Moving from the Netherlands to Canada & the United States (18) 

Very good explanation!! 👍🏻👍🏻 keep the videos coming!

I am glad you came to the United States. It is a blessing that you share so many helpful insights on managing a dairy operation. You are the first immigrant to the United States in the last 20 years that I have run across who has expressed a desire to be a citizen of the United States of America and has had a lump in their throat saying how important it was to them to be a part of America.

Hi Piet, I came to this country in 1962 as a refugee from east Germany with 100 $ and 20 words of English. The smartest ding i ever did.

Hey my family immigrated to Canada in 2002. Probably the same age as you guys would have been My family started a chicken farm and milking goat farm here. I am now married to dairy farmer in Ontario. We enjoy your channel!

Hallo Piet , I was born in south holland in 1985 and came to Texas in 1996 spend my life doing carpentry and construction but as of last year January we are doing soil injection with high nutrient mud/sludge in the same manner as you guys do with manure pumping …love the videos

We lived in the Netherlands in the mid 80’s. Enjoyed the 3 years we had there. The Dutch are hard working, determined people. Your parents reflect this.

That’s an awesome story brother! Goes to show, anything is possible with hard work and determination. Thanks for sharing

Thanks Piet it's nice to hear your family history!

Glad to have you here! Nice farm

You and your family are making great Americans. Glad you came.

That has been an adventure! Thanks for sharing! Love it!

What a wonderful venture you had throughout your years. I found it amazing on how the government is in the lives of people in the diary industry. As Canadian I welcome you to Canada but now I have to say sorry to see you go. Best wishes to your venture. I was a mix farmer but didn't have much to deal with dairy. We did have a milk cows which was Guernsey and a Jersey plus a Holstein cross. I do mess that fresh milk and butter. Not to mention ice cream.

Great info. At the 10min mark, you talk about your uncle still farming in Canada, it would be nice to compare numbers between their Canadian dairy and your american dairy.

Welcome to the USA! They should have rolled out the red carpet for you and all your family. So good to have you here!

Thank you for the great video and answering questions! I'm glad it worked out so well for your family! Congrats with the citizenship! Living the dream! I wanted to immigrate to Canada since I was a kid. I experienced a lot of the challenges you have to overcome as a new immigrant in the past 8 months. After watching your video I now realise that it's challenging for everyone making that change. As long as you keep your eyes on your goals it seems to work out pretty good so far. I'm thinking about the States as well but those farms looked a bit overwhelming to me at first sight, but getting used to that is getting better with time. Thanks for another inspiring video! Keep up the good work!

Very interesting and glad you decided to try the U S, hope it continues to work well for you and your family.

Nice video Piet! You and your familie made big steps! 🐄.. greeting from a dairy farmer in holland

Thank you for sharing your family with us. Congratulations on being a US Citizen. Love have You and Your family being part of our Wonderful Country. 🎊 Thank You 👍

Great story. Folks have no idea how hard and how expensive it is to come to America the legal way.

We would love to have guys like you in South Africa/ Western Cape ,best of luck to you and your family in the USA .

someone else asked and you answered my question, i am 35 miles east of edmonton

nice videos, interesting to watch from the Netherlands. as a farmer's son also completed an internship in Albera. attracts me to look beyond staying in the Netherlands. Cool to see how you farmers in a completely different country / regulations

Welcome! Glad you are here farming.

Wij zijn in 1998 geïmmigreerd van Drenthe naar Winkler Manitoba ongeveer 4 uurtjes noord van jullie. Wij zijn hier als varkens boer gekomen. Had niet eerder jouw RU-vid channel gezien. Heel interessant hoe jullie daar bezig zijn. Mooie boerderij 👍 als ik in de buurt kom zou ik graag een lekker stuk kaas bij jullie willen kopen.

Thanks Piet, informative video with lots of detail. What a journey by you family from the NL, via Canada finally to the US !

Very interesting first time I ever heard the process. Thank you

Great story!

Wow, thanks for sharing all that interesting information with your followers. Great to have you hear in United States. I am an immigrant too, married to an American, now have two beautiful teenagers. I was in Dan Hag, Netherlands in 1991, also visited Noter Dame as well. Have a friend there.

Thanks again!❤

Welcome to the USA good to Jane you here

Amazing story!

Interesting video Piet!, just found your channel so looking forward to more videos! 👍🏻

Awesome. Congratulations

I too have heard of Dutch dairy emigration and find it fascinating that some people can just up and move farms. Here in Norway the bond between the family farm and the family is in most cases so strong I could not foresee that. Anyways, I know about a few Dutch immigrants running dairy farms here. Though they have most likely downsized from their original farms, now milking 30-60 cows. Do you or your parents know of others who moved to Scandinavia instead of US/CA?

Just found your channel. Cool videos. Nice big farm. Love seeing all the infrastructure and how your land lays out. Everything and anything about your farm. Keep them coming

Nice video and great information. Thanks for sharing.

Great story ! 👍

Greetings from Poland

Nice story, video Piet

Another excellent video with great history of your family, their move to Canada and then to USA.

Do you think many of the 3000 Dutch farmers who had to give up their farms this past year may be moving to the US also. Wish some visboeren would come too and prepare some good herring. Yes, former Hagenaares ( or ...in?) . Immigrant from 1959. BTW, in 1969 it was so easy, quick, and costless to become a citizen. Congrats on yours.

Just found your video and it's very interesting I'm from Ireland

Mooi om te zien ! Hellegatweg.

in the 90th a lot of dutch farmers immigrated to eastern germany.

In Netherlands majority of dairy farmers has english reygrass. For example: 75 hectar of land ...that would be 50 hectar of reygrass and 25 hectar of maise

Thanks for store on coming to the USA.

Great Videos & Story - Enjoying Your content - another Video You mentioned explaining more of the barns on a tour - Drone shots were Great - could You screen shot one of the drone videos and label the barns etc - kind of a little map to follow along -all the Best

I'm enjoying watching the video's, Also, congratulations on becoming a US citizen! I moved here from England a few years ago where I still have a small farm my son manages. At the moment I am a permeant resident here, happily married to a US citizen and living in Wisconsin near the farm my wife inherited (which we rent out). As I am in my mid-sixties, I may not become a US citizen, I don't need to tell you about the costs! but we'll see. Looking at the drone footage of your farm I can see your Dutch heritage, the farm is so clean, tidy and organized it is a credit to you, that is the one thing I noticed on many flights between Teesside, UK and Schiphol is how tidy and cared for the Netherlands is, it's a very nice country and great people. You mentioned tours of your farm, some time it would be interesting to join one of them, but when it's warmer than it is at the moment!

Piet you should get in touch with Zach johnson aka Millennial farmer. He is going to do a road trip and visit other farmers

Piet my brother in law is from Utrecht Netherlands. It's a small world. He still travels home 3 or 4 times a year for his employer. He works for a turkey equipment company call Novateck here in Central Minnesota. God bless PS have you thought of putting in a digester for your manure, to make bio gas to run a generator that makes electricity to sell on the power grid?

Great to hear your background..very interesting 👍 Being a new viewer..how many cows do have? Keep up the good work. Very informative.

Welcome to America.

Great story and accomplishments for you and your family. Congratulations on your citizenship. Maybe it’s in another video as I’m new to your channel but is your wife from the U.S? Not important just curious. Thanks for your time to prepare and share this.

Very good history on your family. And congratulations on becoming a US citizen👍🏻

You must have had pockets full of dollars when you were making all of these moves. When I watch your videos ,I see a beautiful dairy, nice equipment, nice land ect. As a seasoned dairyman myself I know firsthand what this costs. The average viewer has no idea of the millions of dollars they are looking at and what it takes to operate this business. Maybe in future videos you can talk about some of these topics.

there is still some quota's in parts of the USA. Parts of Illinois for sure!

Hi Piet How do you handle the price fluctuation. Here in Germany it is still a huge problem for smaller - mid size firms after the quota disappeared? Thanks for sharing the history of the farm/family

Great history lesson :D

Out of curiosity in which Province did you farm in Canada? I am in Manitoba. Quebec has a lot of dairy but the Prairie provinces are a lot more beef cows. There are only 38 million of us in a HUGE country so we tend to specialize our areas a lot. I remember hearing some horror stories of milk overproduction in the US years ago and they had to dump it on the ground or use it for pigs so I imagine there are Pros and Cons to it. Canada is pretty conservative in everything we do and not as much free market as the US which has Pros and Cons but it is what it is.

Awesome video! I am a Canadian and was wondering why you moved but yes the quanta is very pricy for sure! I live 3 hours North of you in South Central Manitoba. Which Province did you live in? Looking forward to watching more of your videos, I just found your channel. All the best!

Government is not the solution, government is the problem.

Wat een leuke video kan je nog Nederlands? Groeten uit Friesland

In 2015, quotas in Europe disappeared.

April 2015 the milk quota disappeared but two months later phosphate quota came back. The government and media like to see us leave, so be happy you guys left and it sure looks like you are.

nice explanation!. Where did u live in the Netherlands?

Did you guys live in Calmar Aberta?

Really shines a light on how perverted things are @ this time.

Hi Mister Bedaf, congratulations to your Citizenship and thanks for your answers. I have some more questions. Are there a lot of taxes to pay if you sell a farm and emigrate to an other Country? For example if you do this in Germany you have to pay round 50 % tax.... thats a lot. My interesset is how much is it in the Netherlands because it sounds like there are a lot of farmers who emigrate with the same reasons as you. Greatings from Bavaria jung_landwirt

Give me your dairy quota...ed Dutchmen yearning to milk freely...

Great story. At first I thought you might be the family that immigrated then when the kid go old enough the dad was gonna be deported because of some loop hole

Can you please tell me how you move to Canada from Nederland

Hoi Piet. Werken je ouders en zus ook nog op het bedrijf

Do have any links to lawyer you used to get visas

Where did you farm in Canada?

What province is the farm in Canada in, I’m in Manitoba

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Where in Canada?

Can you still speak Dutch? (kan je nog steeds Nederlands praten?)

You should check your own history during the second world war. Your country was nearly starved to death. Canada has managed quotas to assure we are never at the mercy of foreign supply.

Is your wife from the United States?

where did you come from in the netherlands