More views than likes people .Please give these people the thumbs up they put a lot of time and energy into these videos.It does not cost you a thing but your time.
I believe the videographer has earned a night out on the town, including dining, entertainment, shopping, and room service, that will require a hotel suite for two!😃👍 I enjoy your loving family farm; it's so relaxing & uplifting to watch a young, wholesome family growing together in God's country!👍 Again, thank you for sharing your family farm!
Love those Jersey girls! Watching you green chop, takes me back 50 years, lots of farmer’s were doing zero graze. Corn looks like going to need chopping soon.
Thanks for sharing your sorghum Sudan testimonial! It's always inspiring to hear about successful experiences from fellow growers. Your insights will surely help others in their agricultural endeavors. Keep up the great work!
Some spoiled cows green pasture and door dash! Interesting to learn about corn when to harvest. Still little bit of new cattle feed here in Alberta CND.
I love watching your videos. I know your a small dairy but you have some of the best looking and prettiest dairy cows. You all do a great job with your cows.
When I chopped Sudan grass that very first time it felt like going into a jungle. I used an 88 Oliver. I definitely could have used a little more oomph. One could get lost in a field like that. I agree, nice ears makes up for tonnage. Looks pretty good.
It's time for hard work!) Wow, everything is green on your area! In our area almost all trees is yellow. Farmers harvested most of the fields (grains, it's not time for sunflower, i suppose)
I used to absolutely love green shopping as a little kid! It was fun to run the equipment but it was very fun to bring the wagon into the animals and watch the cows just go crazy!
At my Aunt an Uncle farm they did like you green chop Millet,Sudan,they cows would love it sometimes so would the Deer an Moose you think he had a herd of them not cows here in Maine. Lol
The cows looking fine! I enjoy seeing your wife out there with you. I've never known many wives who would do that. Most stayed around the house. I like that the whole family is involved with the success of the farm.
Jen has always enjoyed being outside on the farm. She would tell stories about how she would clean the horse barn with her dad instead of helping her mom and sister clean the house. She jumped into the deep end, marrying me and not knowing much about cows, but wanting to learn as much as she could. Now she does all the A.I. breeding on the herd.
Thanks for a great video and update on your crops. When you came in the field near the cows with the chop wow! they knew what was there for them. All the best to get it off the field before winter I will be watching!!!
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a Beautiful fall day there in Minnesota. Your cows looked so happy and Healthy. As you drove up there ever one of them was chewing there cud.
Got a good corn crop this year Hopefully you'll have some left to shell. I'll bet 3 weeks till you chop. Still green and wet. Hopefully a great harvest ahead !!
Looking forward to next year. My dad and I will be attending the great Le Sueur swat meet there in Minnesota. Love finding parts for old tractors and having fun and experiencing somewhere new
Blow it right into the feed wagon. Didn't think it would stay. But so wet and damp I am sure not much was lost. Cows will kill themselves if you just leave where they can overfeed.
With 50+ years experience on both international and case tractors, when on the IH it just definitely seems more of a real performance tractor than the case ever did. My advice is go more red.
Your herd continues to look healthy clean and productive. I noticed in one of the scenes your Jersey Mindy looks like she is quite a milk producer. She sure has a nice looking udder and quite full of milk. My uncle used to green chop sorghum sudangrass and his cows ate it like candy. Have a blessed day folks and thanks again for the great videos. Have a bountiful harvest this fall!
Put everything that the cows can walk to into permanent grass. Feeding cows is your biggest cost and grazing permanent grass will reduce your summer feed costs to one third of what it is now. Chopping permanent grass for winter feed will reduce your winter feed cost to two thirds of what it is now. Six months grazing and six months grass silage means your feed cost will be cut in HALF ! That is a 50% sale .No plowing , discing , planting , stone picking , spraying , etc. , etc. Buy a 900 New Holland for a few thousand so you can cut that grass silage with ease. I switched 25 years ago when I was 30. Best decission I ever made. By far. (Ideally you want 2 acres per cow. That will feed the cows and their replacements). If you have more - let rented ground go........If you graze now you already know you make your money in summer and spend it for winter. Now you can reduce spending for winter.
We don't have nearly enough acres to do that, and with the sandy soil, it's very difficult to have enough grass for grazing, for instance this summer, we had good grass in the spring, then the rain quit, and hay fields and pastures we're all brown.
I did intensive rotational grazing for my last 14 years. Central MN and the best I could get was 5 months grazing and even then I needed mother nature to co-operate. I had heavier soils than Allan but there were still years I had to pull cows off grazing strips for a couple weeks due to dry conditions. Dairy cattle still need grain.............(whether raised or purchased)
We belong to a dairy coop. They pick up the milk and make it into cheese and butter. A lot of it is actually produced under other labels, but our coop has it's own brand now. Dinner Bell Creamery.
