Been there since the beginning and wouldn't miss a video. Enjoy everyone. You boys have a good one. Still wet in upstate ny. Hopefully not the same as last year
Back when I was kid when it was GO time for planting/tilling time in school it was always "Conservation Day" pretty much the class stayed outside all day doing everything but classwork. Well, Pa made me and my younger brother stay home and work up fields. When my Mom wrote the note for why we weren't at school she wrote:" Anthony and Dan spent their Conservation Day on a tractor learning how to incorporate lime and fertilizer into a plowed field". That was so great!
Keep up the great work mate new subscriber just found your channel n it's bloody awesome cheers from Dean in Australia also my son loved watching n he's 4
Hi Kip! I came on board when you had just lost your Mom. . It might have been at about 15K subs . I don't really remember,though. Yes, lots HAS happened. Good luck in the future!!
Hey, here is something you can do with the older kids before all the crops pop up. Walk these worked fields to look for artifacts. Michigan is rich with ancient things and things that are not classified as ancient. I would think as close to a great lake as you are, there would be all sorts of goodies in the earth. Heck they even found a mammoth buried in Michigan a few years ago. Get them interested in history and if the younger ones are along it would be a great place to run and play. Hey, you and the family have a safe and wonderful spring.
Kip always love watching your videos I grew up on a farm in northern Illinois. Live down the road from the farm neighbors farm the land now since 08. Dad passed away in 21
Can't speak for others but I'm not going nowhere, come on 50K. Actually I'm coming down on Wednesday for a week. Need my girls get-a-way, life in the UP is good, but I miss down home.
Michigan resident, back in the 60's I was a FFA student. We used to go to farms in our area and do soil samples and analysis for the farmers. Just wondering if you still do your own? Thanks, great video.
I think they actually do, but when it comes to silage and/or haylage some of the yearly "normal" rotation gets thrown out the window. I'm in South Dakota and most people that chop generally try to keep the chopping fields as close to the pile/silos/farm as possible. Preferably one mile or less, more on the less side, with the exception of the big dairies, I'm talking 1,000 head or more. My rough math would say Kip and his family would need 100 acres plus just for the milk cows. That does not include any dry cows, bred heifers or weaned to yearlings. By rough math, I mean is that I don't know how much their fields usually average per ton per acre and I don't know how many pounds of corn silage they are aiming for as for pounds of silage per cow per day. It's basically simple math, but it would be algebra, being X pounds per cow times X number of cows equals total pounds per day. Hold that number off to the side. Then X tons per acre into X total tons needed will equal the total acres needed for silage plus a few extra loads. I'm not sure about where they're at, but where I'm at it's usually hard to find silage in July and harder yet to find dairy quality. So that's why I said a few extra loads.
