Yes Sir,the Dairy Farm I worked on when I first started the Old Farmer and I were talkin about all the different smells,he took a big ol sniff "Smells like Home"
LOL. I know exactly what you are talking about. I get nostalgic just thinking about it. I was never so lucky though to have a cab when I was spreading. :)
I like to see how you hook up and stuff. I learned to drive a little tractor in February, but just in granny gear and pulling a trailer. it's so much fun. I was smiling ear to ear. I didn't know that manure went in to a septic tank. I really am learning so much watching the videos. I didn't know manure was spread on the field that way. every thing about your farm is efficient. You're doing a good job.
Good to see farmers trading favors back and forth.... You got your pit level lowered, he got 15 acres fertilized, no doubt he has a piece of equipment you guys borrow from time to time.... It all works out....
Hey Eric, new subscriber. My mom grew up on a small dairy farm in north western Connecticut. My brother and I spent every summer there. By the time we were born my grandfather had already retired and leased out his land to neighboring farmers.Still we loved it. Dairy farming has changed a LOT in the last 50 years, but you do an amazing job in showing people what it’s all about. Your video editing skills are top notch! Love the channel!
Dairyman -- That one hydraulic hose being hard to pull out reminded me of when I helped my Dad farm in the 60's and 70's, and when sometimes hydraulic hoses would be hard to pull out. I learned that if you wiggle the hydraulic levers it will release the pressure and then the hoses will pull right out. I can't remember if it was both or just one of the levers, nor if you only move them one direction or both directions, but you can play around with it and find out. That's what worked for me anyway. Good luck!
Should check out PCE manure equipment.. did custom injecting for two years it was fun! Low and slow applying heavy out here in California. Awesome seeing good people do great work!
Sure wish we could have hauled manure that way. Most of ours was done by pitch fork. We did have a gutter cleaner in the end that made things easier on some of it. Guess that's why my shoulders are shot in my old age.
I like your video's. I'm a dutch farmer (a think almost the same situation like your, but our farm is a smaller and for that reason I have also a job besides it) But what I want to tell you: I hear you say: "we have plenty manure, so we don't mind we give a little bit up". And thats a big difference with the Netherlands. On our farm we have to bring manure away because the rules. And we bring it also to farmers in our neighbourhood, but we have to pay for it. And now this year, the prices of manure are low (it doesn't cost a lot bring it to othrr farmers) so maybe this may bee we can bring it for free or a few euros per cubic meter. But we have also had years that we bring manure away and give the receiver €5 or a little bit more per cubic meter. So total different situation. And an other difference is the machine. We must use a injector to bring manure in the ground. Your system is much cooler!
We have lots of rules regarding slurry/organic manures. There is a closed period between the 15th October and 31st January meaning you can't apply it during this period and everyone has to have at least 22 weeks of storage capacity on farm. Then we have the EU Nitrates Directive which means we must keep records of imports and exports (you spreading on your neighbours land would be an export and would have to properly recorded and inspected by a government agency!) We are also limited by how much Nitrogen is allowed per hectare (as we graze here that includes manure applied directly by the cow, which is always fun working out!) As well as a raft of rules on actual spreading, especially around waterways! The paperwork alone drives most farmers mad and many are leaving the business as a result.
@@thedogsdiddies8421 those regulations sound like it adds alot of more work for the farmer. On the bright side you wont havr the same pollution problems the USA has
Damm that thing has got some force behind it!!! Have you ever “by accident” covered anyone or anything besides the fields? Gotta say I would love to do that
Nice vid. How do you like pit barns. People around us use massive lagoons and a few still use slurrystores. What do you like best and what do you recommend. Very nice vid!! 👍
Y’all need to clean the tractors with that pressure washer. I know your busy but ..... and those spider webs from 1942 on the feed switches under the silos. Other than that I love this channel.
So you do 400+ loads a year. And you run the solid manure spreader. Just how much manure are your cows generating? That seems to be a lot. That over 6000 gallons per day. Is your wash down system for the milking parlor attached to this system? I would love a more detailed video of your manure pits. I know you did an explanation video in the past.
We don't have any manure of our own, but we have large dairies that give it away for the hauling. All we do is pay the trucking. They even spread it for us.
@@10thgenerationdairyman61 yes, most of the dairies around here have small amounts of land. There is actually one that milks like 6000 head and has no land. They contract all their land needs.
Do you have any issues with run off on your farms since you apply to the top of your soil? Or are you incorporating the manure into the ground before planting?
say was wondering. If it rains a bunch, does all that run into the sewage lagoon even off the roofs? Could be why its so full, winter and all that. How many gallons is that hauler. Seems like it looks like 15 or 20 thousand. so 15 loads seems like a lot for 15 acres. I mean I wouldn't mind on my land.
Manure management seems a big part of your operation. The only fertilizer I use on my city garden is cow manure that I haul from a farm in my pickup truck. It is excellent fertilizer. How many loads do you haul a year?
Nice to see u guys on the field , liquid manure is the best , all of ours goes into a slurry store , takes two weeks to do our spring spreading , we empty out the slurrystore in the fall after combining corn , seems like u haul for days to even make a dent in slurrystore or pit lol Do u guys have forage chopping equipment?
With your pit under the barn do you worry about methane gas seeping up into the barn when you are agitating or is it designed with some kind of ventilation system. Great video. Really like the sound of that Case- IH.
What do you do if you have to much manure? Like can you sell the excess? Does it go bad over time? Is their a difference between dairy cow manure vs meat cow manure? I have so many questions that Im just not getting a strait answer from Google on.
ddamn that thing spreads a lot! 15 loads and you put barely a dent in the pit - how many loads does it hold? And how quickly will this take to fill up again?
We use to haul our own pit with an 1800 gallon vac tank, then haul the solids out. Took almost two weeks. Then I picked up a job working for a custom manure hauler on the side for two years. Started to get them, now we are done in a day. We have now tripled the manure storage on our farm, and they still get get done in a day. We don't have them run tankers anymore, to much compaction. They run a drag line set up works great, even when we have pump mile and half to the other farm. Have you ever thought of getting a custom guy with a drag line if your worried about compaction?
A dragline would be really nice. Not too many people do that around here. We have a lot of small fields and obstacles so I don't think it would work as well.
How many ton spreader is that. Where I live we have a big dairy with about 1000 cows that supplies manure to the ground of the custom farming group that I run with sometimes. The dairy only owns 2 fields so the custom farmers are where they get the rest of there land from.
