Pistachio Orchards and Grape Vineyards, California Farming! (Part 3) 

So glad you enjoyed your visit to our San Joaquin Valley of California.

bless all farmers dairies ranchers, transporters, and Mexican workers

Thank you for sharimg. Most incredible farm. I cannot wait to see your next video.

Great video Jan! Thanks for taking the time to film and share your tour. Vanderham Farms were great hosts and very educational. I always appreciate the opportunity to learn even more from your channel. Well done!

great series. Gotta try to get to a Texas mega farm.

I like this farm's conservation efforts. Growing trees that are already suited to drier climates is a really good idea. Much better than feeding water hungry trees and further decimating the local and distant aquifers.

Thanks for the excellent series Jan. It's crazy just how flat it is out there. I'm from central Minnesota and have never been to California so it's neat to see the different crops. It's crazy too just how flat it is there. I thought southern MN was flat but good Lord, there's NOTHING there.

I'm a Michigan man. We are large agriculture producer. World would have a hard time without California agriculture. Pray for end of droughts worldwide.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Jan. Very excited and looking forward your next 5 farms visit. Your efforts make you distant to do great and be great. Please make sure be humble when such time comes. We all pray for your success.

Very impressive. As usual, I learned a few things! Thanks for taking us along.

This Dairy Farm is an all-around operation. Milk cows, reusing manure for bedding; grapes & pistachios. This is an extremely intere4sting video - asking excellent questions with the usual super presentation Well done 🚜 🚜 🚜🐄🐄🐄🐄 🚜 🚜 🚜

I’ve really enjoyed this series Jan, and I must say you’re looking good in the California sunshine. I hope you and your family can vacation here sometime! I know vacations are very few on a farm but we can always wish, at least you and your sister should plan on a visit if possible. No matter what please stay safe and keep well!!!

Fabulous! Very informative! More! Good Job to our roving reporters. Maybe Holland someday too 😋

As a native Californian, I am proud to say we are the largest producer of agriculture products in our nation (crops and livestock). I am glad you enjoyed your visit. Your videos are well produced and always interesting. I live on the California coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.

I too have enjoyed this series so keep them coming! Pistachios are my favourite nut and always better chased with a glass of Okanagan wine.

Thanks Jan! I really appreciate you taking the time to record and post for us to see other farms. That's quite an operation they have out there!

what a massive operation! I cant imagine having to coordinate all those different things

Very interesting. Different perspective. Looking forward to more tours of other farms

I learned something interesting from my KSU Botany Professor who grew up in California on a almond farm. He said when they cut down the trees that were 40 years old that they had 200 growth rings. The reason that there were 200 rings is that they watered 5 times/year. That is when I learned that tree rings are not annual rings, but growth rings.

WOW I lived here in Nevada for 40 years and never knew this about Cali! [Pistachio Orchards]. This farm must be mega hugh as that guy was the same two from the dairy farm. GREAT SERIES looking forward to more!

Yan, I hoped you noticed the clear blue skies - its that way most of the year. Too hot for me in the summer tho... Next trip maybe you can go skiing in the Sierra, about 3 hour drive. Can be very beautiful if you hit it right.

Wow awesome tour of their farm can't wait for the next tour keep it going

That was an excellent series of videos. Thy should show this in schools to students can learn what it takes to produce the milk they drink. Cheers

Thanks for the excellent tours!

These videos are very educational and interesting. Keep up the excellent work and Thank-You just love them.

This was fun to see! I always thought those were raisin grapes because that's what that area was known for so it was cool to see how the area has diversified the crops.

New Jan vid? What a great day it is now! Yayyy

Gr8 variety of vids Jan. They did not share the male/female pistachio tree ratio required - diminishes the harvest/acre. Keep going. BTW, you missed the Almond bloom by a week. Hundreds of thousands of acres covered w/white blossoms. Blessings!

These videos have been brilliant! Looking forward to the future ones 💪🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The pistachio trees were planted like the old corn fields hundred years ago, called check row planting. Amazing.

Very Good series. Thanks

Good pruning info👍🏼

This was great to watch and thanks for sharing. I for one would like to see more of this. Have a nice safe day!!!

Thank you Jan for putting out the series it was very interesting.

My pistachio story. I was living at Redondo Beach, California and right after the Rodney King riots '92, which closed my business, someone stole my pickup from a locked garage. I got a call from unincorporated South Central LA that my truck was in impound about 2 months later. The cops had it towed because it was packed in front an apartment buildings fire hydrant. It cost me $175.00 to get it out of impound. The truck had parking tickets from cities like Inglewood, Hawthorne, and many others. I had to go to all those cities and present my stolen truck papers to get the parking tickets lifted. When I got the truck from impound, the truck cab was destroyed and loaded with orchard pistachios. I figured some migrants stole my truck. I no longer eat pistachios and I moved out of California in early '93 to beautiful free Texas. FREEDOM!

The farm manager is top notch.

Well done! All three in the series are so good. Thank you for taking us along to California. We miss the farm though. There is no place like 🏡 home.

Hi Jan, thanks for the 3 video tour of your trip to the world expo, I am looking forward to seeing your next installment of your farm tours. All the best from Co Cork Ireland 🇮🇪

Thanks Jan for sharing the farming phase of the farm in sunny California, where some of the best grapes in the world are grown.🤟🤟

Very cool. Lots of vineyards in the Texas hill country about an hour away from me, I get to see them several times a year. Fascinating to see the diversity of crops and dairy at the same farm.

Great series keep up good work

Cheers

Brilliant video really interesting love watching your videos It always was put smile on my face keep up the good work😀😊

Amazing California as a diverse products of growing stuff brilliant series

Love the tours! Great vid!

Hello from Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them coming

Good job, enjoying different operations.

So interesting to see the different styles. You can tell your “smaller” farm has way higher quality and the cows are treated better, but the efficiency on a giant farm is incredible. So little waste!

Looking forward to more dairy tours Jan!

Amazing video again, Thank you very much.

Was curious to know if their was any waste from the grapes they could use in cattle feed.

Now you're in my stomping grounds...California.

Great series. Can't wait for your next tour!

thanks for the knowledge!

Great to see the Mexicans working hard to also make a living and improve their circumstances and adding value

Hi Jan, thanks for the tour your showing us about the pistachio and grape vineyards, very intressting .its not the same of France vineyard, they are not so big hehehe but gif allso good wines.

Very interesting !

Great content Jan, hope to see more of this kinda thing. Aloha🤙🏼

That farm it’s marvelous

These are awesome! Keep doing them! One question I would have for them and their crops is how climate change has affected them?

Great and interesting video Jan. Thanks.

Very cool. Do they feed any of the pulp from the grapes back to the animals or use the the pistachio for the animal or are they just cash crop part of the farm? 👍👍

nice setup

Another great farm❤️

Very interesting trip Jon wow maybe I will grow some grapes just kidding

Keep them coming

Like the tours

Bet you had a great time out of the bitter cold for a while. Great video. How’s your sister ? We haven’t seen a video from her in a while ! I love to watch both of your videos ! Thanks for your efforts !

Thank you. Very interesting. Now I know why pistachios cost so much.

They are doing well planting the trees that take less water, but I would love to see more companion growing and not just miles of monoculture. The pistachio orchards could also be raising a meat crop with sheep or turkeys being worked in the understory without any damage to the trees and only a few extra inputs. Or another plant species or two could be introduced between the rows or under the trees. Even if they produced nothing marketable they would still provide cover for other wild life and help prevent bug infestations that often go along with monoculture crops.

Great series, Jan! Really enjoyed it.

Been watching all your videos these videos from California are pretty interesting I thought you had a large form and I thought the 10th generation former had a large farm but put your two forms together and you still don't make one for California that is truly amazing hey Mr sand Dutch keep up the good work and I'll be watching 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲👁️👁️✌️

Love the farm tour vids!!!

Very informative video today

nice video Jan. thank you

👍👌❤🇨🇦, another Sask boy, me too

awesome and amazing!

Did you already film all of the five other dairy farm tours?

That was really cool,, I learned a lot thanks

Jan you should have invited them to Saskatchewan in January

So what did the grape say when the elephant stepped on it? . . . It didn't say anything, . . . it just gave a little "whine". 😊

Very interesting thank you

Very interesting video always wondered how they grow pistachios

I’m about 30 mins from these guys. The Central Valley does grow a tremendous amount of different crops. Glad you visited. I’m in Kingsburg California.

Thats a cool farm

Love that you’re making a show out of these tours - it’s a great series. My only criticism is to maybe just nod instead of saying “sweet” all the time. I think it’s just a nervous tic. Anyways great work!

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Great video.

These guys are on Super Farm level. 🇺🇸

And you thought it was flat around home. The only thing i saw sticking up was a cows tail 5 mikes away

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Loving the farm tours

Diversification or byproducts become inputs to Dairy Operations? Very interesting!

What did they do with the pruned branches…picked up? Thanks from Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina 🇺🇸

Thank you Jan - ama ing tour. Definetly subscribing to their channel.

They must have their own bee hives

Feeding the algorithm, cheering on Let’s go Brandon!

How did you feel after going to such a huge place ?

Hey Sasquatch, you never answered my questions. How many gallons of milk do 5000 cows produce a day? How many homes supplied with methane from the farm and how many acres does it take to support 5000 cows?