The people criticising dairy these days have worse views from their 500,000 dollar apartments and much less comfortable living conditions. Those cows and barns are immaculate. Really good job.
Never thought our place would be in the background of one of Jan's videos. You can barely see it but it's there lol. We actually bought our feeding tractor from Bob and Josh about 1 1/2 years ago and it's been a good tractor.
Really enjoy these Field Trips Jan! Great to see what other Families/Farms are doing and how the differences and similarities even themselves out when comparing! Plus, it's always a bonus to learn knew things visually as it's being explained, especially for a knucklehead like me🤣! Really nice scenery in Fraser Valley as well around that Farm! Cheers From Ohio
Hey Jon this was a different kind of video I like it this is what keeps things fresh. It was really cool to see how other Dairy Farmers run their Farm and the tour was really sweet. So what's next for SDK keep up the good work and see you in the next video🤔🐄😉
It is interesting to visit and see the operartions of otjher dairy farms from big to small. Being a Life Long City Dweller I have to compare these other operations to the one I know and appr4eciate the best = Kielstra Holsteins Dairy Farm. Another excellent vlog. YThank you for sharing 🚜 🚜 🚜🐄🐄🐄🐄 🚜 🚜🚜
I enjoyed watching that. A 100 cow barn seems nice and laid back! Not that long ago a typical dairy operation in Ontario was about 30 cows, now they are humongous! To expand in other provinces do you need to buy more quota like you would in Ontario?
Interesting operation. Especially on a small, confined footprint. It fascinates me how the robot can place the wash cups and milking cups on the trays so we’ll since no two udders are the same
That looked like a nice tight family operation and might have been one of the most Canadian interviews ever since Jon Montgomery won gold at the Vancouver 2010 olympics.🍺🍺🍺
Wow, interesting topic of milking robots. How many cows on average can a Robot milk? not prone to udder diseases? It certainly is such a neat operation and looks compact for 100 cows. Thank you Jan.👍👍
A Delaval VMS V300 can potentially milk 60-70 cows with an average of 2.6 milkings per cow per day. Factored in is milk speed and production, a robot can achieve 180 milking per day harvesting 5,000 lb of milk per day. Technology is great.
Hey Jan. Does the robot have sensors to determine the exact height and width of a cow or are the cows fitted with a tag the machine can read. Unless all the cows are exactly the same size there has to be some method. Btw, Right On....
Crazy how things are different to here in the UK, as we've got 110 cows to 2 robots and 1 shed is 4 robots of 220 cows, and when finished we will have 3 sheds with 12 milking robots pushing 750/900 cows depending on time of year
Jan, you are a remarkable videographer and RU-vidr! Your content is always so interesting. Thank you for the great videos! I am just wondering if you could perhaps do a video in the future on how your family decides who does what chores. Do you have a meeting in the morning and decide who does what job for the day? Do you have all the job posted on a board and then put your name beside who would like to do what? Just wondering. Greetings from Toronto 🇨🇦
I’m hoping this guy just finished up his work day and doesn’t walk around with the Beer all day? Now I see I guess they all just drink while working, nice job if you can get it!
Another great field trip! I have a few questions though. Is this an average size operation for the area? How many employees? How many acres included for support with crops? With the single robot, does it work 24 hrs.? Do the cows learn on their own or are they trained to come for milking? Does each cow have a set time that they establish to milk? I know you featured a 'big' farm (60 robot) that milked 3 times a day, do singles accommodate that same schedule or do some cows opt for only 2 times a day? I assume they have emergency plans for when breakdowns and what are they? What time line is maintenance scheduling? Jan, your 'tours' are so educational and show real farms, so a little more information would be enlightening to us 'city folks' to help us appreciate the investment, hard work, and value of our gallon of milk. Thanks for taking us along!!!
Cool setup. What are the quota price differences from BC to Sask and for that matter perhaps across Canada? Like the land I suspect Fraser Valley / BC prices are higher than the rest. So that would limit farm size I bet.
