Family-owned hay farm and feedlot. We sell test quality hay, Black Baldy Angus/Hereford replacement heifers. Located in Hiko and Lund, Nevada, 120 miles north of Las Vegas.
I feed a few calves every winter to fill my freezer. I sell 6 or 8 head every year. I put them on corn for about 3 to 4 months before they go to processing. They are trying to put a local beef processing facility in Richfield Ut to create a local market for beef producers. Do you finish them or just back ground the calves? Not much corn produced here to finish cattle on. I buy it from a farm in Green River Ut. Good luck with your channel I think it will be a big hit.
This farming thing is a huge learning curve. Good luck I know the price of hay has dropped like crazy. It is hard to pay the bills at 100 per ton. I hope your hay does this year.
Have a property that only gets 10 inches of annual precipitation. And is covered in sage brush if removed and cleared would I be able to dry farm alfalfa? Trying to find someone to dig a well but everyone I talk to doesn't have equipment to go that deep
That is a great question! Alfalfa needs around 48 inches of annual precipitation to be successful. You'll definitely want to get some type of irrigation on it to be safe.
Interesting. Here in NY, generally hay gets higher in quality- and lower in volume- with each subsequent cutting. First cut has by far the most volume, and is often pretty coarse. Due to our wet springs, it grows like mad, early on. Not uncommon for it to be overripe, too, simply because it wasnt dry enough to make hay at the optimum time... Summers tend to be warm, dry, and humid- and temps rarely go lower than the 60s at night. So it grows slower, and puts more energy into producing leaves and flowers than stems. Grass especially. Third cut will be rocket fuel. IF you get it. Many farms will cut more often- esp for haylage. We always had oats to combine( and some wheat for extra $), then soybeans, corn silage, then feed corn. So extra cuttings had to be worked into that schedule. Fall can be either warm and dry-ish- or wet, wet, wet. Not that big a deal if its for silage- but for dry bales... Good luck!
Great video really enjoy the drone footage. Be careful about showing too much detail on the branding. I did a branding video and showed putting the elastics on the bull calves. RU-vid pretty much shut my channel down. I was getting more unsubscribes than subs. Good luck with your channel Watching for eastern Utah
Thank you! We'll definitely watch out for that, and this will likely be the last branding video we publish. We enjoy watching your content as well from southern nevada!
Great explanation of the branding culture. I have a small cow calf operation in eastern Utah. I did a video on my RU-vid channel showing the branding process and RU-vid almost shut my channel down. You showed just the right amount Keep the cowboy life going good job
There is some beautiful country in eastern Utah. I went over to your channel and subscribed. We'll be filming another video this week out on the range. We will certainly stay the course! It is good to see your operation doing the same in getting the younger generations involved.
@@cannonranch Thanks for the sub My son as a teenager was not real interested. Now that he is married and enjoys good beef he is coming back to the ranch.
So proud of you, Josh and the entire posse my man. Faith, Family and Freedom. Love y’all’s passion for doing it the right way and keeping the right way alive. Keep it up cowboy ❤❤
Herefords come from Herefordshire in England & you sound the second e so it sounds like Heh-reh-foud (the ou sound as used in should). Oh, and Herefordshire has shear at the end. Not shyre.
seeing you be upset about the noodles but then immediately going to improve them is amazing and inspiring to me! i would've given up but you didn't and i really respect that! I love your videos. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
That is a great point. Thankfully we have yet to have any issue with mosquitoes or standing water, but that could be due the near constant high winds we get out here during the afternoon. The pit also has rather high walls (around 18ft), giving most of the silage cover by way of concrete block (we added two more last year). There are only a handful of tires along the top with ample spacing in-between.
Paul, enjoy your videos and that's a great looking crop! Could you elaborate more on your three way blend? You stated triticale and beardless barley... what else? Also, how do you plant into your alfalfa? I have a 1590 JD no-till that will work fine into alfalfa, just wondering if it will harm the alfalfa stand? We have a few older meadow circles we could do this on this fall. Kind regards.
