Putting the grind on time and money. How and why we make our own cattle/pig feed on our small farm.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Keeping busy on the farm as usual. Its a cooler morning than we have had as of late on the farm. Logan and I move the pasture fence for the egg layers. After that weekly task is over its time to do the meet and greet with the cattle. We move the two Belted Galloway heifers to the main yard with the rest of the cattle. We wait and see how they all get along throughout the day. Then its on to making mower cow chow. The cattle are getting low so Logan and I grind another batch of cattle feed. It was another great beautiful day on the farm.
We are a small 40 acre direct-to-consumer livestock farm located in Western NY. We provide pasture raised beef, pork, chicken & eggs to our local community. We practice sustainable land practices that utilize natural methods to keep our soils/pastures healthy and our animals happy.
I am the 2nd generation to live on this piece of property after my parents purchased it in 1978. As a child we were not a working farm. But there were dairy farms surrounding us. So naturally I was hooked with farming since I saw my first tractor. As time went on, I worked for a couple of these farms and that only fueled my love of agriculture. In 2019 I was able to move back home as my parents were ready to downsize and I was ready to try my hand at farming. Stacy and logan share the same love of farming as I do. Stacy growing up on her family's dairy farm and logans exposure of farming/tractors at a very young age. Join us on this journey and see where the farm life takes us.
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I used to grind my ear corn with an old Letz burr mill, never had a grinder mixer. the burr mill stayed right next to the crib.
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Must be getting colder since you have a shirt with sleeves. Great way to grind and mix feed!
Lol ya it was that day. It felt good not to sweat doing work for once.
@@Cobbhillfarms We never get a break from the heat here!
@@chargermopar Florida right? I have personally never been to Florida but a couple people I know that have always say its a "dry heat". I say hot is hot. But please tell me if I'm wrong on thinking that.
@@Cobbhillfarms Florida is a hot humid climate where the temps only go up and down 10 degrees from high to low. 90 degrees high 80 at night. Impossible to slep without air conditioning. Strangely to avoid the tropical sun most people wear long sleeve shirts, which I personally hate. Once wet it's like wearing a trash bag!
@@chargermopar That doesn't sound like much fun to deal with. I like all the seasons we are blessed with up here in the northeast. Each one last just long enough so by the time you have had enough of one season, the next season is rolling on in and something new is happening.
So I'm thinking the trailer of corn is like $200 ?
nope. I have a really good friend that I get it from. Price hasn't changed in 4 years. I usually give him a little more cash than he charges me for the corn as a thank you. They are a grain and cattle farm so they only pick two large round crib full a year. They also use the ear corn for there cattle.
Might be time to look into growing your own feed but to do that you need room and I'm thinking you don't have that kind of room
Your 100 percent correct. I don't have the land to grow my own. I would love too though. The bright side is I have friends that do have the land, equipment and grain storage. Plus, I'm supporting their farm operation by purchasing corn from them. In the end its proble more cost effective to just by the product and grind it myself than it is to buy and maintain all the equipment needed to till, plant, harvest and store the corn. Thanks for watching the video and the channel. Its greatly appreciated.