if that process pays off in crop growth. Thanks for another good video.
I wonder if they could mix the manure and the water spray fertilizer in the tank and have them inject all of it, less loss in spray, less smell, less waste and more retained in the soil
Nope. Would plug the sprayers. To much fines. Injection is done a lot more in Europe because it also reduces odor while giving the benefits he talked about.
Lancaster County has the highest percentage of cover crops used on farmland in the US. The Chesapeake Bay is still in trouble but improving in terms of nitrogen and phosphorous levels. Lancaster County is part of Susquehanna watershed of the larger Chesapeake watershed. Hard work in terms of education by the environmental authorities makes it happen. Glad to see you're doing your part Eric. I've read the Amish and Mennonites are willing to accept govt assistance to improve their manure handling and animal facilities and it's making a difference. Animals are kept out of the streams and manure tanks and containment bunks are being built too.👍🐮
here in the UK they do similar injection spreading but they have the injection attachment only on a tractor which has oversized tires on it then has hundreds of feet of 6" flexible pipe and then have say two 3000 gallon tankers running back and forwards from the slurry pit to the fields and then pump into a large tank which has a pump on it to pump the slurry out to the injection tractor, this keeps the smell down and less compaction in the ground also keeps the roads clean
passes the eye test for sure. Good job!
Nice job on the water way. By the time the grass fills in it will be beautiful.
Watching you roll out the netting, I can see how the boot scoot boogie was created
I see the pup is helping with the roll out of the matting.
Another very nice video. Never a dull moment on the farm. Thank you Eric.
Watching from buford,GA today heading to myrtle Beach South Carolina while being loaded another great video as always.
I never fully appreciated how hard farmers work before watching your videos.
As someone that also lives in the area of the Chesapeake bay watershed I applaud any efforts you make to keep those nutrients on your land to do their job there rather than being washed downstream and causing problems degrading the bay and it's rivers.
Yes almost everyone in this area is using cover crops and a lot are moving to no-till to reduce erosion.
Awesome video! Loved the drone and music! And the puppy. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Eric! I really appreciate all your effort to record, edit and post your videos! Love your farm and how dedicated you and your family are to having a beautiful farm!
Love the lay of the land. Very nice well kept farm !
Interesting watching the manure injection. Hope that works well and helps with controlling costs of fertilizer. Also looks like a great job on the waterway project.
Hey I learned something new injecting poo into fields lol it was nice to see your sister!! Thank you for making the videos we love them!
Real nice job on the prep for the grass , looks like all the family worked together on that even the little 4legged monster was a great help the farm looks beautiful
One of the best dairy farmers I have seen in many many years
Great video Eric. Hope you have a very bountiful growing and harvesting season this year. Thanks.
That manure injection systems seemed like it may be a game-changer in the current situation.
You could try Spring Valley Spreading too if you go that route later. They’ve done some work together in the past with their injector rigs.
Great awesome video Eric. Wow your injecting manure that’s the way to go , top dressing has more run off. Perfect way to go,
Glad the waterway is all finished, great job.
here in Switzerland, just spreading slurry like you guys did in the past is actually banned in most places (except for alpine / very steep land) so injecting or using a trailing shoe is what's usually being done.. very cool to see you guys using the same technique over the pond! :)
Very interesting way to fertilize your fields. My friends live in Middleburg Pa and they are surrounded by farm's and they say you can't complain about the smell because you knew where you were moving to. Installing the rolls of straw is a great idea and family affair. Stay safe.
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Have a great day Eric!
Eric, great video as always. Very intresting on the injection system pray it works out for you guys. Thank you for all you do young man. God be with you and all the other farmer that keep us all fed.
That old disc looks like it’s seen better days haha. We have a bunch of old tillage equipment like that we barely use anymore since we went no till.
This is a nice video! Your skill as an excellent cinematographer but also the drone camera makes the videos top notch.
GREAT CAMERA AND DRONE SHOTS. THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WIRK.
I loved how the puppy was helping you guys lay out the straw
Very interesting the roles of straw in the center of the Waterway. 🙂 🙏
that puppy is livin' the life
every time I watch one of the videos, I'm like "I can smell this video" lol.
Puppy is good helper... :-) @13:08 Too cute... :-)
Waterway construction looking good. You might get some water erosion from the sidehills perpendicular to the straw mat.🍁👍😎
Great job Eric, looks really good.👍
Love seeing the manure getting hauled great job on the water way
I used to drive semi tanker for a dairy farm in central Ohio and we would spray it out and sometimes we would get stuck from the runoff or misjudged picking up from where we left off. Good times.
Very interesting learned a lot of new stuff thank you..... Hopefully you'll have your water problem cleared up God bless! 😁
That manure injecting seems like a great idea !
At least you put something down to prevent erosion. Can you water the grass, or don’t you have a hose that’s long enough? That would help the grass get started, at least germinate.
Also, have you considered “regenerative agriculture?” At least try it on 20% of your land. I think it will be more profitable for you.
Check out this video series, titled:
“Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown, Part 1, The Five Tenets of Soil Health.”
I think you’ll like it.
Love your little helper
I come from a 4th Generation mixed beef, chicken and cereal grains farm in Canada, and have had a bit of exposure to dairy farms over the years. I like the way you run yours, and your area looks very serene. You should be proud of carrying on the dairyman lifestyle and for working with your family and community every day.
That said, I'm surprised automation hasn't hit your farm further. How are the cleaning robots working out?
I saw you raising the shutters, and opening the doors for better airflow. Do you not have a gas sensors system and an automated system than can adjust for temperature, humidity and CO/C02 levels?
Nice to see some custom application and direct injection of manure though, coming from a Canadian perspective I imagine we'll get paid carbon credits back to DI/J everything soon.
Take care and please keep sharing your farm with us!
Edit: Btw Southern Manitoba here, nowhere NEAR close to seeding or even cultivating due to a late thaw, and continued snow. Might be another 3 weeks before kicking everything into full gear.
You guys do an amazing job, enjoy your videos, it sure has made me appreciate how much work a dairy entails!
Never been to a farm of any type, and I love milk! It's harder than going to the grocery store and getting a gallon of milk!
Thats a one step closer to an more efficiency and better manure placement. I love how you guys change ways of farming. The only thing we do in Denmark is with either dripple bar or cultivate it down. It gives such bigger useage of the manure. Actually in Denmark just spreading the manure is illegal, just a little fun fact xd. I love you're videoes, keep up the good work sir
Great job. Love watching your channel
Such a beautiful farm you have built, and continue to build. All fits together and runs perfectly--like a beautiful Swiss watch.
In the Netherlands it’s the only way allowed by law to inject the manure for years now. You may apply it on top, but then you have to cover it up by tilling for example. Nice to see you are trying this too, I’m wondering what you think!
i cant understand what for you need this net on the ground?
The main reason is that it holds the straw in contact with the ground and stops it from being blown away by the wind (and water to a lesser degree).
I spotted Dutchess helping. So cute!
They have dang nice equipment!