Visiting a 60 Stall Rotary Milking Parlor
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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That dairy looks very familiar. Thanks for visiting.
Very impressive operation, thanks for having us.
Haha
Thought that looked like your facility, what a contrast from your dairy to Eric's. Love both channels!
I knew for sure as soon as I saw the holding area and crowd gate. Someday maybe a UA-cam open house. 🤔
The big herds in NZ have rotary sheds anything up to 80 bales. The rotary shed was developed in NZ. Most of the add ons used in these sheds were designed and developed in NZ. We have open yards here as the climate is more even and the bulk of herds are seasonal meaning the whole herd is dried off May and calving mid July/ August. Herds are mostly paddock grazed although there has been a swing to herd homes (covered) and feed pads ( uncovered).
Calves are generally raised in batches and spend a relatively short time in sheds before going in to a paddock situation before weaning. A reasonable number of young stock go to grazers until just before calving. These females are usually mated by bulls run with them for a couple of months. Milking cows are mated with AI and run with bull to finish off mating.
Excellent video Eric! Appreciate the tour. Nice to see the 5th cut completed. Fortunate to get the burnt stuff behind you without any major problems. Very interesting to hear your thoughts on genetics/breeding. Glad you're getting some good prices for the calves. Thanks for the video!
That's a lot of cows! Wow! Thanks for taking us along for a peak.❤(Robin)
Awesome road trip! Love to see the cows on the carousel
Wow Eric that's a lot of cows, feed and fields. Truly amazing production with that carousel. Thanks for a great video. Stay safe.
Your farm is beautiful and clean ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ve watched a couple of Companies using this and it seems to be very useful and sufficient. A very nice setup but I don’t think the price of all that was mentioned. The place y’all were visiting looks like a great change. But I’m an old mawmaw and I find changes these days just makes me feel like sometimes old school is better. I suppose it all comes down to how helpful that can be especially with changing would small farmers benefit from an expensive change over from what y’all have and their way of that whole process. Thank y’all for sharing all the things and I PRAY GODS BLESSINGS FOR ALL OF Y’ALL 👍👍🙏🙏🇺🇸
Eric I love that music selection and your drone work 😊. And thanks for the tour!
As always great footage and what a Parlor setup thanks for taking us along. Awesome footage and music god bless y’all
Rohrer has grown into quite an operation - didn't they have the Claas harvester on display? Also, thanks for the discussion on the cross bred holstein / montbeliarde cows, one cow is a little quick to prove it is typical of the cow. Keep your eye out for other cross bred cows and their production. Good luck!
That farm u visited is huge!!!! Ty for sharing.. ❤🙏
Stay safe brother from the imperial county California 👍👍🇺🇲
Thanks for the tour super cool 😎,,,,,that sorting gate would save tons of work and time.
Love the music very neat video, cutting corn next to my hose today, that means the snow geese will be here. Watching from western Idaho. ❤
Back in the 1960's when I grew up. most dairy farmers had Holstien cows with a few Gurnsey or Jersey cows to increase the milk fat content. That seems to have gone away these days. Also I wish you would consider allowing us to see the milk truck pickup process. You know the transfer of the milk from your holding tank to milk hauler. Thankyou.
I used to work on the dutch cowboy dairy with a very similar setup. Had the same moving gate. Had the same rotary. But the floors had a flood system
I’m a follower of Rohrer Dairy and you did a great filming there at their open house. I couldn’t attend due to work. Great job!!
Eric, thanks for the road trip. 👍
You make some great videos, with with top-notch explanations on how you farm. If you don't mind me asking, what did you replace your alfalfa with for feeding your milking herd? I'm always looking for ways to improve the farm. Maybe you already covered that in a previous video though.
Thanks and keep up the good work 👍.
Time for a road trip!
Thank you for taking the time to share this with us
Great video again. Wonder how the total costs/cow work out on that dairy compared to yours. Lots of other things to consider too. Another issue is the labor part..and availability..and just how many things you would want to manage if you were to engage in a change like that. I personally like the size that you are, but everyone's different. In switching off alfalfa, another item that you've probably already considered is dry years. You've undoubtedly got a plan. You & your dad keep up the good work!
Eric did you ever do a biography on you? When did you start helping on the farm and why you love it. The American dairy farmer is one of the top 5 toughest jobs in the country.
Nice clean dairy like yours, their rotary looked like it needed a catch pan behind the cows like your parlor has.
Always nice to visit other farms to see how they do things.
Thanks for bringing us along love your videos
Thanks again for another very interesting video. All the best to all.
I was actually at rohrer dairy a few months ago for a pdmp meeting was a very nice dairy.
I’d be curious to hear more about the triticale in your feed ration.
11:23 what is 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th cutting? I'm new here, but I play a buttload of Farming Simulator 22 and that's what's driving me to love farming so much. Been thinking about driving out to a farm and seeking a job. Awesome videos tho man, keep them coming!
Great video editing. Appreciate the time you spend on it. My 11 and 12 yr olds love it too.
We had a Rotary milking dairy down here East of Atlanta. I was looking them up to see how many slots it had only to see they ripped all that out after 13 yrs and now are using robots.
we quit feeding alfalfa and went to all grass for our beef and bison market, big difference, less problems, the horses are the same way
What a fabulous farm. The most srupulosly clean I've ever seen.
And... the 🐄🐄 look like they've just stepped out the shower!
Here in the UK I watch the Hoof Trimmers.
🙈 Some of the Dairy Farms here, are absolutely filthy! 😢
So my question is, when are you installing your new rotisserie milking parlor? Lol
Cook that beef up real good.
Very interesting, thanks. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great video as always. Is there an advantage to.having curved rows versus straight?
I am a loyal viewer of the Rohrer channel. Would have been nice if you could have had an interview with Ashlyn. They have also left alfalfa production for the greater volume of double cropping. As a dairyman who worked hard to grow alfalfa as the cheapest protein forage it's difficult to think of milking cows without it.
Rohrer has a good channel
I can't imagine what their bulk milk storage must be. Nice place.
I'm already sub to ashly watch the videos about building the milking 🐄 Parlor
Always good to look forward. Great video as usual.
when harvesting. why is the crop planted with so many curves? and are the rows programmed by GPS? It seems difficult to maximize the space for planting. truck driver from minnesota.
Holsteins the best!! Grüsse aus der Schweiz.
Great video Eric, didn't know SmartASH! and ToeKnee! were so close. Glad to see you got the hay fire conundrum cleared up. Thanks for the video and take care.
Really good video. How many acres does the Rohr Dairy farm??
Thanks I think around 1400 acres
Love the 717 Dairy farms!! 💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wow that middle bunk is allready half empty
If it’s haylage why isn’t it cornlage, or Triticalage?
Cool adventure! Man, yall have fed alot out silage out of that bunk yall just started feeding out of.
Any methods you observed at that other farm that you may incorporate into your operations? Great vid as always.
I hv seen ur all video
I'd be interested to hear about how your fertility management strategy changes as you move away from alfalfa. Personally, it's hard to believe how many have moved away from it entirely. As a crop, it has a lot of benefits and certainly high protein production per acre, but with cheaper sources of protein readily available to supplement a corn and grass based diet, I can see the appeal. I would be interested to know how much the benefits to the soil through nitrogen fixation and deep, perennial root systems played a part in making this decision, or if Milk/Cow is the main metric for this kind of decision.
I like Ashley and Tony’s channel.
Interesting video Eric
Love your videos. Question for you out of curiosity, why don't you run straight line fields instead of the curved?
State of the art
I've never thought of myself as being afraid of heights, however, if I was standing on top of your silo, I think I might be a little uneasy.
Norwegian Red is a great cow🐄🐄🐄
Amazing looking parlor
Wonderful video, lots to see, thanks for sharin'
Welcom to morroco
Wow,you have used quite a bit of silage out of your middle bunk
Do you believe you still need to contour farm considering you have crops planted year round and you are no till?
I used to watch you all the time. I now look forward to Cole the Cornstar. He is more entertaining. He includes his wife, son, family, trips, etc.
If you are looking for entertainment I think he's got me beat but that's ok.
How are you on 5th cutting?? We're lucky to have a 4th cutting here in Minnesota
Southern PA is definitely a different climate than you are dealing with.
@10thgenerationdairyman61 ahh! Gactha! Sorry I haven't watched your channel much but would like to
U would have to build a new barn for a rotary parlor
Hey Eric, will you ever do another Q and A?
almost looks like misty meadows milking station
Hi how are you doing
what about jersey cows arnt they high in cream ?
Keep it up man!❤
Hopefully that burnt straw that you soaked down and put back into the pile was dry enough from the hose before you pushed it in that pile. It catches fire because of the combustion and that it’s wet. 😬
Love from india
Try breeding lineback
You and your Father are Dairy Farmers. Your livestock is very content. Remember, HAPPY COWS produce more MILK.
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I am tickled to death that you take a full swath when you mow!! 3/4 of the time that inside spinner never sees any hay when people mow...
What do you think about the situation in Israel?
Man i thought you had a good size operation going.... "I was way off.." -Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dummer. Lol but ill add i dont know anything about any find of farming.
its weird to see cows in sheds our cows in australia are free range
Free range is not necessary
How many cows are you guys are milking?
I think it's around 250.
5th cutting 👍
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Hi bro great job I am from India
Wasnt saskdutchkid ther
Dud you see him?
Hello sir iam interested dairy farm i have 10 years exprence i work saudi almarai company dairy farm you help me please
M frm. India m big fan f u
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This is not a natural habitat your lucky superman isn't landing on your farm and destroying you and it
I guess cities aren't a natural habitat for people either. Yes hopefully superman does not land here.
Yeah but you have your genitals in the ciity and your mom and dad and brothers and siisters correct does he have them with him? @@10thgenerationdairyman61
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get robots
less labor
Keep the milk price low
It would be nice if you actually had a talk with the folks at the rotary milking place, and not just a hastily walkby. You could have made a much better video if you added a personal touch to it.
SaskDutch Kid has done some farm tours with interviews.
Blech, but that was too much with the roratry milker. I know it's probably pure sentimentality on my part but I don't like it when farms becomse so big that they become like a factory and cows get treated like soemthing on an assemblyline. I suppose it's a necessary eve ill to meet the food demand but something about it just goes against the grain with me. I much prefer the family farm that's not just mass produce everything. They're rapidly disappearing and it's a pity.
In less than 100 years in the future humanity will frown at seeing these videos.
The way we treat animals and the planet will drastically change soon.
@@DamienAlexander Yes and it's sad to see. Family farms are either giving over to these factory like methods or disappearing fast. Supply and demand, I guess. World population needs to be fed so I can't really protest but something's lost when something's gained.
I found this channel because I was writing a multigenerational story centered on a dairy farm. My mother's family would laugh at only 10 generations in. They've been farming in upstate NY since 1600s and as far back as they can trace in England before that but most of my uncles sold out and went to work for GE in the 70s except one and I have very fond memories of that farm. For the start of the story, I was fine working from memory of a summer I spent on that farm but when I got to the grandson 50 years later, grandson that would be Eric's generation - and 50 years since I left country for city - I said I need to know how things have changed and came to see if cows and milking machines had changed, suspecting they had. I figured they had to have computer components and all now and yep big changes.
Like this channel for still being rather family and not too big but if the farm goes all carousel milking and other mass efforts, it's going to lose me. I follow it and two teens on smaller family dairy farms. Was specifically interested in family dairy farms because my family were dairy farmers. I think it's a pity that except for one branch, they abandoned farming in the 70s.
Sorry this reply got so long.
Bkaze, who cares what you want. It is his video and it was great
@@daveklein2826 Calm down, no one here's angry but you. JFC, over-react to one person's mildly expressed opinion much?
your barn didnt burn down because you have jesus on your team. thats the only way.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no, they had water
Believed your farm started in Canada but now u
Are in penn.😮
Eric, you make some really great videos. Thank you and your family for all that you do buddy
Keep your head and hooves inside at all times! As soon as you showed that farm I recognized it as Rohrer Dairy Productions. Ashlyn has a great personality which really makes his channel fun to watch.
Congratulations on 425k !