Never farmed before, nor do I ever plan to, but I can certainly appreciate the Herculean effort and cost associated with doing that. Thank you farmers! ✊🏻
The cost is off the scale ...... nothing to burn $3-5,000 worth of diesel daily driving $5,000,000 worth of equipment... farm land varies around the world but where I live ... $18-20,000 per acre. Most farmers have at least 1,500 acres .. some 8,000 acres .... BIG business ....
All celebs, poop , all of us poop , weather one rides a bmw or not, no one pious , I killed many ants this morning , while walking , stepped on their colony , we kill bugs with car windshields, we all are products of sin , we got gut bacteria , too.. we are polluters ..
Did not see a single person work hard. Think all the tractors have AC and radio. The chairs are better then the one i'm sitting on right now. I removed manure in stables with my hands. This is a fully automated process. Working hard can also be done in Combodia or other countries. That's why the expensive horses are in Holland. It's just basic economics.
Tbf. No industry has so much mechanical support compared to farming. That's why they do so much. Because they can. Go back 100 years n theid work just as hard for a fraction of the output. Machineries does ALOT of the heavy lifting in farming.
This is interesting, I do this a bit different here in the UK. I fill 44m3 tank on a trailer with liquid manure that's pulled along side me & attached to the sprayer that pumps it out using the attached pump. Makes life a lot easier fertilising a 500 acre field. Not sure how big the field is in the video unless I missed it. Just feels like a lot of work that could be avoided.
This was not what I was expecting. I thought I was going to watch a big tank of cow doodies swirling around for 10 minutes. I actually learned a little bit....😂
In Ohio due to our clay levels, we sub soil ours, no one here does surface application due to run off, flies and odor control. Nice to see how other operations are run.
Hi Lance. Welcome to the channel and your nice compliment. Background music synced to the video seems to be a hate/love situation for my viewers. Without taking a survey, I'm not really sure which one the viewers like best! So, I've started to use a GoPro more to get real-time background sounds and then background music when there's no audio. We'll do that for a while .. Let me know what you think about this approach ...
Interesting thought. If you do some research, you'll realize that what you call organic in the US wouldn't pass any organic criteria in Europe, Asia, or Australia.
@@YossiaNorth you are absolutely correct. No other country in the world accepts US organic as organic. Another interesting fact I learned is if you are a farmer in Russia caught growing anything gmo, you will be arrested and they seize your farm ground. Hmmmm
I'm amazed they use long hoses like that rather than tank trailers get it to the fields. I'll have to watch when the farmer across the road from me does it next time. Regards from near Carleton Place!
Hoses can be 4-5km ...usually local roads restrict the distance when they use tankers. I posted a few videos from Carleton Place last fall .. the 'Big Guns'
@@farmerdrone So the advantage of the dragline is you can continuously apply the manure, whereas the tanks have to keep going back for refills? I was wondering the same thing.
@@electrolytics First consideration is field location vs lagoon location. If the field can be reached by hose .. no bush, roads, creeks etc .. then dragline. If the field is a far distance and has obstacles .. roads etc .. then tankers .. but, Nitrogen dissipates quickly .. especially if sprayed into the air. Laying the manure gently on the ground and quickly working it into the soil preserves the most. Injecting it into the ground is even better.
After living on a farm most of my life, I can confidently say I appreciate watching this from my computer and not in person. I can still smell it tho..
@@farmerdrone Thanks Nice to learn something new at 72. The farmer had an old wooden tank about 550-800 gallon and would gravity off load it. The mixture was like that that was spread on your fields. My parents had a 610 acre dairy farm up in Northern Vermont . The barn burned down before I was born and then our family moved to Connecticut. Still to this day I like the smell of manure well from a distance. Farming tough and I would shake your hand if I was there and hand you a cold beer.. Thanks again be safe
Think also it's great. It very flat there. No trees or other obstacles and the land directly there and not a couple of km away. Some goes for the farming in America with these large irrigation booms. Works great and very cost effective. But i would have blown some air in the manure and mixed it continueasly. You can actually run a old engine on his stuff, to make it almost free. Just make a starting batch in a clean environment with the right bacteria and fungus. Will be great fertiliseren in a very short time period. (Assuming the manure gets hot enough).
Hello from Germany, we have a farmer next small town, he pumps the manure out of the roung basin into a big Dom. Here comes the metan gas out into a turbin generator. The Generator make Elektricity. This Elektricity goes into the net.
Hallo Deutschland und vielen Dank für Deinen Besuch auf dem Kanal und für Deinen Kommentar. Das ist eine gute Idee, die Ihr Nachbar gemacht hat. Es ist sehr teuer, hier in Kanada etwas zu unternehmen, und es ist stark reguliert. In ein paar Tagen, am Freitag, erscheint ein neues Video, das eine Idee zeigt, die wir hier umsetzen. Aber teuer (14.000.000 $). Alles Gute ..
Farmers are the real heroes in all countries. This makes my years of military service worth it. We need to honor our farming soldiers, who feed us all. I salute you.
Here in Chile we use sprayers. It seems a lot simpler. Also you find that there are Ag Services that you can contract to come in with their tank sprayers and do the whole job. Jim
Hi Chile ! Welcome to the channel. Great to hear from you.... we use both here. Usually dragline (like the video) when the field is in reach of the equipment and tankers when it's not. I have a tanker video coming out shortly ...
As before, I find your access and professional presentation outstanding. What an interesting insight into the cycle of the goings-on at the large farm. Re-using the residues of animal waste efficiently for fertilizer, good idea!
Thanks a lot for your comments ... I get a lot of help and interest from the farms making my efforts to produce these videos a lot easier ... great farmers and awesome to be in, on and close to this big equipment !
Thank you for a good documentary, I didn't realize just how much manure is collected and how it was used on that scale. Real eye opener, I don't think enough of us even understand the hard ship and challenges of farming, we only hear how markets profit, and farmers get screwed by politics.
We run underground pipes around farms here in New Zealand with hydrants in the paddocks. Then irrigators run from the hydrants. Big pumps then drain the holding tanks.
Little wonder food is so expensive. Fewer people are willing to do the work and invest the money to make it all work. Maybe if & when we get hungry enough we'll pitch in & help feed the world. Thank you for showing some of the hard work of some of our "farmers".
More people are willing than you think the main thing keeping them away is the outrageous price of land. In most places you can't get 1 acre for under 10K on the cheap side. Times that by 100 you're a Million deep before even 1 cow is bought.
@@irreccon you're right ! ... around here, farm land is 20K an acre and the farmers I know have 2,500-8,000 acres ! Then, there's the cost of 200-700 head of producing cows and an equal number of young and dry cows. Then, there's milk quota costs.. The price of milk quota in Ontario is around $24,000 per kilogram of butterfat, or roughly per cow. This price can vary by location. For example, in British Columbia, the price of quota is $42,500 per cow. Plus barns, equipment and on .. and on .. and on ...
When I was stationed in Holland in the late 80's we called those field sprayers "Honey Wagons". Let me tell you, it's almost strong enough to make you vomit.
Midwest USA we use a similar system but use a geared trolley sprayer and it’s cable play out anchored to a tractor can cover 50 acres wide and 200 long in a 24 hr shot
The impeller is about the same size as the one on our Cummins QSK60 2,700 hp fire pump supplying 2 fire monitors pumping 5,300 GPM each. My crew utilized both on the Deepwater Horizon fire in the Gulf of Mexico.
I move water for oil well fracks. I wish we had larger spools of lay flat pipe. Ours are 1/4 mile lengths but 10-12” in diameter. At times we move up to 22K Liters a minute. Or 140 bbls a min
@channel_machines I don't think they're polluted cuz they're totally natural and safe for both the soil and the environment cuz chemical fertilizers are devastating for soil as it ruins the soil
I guess with the price of fertilizer this is a cheaper alternative ... Would he nice to know a bit of info like how often the tank is empty and how many fields it covers and how soon after spraying can they plan ... And do they roate this on fields etc...
tanks are emptied twice per year. About 3600 gallons per acre ... 1.2million gallon tank ... 333 acres ... cultivated the next day and planting right after that. Crop rotation is a common practice ...
It's a 1,200,000 gallon manure tank, emptied 2-3 times a year. With a herd size of about 160 producing Holsteins, plus the same number of calves, heifers and dry cows, an average Ontario farm can produce 1,720,000 Kg. of milk annually ...
Very good question .. since lagoons are pumped out .. on average .. 2-3 times a year and we don't get torrential rains like other parts of the world, above average rainfall doesn't affect things too much..
I can smell it from here.....in the UK !! over here, slurry is more than likely injected straight out of a tanker, stink stays put where it was injected, in the ground
@pw135 There is no pasture .... all land is planted with crops.... the crops need fertilizing... best .most natural fertilizer is ... manure ... which is put on the fields, worked into the ground and the crop is planted....
@pw135 also, these are dairy cows.... milked by robotics... How on earth would that work with 400 cows wandering around a 500 acre field! Also, the 500 acres of land is worth 10 million dollars ! If you think a 12 string guitar is fine tuned .... try farming ...
I wonder why not use some type of Slurry Liquid Manure Tanker? Wouldn't this be a more cost-effective solution than replacing miles of expensive hose every few years?
@dawmro Both services are available here. I have not questioned why either is used, but I am about to release a video about the usage of tankers. It's obvious if the fields are a long distance from the lagoon, tankers have to be used.
@@farmerdrone Thanks for answer! I suspected that distance would be the biggest factor. If you could gather some numbers and do comparison of feasibility, cost-effectiveness, initial and running costs and ease of use of those two systems, it could make for interesting content and answer some questions.
Have you not considered building membrane digesters to ferment this manure and produce biogas? The biogas can be used for cooking, heating, etc., and it also reduces the odor of the manure.
@@farmerdrone I saw that episode. Are these cow dungs transported to the biogas treatment plant, where they ferment them for free and then take them back?
@@farmerdrone nope..I'm in the Philippines..I do farming too but still learning..I worked in a worldwide seagoing cargo vessel for 13 years but i decided to settle and do some farming😊
It would be cool to see what pumping this onto row's mulched of wood chipboard and greenery and turned into a compost for spreding more organic matter on the paddock 🤔
Out of curiosity, is anaerobic digestion ever used with the manure? You get methane which can run a generator and power the dairy/sell electricity, and it reduces the volume of effluent. Solids can get taken off which would be easier to spread, and effluent which could be pumped around easier or used with tankers. (Don't quote me on this, been a while since I've read up on it, but its a good way to treat manure and get energy out at the same time) Sure, big upfront cost, but given the capital involved in that hose and the effort required to set all that up I'd imagine it'd pay itself off reasonably quick, especially with the power generation side.
The cost is beyond reach .. $11M .. for most farmers but there are BioDigesters being built now to service 1800 cows. See my previous video on my channel. The digester produces methane gas and the manure fertilizer goes back to the farmer. Each unit can service 5-8 farms ...
The hoses are cleaned out by inserting a sponge ball into the line and it is pushed through the line by compressed air (see video). The hose pickup is about the same as a garden hose reel ...
Man, just a thought that lies in my head, the smell is too bad or at the end is tolerable? Just a city geek talking here, thank you for this amazing videos what a lovely life
10:00 The shaftcover shall be fixed and not spinning to avoid infury or death. It could be penalized as a worksafety rule violation. Be smart an dont die over a tank of shit :)
When I was a kid, outside of town was a large farm. Fast forward 40 years when the city has now encroached on the farm. Spring rolls around and so does the annual fertilization of the fields with manure. Neighbours complain like crazy trying to force the farmer to stop this practice…no luck. He was there first and his land zoned as agricultural. Funny to watch though.
@@Renard380 I have a reality video in the works where the video starts with the pouring of a glass of milk and then backtracking to where the milk came from in the first place. It'll be an eyeopener for some ..
Nice and informative video, but I'm sure with an exhaustive search you could find music that is maybe one or two percent more irritating. Maybe not, though!
@frankfreeman1444 😂 well Frank, I have spent countless hours doing just that. It always boiled down to the old quote that you can't please all the people all the time. I am open minded and I have 2 ears and only one mouth. What would you suggest?
@@farmerdrone No way! That's 660 kg of N per Ha which is essentially severe soil pollution and OMofE would shut you down right quick! Perhaps it was 0.3%? 🤔
@@eve-marie6751 nutrients in 1,000 gallons of liquid dairy manure might contain 33 lb of total nitrogen, 13 lb of total phosphorus (as P2O5) and 31 lb of total potassium (as K20)..... about 3%
@@farmerdrone Sorry, no:- 1000 Imperial gallons of plain water weigh at least 10,000 lbs so that much manure would weigh more:- however 33 lb N divided by only 10,000 lb = 0.33% so you're off a decimal place. Sorry, no gold star for you today, Miss Lulu, your eternal Grade Six teacher, is greatly disappointed in you! 🙁
@@Adam-bn6er $450,000 tankers plus $800,000 tractor plus $100,000 application hardware and software.... to use twice a year... Pumping for 1 million gallons is in the $10-15K range .....
Damn. I grew up on horse farms. We had a manure pile that I'd attack with the bucket on our John Deere 2120 to fill up the manure spreader a ton or so at a time. This? Holy cow that is a smelly nightmare!
@@farmerdrone Really? Do you go passive aggressive to every person who leaves a relatable, on topic comment that your brain apparently misinterprets? Damn dude lol. And yes, even on little horse farms like ours and every pig / cow farm on the planet, the entire AREA wreaks to high heaven when it's manure spreading time. What is wrong with you anyway?
I bet your neighbors love you during this week lol. I live in a farming town and the farm down the road use to get loads of Polaroid waste back in the day. The smell was so putrid for two weeks people had to leave their homes and go to a hotel. This happened for 4 years before the community put a stop to it. It was so bad your eyes watered just driving past. What’s crazy is how well his harvest was during those years.
As farms became more efficient/compact and land was available, residential housing started springing up. People who got their food from foam trays in plastic wrap started complaining about the smell of manure during spraying. Mostly pig in our area. Farmers DID adjust thier methods to adapt to this... at thier own cost ..... but people still complained. The municipal council replied "You shouldn't have built a house next to farmland preceding you by hundreds of years!"😂
When I lived in Norway, they did this with sheep manure every Spring. The whole country stunk for weeks! And the solids agitated in the tank do not dissolve, it is just suspended in the liquid.
I hope that's not why you moved!. With all the 'smelly' comments I get, it doesn't really smell that much and in a days time, it's gone ... worked into the soil ...
So ist das halt auf dem Land da stinkt es halt mal. Bei uns ist ja ab nächstes Jahr nur noch Boden nahe Ausbringung erlaubt. Aber die Leute Regen sich ja auch auf wenn der Hahn kräht oder in den Alpen gibt's so gar klagen gegen die Kuh Glocken die Leute sind nichts mehr gewohnt. Und haben nix mehr mit der Landwirtschaft zu tun
Der Mist wird beim Ausbringen dosiert und die Durchflussraten werden so eingestellt, dass sie dem Feld den erforderlichen Stickstoff, Kalium und Phosphor liefern ... normalerweise zwischen 3500 und 4000 US-Gallonen pro Hektar.
The hose is laid to the farthest distance then connected to the distributor tractor which drags it back in the opposite direction. The second tractor with the big reel at the back pushes the hose around and into position preventing the hose being dragged. I'm guessing only 300-500 yards/ meters of hose is actually dragged...
Being downwind of that operation gives a whole new meaning to the term " Fresh country air "
gotta love it !
Hah... I grew up living down range of a chicken farm. This would have been way better!
There is nothing like the smell of home
Cows don't smell that bad. Try a French cheese factory. Or birds.
Can’t believe we all eat dung and there’s just no other way
Never farmed before, nor do I ever plan to, but I can certainly appreciate the Herculean effort and cost associated with doing that. Thank you farmers! ✊🏻
The cost is off the scale ...... nothing to burn $3-5,000 worth of diesel daily driving $5,000,000 worth of equipment... farm land varies around the world but where I live ... $18-20,000 per acre. Most farmers have at least 1,500 acres .. some 8,000 acres .... BIG business ....
@@farmerdrone I can’t say I’m surprised with such costs. Egad!
When Hercules cleaned the poop he just redirected the river. Can we still do that?
@@farmerdrone With that much manure you can set up your own biogas production plant and start making some electricity XD. Damn thats a lot.
@@jacobfurnish7450 Sounds like the right idea but just one holdback .... the $14,000,000 set up cost!
You can say they got their sh*t together👍
I'd say they do ... great crew ...
Actually they spread their shit apart they didn’t put it together hehehe
😂😂😂😂 fr fr
I can literally smell it from Manchester, UK 😉 Reminder of childhood holidays on the countryside.
ya .. our winds would probably push it that far ! welcome ..
I can only imagine the scent of freshly bloomed flowers .... 5 million liters of perfume :D
🤢🤮🤮🤮
All celebs, poop , all of us poop , weather one rides a bmw or not, no one pious , I killed many ants this morning , while walking , stepped on their colony , we kill bugs with car windshields, we all are products of sin , we got gut bacteria , too.. we are polluters ..
Farmers dont get enough respect for the amount of work they do none stop, they are always nice and smiling and most of all are HEROS!!!!!!!!!
I think you're going to get a lot of likes from this comment !
Farmers are welfare queen crybabies
Did not see a single person work hard. Think all the tractors have AC and radio. The chairs are better then the one i'm sitting on right now. I removed manure in stables with my hands. This is a fully automated process. Working hard can also be done in Combodia or other countries. That's why the expensive horses are in Holland. It's just basic economics.
Tbf. No industry has so much mechanical support compared to farming. That's why they do so much. Because they can.
Go back 100 years n theid work just as hard for a fraction of the output.
Machineries does ALOT of the heavy lifting in farming.
@@SD-vy7gj For sure ... but it costs a fortune !
This is interesting, I do this a bit different here in the UK. I fill 44m3 tank on a trailer with liquid manure that's pulled along side me & attached to the sprayer that pumps it out using the attached pump. Makes life a lot easier fertilising a 500 acre field. Not sure how big the field is in the video unless I missed it. Just feels like a lot of work that could be avoided.
There certainly are different methods used around the world. This is just one of them...
This was not what I was expecting. I thought I was going to watch a big tank of cow doodies swirling around for 10 minutes. I actually learned a little bit....😂
@randomconsumer510 😅 glad to hear that! ... the tank will be pumped again tomorrow ( twice a year) and I'll be there.....!
@farmerdrone be sure to get good footage of the poop smoothie!
@@farmerdronetwice a year, wow
In Ohio due to our clay levels, we sub soil ours, no one here does surface application due to run off, flies and odor control. Nice to see how other operations are run.
thanks for the comment, John ,,,
Better done in ohio!
I really like all the details. No one else does this!
Thanks for the comment. I thought the same so that's why I'm giving it a shot!
@@farmerdroneits a great video
I appreciate the subtle background music... It really compliments the well paced edit
Hi Lance. Welcome to the channel and your nice compliment. Background music synced to the video seems to be a hate/love situation for my viewers. Without taking a survey, I'm not really sure which one the viewers like best! So, I've started to use a GoPro more to get real-time background sounds and then background music when there's no audio. We'll do that for a while .. Let me know what you think about this approach ...
Very interesting, thank you for you're time and effort. Great upload.
thanks very much ... lots of travelling and flying time and mega hours on post production editing ..!
I just wonder how many people don't know what organic means. Awesome design and development of an awesome earthy function
For sure
Everyone who says "this is organic food" has no idea what organic means.
Interesting thought. If you do some research, you'll realize that what you call organic in the US wouldn't pass any organic criteria in Europe, Asia, or Australia.
@@YossiaNorth you are absolutely correct. No other country in the world accepts US organic as organic. Another interesting fact I learned is if you are a farmer in Russia caught growing anything gmo, you will be arrested and they seize your farm ground. Hmmmm
time to move to Ukraine ...
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I'm amazed they use long hoses like that rather than tank trailers get it to the fields. I'll have to watch when the farmer across the road from me does it next time. Regards from near Carleton Place!
Hoses can be 4-5km ...usually local roads restrict the distance when they use tankers. I posted a few videos from Carleton Place last fall .. the 'Big Guns'
@@farmerdrone That makes sense - I'm guessing much quicker if you can use a hose. But 5km - wow! I'll look for the videos from my neighbourhood!
Less ground compression!
@@MrDriftspirit I never thought of that - that would be an issue particularity when the ground is wet.
Fascinating. I wonder the cost effectiveness of this method over the tanker/sprayers I see over here.
We dragline if it's a clean path to the fields. Tanker if we have to cross roads, fields etc ....
@@farmerdrone So the advantage of the dragline is you can continuously apply the manure, whereas the tanks have to keep going back for refills? I was wondering the same thing.
@@electrolytics First consideration is field location vs lagoon location. If the field can be reached by hose .. no bush, roads, creeks etc .. then dragline. If the field is a far distance and has obstacles .. roads etc .. then tankers .. but, Nitrogen dissipates quickly .. especially if sprayed into the air. Laying the manure gently on the ground and quickly working it into the soil preserves the most. Injecting it into the ground is even better.
Taking the term "Full of shit" to a entirely new level 😅🤣
Holy crap! Beautiful. Smells like success!
Smelt like money!
After living on a farm most of my life, I can confidently say I appreciate watching this from my computer and not in person. I can still smell it tho..
I hear you ... thanks for posting this ...
wow. thanks for sharing. Really interesting and informative.
Thanks Keith .. much appreciated...
I can smell that tank all the way from California.
😅 winds are from the west here .... wrong farm .....
@@farmerdrone The smell must have circled the globe. 😆
This is probably one of the jobs I really wouldn't like to do
You gotta love farming...
Shitty job no doubt 😅
@@farmerdroneIn this case, dairy farming in particular. Other types of farming don't do this.
@TehButterflyEffect yes... correct. Dairy is more like liquid manure where as beef is more solid....
@@farmerdrone Thanks Nice to learn something new at 72. The farmer had an old wooden tank about 550-800 gallon and would gravity off load it. The mixture was like that that was spread on your fields. My parents had a 610 acre dairy farm up in Northern Vermont . The barn burned down before I was born and then our family moved to Connecticut. Still to this day I like the smell of manure well from a distance. Farming tough and I would shake your hand if I was there and hand you a cold beer.. Thanks again be safe
Intresting. Never seen Manure spread this way. (I am the son of a Farmer in Germany)
This method will be fazed out as bio digesters are erected across the dairy farmland ... see my latest videos ..
Think also it's great. It very flat there. No trees or other obstacles and the land directly there and not a couple of km away. Some goes for the farming in America with these large irrigation booms. Works great and very cost effective. But i would have blown some air in the manure and mixed it continueasly. You can actually run a old engine on his stuff, to make it almost free. Just make a starting batch in a clean environment with the right bacteria and fungus. Will be great fertiliseren in a very short time period. (Assuming the manure gets hot enough).
Good job. How long the manure have been fermenting or let decompose before spreading in the field? Thanks
6 months maximum.... it's liquid all the time except for a crust on the top, which is dissolved before pumping as the video shows
This is a pretty impressive system you have going on here. Very efficient and effective I’m sure.
It does the job.... 1.2 million gallons in 11 hrs....
"May the sun, always shine on your crops" 🥰
You like that, do you ... I say that after every video as my "audio signature" ..
Hello from Germany, we have a farmer next small town, he pumps the manure out of the roung basin into a big Dom. Here comes the metan gas out into a turbin generator. The Generator make Elektricity. This Elektricity goes into the net.
Hallo Deutschland und vielen Dank für Deinen Besuch auf dem Kanal und für Deinen Kommentar. Das ist eine gute Idee, die Ihr Nachbar gemacht hat. Es ist sehr teuer, hier in Kanada etwas zu unternehmen, und es ist stark reguliert. In ein paar Tagen, am Freitag, erscheint ein neues Video, das eine Idee zeigt, die wir hier umsetzen. Aber teuer (14.000.000 $).
Alles Gute ..
Mooi werk, de boer is troef!
With the nice smooth jazz music on this UA-cam video you can quite taste the unbelievable smell this must create
Not much smell this way and it's worked into the ground the next day
smelly jazz
Farmers are the real heroes in all countries. This makes my years of military service worth it. We need to honor our farming soldiers, who feed us all. I salute you.
Thanks for your post. I'll be passing it around to the farmers I meet.
As a Veteran and a machinist of 50 years and welder. Worked on a lot of farm equipment. Very Frugal people.
@@michaelburns9172 thanks for tuning in Mike and your comment. Enjoy retirement ...
Here in Chile we use sprayers.
It seems a lot simpler. Also you find that there are Ag Services that you can contract to come in with their tank sprayers and do the whole job. Jim
Hi Chile ! Welcome to the channel. Great to hear from you.... we use both here. Usually dragline (like the video) when the field is in reach of the equipment and tankers when it's not. I have a tanker video coming out shortly ...
@@farmerdrone thank you kindly. Jim
If a Dutch farmer does it this way he will probably end up in Jail. Here you have to inject the manure into the ground in a much smaller amount.
I guess that's one of the reasons most of the Dutch farmers are here in Canada .. farming ..
They spray so much toxin in the shit anyway here it doesnt really matter anymore
Nope ...
I thought they sprayed it all on their government buildings 😂
Good thing this isn't a Dutch farming video then huh?
Not like the video had CANADIAN FARMER in the title or anything
As before, I find your access and professional presentation outstanding. What an interesting insight into the cycle of the goings-on at the large farm. Re-using the residues of animal waste efficiently for fertilizer, good idea!
Thanks a lot for your comments ... I get a lot of help and interest from the farms making my efforts to produce these videos a lot easier ... great farmers and awesome to be in, on and close to this big equipment !
There is a lot of good fertilizer in that pond
Absolutely correct
Better than the chemical fertilizers for sure! All natural cow manure!!
Ahhh the stench of manure in the morning. Reminds me of Southern California
😂😂😂
Super effort by all concerned very well done.xfrom U Kingdom.x
I'll pass that on to the crew .. thanks
Thank you for a good documentary, I didn't realize just how much manure is collected and how it was used on that scale. Real eye opener, I don't think enough of us even understand the hard ship and challenges of farming, we only hear how markets profit, and farmers get screwed by politics.
Thanks for watching ...and you are right ... Farming is challenging.
We run underground pipes around farms here in New Zealand with hydrants in the paddocks. Then irrigators run from the hydrants. Big pumps then drain the holding tanks.
Sounds like a good idea
Thank goodness to didn't film in "smelly vision".
I have that new equipment on order ...
GREAT JOB LOVE YOUR VIDEOS HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY
Thanks! You too!
We need to get these guys to Washington DC right away!
Perhaps ... but .. their very busy in Ottawa right now .....
Little wonder food is so expensive. Fewer people are willing to do the work and invest the money to make it all work. Maybe if & when we get hungry enough we'll pitch in & help feed the world. Thank you for showing some of the hard work of some of our "farmers".
More people are willing than you think the main thing keeping them away is the outrageous price of land. In most places you can't get 1 acre for under 10K on the cheap side. Times that by 100 you're a Million deep before even 1 cow is bought.
@@irreccon you're right ! ... around here, farm land is 20K an acre and the farmers I know have 2,500-8,000 acres ! Then, there's the cost of 200-700 head of producing cows and an equal number of young and dry cows. Then, there's milk quota costs.. The price of milk quota in Ontario is around $24,000 per kilogram of butterfat, or roughly per cow. This price can vary by location. For example, in British Columbia, the price of quota is $42,500 per cow. Plus barns, equipment and on .. and on .. and on ...
@@farmerdroneall thanks to big government, always making food prices artificially high just so they can get reelected to fix the problems they create
When I was stationed in Holland in the late 80's we called those field sprayers "Honey Wagons". Let me tell you, it's almost strong enough to make you vomit.
Could you imagine the amount of torque that's being put on that boom
More than a little bit! Expensive hose and lasts 2 years ...
This video proves that proper swimming pool maintenance is essential
Yes! .. You are correct ...
Midwest USA we use a similar system but use a geared trolley sprayer and it’s cable play out anchored to a tractor can cover 50 acres wide and 200 long in a 24 hr shot
Hi Troy ... wow .. I'd love to se a video of such a big operation. I've seen lagoons that must be 50,000,000 gallons so, it's got to go somewhere!
The impeller is about the same size as the one on our Cummins QSK60 2,700 hp fire pump supplying 2 fire monitors pumping 5,300 GPM each. My crew utilized both on the Deepwater Horizon fire in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wow, that's impressive! Thanks for sharing your experience.
I move water for oil well fracks. I wish we had larger spools of lay flat pipe. Ours are 1/4 mile lengths but 10-12” in diameter. At times we move up to 22K Liters a minute. Or 140 bbls a min
Thanks for this. Always interesting to see and hear things the general public is not aware of...
These manures are amazing fertilizer they are amazing for the crops and soil
It's only polluted during harvesting, right?
@channel_machines I don't think they're polluted cuz they're totally natural and safe for both the soil and the environment cuz chemical fertilizers are devastating for soil as it ruins the soil
@@Mrbutters03 I know that, I'm just curious how you can build it on such a large scale, do you need engineers?
Ive come to learn the different smell in the air when slurry goes down versus manure. Delicious stuff.... /s
You and me both!
Really inspiring, thank you
Thanks for watching!
Salute to the Farmers.
WEF hands off, or the world will be starving.
What cologne are you wearing? That's midnight pasture, you like?
yes it is ! soon to be in fragrance salons everywhere .. !
I guess with the price of fertilizer this is a cheaper alternative ...
Would he nice to know a bit of info like how often the tank is empty and how many fields it covers and how soon after spraying can they plan ... And do they roate this on fields etc...
tanks are emptied twice per year. About 3600 gallons per acre ... 1.2million gallon tank ... 333 acres ... cultivated the next day and planting right after that. Crop rotation is a common practice ...
50K gallon lagoon made how many tons of milk?
It's a 1,200,000 gallon manure tank, emptied 2-3 times a year. With a herd size of about 160 producing Holsteins, plus the same number of calves, heifers and dry cows, an average Ontario farm can produce 1,720,000 Kg. of milk annually ...
Does rain fall raise the level of the tank faster then evaporation lowers the level of the tank? Thanks.
Very good question .. since lagoons are pumped out .. on average .. 2-3 times a year and we don't get torrential rains like other parts of the world, above average rainfall doesn't affect things too much..
@@farmerdrone That is a lot of work, thanks.
Mmmm. Lovely, lovely fertilizer. Can I have some for my home garden?
absolutely! take all you want ..!!
Good system 😊
Glad you think so!
I can smell it from here.....in the UK !! over here, slurry is more than likely injected straight out of a tanker, stink stays put where it was injected, in the ground
Hi Andy thanks for tuning into the channel... //yes .. directly injected is a good procedure ...
Does having a holding tank under the barn keep it warmer in the barn?
No ... the decomposing manure gives off heat .. both under the barn and in the lagoon.
@farmerdrone so then Yes? It does keep it warmer in the barn?
@@Susannasbythebay the temperature difference has never been checked ... doesn't matter ...
So what happens when you have torrential rains , with too much run off of rainfall ???
The effluent is cultivated after application. Rainfall is absorbed it doesn't runoff as most land is tile drained
@@farmerdronelet them out on pasture.
@pw135 There is no pasture .... all land is planted with crops.... the crops need fertilizing... best .most natural fertilizer is ... manure ... which is put on the fields, worked into the ground and the crop is planted....
@pw135 also, these are dairy cows.... milked by robotics... How on earth would that work with 400 cows wandering around a 500 acre field! Also, the 500 acres of land is worth 10 million dollars ! If you think a 12 string guitar is fine tuned .... try farming ...
How much can this machine harvest per hour?
I wonder why not use some type of Slurry Liquid Manure Tanker? Wouldn't this be a more cost-effective solution than replacing miles of expensive hose every few years?
@dawmro Both services are available here. I have not questioned why either is used, but I am about to release a video about the usage of tankers. It's obvious if the fields are a long distance from the lagoon, tankers have to be used.
@@farmerdrone Thanks for answer! I suspected that distance would be the biggest factor. If you could gather some numbers and do comparison of feasibility, cost-effectiveness, initial and running costs and ease of use of those two systems, it could make for interesting content and answer some questions.
Have you not considered building membrane digesters to ferment this manure and produce biogas? The biogas can be used for cooking, heating, etc., and it also reduces the odor of the manure.
Cost.... $11M for a digester. See my BioDigester video from 3 months ago
@@farmerdrone I saw that episode. Are these cow dungs transported to the biogas treatment plant, where they ferment them for free and then take them back?
i'd love to work there..i can learn a lot👏👏
do you live in Canada?
@@farmerdrone nope..I'm in the Philippines..I do farming too but still learning..I worked in a worldwide seagoing cargo vessel for 13 years but i decided to settle and do some farming😊
How are you not ruining the ground water for miles around?
the manure hardly dampens the ground ....and is cultivated into the top 4" of soil for fertilizer. nowhere near the water table ....
It would be cool to see what pumping this onto row's mulched of wood chipboard and greenery and turned into a compost for spreding more organic matter on the paddock 🤔
wood chipboard is highly toxic as it is manufactured with glues and creosotes. Definitely a no-no ...
Out of curiosity, is anaerobic digestion ever used with the manure? You get methane which can run a generator and power the dairy/sell electricity, and it reduces the volume of effluent. Solids can get taken off which would be easier to spread, and effluent which could be pumped around easier or used with tankers. (Don't quote me on this, been a while since I've read up on it, but its a good way to treat manure and get energy out at the same time)
Sure, big upfront cost, but given the capital involved in that hose and the effort required to set all that up I'd imagine it'd pay itself off reasonably quick, especially with the power generation side.
The cost is beyond reach .. $11M .. for most farmers but there are BioDigesters being built now to service 1800 cows. See my previous video on my channel. The digester produces methane gas and the manure fertilizer goes back to the farmer. Each unit can service 5-8 farms ...
@farmerdrone Oh that's way more than I expected, wild. Thanks for the reply, I'll check out your other vids!
I would love to know how the hoses are cleaned out and packed up. They must be enormously heavy with material in them
The hoses are cleaned out by inserting a sponge ball into the line and it is pushed through the line by compressed air (see video). The hose pickup is about the same as a garden hose reel ...
There is still alot of solids on the bottom ive worked for a liquid manure company and we always got 97% of the solids out of the tanks or lagoons
Man, just a thought that lies in my head, the smell is too bad or at the end is tolerable? Just a city geek talking here, thank you for this amazing videos what a lovely life
The smell is tolerable ... 😅
@@farmerdrone gotcha! Hahaha must be a gift for the soil that goodness! Thanks for the answer! Gonna keep watching the videos its late here in Europe!
@@jonviga You'll be up all night! I have 180 videos .. 😂
@@farmerdrone down for it then!
10:00 The shaftcover shall be fixed and not spinning to avoid infury or death. It could be penalized as a worksafety rule violation. Be smart an dont die over a tank of shit :)
thanks for the advice ...
My neighbour died because of that
I went to school with kid in the 70s, his long hair got caught in a pto shaft and it ripped half his face off.
I can only imagine the pain ...
In Germany or Europe I think they are called honey trucks! 😂
I bet that smells great mixed. But once the crust forms the smell isnt that bad nornakky.
True... not much smell mixed and no smell capped ...
When I was a kid, outside of town was a large farm. Fast forward 40 years when the city has now encroached on the farm. Spring rolls around and so does the annual fertilization of the fields with manure. Neighbours complain like crazy trying to force the farmer to stop this practice…no luck. He was there first and his land zoned as agricultural. Funny to watch though.
Everyone knew they were buying a home near a farm.... leave the farmer alone....
Imagine complaining about someone feeding you....
@@Renard380 I have a reality video in the works where the video starts with the pouring of a glass of milk and then backtracking to where the milk came from in the first place. It'll be an eyeopener for some ..
I bet changing that fuel line, if done in that location, was a wonderful experience.
🤣🤣 actually, I can't print any of the words used ...!!😅
WHY most there be music all the F time??
I ageee. I just have no idea why these developers insist on inappropriate music.
For gods sake, delete the music, it’s annoying
That’s close to a million dollars of equipment. Now,,, the 4th tractor makes it near 1.5 million dollars of equipment
I’m turning the sound off,
What's the lifespan on those hoses? Dragging must really take a toll on them.
Good question... I don't know but I'll find out for both of us.....
lifespan of the 7" hose that is dragged is 2 years. The main 8" feed line from the tank to the field that is not dragged .. 8-10 years ....
@@farmerdrone wooow. 2 years isnt too bad of a lifespan for what happens to it. Appreciate the quick response!
Nice and informative video, but I'm sure with an exhaustive search you could find music that is maybe one or two percent more irritating. Maybe not, though!
@frankfreeman1444 😂 well Frank, I have spent countless hours doing just that. It always boiled down to the old quote that you can't please all the people all the time. I am open minded and I have 2 ears and only one mouth. What would you suggest?
I live around farms and muck spread season is quite the nasal experience l. I can only imagine what this would smell like.
Spraying the manure creates the most smell. Dragline irrigation is a lot less and it's worked into the ground after application
Hello i like work this field do you have any options
7:18 how many liters do you apply and how much nitrogen is that per hectare?
about 22,000 litres per Ha @ 3%N
@@farmerdrone No way! That's 660 kg of N per Ha which is essentially severe soil pollution and OMofE would shut you down right quick! Perhaps it was 0.3%? 🤔
@@eve-marie6751 nutrients in 1,000 gallons of liquid dairy manure might contain 33 lb of total nitrogen, 13 lb of total phosphorus (as P2O5) and 31 lb of total potassium (as K20)..... about 3%
@@farmerdrone Sorry, no:- 1000 Imperial gallons of plain water weigh at least 10,000 lbs so that much manure would weigh more:- however 33 lb N divided by only 10,000 lb = 0.33% so you're off a decimal place. Sorry, no gold star for you today, Miss Lulu, your eternal Grade Six teacher, is greatly disappointed in you! 🙁
@@eve-marie6751 Well, Miss Lulu has been dead for a long time now ... you forgot to deduct the dry matter ... so, the N remains at 3%
When turning, Can flow rate be adjusted on the inside of the turn radius to make coverage more uniform?
That's a good question... I don't know but will find out...
On newer planters yes, this application I have no idea. On most applications (lime, fertilizer) no
The answer is no... the 5 psi is even across the nozzles and is steady
Don't you guys do tillage after spreading manure?
Or is it a American thing not to do it?
Yes... immediately after application
Do the animals get to go outside?
No, dairy cows are kept indoors
it seems to me they put a lot on this field .
is this a normal application ?
It was a little heavy in one spot but it was plowed down within hours ...
@@farmerdrone
thanks for the rely , im not a farmer and was just curious .
Nice channel,new sub and hello from bonnie Scotland 🏴
Welcome ! Welcome! .. Our home country ... Motherwell ... now, get all my clansman .. Dalzell .. to subscribe ha ha ...
@@farmerdrone oh hahahaha awesome n i am in Glasgow
😂 we're damn near neighbors...
Nobody: “Evan, what are you doing?” Me: “Watching cow $hit get sprayed on a field for ten minutes” 😂
😂😂 14 minutes and 20 seconds if you watch it all ....😂😂😂 or ... you could watch it 2 or 3 times!! tell all your friends your new shitty hobby ...
@@farmerdrone😂😂😂
😂😂 I think this is my all-time favorite comment!! 😂😂
Isn't it better to buy a slurry tanker with an applicator?
@@Adam-bn6er $450,000 tankers plus $800,000 tractor plus $100,000 application hardware and software.... to use twice a year...
Pumping for 1 million gallons is in the $10-15K range .....
@@farmerdrone I think these amounts are inflated, you can always buy used equipment
Prices quoted is the price actually paid for the equipment in the video... Canadian dollars @@Adam-bn6er
Damn. I grew up on horse farms. We had a manure pile that I'd attack with the bucket on our John Deere 2120 to fill up the manure spreader a ton or so at a time. This? Holy cow that is a smelly nightmare!
Actually... no ... not much smell and it's cultivated into the ground right after...
You have great memories.... good for you 👍
@@farmerdrone Really? Do you go passive aggressive to every person who leaves a relatable, on topic comment that your brain apparently misinterprets? Damn dude lol. And yes, even on little horse farms like ours and every pig / cow farm on the planet, the entire AREA wreaks to high heaven when it's manure spreading time. What is wrong with you anyway?
Why don't you guys produce bio gas (Methane) for heating abf and cooking.
cost .... $11M for a BioDigester ... see one of my previous videos on the Digester
I bet your neighbors love you during this week lol. I live in a farming town and the farm down the road use to get loads of Polaroid waste back in the day. The smell was so putrid for two weeks people had to leave their homes and go to a hotel. This happened for 4 years before the community put a stop to it. It was so bad your eyes watered just driving past. What’s crazy is how well his harvest was during those years.
Mmmm ... not quite the same thing ...
As farms became more efficient/compact and land was available, residential housing started springing up. People who got their food from foam trays in plastic wrap started complaining about the smell of manure during spraying. Mostly pig in our area. Farmers DID adjust thier methods to adapt to this... at thier own cost ..... but people still complained. The municipal council replied "You shouldn't have built a house next to farmland preceding you by hundreds of years!"😂
That's a great point ... it's a shame some people don't understand what makes food possible.
You fertilize by dragging that hose all over? Hmmm
Yep ... it's all in the hose
When I lived in Norway, they did this with sheep manure every Spring. The whole country stunk for weeks! And the solids agitated in the tank do not dissolve, it is just suspended in the liquid.
I hope that's not why you moved!. With all the 'smelly' comments I get, it doesn't really smell that much and in a days time, it's gone ... worked into the soil ...
So ist das halt auf dem Land da stinkt es halt mal. Bei uns ist ja ab nächstes Jahr nur noch Boden nahe Ausbringung erlaubt. Aber die Leute Regen sich ja auch auf wenn der Hahn kräht oder in den Alpen gibt's so gar klagen gegen die Kuh Glocken die Leute sind nichts mehr gewohnt. Und haben nix mehr mit der Landwirtschaft zu tun
cool set up around my parts they just load up spreaders and have at it but they spread mostly chicken poo
Kommt bei uns auch so viel aufs Feld?
Der Mist wird beim Ausbringen dosiert und die Durchflussraten werden so eingestellt, dass sie dem Feld den erforderlichen Stickstoff, Kalium und Phosphor liefern ... normalerweise zwischen 3500 und 4000 US-Gallonen pro Hektar.
Good farm
Yes, thanks
how is it feasable to drag a 2 hundred fourty thousand dollar 3 mile hose across a field
The hose is laid to the farthest distance then connected to the distributor tractor which drags it back in the opposite direction. The second tractor with the big reel at the back pushes the hose around and into position preventing the hose being dragged. I'm guessing only 300-500 yards/ meters of hose is actually dragged...
Hardly seems worth it, I get it your saving on fertilisers. But how much are you spending to spread it?.
Not only is manure a perfect combo of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium , you still have to get rid of the manure.