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What are those green panels with the fold down sides called ?

I just got in from blowing last night's contribution.

Glad to see that you declared WWIII on them rocks. What I would like to see though is a rock picking machine equipped with A.I. augmented, ground penetrating radar that will just go along and pluck those boulders out of the ground with a single pass. Any company that builds such a machine, will have their products in big demand. There are lots of rocky areas of the world that could be turned to productive land with such a machine.

More coming Weds. night they say.....Keep at er Dave.

Getting it out of the way!!

Still snow less down here. Too dry. Thank you Dave.

Great video. We sell a fair amount of hay to folks raising either a cow or some goats - people wanting meat and dairy, antibiotic free, organic, etc. There is definitely a goodly market segment around us doing this.

Good evening Dave and Dawn. We could use another processor around here. Pretty good hanging weights. 👍🙂

We've still have to butcher yet....the weather just hasn't been fit for it yet. Nothing better than home grown beef. We've got too much snow now to do any brushing, the brush will still be there come spring. Thanks Dave.

We so wish your farm was closer to us down here in the metro area. There are very few producers that sell good quality protein and veggies less than an hour from our home in Blaine, MN. Love your channel though❣️

Morning Dave. Coffee’s on and the better half is putting together beef stew in the crockpot. We just bought a steer with my sister and with over 730 lbs of meat between us and knowing where it came from and how it was raised it really was a no brainer decision. At about $5.35 lb in the freezer we won’t ever go back to store bought.

Home grown beef is the way to go. Brush mowing is always a satisfying job.

Looking good. Can't beat home grown beef.

Must be a lot of beer drank in upper minn

We feed out a half dozen steers, keep what we need, 1/4, or 1/2. The rest, we sell on the hot weight. Processor charges kill fee, cutting and wrapping. All paid by the customer. We can't legally sell the meat directly to the customer, unless it's killed at a USDA facility. Anyone can cut and wrap it to be sold. If we could sell at store prices, we'd be making a lot better money. Thanks for the processing tour!

You never want to completely chase the best market. If you switch to selling all calves, then when the market corrects you would have to start all over finding customers. . .Great video Dave and Dawn. .

It’s great to see a revival of farm bought products recently, our neighbour has quite a large service built up like you and they also promote green cover and regenerative farming as well as winter grazing

Covering the head gate with a tarp is a good idea never thought of it

Your 2 cattle went good for their age, kill out weight Dave. I send cattle to the meat factory every month from my farm. I don't sell to the public, I could but I choose to sell to a factory. I fatten mostly heifers and they go before they are 24 months but of course my cattle aren't suckler so bucket calves don't fatten as quick. But since I moved to this system, I'm runs 3 times more cattle than when I had cows and calves. The last load of cattle I sold in January 2025 were all males and killed out at over 400kgs or 881 Lbs. We talk in kilos weight now, Lbs. are gone over here. Growth promoters are banned in Europe and antibiotic use is highly regulated, every time one is used, it must be recorded in a farm diary. My cattle currently in sheds for the winter are getting 10kg per head of chopped sugar beet and 4kgs of concentrate feed twice daily.

Good morning Dave and Dawn ☕️☕️

Great video! I have been buying beef from local farmers since 2000, only buy chicken from the market, the pork I buy is from a local farm store. Nothing better than locally raised meat.

We still have a source for custom butchered dairy steers. We don't use the volume we did so we buy by the pound from a local meat market that custom butchers. On that thought during covid they limited how much fresh we could buy, but unlimited frozen. Always interested in the process since we butchered our own at home. Thank you Dave.

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Looks good to me. The neighbors are going to start thinking you've got new equipment. 👍

That plow looks great! Very nice winter project… 👍

Hey Dave! Your plow rows in that field clip are pure artistry!😊

Hey Dave! Great job on the plow. It really looks good. I've painted a lot of things over the years - hay rakes, a harrow, my Oliver 66 tractor a couple years ago, and my Ford F600 dump truck. With the Oliver 66, I used only spray cans, but on the F600, I used a roller (like you) due to the amount of surface area, and spray cans for "hard to reach" areas. While it will never be mistaken for a professional paint job (not even close!) it still turned out pretty good, and I get lots of compliments at the grain elevator and the stone quarry. I've even had people try to buy it from me. The most important thing is that the paint protects it. Looking better, to me, is just a bonus. You've accomplished both on your plow.

The plow looks great. Looking forward to the next one.

That thing turned out great 👍....I paint implements the same way...trying to save them, not win best of show...I've got a 3 bottom IH #16 plow thats going to get the same treatment....Thanks Dave,nice job.

Morning Dave,coffee’s on and cinnamon rolls are hot. Heated floors are the cat’s meow in the winter. The plow ALMOST looks too nice to put in the fields….almost! The points on the jumping Deer are also different by era to era. The original manual is really cool. You and Dawn stay warm & safe,care for the bovines and have a steak!

Good morning Dawn and Dave ☕☕☕ Looks pretty good to me!!! Stay warm, i hear Brent was the same temperature as we are this morning. Short sleeves and short pants weather 👍🤣😂

Have you found it hard to get decals to stick on painted steel like that? I have never had much luck. . .

Much the same in my workshop too regarding painting only I don't even have the luxury of having any heat. But I'm doing up a vintage tractor and I wanted to re-spray the bonnet, but it's too cold. So I just painted it with a brush for now, so it looks brighter. I'll go at it properly in a few months. I left my newly painted bonnet in my living room in front of the fireplace to dry overnight. My wife was away on business from home that day. (You better keep that a secret Dave). Which JD logo to you prefer Dave? the 2 legs or 4 legs deer?

Yeah I wish I could have found an 8 bottom Deere plow that still had coulters for turf plowing but this White was the only big plow I could find complete nearby. Yer plow looks ready for a plowing bee

Plow turned out great! Nice job! What is the size of your heated shop that you were working in? I am starting to build a heated shop in my barn and it will be 18’ x 36’ with a 9’ x 9’ overhead door. Hopefully it will be big enough! Thanks again for all your videos!

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Good morning Dave and Dawn !!!

Those plows last a long time with maintenance. Nothing wrong with brush painted implements. We used grade 5 bolts thinking that we would shear them rather than bend something. Thank you Dave.

Cattle are going for that much now? I could of swore a year or two ago $800 was the going price in WY & MT for 1 year old steers. Roughly what is your profit on a cow after shots, feed, hay, etc?

It's warming up Dave. 👍 Only 4 below now😂 Beats yesterday's -35

At least it is warming up on Wednesday. The cows are looking great

You know what's funny. It's 26 below. The sun is shining. We put bedding in the barn and hardly a cow will go in. They stand outside in that Sunshine and they're just fine A lot of Old-Timers would tell us we're costing too much money, we're feeding them cows too much. A lot of them Old-Timers would make them cows lick up that hay clean and if they lost a couple hundred lb over winter that was okay. I'm a big fan of we can waste a little feed if it keeps everybody chubby and happy and healthy. Like you said, give them some quality The wife and I dream of building the hoop Barn loafing shed that I always wanted for the dairy cows. Not so much that the cows need it. We could try to justify it by saying we'll save some feed. Will increase cow comfort a little bit. Maybe a little better performance out of the calves. Ultimately, it would be for the fact that the wife and I Are only getting older so let's struggle through our '50s. So when we get into our '60s and '70s we can have kind of a nice little. Very comfortable setup Stay warm!

While I do miss having cattle, dealing with them in the cold weather is something I don't miss. I give you and Dawn a lot of credit, as the winters seem brutal up there.

New subscriber here from central minnesota Retired from all the fun of feeding in sub zero weather Keep up the good work

I see this week you will be -20 to -30 below. God bless all you far north farmers.

People have the misconception that feeding grain helps keep the animals warm when actually the digestion of fiber is what fuels the furnace. It's called heat increment.

It's nice to see that you warm up your tractors to protect the seals other components.

Crisp and cold, no more mud for a while.

It's cold one now again. Lots of shop projects here too.