Awesome to get to know you and your Dad better! You were 100% the biggest inspiration to me for starting youtube, thank you man! Hope you guys have a great year of farming and in years to come! See ya in the next video!
Dennis, It's a great honor and privilege to finally meet you. Thank you for helping Eric answer some of our questions. May you and your family be blessed w/ less stressful times, good health, safety. Your a good man that has raised and supported a great family. Be proud of yourself. Job well done. Eric, What can be said that hasn't already been said a million times over. You've got a big set of shoes to fill and your doing a wonderful job doing it. Taking older traditions in farming and advancing them forward is not as easy as it sounds, but your doing it. Alot of us older folks have alot of respect for you. May you, Emily, and your lil girl be blessed w/ many great things, good health, and safety as well. Long live the cattle industry.
I'm atheist and agree. The way they do it matters. Just a quiet as part of who they are, not trying to jam it down anyone's throat. I find Christans - as opposed to hypocrites - are respectful and nonjudgmental. I think that's when we nonbelievers get defensive. When instead of just naturally mentioning it as Eric and his father do as part of their life and who they are, they preach at and/or judge those who don't believe the same. This is America. We are all free to believe or not and both should be respected. Honestly, many nonbelievers are just as bad and get up in arms as soon as someone mentions their faith and that's just as hypocritical. Can always tell the believers from the hypocrites though. Believers are content to let God be the judge. They trust him to.
Your dad's answer to the question what would you do to upgrade the farm if it didn't cost you anything, says a lot about your dad's work ethic: "Could use another tractor to haul manure......but ours is working fine!" So even if money is not an issue he can't force himself to think about upgrading the tractor because the current one is working fine. Waste not. Want not.
Congrats on 200K! I love that you were quick to add "outside the home" to your statement about your wife not working much right now. Love how you aren't afraid to share your faith.
Your dad seems to be the salt of the earth type of guy I can see where you get your work ethic and common sense from. Hi to mom and the rest of the family, you guys are VERY MUCH appreciated.
My dad actually grew up, just down the rd from you guys, when he was 16 he actually worked at the farm across the rd from you guys, where then grain place is now. It’s really cool to recognize the area in your videos. Keep up the great videos
Farming has got to be one of the most "well rounding" jobs you could have, especially the way you guys do it. Your humility about what you know and what your education is is admirable. A lot people hardly know anything other then what their one simple job is.
Glad to get to hear from your dad a bit. I'm blessed by getting to see other Christians living their lives and doing what the Lord calls them to. Blessings to both of you and your families.
Dennis has that quiet, calm demeanor that is so important when working with animals. Eric possess it as well. This is why the entire herd is so calm and gentle. Both of these men are great soles. Thanks so much for this video you guys!!! Love your channel.
For any Vocational Agriculture instructor in any public school system, this particular production is excellent. All of your You Tube productions are very informative and, at times, entertaining. Thank you both very much.
Eric that was a great interview with you and your father 👏 I watch you every time I can .I give you thumbs up 👍 all the time everything you do is like your teaching a class I would like to see that picture that you have of the farm maybe you might want to put a drone up and take another one now with the farm looks like today and put them side-by-side you guys are great Great video great family keep the videos coming thanks 🐄🐄🐄🐄🚜🚜👏👏👍👍👍🇺🇸.
Congratulations on 200k. Just recently came across your videos and am really enjoying comparing them to our farming ways in N. Ireland. I picked up on your Christian nature early on and it's displayed in your vids. You both are good stewards of what God has given, keep up the good work.
This Q and A is really interesting. I am glad you talked about the size of your farm, expansion, robot milking. When I watch your videos the personal contact you have with your land and your animals is different from the massive dairy operations that seem more like factories. Like the difference between buying a sweater and spinning and knitting one. As modern people we are live detached from the sources of material life. I enjoy watching your videos because work, life, land, and spirit are all in one place.
I looked forward to this one! Congrats on 200K! And thank you, Dad, for answering my question about the changes you've seen over your lifetime. I was afraid it'd get lost in the shuffle. Interesting answer. I've been away from farms for 50 years and found the channel when I was writing a fiction story about a young dairy farmer and wondered at the changes and those were the two that jumped out at me most - the tech and the milk parlor. My uncle's farm had neither all those years ago.
Really appreciate the videos your family posts. Full time stay home dad(in the city of course, houston) so i watch a lot of yalls videos with my young son. Thank you for taking the time to make wholesome content for us! 👍
I like your hands on learning, I only have grade 8 education and was able to become a plant Superintendent in a production factory that made plastic drums, fiber drums ,and other shipping containers. I just retired from their last December after 48 years. I also started out in public school before and after school carrying milk at a dairy farm up the road. I am also glad to see that you trust in the Lord.
Respect to you both..... worked on dairy farms. Milking 270 cows in 20x20 herringbone parlour. 4 hours in morning, 3.5 in evening just the milking. Without the jobs in between.
Wow. This was really insightful. Thanks so much for sharing this and taking time out. I especially liked hearing about the farms history. I think it's important to remember where we came from.
Spent some time in Lititz in 2013 as my daughter was ill. I used to drive around the country and toured Kreider Dairy which was huge. Loved seeing the Amish Farms and we went to some farmers market near there and wow some of the foods there were incredibly good. Nice area.
It’s nice to see that you met all of the goals you talked about, new heifer barn, skid steer, mixer, etc. keep it up guys, you are doing something great!
Congrats on the 200K subscribers ! It's always enjoyable to watch a channel that promotes family, faith, and good wholesome vocation. I'm glad to see so many channels are starting to highlight what our industry is about. It might not be the most glamorous occupation, but I think almost all of us can agree that we would rather do nothing else ( NBA careers aside). Keep up the good work and may the Lord continue to protect and bless your family.
I LOVE when you were talking about the west having wetter years lately I’m going to give you a small idea of how wet it was lol, we have a 180 cow dairy we got our John Deere 7450 chopper so stuck making silage we needed an excavator to dig it out and we pulled our 18ft chopper box in half with only a half load😂
Beyond how great you and your dad are at being farmers. I just really respect how open your dad is about his faith. As a man of faith and a farm boy, I have a deep respect for someone who is willing to be open about their faith on a RU-vid video. Your dad is genuine when he says that this is his calling to take care of God’s creatures. Keep sharing the good news of our savior!
Really enjoyed this. I would love to hear more? Maybe about your dad early on and his chores or life. You do a great job, Eric. Keep up the great work.
This is the way a Q&A video should be done. Prepared and informative. When you have a Father who has God in his life you are blessed. Thanks for sharing.
Hello from Australia,,, ERIC you are a beautifull guy,,, wished I had a guy like you to help me,,, I have beef cattle operation with SANTA GERTRUDIS SHORTHORN CROSS,, BEAUTIFULL CATTLE,, please take care guys and GOD BLESS YOU ALL...
Congrats on 200k from a Louisiana Sugar Cane/ Rice farmer! Really need to get this you tube down, don't see very many videos on that! Keep up the great work and thanks for your videos!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You and your dad answered a lot of my questions that I never asked. I am always inspired by hardworking entrepreneurs who dedicate themselves to their families. Ten generations is something to be most proud of and I look forward to seeing your eleventh generation in upcoming videos.
You are being blessed as God is part of your life. I was raised on dairy and loved taking part in that lifestyle. Working with my Dad was great. Our dairy was in So Calif and my oldest nephew took over business milking 5000 cows in Visalia, Ca. God’s richest blessings to all of you.
You guys are flat out awesome! Its farms like yours that keep America running. I'm stoked I found your channel and I'm proud to follow it. Your dad is a legit gem! I wish nothing but health and happiness to your families.
CONGRATS ERIC AND DENNIS! God bless you both and your family! I love watching some good wholesome video! This makes my heart smile! Thank you for sharing your history! 👍🏼✝️❤️
To me it is amazing that that many generations of your family have been in the USA! I'm only the second generation of my family born in the united states! We come from Poland. My grandfather emigrated here at age 21
Great interview and thanks for asking my question. :) For me, the best and most informative channel for dairy farming on RU-vid. Thanks Eric (and dad!).
I grew up as free employee on a few of our neighbors farms. It was a great life. Glad to see that you all doing well and that you involve you dad in your videos. I'm 66 now, retired and enjoy your show . Keep up the good work and and hoping that you hit that million mark.
Awesome video, loved it. I'm a dairyman in Lancaster County as well, I was curious where you were located and was surprised it was so close. Thank you for the videos, I watch then when I can and get a lot of joy out of them!
congratulations on hitting the 200K mark and being a producing dairy farm. i stumbled onto your channel a few weeks ago because the topic caught my interest and have watched quite a few of your videos since then. i'm in upstate NY...not downstate ny. there are a lot of dairy farms up in this area but not as many as there once were. the days of the "family farm" have given way to the the mega-dairy farm with a full compliment of hired help, most of whom do not speak English...but are willing to work hard for their wages. while i grew up in a city about 50 miles east of here, i have always loved being outdoors and having good elbow room around me. i rent some of my tillable land to one of the local crop guys. i have a close friend nearby who grew up in the family farm and worked at it for a number of years. he got my wife and boys involved at his dairy as the boys grew up and they usually were there for the afternoon milking, but he was only milking 52 head. he did anything that needed doing along with his dad. when i went to college i met my best friend and subsequently, my best man when i married my wife. his dad owned a farm equipment business and sold Massey Ferguson tractors and all types of implements. the biggest tractor back then was a MF 65. they sell New Holland and Kioti now and the business is being run by the 3rd generation. things have sure changed. during college, when i was spending the weekend with him and his family i had first hand contact with the local farmers where he lived. until i got out of the business, i was a consultant to local dairy farms who wanted to install their own generation (i am an electrical power engineer by schooling and experience) using methane from a digester. as i watched your video building the new manure pit for your new barn, i was wondering why your weren't collect it and using it other than as a field fertilizer. i got the answer when i listened to this video and you said you milked 175 head. it would be marginal to invest in that small a herd's manure output. my first project had a herd of about 850+\-. they had a plug flow digester that had a 21 day cycle and this produced enough gas to run 4 30kw microburbines. they had a separator that pressed the digested manure...liquid fertilizer went to a 6000000 gallon lagoon and was used to fertilized the fields and the dry solids were composted for 30 days and used for bedding material. this was a great experience and i learned a lot about the overall operation. the largest project i did was a 1000KW genset on a dairy that milked 4000. i like what i see in your smaller operation as well as the fact that is a family operation. keep up the good work! looking forward to more videos.
I live in Holland on a Farm with 200 milking cows and it's cool to see that we are doing the same things in Farming Only what i can say to you and your video's is love❤❤🔥🔥🔥
I just bought a large heavy cream, a quart of sour cream. I drink milk, I really like the. Cracker barrel extra sharp cheddar. I love you, and I love how you are so gentle with the girls. I feel better that you are doing a great job at petting on your cows and treating them like pets.
This is awesome I just took over the family farm we had dairy milked between 60 and 100 cows when I went to college cows were sold and my father and uncle farmed about 1000 acres. Now I have 20 beef cow calf and farm about 300 acres. Dad has passed away so I started farming. I still work a full time job at the cooperative. The family bought the first farm in 1893. We still farm it ..love watching .
Great to meet your Dad too. I love your advice as to not worry too much about the variables that are not in your control and concentrate on those that you can change. Thanks for that. Please keep on exposing us to your farm Life in America.
You can be proud of your son and there is nothing more satisfying than having father & son involved in the same business, farming being the cherry on top. I always dreamt of doing this with my Dad but life made us take different turns, sadly.
Dairy farming is very rewarding and a very honorable way to live and raise a family. You guys hit the key factor it's the variables you can't control or have no control over! You guys are great takes me back to dairy farming years ago!!!! Thanks for sharing!
I farm and ranch in North Dakota. I run 280 range( beef ) cows and farm around 3000 acres feed and grain acres. My wife and I do all the work. Her family homesteaded our farm in 1915 and our children or grandchildren will hopefully take it and run it. You are an inspiration that generation upon generations can and will run the farm. You do a job that is tremendously more ask as what we do and I applaud you for it.
Thank you for this video👍 I just wanted to say that one of the biggest regrets I have in life is not staying on the family dairy farm. I decided at age 25 that I didn’t want to work 7 days a week. I have been driving tractor and trailer since then I’m now 48 years old. I drive a milk tanker now which is ironic because the milk has to be picked up 7 days a week lol. I pick up milk in southern NJ there are only 9 dairy farms left. Thanks Eric
Same. I left farm country when I came of age. I'm 62 now and find myself missing it and my daughter and grandson don't understand, have not been exposed to farming and the country enough. If I had one thing to do over, I'd stay in the country. If for no other reason than for my offspring to understand my interest in it. My family farmed since the 1600s here in New York and forever in England before that. Only one uncle stuck with it but we're uncountable generations in.
When I first started watching you I think you had about 20,000 or maybe 30,000 subscribers! I love watching you guys run your farm, since my family is now two generations removed from our family farming roots. It's wonderful that your videos help with the farm cash flow! Congratulations on 200,000 subscribers (205K now!!!) That's wonderful!
Eric I have been watching your channel for a while now And I enjoy it You and your dad are inspiration to all My Motto has always been god Country family job I know in this time of uncertainty People are looking for something I can see that you have a lord in your life From looking at your dad God bless him It would not hurt to talk about your Faith You definitely have an opportunity in a platform to do that People are hungry Feed them God bless and keep you and your family
Great video and none of farmer's receive the praise they deserve to receive so thank you for what you do and God bless you and your family's for all the sacrifices y'all have to endure to bring the food and milk to our homes throughout the years!!! I do think these good videos do bring a lot more awareness of what our farmer's and dairy farmer's have to do and the sacrifices they have to make to help keep the world in food for the everyone!!! Keep up the great work and video's and thanks for keeping us updated on the farm!!!
Awesome video my friend...to see your dad and hear him talk about the lord for a second,, nothing better in this world than to give thanks and praise to our lord and saviour jesus christ,, i firmly believe that a family that prays together stays together...thank you both for your labor of love..God bless you both.
So cool! It was fun to hear more of the backstory to your farm, and to see both of you in kind of an interview setting. Dennis seemed a bit uncomfortable in the beginning, but I'm thankful for your openness to share. I was one of the ones who suggested some history on the 10 generations; and I was not disappointed. I've been a lifetime professional churchman (mostly related to music); so I asked about the place of faith in your operation. You shared some of that in round about ways. It makes me happy to see how faith connects to your daily life as I've noticed t-shirts, mission trips, background praise music, and the way your words give honor, praise and thanks to God in and through your life. Much thanks for what you are doing! May God continue to bless your work and family!!
Awesome talk! For city slickers like me, who had NO IDEA how much work goes into my morning milk, Thank you gents!10 generations is something to be very proud of!!!
Great video! Your herd must be top notch with the many years of AI breeding. Just think of the champion sires you are able to access and constantly improve your milking string. It's so great to see your dad making it possible to stay on the farm and help you partner your way in. I left our family dairy when I was 20 and soon found myself on the outside looking in. So hang in there, you're doing a great job! I'm watching this in Sept of 2021 and you're now at 357K Subs!!! Congratulations!
Hi Erik excellent video as always, I am a farmer like you, I have been a member of your channel for over a year and I love all your videos and I follow you from Italy. I am very happy for your 200,000 members and I hope they reach one million. Good luck and keep it up😊😊👍👍
Eric and Dennis what an awesome video. You both looked a little nervous to begin and then settled right down to your humble selves. The best Q&A session on the tube. Thank you for sharing your dairying and farming lives with us. God bless you all.
