Awesome video to see John's farm that biggest farm with beautiful cows, milking, good care and good working hard for John! Good visiting with him to show you!🐄🐄🚜🍁🍂👍❤️
Thanks for this awesome video, Jan. I used to pick up the milk from Gracemar in the 80's when it was a member of Fraser Valley Milk Producer's Co-operative Association, and a lot smaller herd. I do believe the flushing system was being used then, and of course, there were a lot more employees.
Amazing tour Jan! Much appreciated - your time for the trip and filming, and the farms time to show you around. The manure management system is fascinating all by itself. With the technology of the rotary robotic milking parlor ~ it's all cutting edge stuff. Beautiful to see the mountains in the background. Drone shots were superb. Thanks for the video!!!
Wow such happy cows. The cows wanting human touch and wanting the dog to lick their face! What an impressive operation 👏 Most impressed with cow comfort and cow behavior. What a good life
Jan as usual, a wonderful all encompassing and informative tour of the newest technologies! What a wonderful dairy farm! What a wonderful backdrop of mountains! Did that make you jealous? 2-3 weeks of cold there! I thought all of Canada had long winters like yours! It looked like there was a town or a community of homes uphill from the farm. Do they ever complain about the 'smell of money' or does that new technology remove the odor? We live 2 miles from the last remaining dairy farm in Southeast LA county and when the wind was blowing the right way we could really smell the farm. It has since sold out and is now an industrial park. Even the most of the dairies an hour or more away have relocated way north because of air quality standard restrictions. Thanks again for taking us on an adventure and showcase of a fabulous operation!
So you went out to B.C.to round up some rain and drag it back to Saskatchewan, good job. To think this all started in a box stall in a barn with no power and a four legged stool and a milk pail. Then it was carried into the house, ran through a cream separator and taken to town in milk/cream cans to be loaded on the train and sent to the city. This industry has so much technology at it’s disposal now it is hard to wrap your head around. Combining a rotary with robotic milkers is next level for sure.
Look at those mountains in the background of Chilliwack! Just WOW! Terrific review of one of our automated dairy farms in B.C. A few of the cows were curious and wanting to say hello to you😊 IMO I think the interpersonal touch to and with your dairy cows that you have on your dairy farm matters more. It promotes a work ethic to you and your employees that can only happen when you ‘dig or pitch’ in. Are the production numbers any different between the farms, excluding the diff in number of cows? I’m sure there are pros and cons when “the shitter is full!” aka Christmas Vacation😜😂. The usual argument with the automotive industry. And I might be biased here because I love you and your sisters channel 😊
I saw this kind of rotary when I went to Tulare California and that's where you went for your vacation and maybe you even got to see it at the farm show and now live. It's a GEA, not a Delaval but it's still very efficient. I personally am Delaval all the way. Great video.
Great work Jan. I see you’re improving in this series. My next critique (sorry😅) would be to pan to what the speaker is talking about as they’re talking. For instance when the farmer is pointing and explaining it, film that instead of him. You can mix it up but I think it’s best because we get a good look at what he’s talking about and they get less nerves from being on camera the whole time. This farm is super cool and modern and I appreciate you travelling and “networking” with other dairy farmers. It’s beneficial for everyone because we can all learn and improve different aspects of farming and animal welfare. I’m interested to know what on-going learning you or your Dad partake in to keep up with best practices and new discoveries in dairy farming. I know the University of Guelph has a big agricultural/animal science department because I studied there myself (different program). Thanks for your hard work, Jan!
AMAZING…..AMAZING……AMAZING!!!!! Coming from a dairy myself my dad would be loving these nice happy cows….Ive seen robotic dairies before.. but this is so awesome…. I don’t care city folks thinks but livestock whether it’s cattle…horses or pigs do so much better with clean surroundings….These cows are clean and you see they are very happy….What a great operation!!!!! Great video!!!! Thank you so much!!!
Hola Jan!!. Saludos desde Argentina, Fer..👊¡Extraordinaro video, muy muy bueno!. 💻%💯👍👍 En Argentina, hay de estos tambos rotativos, aqui en precisamente los llaman calesitas son muy grandes. ¡Jan buen trabajo en este video!.🚜❤%💯👍👍 éxitos !!!.✊👍👍
Sand bedding flushing and recovery works a lot better in B.C. than in any other province with periods of severe cold weather. Where every single mechanical / water system you have to consider how it's going to function all winter.
What a great video , thank you for sharing and introduction all the information! Where is this farm located! Does it possible to make a appointment to take a visit? Because as a dairy farmer from overseas that I would love to some research on this new technology! Thank you so much 👍
Wow, there's some computerized milk! Are you able to get a little history of the dairy farms you tour? I lived in Chilliwack in the 1990's and Gracemar was there then. Good video Jan
Interesting trip to a nice, clean farm. We milk in Thuringia, Germany since 2015 with a 50-stall DairyProQ, it was the second one in Germany (or worldwide?). Between 220 and 250 cows per hour with one person at the rotary and one pusher.
Unbelievable. 32 yrs managing cows in the UK and I've seen all sorts of milking set ups, dung systems, scraping passageways etc but never all together like this, plus a robotic rotary! Fantastic. And all the haters, peta and so on say all these large dairy's are inhumane, cruel, cows suffer??
Looking good, I'm planning to buy four of them if I can come to agreement with GEA. Happy to see this video, I think it's to correct way for my plan instead of single robots units.
Great video 👍🏻. Would be good if it was an hour long! Would love to see how the manage their cows from drys to calving then first milking, how heifers manage the first time and a few more stats on the herd performance 👍🏻
Hey Jan. Another great video! Awesome when you go to check out other farms. What kind of bird was that at the end? How many times do they milk? Thanks!
