Photographer and drone enthusiast focusing on nature, rural farmland, rivers and lakes. Dairy farming was in the family for 3 generations. My family grew up helping milk the cows, bottle the milk and head out on their milk run. Grandma would wash the bottles after deliveries were finished. My cousin on my mothers side still runs a farm. I have a lot of respect for farmers. The risks they take and the equipment investments they make would would shatter the nerves of any city folk. I like to fly their farms and record their daily activities so the rest of the world can appreciate their efforts. Besides ... they feed us all ....
I guess with the price of fertilizer this is a cheaper alternative ... Would he nice to know a bit of info like how often the tank is empty and how many fields it covers and how soon after spraying can they plan ... And do they roate this on fields etc...
This is what happens when you have too many animals in one place. Livestock needs to be rotated regularly to allow for the land to heal. The way nature intended it to be.
This is a true statement but from many years ago. Pasturing cattle in one field with too many head would damage the pasture so you would rotate the cattle from one field to the other. Today, in modern dairy farming, the cattle never set foot in a pasture ......
@@farmerdrone I think farmers especially smaller farms are going back to heavy rotation. There are a few youtube channels showing it. They're saving money in hay and equipment. They also don't have as much issues with diseases and hoof rot like these commercial farmers do. How much does it cost those farmers to pump all that manure? I'm not sure if reducing and rotating the cows would work for farms that big but I think it might be worth a try.
Here in Chile we use sprayers. It seems a lot simpler. Also you find that there are Ag Services that you can contract to come in with their tank sprayers and do the whole job. Jim
Hi Chile ! Welcome to the channel. Great to hear from you.... we use both here. Usually dragline (like the video) when the field is in reach of the equipment and tankers when it's not. I have a tanker video coming out shortly ...
Shame on you for leaving out the most anticipated part of the bowling ball traversing the line to expand it and clear it out and seeing it pop out. My OCS requires several therapist sessions now to grapple with this crime against humanity
Spreading such "manure" over the field completely messes up the ground water. The long term effects are astonishingly bad, and as Bus2000 said below, in The Netherlands and in Germany as well, doing such things can land you in very hot water.
@@farmerdrone Are you seriously telling me that there is a difference between male and female cow shit and pi##? It is a scientific proven fact that using such "manure" is indeed good for crop growth, it however increases the nitrate concentration in the ground and seeps into the ground water. Not wishing to be insulting, but you guys over there don't believe in glabal warming either although you are suffering under extreme weather conditions, the oceans are warming up which is causing these extremely dangerous weather conditions. But hey, you will know better, won't you....
I move water for oil well fracks. I wish we had larger spools of lay flat pipe. Ours are 1/4 mile lengths but 10-12” in diameter. At times we move up to 22K Liters a minute. Or 140 bbls a min
I bet your neighbors love you during this week lol. I live in a farming town and the farm down the road use to get loads of Polaroid waste back in the day. The smell was so putrid for two weeks people had to leave their homes and go to a hotel. This happened for 4 years before the community put a stop to it. It was so bad your eyes watered just driving past. What’s crazy is how well his harvest was during those years.
@@janineclemons746 it's coming .. see my video I posted a couple weeks ago. I went back to the farm with the Bio Digester and I am preparing a new video explaining how the digester works ...
Nice we are milking cows in a facility and washing the poop into holding tanks to be stored until the tippy top then sprayed on fields to grow corn to be harvested for silage and stored in other buildings to be fed to cows back in that facility to produce milk that has to be boiled before consumption just as God intended. I think the city folk engineers have tricked the last 5 generations of farmers and stolen their hard earned dollars. I wish all these hard working men the chance to earn a profit without the bankers stealing their efforts
When I lived in Norway, they did this with sheep manure every Spring. The whole country stunk for weeks! And the solids agitated in the tank do not dissolve, it is just suspended in the liquid.
I hope that's not why you moved!. With all the 'smelly' comments I get, it doesn't really smell that much and in a days time, it's gone ... worked into the soil ...
Little wonder food is so expensive. Fewer people are willing to do the work and invest the money to make it all work. Maybe if & when we get hungry enough we'll pitch in & help feed the world. Thank you for showing some of the hard work of some of our "farmers".
More people are willing than you think the main thing keeping them away is the outrageous price of land. In most places you can't get 1 acre for under 10K on the cheap side. Times that by 100 you're a Million deep before even 1 cow is bought.
When I was a kid, outside of town was a large farm. Fast forward 40 years when the city has now encroached on the farm. Spring rolls around and so does the annual fertilization of the fields with manure. Neighbours complain like crazy trying to force the farmer to stop this practice…no luck. He was there first and his land zoned as agricultural. Funny to watch though.
Well, it comes from the back end of a cow ... the barns have automatic floor scrapers and scrapes the manure into a holding tank. When the holding tank is full, it is pumped into a large outside lagoon as in this video. Every 6 months, the 5 million titles are pumped out and spread on the fields as fertilizer to grow new crops.......
No... it is worked into the soil with a cultivator after application..... Canadian farmers don't put lake fulls of manure on their fields to watch it run off into the rivers.... really??.. It soaks into the soil very quickly and then is cultivated below the surface. Absolutely no runoff...
I'm amazed they use long hoses like that rather than tank trailers get it to the fields. I'll have to watch when the farmer across the road from me does it next time. Regards from near Carleton Place!
Hoses can be 4-5km ...usually local roads restrict the distance when they use tankers. I posted a few videos from Carleton Place last fall .. the 'Big Guns'
