Farm Plans for 2024
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2024
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Sounds like a plan. It is great to see a family working together. God bless you all
Your doing the right thing. Takes good planning. The world needs food an more food for the world. If people get hurgry there will be problens.
There is a difference in earning a living vs. getting rich. Trying to get rich can ruin the land, but if you treat it right it will allow you to live okay. Looks like you have a sense of balancing things.
Hi kip an avid subscriber here from upstate new York Columbia County I'm not a farmer but a fan it seems to me your family needs a bin for corn so you can pick and choose your price as well for soybean and wheat or oats bins with airration you guys have four grain trucks you family should keep and get all your fields tiled GOD BLESS AND LET'S GO
Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your videos, wish you the very best. Stay well be safe.
Great discussion on the farm , a lot of info being shared , thank you , stay safe , enjoy , always team work !
Wish you the very best from Saginaw
Ever hear of premier livestock pretty hot sale barn here in wisconsin. Holstein angua cross calves have been going for 900 dollars some even hit 1000
Kip I am retired live in Canada but I watch what is going on around us and it is not good so i fully agree what you are talking about. great video of you telling what is going on.
The families working the farm must communicate to make it work and work together and it will go on!! Yes a beef shortage to the fullest west and south because of the drought going into the third year now ✌🏻👍🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing.
Way to be a great leader buddy. Make good non emotional decisions for the greater good of the families that are your farm. Nice to hear you say these things. I don’t like seeing abandoned farms. You all are the heart of this great nation and when a farm dies so does a piece of this country.
I wish you all the best. We are working on putting in a used parlor. Double 8 parabone. Have a wonderful day today
All great thoughts for the future
One of the problems I see is when do you invest in technology (robots, dryers, etc)? At the speed technology advances, you don’t want a huge investment to be out of date by the time it’s paid off. I don’t have an answer, but just something I’ve thought about myself…
That’s a great point, and part of the reason tile and land is probably the best investment
@@KipSieglerFarming1 you can’t go wrong with land … as long as you can make the payments 😁
Kip - this high level brainstorm session about huge decisions for the business is damn interesting. Please more like this!
Wishing you all the best. Praying for you and your family. Love your videos. Grew up milking cows with my uncle in Iowa. Hard job. Thank you
Good On You
Best of luck !!!
Great video Kip . Thanks for sharing. Hard decisions now days that for sure with costs keep going up. Keep up the good planning and communication which is key.
You should stick with upright silos maybe build more but have feeding robots they save more time thrn having a feed mixer
Kip , I watched Lyons family farm dairy operations , tour of the milk barn , cows & what is going on , 75 cows to milk , talk is about the future similar to what you are sharing , not in any great dept like you have prepared , I did not get how many generations of farming , sharing ideas & thoughts , stay safe , the team you have working hard to provide fresh milk daily , congratulations !
Yeah i was just watching a video on 10th generation dairyfarmer. And their giving up their big trench silos and to three 128 foot concrete uprights because they're going to robotic feeding. So your hesitation on trench silos is well justified. Now they're going to have two huge concrete monoliths.
Thanks for another great video Kip.
It was really informative and interesting.
Appreciate your rundown of 2024. It was most interesting and informative. Your family meetings for planning are most important. Got to look ahead like you are. Agree with you on the milking side of the house. You are at a nice size now. Operating good. As far as your silo goes I do understand your outlook on them. I am not a silo fan mainly due to the hard amount of labor involved. But you are doing good with them so let it be and press on.
I totally agree with you on tiling. I’m from Iowa and we tiled almost all of our land. Tiling really pays you back. Agree with you on that. Machinery is always a high dollar investment. You buy at good prices and you have good machinery. Doing great I think. Grain farming has its ups and downs surely but we all make it work.
I think you and your family are excellent planners and doing great looking ahead. My compliments to all of you. Doing great and good planning.
Thanks for sharing with us Kip.
You all take care and be safe.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
Another great video!
Having grown up on a WI dairy in the 70-80s I always admire your dairy. It is so hard seeing all the abandoned dairy farms so I am always pulling for existing ones to continue/grow. TMR with robots would work out well I think. Thank you for sharing these aspects of your operation. God Bless you Kip and all your family.
I’m also huge into the robot side of things and have seen them do good for a lot of guys
You guys will be OK Kip, because you care enough to make it happen the right way!
I understand your thoughts, but I would really push for a tmr mixer, even if stationary. It’s amazing how much the numbers jump when you switch. I’m sure you do a really good job blending it all in with the way you feed now, but it’s also a good way to make sure each cow is getting adequate feed and their consumption stays up, and you can track how much you feed, and make adjustments as needed.
That would work but how would you get the feed from the first two silos in it?
God bless you and farm. Love watching you.
Sounds like the cattle are paying for the farm not the crops. I grew up on a farm. If your crops were not as successful and fertilizer is high why not concentrate on the cattle? It must be difficult when you have more opinions to consider.❤
Lots of thoughts going on
God will be with you and the family.
Great video Kip. I know that whatever you do you will be successful!!
Here in Connecticut, we have a massive dairy farm about 5 miles away, they milk 3500 head. It's a 24-hour milking operation, they have two of the German made rotary milking systems. They also have an average 2 calves born a day with 5 veterinarians on staff. They just had a new cow barn built and its massive 8 acres under one roof... Really cool to do tours there....Very futuristic..
That’d be neat to tour
If they're milking 3500 they should be averaging almost 10 calves a day not counting heifers calving in. Every cow calves 1 time a year on average.
U guys are awesome and thinking ahead I know about milking and it does get old but sometimes u will have to expand but good to discuss with your family in a compassionate way God Bless y'all ❤
7:15....... 100% debt free here. I honestly and truly 100% thought you guys were also.. I always said I am not man enough to wake up in the morning owing anyone,,even crooked bankers,,anything. Good on your Dad carrying debt right out the gate. Enjoy your vids brother.
great plan
Lots of tough decisions about the future. When I was in that situation with small children I held off on expanding until they were a little older to help. It's good to spend time with a growing family. Then as they age bring the cows back with older halp combined with a younger herd. You are right on it though, it's cyclical and the market sometimes decides with you. I think sometimes I think people try to change too much too fast best to keep options open. The way you feed your herd now is almost like a TMR without a TMR the way I see it. Best wishes always.
Hi Mr. kip, you do a good job on the 🚜
Excellent .family.
Kip love your honesty and work ethic best farming videos on RUclips keep up the good work and I hope you keep the dairy going to many small dairys in my neck of the woods sold out to conglomerates upstate NY
Robots are a smart move
On the dairy side of things there are a few small changes that could make big differences. If you could go to two groups to avoid 2+ hrs in the holding pen for the cows. Ai breeding would be huge too. Especially with prices for angus cross calves being 500+ dollars. Genomic testing and using sexed semen could be huge if you want to keep your numbers down, but increase profitability of each cow. I'm sure you've already thought about these things though. Of course these changes require infrastructure that costs money.
Some large farms around here in NY have at least 6 months of extra feed.
Try to keep progressing on wherever you go on the farm.
What a weird winter we all having.
go with ag bag is a good feed with that's all I see on farm back on Vancouver Island Canada
Thanks for your video's. Our family has invested in what we use every day. Feed , milking and manure systems. If your staying in dairy your life will be better when everyday equipment is up to date. Field equipment sits idle too much for cost for us. I think a valmetal autoration would work great for you. We have tower silos with a stationary mixer and conveyors for feeding. Works great and save s so much time.
You can teach them how to do things KIPP, but they have to make a good living also you know that. You are totally right it’s not about total pounds produced but the profit margin. Being an early in life retired dairy,hog and cattle farmer,the cows paid a lot of bills. I wish you guys nothing but the best!!! 🙏
Wow going to buy some of that high buck land.
Can't hardly pencil it out to pay for it. GOOD LUCK !!!!
Love your videos man. Don’t give up on the silage bunks. You guys could just pour a small bunk in the beginning. Enough to hold a couple ag bags and then add on down the road. And have you considered feeding out your bull calves? With a grain set up down the road it would be a nice additional revenue stream
Keep milking! Best way to keep family together! Keep it up let’s go!!
Balancing family objectives across three families can be difficult. Great to hear your family has been able to keep everything well discussed and found compromise of combined vision. Hard to know future economics of grain versus dairy economics.
Best fertelizer is from cows butt and nutrient rich .Last year we sold Last year tractor dad payed 20 grand less and sold it for 20 more and we bought brand new tractor with that money and from milk and some debt we repayed it this year
You mentioned a possible bin site, I have always hated seeing that bin site rotting away down on Earl west road.
Me too I always thought it would be nice storage but it’s too far for us to go. Lol
Tmr mixer and ai breeding will increase milk output.
dont down size inrease the heard by 40 percent. tile the wet crappy land. put in a modern parlor set up.
You dont have to lay down the concrete for a "bunker silo" There are plenty of places that do it on the field after harvest, if its dry. Or on some hard packed ground.
Great to tag along maybe think about buying a tile plow save lot of cash an do you have DHIA for testing cows then you no how much each cow produces well worth money spent just couple ideas
I've been getting 5 to 609 for a good holstein bull calf. My Angus holstein cross have been bringing up to 1200 all baby calves fed for 10 days to 2 weeks!
Sounds like a solid plan. Hard to say what is going to happen in the next couple years
We use asphalt , build when oil is cheap.
I think that you should all sit down and come up with a rough plan of where you want to be in the future. Business plans usually plan for immediate, mid term and long time. amount of detail in the plans depending on the term of the plan. I’d even consider a draft architecture plan for the work area. Then if you have the funds you can start doing actions towards your immediate goals.
As for expanding the herd (that would have to include a new milking setup, parlour or robotic: the history of dairying worldwide has been the need to constantly expand the herd. Your grandfather had 50 cows or so when he started, your father had 80, you have 150! This is driven y the economics and technological advances . Consider the increase in the number of families the farm has to support now and down the road .
An idea is to decide on putting a certain annual % of gross or net profit into an expansion fund. This would make the future decisions easier
The best of luck and I hope you all keep on dairying
Why don't you do manure storage? My in-laws farm where I work have 6 robots their about to move into, I think guided flow robot barns are the way to go! Takes a lot of management but so worth it from what I've seen
We tried years back on the storage but ran in to problems. Hopefully can get it in a couple years
@@KipSieglerFarming1 liquid pit, that's a whole set of equipment but your manure looks pretty wet, the set up here has a pump that pumps it to the pit
Few new silo unloaders would go along way. Maybe look into 10th generation dairyman, he's going from bunks to silos to make it easier. Your halfway to robotic feeding.
Can’t go wrong putting in tile and make your current ground more productive.
Manure pit to cut down labor of spreading everyday and gain some fertilizer advantage. Feed out of the silos to a mixer will cut down on feed waste and improve cow diet. Robot milkers would be nice but don’t think they pencil out to good on a smaller dairy. Ben site will improve marketing but add labor to maintain and baby sit the grain quality in the Ben.
I’m a huge fan of paying down debt. Allows for increased flexibility. As far as buying land, you can’t farm without it. Buy all you can afford. Idk if you have grain storage but something to look at if you stay in the corn/soybean business. Dryers are big money but allow you to better time the market. One question I’ve been meaning to ask… Any way you could dig a loading dock where you pile the manure so you could scrap straight into the spreader? It would save all that time trying to load liquid with a bucket.
Paying down debt and keeping more cash is the smart move. Slowly but steadily invest in tech that can help you and your brothers keep running a big operation with minimal people. Enjoyed the video today. I loved the videos of your farm's history, keep adding to those, please.
I look at the input and output labor intensity of bunker silos vs upright silos and I don't think the bunker can hold a candle to the upright. upright silos are my favorite.
When considering the concrete pad, can you not plan or build the pad with the option to transition it to a service shop or storage building?
🇫🇷 Great explanations. Congrats .. investment for used dairy parlour ? Around $ 100K ? Can you realise a video on this .. roi vs robot and current situation ? Keep safe
You have to go big and milk 2000 cows three times a day or stay small and live happy where you are here in NY we have 10 to 20 big farms they average 2000 to 5000 cows three times a day milking with 20 to 30 employs doing all the work my two neighbors run 10000 plus acres between them and each one has at least 20 million in machinery and they do not get much time to do anything they work like crazy seven days a week
Just don’t get iron fever at all. Sure your planting tractor is worth more now than when you bought it. But to replace it can cost big money. Buy land if you can work out a deal. Upgrade the parlor definitely. Robots are nice I’m sure but there again a huge expense. God bless
Sure looks like you’re getting a good amount of milk out of them cows!
You talked about down sizing the herd some. Have u ever thought about putting an angus bull with ur hefiers and just keep the replacement calves from ur actual milking cows? I'm from Central pa and angus cross calves are outrageous right now they are going for about 700 a piece and that's the pretty low end for a calf. My parents have done that the past couple years since they are basically doing the same thing with downsizing and everything.
Beef cross calves up to $900 crazy
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Raise your steers if you have space.
With the silos still up you could put in a Lely vector feeding tmr robot but youd need some paved feed bunk space
Any plans to improve your herd genetics with AI. Or matching certain sires to certain cows?
Have you thought about putting in a manure storage, to get away from buying commercial fertilizer.
We need to do that, hopefully by 2026
I understand but I don’t understand why downsize when milk prices so low I follow dairy pretty close so just asking
Man ye need a new milking palour!! 7 hours a day to put through only 150 cows is absolutely nuts.. a new palour you would cut that down to 3 hours,!! That’s 28 hours a less a week!!
Are you still planning on putting in a manure storage system. Are dairy in Canada had one and it was a huge advantage and time saver.
Yes, I forgot all about that. We need that hopefully by 2026
Did you decide to not AI cows and stick with the bull breeding?
Yes, I hate to admit failure but the bulls do a great job. I’ve got an update coming on my Red Bull
If you can't milk1500 plus cows its not worth it to build anything I have two farms ne