The smell of manure is what killed dairy farming here in Hawaii, but the same people who complained about the smell are the same people that complain about the price of milk brought in from the states. We have a bunch of cry babies here in Hawaii. Thanks Eric I love that little pup helping spread out that fabric. Aloha🤙🏼🤙🏼
Your attention to your dairy cow health and well being is commendable and I appreciate your conservation efforts! The land sustains us and you are, in my opinion, good stewards! Thank you and continued success. ❤
Great video Eric! Nice to see the guest appearances by the family and the horse. Fascinating equipment in farming and the slurry injector is interesting. Always nice to keep the neighbors sensitive noses happy if the neighbors wallets will pay a little extra for all the extra tubing, pumps, disc wheels, hydraulics, mounts, etc. Hopefully the yield will improve enough to offset the costs. Farmers do more than their fair share to keep costs down. Nice work on the new earth sculpture - looks like it will drain well. Enjoyed the video. Well done!
Excellent report...you explain so well what you are doing and why you do it...a good communicator. And your video work and editing are second to none. Good on you young man. FIVE stars
Been watchin your chanell for a year.. It relly pleasd me when you post som new video.. I cant never compet with so much acers.. Also family farmer, love to see someone doing it whit cheer.. Best wishes for you Eric and all the family.. Miha Kobarid🇸🇮
here in the UK they do similar injection spreading but they have the injection attachment only on a tractor which has oversized tires on it then has hundreds of feet of 6" flexible pipe and then have say two 3000 gallon tankers running back and forwards from the slurry pit to the fields and then pump into a large tank which has a pump on it to pump the slurry out to the injection tractor, this keeps the smell down and less compaction in the ground also keeps the roads clean
amazing video! injecting slurry is the right way to do it, we are doing doing strip till injection (injecting slurry right beneath the corn seed) for a couple of years now and it really is affecting the plant growth
Great video. Learning new things again. Read up on the manure injection. Pretty good idea, hope it works well. Drainage channel looks really nice. And loved the way Duchess was "helping"...love those puppies.
Thank you, Eric! I really appreciate all your effort to record, edit and post your videos! Love your farm and how dedicated you and your family are to having a beautiful farm!
That's a neat way to apply the manure if it truly keeps more nutrients in the ground where they won't degrade. It will be interesting to see if that process pays off in crop growth. Thanks for another good video.
I wonder if they could mix the manure and the water spray fertilizer in the tank and have them inject all of it, less loss in spray, less smell, less waste and more retained in the soil
Nope. Would plug the sprayers. To much fines. Injection is done a lot more in Europe because it also reduces odor while giving the benefits he talked about.
Eric, great video as always. Very intresting on the injection system pray it works out for you guys. Thank you for all you do young man. God be with you and all the other farmer that keep us all fed.
Great awesome video Eric. Wow your injecting manure that’s the way to go , top dressing has more run off. Perfect way to go, Glad the waterway is all finished, great job.
I have a question for you. How much are your operations going to be affected by a fertilizer shortage this planting season? Do you use much of the type the shortage will contain? I love watching how your family takes care of your farm! It's so interesting getting a first hand view of how everything works. Thank you for sharing!
This is gonna sound weird but I actually like the smell of manure. Especially in the early morning when it’s still cool and foggy out. My pappy was a farmer and the smell instantly reminds me of him
Real nice job on the prep for the grass , looks like all the family worked together on that even the little 4legged monster was a great help the farm looks beautiful
I used to drive semi tanker for a dairy farm in central Ohio and we would spray it out and sometimes we would get stuck from the runoff or misjudged picking up from where we left off. Good times.
There is a company in Germany named Vollmer, they make a kind of manure injector which can apply two strips of manure in different depths of the ground. If you work with satellite guiding systems you can seed your corn rows directly above those strips. That way the corn gets the nutrients at different times when it needs them the most. Plus nearly no smell and no evaporation.
Lancaster County has the highest percentage of cover crops used on farmland in the US. The Chesapeake Bay is still in trouble but improving in terms of nitrogen and phosphorous levels. Lancaster County is part of Susquehanna watershed of the larger Chesapeake watershed. Hard work in terms of education by the environmental authorities makes it happen. Glad to see you're doing your part Eric. I've read the Amish and Mennonites are willing to accept govt assistance to improve their manure handling and animal facilities and it's making a difference. Animals are kept out of the streams and manure tanks and containment bunks are being built too.👍🐮
here in Switzerland, just spreading slurry like you guys did in the past is actually banned in most places (except for alpine / very steep land) so injecting or using a trailing shoe is what's usually being done.. very cool to see you guys using the same technique over the pond! :)
Interesting watching the manure injection. Hope that works well and helps with controlling costs of fertilizer. Also looks like a great job on the waterway project.
I really just can’t say that the disc tire is only flat on the bottom. At least it’s doing the job that you want it to. Thanks Eric keep up the great work and thanks for the video you and your family are doing an awesome job.
