I’ll be 62 years old in June. I grew up on a dairy farm through the 60’s and 70’s. I started driving tractors and working the fields the day I graduated 3rd grade. It makes me proud to know that there are still young people out there growing up farming and enjoying it.
@@Ryanm1565 Both of you should start a channel. Eric is a great example to follow on how to build a channel. Be yourself and show what you do and what you know. Young farmers like yourselves have a lot of knowledge to share with those that are interested in learning.
Weavers coming through with the demo tractors. Fame has its perks. They picked a good guy to advertise with. You deserve it. I like the longer videos. Thanks for your time and effort making them.
The new Massey is good looking, for sure. Neat that you get to demo it for us! And I always enjoy your choice of background music when you're flying the drone. Those are the best views of the field work your'e doing. Glad the triticale is doing so well. Thanks for another entertaining video!
You have an awesome work ethic. I’m not a farmer but have learned so much watching your videos. Your dad must b very proud. U make the best u tube farming videos out there. Always watching from Maine. Good luck.
We used to do ag bags alot when I was a kid.... my family was always creatively spray painting them.... Got milk with black spots, a Caterpiller one year, and after 9/11 it was red, white and blue with God Bless America on the side! Keep the videos coming and It's nice to have a longer video every so often!!
The longer videos are absolutely awesome. I can’t say it enough. Truly appreciate the effort you put into these videos especially the longer ones. By far my most favorite channel is this one
Awesome looking tractor Eric. Good luck with it. Another bunk or 2 would seem to me be the most economical and much less susceptible to weather (wind, tornados, etc) and you don't have to climb them, maintain the unloaders or "level them off". Great video today.
As a guy who has to work bunks (ours are 3 to 400ft by 200ft) that are almost 30 40ft high, the amount of spoilage we have is unreal on top of that the risk of a pile cave in or slip and fall risk makes you wonder how many times your gonna get lucky I wish we could just blue tooth the feed into the cows stomachs lol
@@anthonypoquette8018 moisture, innoculant, packing, and covering quickly with high quality plastic. In that order. With a good O2 barrier. Not that hard. Just can’t half ass anything. Of course ma nature can always throw a wrench into it!
There must be a monster engine on that silage blower. I can not believe how much triticale it can take or how fast it runs. If I tried that, I'd spend the next few hours unplugging the pipe. Unfortunately, I have a lot of experience doing that. Great video Eric. I imagine being so busy, the time really flies by.
I think the same thing every time that blower shows up. I think Eric had said a while back that the custom operator had built the thing. I am also impressed when they are positioning it and connecting the pipe that it is also self propelled and they do not need a tractor to maneuver it into place.
I like how clean you keep the farm. Lots of farms around me are just a mess with old equipment discarded everywhere, overgrown grass, mud from end to end, etc. Now you just have to get an automated washing machine for the cows. A farm near me installed one a few years ago and claimed their yields went up, infection and pest management better controlled, etc.
I really love those aerial shots, good view and contrast of size for your equipment and fields, great music with it too. Those Massey's are nice looking, mercy would I love to have one, don't need that big of tractor for what we do. Looks like the field at the Quarry farm has Olive bushes encroaching on it. Great video, thanks for sharing, have a great week.
Another outstanding video, Eric. Not too long. You are a hard working and knowledgeable farmer. Big machines and skilled men make for a good harvest. Really like the aerial shots and how you put your videos together. I know it takes hours of work to film and edit a good video like this. We learn so much. God's blessings on you and your family.
Hi I sure enjoyed this video. In my youth I worked on dairy farm putting up 300 ton of hay each summer and chopping silage back then.. That was during the mid sixties.. I miss farming and still have fond memories. Things have changed much.. I wish more folks could or watch your videos.. It is important so people see what goes into farming.. I appreciate what you do and thank you for a great video. ☺️👍
I was absolutely thrilled to see such a long video today from you. I love to see such a well kept farm. Thank you for the hard work and sharing with us.
We make all our forages in ag bags on our farm and one suggestion I'd make is to roll the end flap on them underneath then dump the dirt on it. We've found there's less chance of it spoiling on the end
Thank you for dedicating your time to these videos. I've gotten semi addictive to your content lately it's in my regular rotation of nightly videos sometimes an older video sometimes newer. You have satisfied my 50 some year-old brain on being a farmer of any sort let alone dairy, I am living vicariously somewhat through your vision of a 10th Gen dairy farmer. Thank you for what you do, and I have to say as someone who works with building automation systems keep going with the robots/digital automation of your farm it will help you in the future in my opinion for what's it worth. I also want to thank your father he obviously has had some influence on your outlook of life and your work ethic, I get some hope for our future seeing the next generation of adults actually adulting, but then again it might just be my aging brain. I hope you the best and to your family. Subscribed as of tonight, I know what took me so long:)
Busy time on the farm. Hard, long working days! You look good behind that tractor! Awesome aerial shots, the music is appropriate. GOD BLESS , tnxs for feeding USA! Regards from Ohio
Hi Eric, although I always watch and like all your videos, I am not one for saying too much in the comments, but this time I just had to say your such an ambassador for farming with your work ethic. I know from experience the work that goes into dairying and the production of forage and crops for feed and the hours you and your dad work is outstanding and you also managed to produce and edit a 37 minute video. From Scotland thank you very much for all you do!
Eric! Great video. I love that you try new things but always have a metric to evaluate them. Trust but verify. Man if I rep'd any product you could use and I believed in it, you'd get no rest until I got a free trial out of you. Your channel, you and your dad, are a bacon of hope and a testimony beyond measure. Yet you stay just regular guys. Wish I had better expressions of my heart in this, it's the best I can do tonight. Thanks for all the extra work it takes to do this my friend.
I hope you will continue to show us your traditional cooking. It’s better than watching all those world famous chefs . Also your traditional attire and lifestyle are so wholesome , healthy and peaceful. It’s very soothing watching your videos . And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
When I was 16 or 17 years old I was cutting and hauling corn silage with a G John Deere. I was pulling two wagons at a time hauling it back and forth to the farm and field. A bolt that connects the steering worked loose and caught on the hood of the tractor causing me to hit an embankment breaking the front of the tractor off. The loaded silage wagons pushed the tractor sideways blowing both back tires and tearing the front end of the first wagon out. When I hit the embankment it threw me up out of the seat. Both of my legs hit the steering wheel keeping me from being thrown off the tractor. Luckily it didn’t break my legs. Farming is a very dangerous lifestyle/profession but I enjoy it very much.
Took my last Holstein steer in for processing the end of march. Now I only have a couple of angus heifers running in the pasture. Even though their tame as kittens and I can spray, rub and itch their bugs they are nothing like the Holsteins. If the Holsteins see you or something going on around them they have to check it out, smell it, lick it, rub on it but the angus they may look across the pasture at you or what’s going on but it isn’t worth their time to walk the distance to check it out. Raised Holsteins my whole life but getting use to these angus is something new. A little more fencing and there will be some more black and whites for beef soon.
That was a terrific video thank you. Lays things out for the non farmers as to what and how much goes into just a few days on your dairy farm , let alone the milking. Glad the weather held out for you, betcha your daughter is growing fast also. Oh and what a rake!
You were crazy busy. Great educational video. Super camera & drone work. In our neck of the woods we’re lucky to get 3 cuttings of Alfalfa on the dry land. Generally it’s 2. Really Nice Farmstead
I am so fascinated by every video!! All the machinery you guys use is so interesting. I love the harvests, the milking process, the calves and all of it really. I would like to see your family in a video. Keep it up!!
Can make your videos hours long and I’d watch. Could live stream for days and I’d watch. Got to plant some of my hot pepper garden today and I felt accomplished getting 20 more plants in the ground. You planted 20+ acres. 😂 But it’s wonderful to see all the agriculture happening in the world. Thanks.
The height on that crop tho! The rain here in central PA over the last 5-7 days has really pushed it up! Eric, this is one of my favorite videos that you film each year. I grew up working on a dairy farm doing "old school" baling of small alfalfa bales and chopping silage. I was the stacker in the mow and wore holes in the knee of every pair of jeans I ever owned! ;-) I looked forward eagerly to Memorial Day weekend as the traditional start of "hay season." Nobody I knew ever grew triticale; it was alfalfa / clover all the way. My grandparents used to fill (2) 70" Harvestore and ran high-moisture corn in the smaller 40' Harvestore.
if you could do a small segment on how they set up and fill the Agbags it would be great ..I think they are a great idea and a great way for small farmers to stretch out there harvest. thank you .peace and happiness to you and your family.
I don't mind a longer video. When you are as busy as you are we appreciate any video that you are able to give us. Keep up the good work. God bless you and your family.
I'm really impressed by what it takes to keep your farm operational. Lots of dedication from quality people. Proud of you all, keep up the good work, you are inspiring.
Beautiful farm and such a great operation yall run. The crop looks awesome. Your herd is well fed and taken care of for sure. It is amazing how clean and organized your farm is and the herd taken such good care of compared to some of the other channels.
Your farm became a very busy place fast with all the equipment called in to get that all cut and blown in silos & ag-bags. All ran like a well oiled machine very cool to see how it all works.
Just to put your mind at ease Eric, We the people that watch and like your vlogs never look at the time of the video. It's always feels short. Thanks for all the effort you put into getting these vlogs out in such a busy time of the year for you.......
