I will never get tired of dairy farms. Respect dairymen to the upmost. Sad what has happened to the small dairies, enjoy your channel, keep going Ryan! Thanks.
I lament the way things have gone for small dairy farms i figure i was born about 40 years to late. To me the hay day of dairy was between 50s through the 90s. I miss milking by myself. Things were always quiet except for vacuum pump, the pulsators and Paul Harvey on the radio in the afternoon and JP Mccarthy on 760 WJR in Detroit in the morning. I liked knowing all the cows without even needing a piece of paper let alone a computer. I remember going to the Michigan state fair and having so many cows there they could only have two or three breeds on display at one time.
Many thanks for all your years of hard work. I’m a farmer and I work hard but I know them ol dairy guys would run circles around me. I never once complained about cost of a gallon of milk them boys earned every penny and deserved much much more.
Yes Agreed! I could listen to that Man’s Stories all Day! All Dairy Guys never forget any Dates ! My Friends Dad still knows the hr the first time the Barn Cleaner Ran in 1962!!!
A great video for those who might have never experienced a small dairy farm/barn. But, for those who have spent many hours in that environment, the sounds and smells came through the video. And just like any older farmer, if you keep talking to them, they'll keep forgetting to finish their chores!
I remember going the Minnesota State Fair with our family being amazed by havestore and feed handling demonstrations we had a wooden stave silo and everything by hand with a Sunset bulk tank.previously with 10 gal cans. I started milking at age 12 in 1963
Excellent job love these videos you do you need to do more of these brings back my life when I was a farmer you made my day watching this you do excellent job doing this you deserve an award for this
Thanks Ryan for the video. Really enjoy these old dairy farm tours. Makes me really wish we still milked dairy cows. I don’t know if you have seen my comments on TikTok but we used to dairy 400 cows in a free stall and a parlor. But before the parlor we milked in 3 separate tiestalls all in the same county. Quite the system we had. Lost two uncles and a cousin of mine in 2019 due to a high moisture corn accident in a sealstor silo. Really hurt our farm and we sold the cows in march of 22’. Now we just crop and beef farm but it really makes me sad to see our parlor and barn empty these days. Keep these tours coming!! 👍
great video as always,having worked as a relief milker for 11 years and helping on contractors for 7,i miss these old guys.wish him all the best in retirement
We just went from Lacrosse to just west of Green Bay on vacation a couple a weeks ago and after watching your videos I made a effort to stay on 2 lane roads as much as posable and built in some extra time to just take it all in .It is sad to see all the barns and lots sitting empty and some farms just falling apart .The country side is so pretty up there everything changes that is true in every part of farming I guess but for the most part it isn't for the better we are losing good life styles that will never come back.Btw we started out from west of Ft Dodge ,Iowa spent a great week in Wisconsin.This was another great video keep them coming Ryan .I make sure to watch every weekend
Really like this interview and these style of videos you should go interview Eldi I bet he'd have a lot of stories on manure pumping and things that have went on I know his one hired man Brian is quite a character he's certainly done it all in his time
We sold in 2014. Lot of change taking place in the dairy industry. I have not missed the cows or the routine. I have missed all the time I spent with my children in the barn.
I worked at AO Smith Harvestore in DeKalb, Illinois from 1978 into 1984. The American flags, farmers' names and other items such as the cow, were stenciled and hand sprayed at a small station in the factory by a single person. In either '79 or '80, the flag stencil was changed from a flat flag design to a waving design. For two years I ran the bake oven, which heated the approximately 5' x 9' panels from 1,250° to 1,480°, depending on the thickness of the steel, to bake the sprayed on glass slip that completely covered the panel. The color was closely watched so that temperature and bake time could be adjusted so that the panels were all very close in color.
I watched a video sometime ago and a family was selling the hay out of the hay barn. They got down to the bottom bales and they were tied with wire. They figured the newest they could be was 59' as the grandpa had up graded to different baler in 60'. Hard to imagine.
So much of what I see in this video, is the same here in Ontario,Canada as what is happening there. So many dairy barns are sitting empty around me, including my own. I quit milking 24 months ago. After 42 years milking my own herd. I used almost the same equipment, and also quit milking in September. And did the very same procedure for getting rid of cattle. Sold the freshest cows to other dairies, and sold heifers as they came fresh. I bred my low end cows Angus . Older cows went to market. I just sold the last of my baby calves as springing heifers this past month. I am 63 and still wish I was milking cows. But working in a 104 cow tie stall was just too much work for me, and I knew it would either be a new barn or retirement. Still keeping a few beef cows, and growing cash crops. Thanks for this video, it’s therapeutic for me to see others doing the same as myself. We had 100% Jerseys !
I have another comment. In the early 90s my dad worked as a farm hand for a guy that had a SlurryStore. One morning all the valves stuck open and manure started to flow backwards. The tank was almost full. The emergency valve was rusted stuck. Only by the grace of God that it didn’t empty out. Rough estimate is 10,000 gal got out before it stopped on its own.
Thanks for the good story. I love little dairy’s but that’s how it goes. Those steers look great. My family had 4 different dairy farms at one time, now no dairy.
My sister had Jerseys when we were in 4-H. She had good cows and did well in the shows, of course there also wasn't much competition with Jerseys. My dad and i hated them. When she got married and said she didn't want them anymore we had them sold in about 2 weeks. Jerseys were head friendly but miserable to milk.
Small Dairy Farmer here, reading all the comments about the small dairies going away. Apparently I'm not supposed to exist? Its not that you can't make a good living, it's the boomers are retiring and their kids don't want to take over.
I quit dairying when I was 30. I went on my own when I was 21. I barely paid for a farm. I sold my cows and now I crop farm. I have made much more and own more than if I would have kept milking cows. To service debt it's tough to do on a 50 cow herd. I had to buy my own farm. I don't doubt it's easier to make it when you take over an existing dairy. I bought land and facilities and cows
Absolutely a shame that the milk markets and processors ran the small producers out. They've finally pushed for the 1000 plus herds enough and got them and broke the baxks of the 50 cow herds.
Really enjoyed this ,the cows look awesome ,so sad in this day and age that a man cant justify milking now unless he has 1000s of cows ,also sad those cows may end up in one of those dairys to become a number not a personality .keep up the good work.
i had a herd of brown swiss they left 6 years ago i still miss them very very much. but i wasnt fortunate enough to find a wife or have kids so i made decisions wether they were right? i dont know?
Thanks for the memories.Its a dam shame small farms can't make a living.It kept more open land and young kids busy. I'm 69 and used to spend summer at my grandparents.But I was at the dairy farm down the road everyday!!!!🙏🇺🇸
The hardest thing is the loss of a farm or a family member. Like I ask visitors at rollag, why are you here? Is it the loss of a farm, the loss of a loved one. Maybe you want to point at an 806 or a 4020& tell your kids that was grandpas or dads big tractor
In our street we are only dairy and other is 3,5 mile away they are cheese makers and they sell on farmers market and its small heard of 14 cows. Moust of them sold cows in 2010. Here in croatia they almast killed all dairy farms in 2013 when we got part of Europian union. Due to iport of milk from Poland , Slovinia. Now price of milk is 50 eurocents.
The buying power of the margin per cow is not great enough to financially support yourself and family due to inflation. You either have to get larger or do something else that adds profit margin. Some larger farms are able to invest in barns where they can milk more cows per man hour than small farms so that is why they keep milk cows.
One neat tidy dairy glossy maintained machines likewise happy healthy cows from family farms where dat milking pride held from centuries & millenniums but wen ppls talk against dairy seldom they differentiate between corporate & family farms shocking critics cunningly playing wid financial livelihood of neat tidy family farms bcuz they hav incentives from corporate world
We are loosing America with the loss of the small farms................I personally think something, and I don't know what, will reset the Bigger is better trend.
I will never get tired of dairy farms. Respect dairymen to the upmost. Sad what has happened to the small dairies, enjoy your channel, keep going Ryan! Thanks.
That’s like going back in time in a good way
I lament the way things have gone for small dairy farms i figure i was born about 40 years to late. To me the hay day of dairy was between 50s through the 90s. I miss milking by myself. Things were always quiet except for vacuum pump, the pulsators and Paul Harvey on the radio in the afternoon and JP Mccarthy on 760 WJR in Detroit in the morning. I liked knowing all the cows without even needing a piece of paper let alone a computer. I remember going to the Michigan state fair and having so many cows there they could only have two or three breeds on display at one time.
I I use to milk 7 days week 66 cows by myself and do all the chores raised all the young stock as well
This is the best one yet. Keep it up!
Many thanks for all your years of hard work. I’m a farmer and I work hard but I know them ol dairy guys would run circles around me. I never once complained about cost of a gallon of milk them boys earned every penny and deserved much much more.
Thanks Ryan , many memories brought back watching this one
Excellent video, brings back so many memories
Awesome video Ryan , thank you so much for sharing all these great stories, nothing better than small farms 👍🏻
Those cows are so clean. Great job Pat!!
Awesome video- love the old barns and old tractors- I noticed Pat had a lot of barn cats 🐈 hanging around, ❤ those barns cats
I miss it so much. Such nice looking cows too
Ryan this might have been your best one yet
REALLY ENJOYED THIS
Yes Agreed! I could listen to that Man’s Stories all Day! All Dairy Guys never forget any Dates ! My Friends Dad still knows the hr the first time the Barn Cleaner Ran in 1962!!!
Thanks
I agree I like the tractor talk for sure but I love seeing the dairies even if they’re empty
A great video for those who might have never experienced a small dairy farm/barn. But, for those who have spent many hours in that environment, the sounds and smells came through the video. And just like any older farmer, if you keep talking to them, they'll keep forgetting to finish their chores!
I remember going the Minnesota State Fair with our family being amazed by havestore and feed handling demonstrations we had a wooden stave silo and everything by hand with a Sunset bulk tank.previously with 10 gal cans. I started milking at age 12 in 1963
Excellent job love these videos you do you need to do more of these brings back my life when I was a farmer you made my day watching this you do excellent job doing this you deserve an award for this
Couldn’t agree with you more. My favorite era of American ag. Was awesome seeing someone still milking. Great video
Thanks Ryan for the video. Really enjoy these old dairy farm tours. Makes me really wish we still milked dairy cows. I don’t know if you have seen my comments on TikTok but we used to dairy 400 cows in a free stall and a parlor. But before the parlor we milked in 3 separate tiestalls all in the same county. Quite the system we had. Lost two uncles and a cousin of mine in 2019 due to a high moisture corn accident in a sealstor silo. Really hurt our farm and we sold the cows in march of 22’. Now we just crop and beef farm but it really makes me sad to see our parlor and barn empty these days. Keep these tours coming!! 👍
That's too bad. Yeah, I wish you could have a small dairy and make a good living
Love the old barns, we saved ours.
great video as always,having worked as a relief milker for 11 years and helping on contractors for 7,i miss these old guys.wish him all the best in retirement
Very nice it's hard to see the disappearance of barns in Wi
We just went from Lacrosse to just west of Green Bay on vacation a couple a weeks ago and after watching your videos I made a effort to stay on 2 lane roads as much as posable and built in some extra time to just take it all in .It is sad to see all the barns and lots sitting empty and some farms just falling apart .The country side is so pretty up there everything changes that is true in every part of farming I guess but for the most part it isn't for the better we are losing good life styles that will never come back.Btw we started out from west of Ft Dodge ,Iowa spent a great week in Wisconsin.This was another great video keep them coming Ryan .I make sure to watch every weekend
Thanks!
Really like this interview and these style of videos you should go interview Eldi I bet he'd have a lot of stories on manure pumping and things that have went on I know his one hired man Brian is quite a character he's certainly done it all in his time
Sad to see people quit this type of farming however I do see why.
In Ireland it is very similar.
All the best.
Kevin Sheane Snr.
Love this. I’d also love to go in there and take a shop-vac to that ceiling.
Nice video, grew up on a small dairy, dad sold in '98. Worked on a 90 cow dairy through high school. Just realized i haven't milked a cow in 19 years!
Great video I like the farm tours
Love this channel
Nice looking cows. I miss old dairys
I never milked. Grandpa was the end of the line. We just have some beef cattle. I've never seen a tie stall in action. Cool to see. Thanks Ryan.
We sold in 2014. Lot of change taking place in the dairy industry. I have not missed the cows or the routine. I have missed all the time I spent with my children in the barn.
I worked at AO Smith Harvestore in DeKalb, Illinois from 1978 into 1984. The American flags, farmers' names and other items such as the cow, were stenciled and hand sprayed at a small station in the factory by a single person. In either '79 or '80, the flag stencil was changed from a flat flag design to a waving design.
For two years I ran the bake oven, which heated the approximately 5' x 9' panels from 1,250° to 1,480°, depending on the thickness of the steel, to bake the sprayed on glass slip that completely covered the panel. The color was closely watched so that temperature and bake time could be adjusted so that the panels were all very close in color.
Everyone would send me your clips from tic tac. I think tic tac is gay but then I found your UA-cam. Really enjoy your videos
I watched a video sometime ago and a family was selling the hay out of the hay barn. They got down to the bottom bales and they were tied with wire. They figured the newest they could be was 59' as the grandpa had up graded to different baler in 60'. Hard to imagine.
Thanks this sure brings back memories
Boy how I wish I could get into the dairy farming
So much of what I see in this video, is the same here in Ontario,Canada as what is happening there. So many dairy barns are sitting empty around me, including my own. I quit milking 24 months ago. After 42 years milking my own herd. I used almost the same equipment, and also quit milking in September. And did the very same procedure for getting rid of cattle. Sold the freshest cows to other dairies, and sold heifers as they came fresh. I bred my low end cows Angus . Older cows went to market. I just sold the last of my baby calves as springing heifers this past month. I am 63 and still wish I was milking cows. But working in a 104 cow tie stall was just too much work for me, and I knew it would either be a new barn or retirement. Still keeping a few beef cows, and growing cash crops. Thanks for this video, it’s therapeutic for me to see others doing the same as myself. We had 100% Jerseys !
I have another comment. In the early 90s my dad worked as a farm hand for a guy that had a SlurryStore. One morning all the valves stuck open and manure started to flow backwards. The tank was almost full. The emergency valve was rusted stuck. Only by the grace of God that it didn’t empty out. Rough estimate is 10,000 gal got out before it stopped on its own.
I liked my pit below the barn!
My grandpa had a badger 560 barn cleaner& badger pump it worked good
Thanks for the good story. I love little dairy’s but that’s how it goes.
Those steers look great.
My family had 4 different dairy farms at one time, now no dairy.
My sister had Jerseys when we were in 4-H. She had good cows and did well in the shows, of course there also wasn't much competition with Jerseys. My dad and i hated them. When she got married and said she didn't want them anymore we had them sold in about 2 weeks. Jerseys were head friendly but miserable to milk.
I liked mine
Small Dairy Farmer here, reading all the comments about the small dairies going away. Apparently I'm not supposed to exist? Its not that you can't make a good living, it's the boomers are retiring and their kids don't want to take over.
I quit dairying when I was 30. I went on my own when I was 21. I barely paid for a farm. I sold my cows and now I crop farm. I have made much more and own more than if I would have kept milking cows. To service debt it's tough to do on a 50 cow herd. I had to buy my own farm. I don't doubt it's easier to make it when you take over an existing dairy. I bought land and facilities and cows
Interesting
You should take a tour of Delaware County NY there's a whole county of tiestall farms, some of us aren't that old either.
Thank you Pat
I am from Polk county and grew up in clam falls in clam falls Town ship not one dairy farm is left all gone !!!
We sold in 1997. I missed it for years.
Great video wish I could see one from the 1930s
Sure would have loved to milk there
Its a sad day to hear of a small dairy farm sells out.
I remember when i was little there was around 15 dairys where i live now but now theres only 4 or 5
Absolutely a shame that the milk markets and processors ran the small producers out. They've finally pushed for the 1000 plus herds enough and got them and broke the baxks of the 50 cow herds.
Thanks!!
Sad. I was heart broken when we got rid of the cows🤢
Really enjoyed this ,the cows look awesome ,so sad in this day and age that a man cant justify milking now unless he has 1000s of cows ,also sad those cows may end up in one of those dairys to become a number not a personality .keep up the good work.
Those are Delaval Flo View and the bigger ones were super Flo Views
Ryan you should do a video of you’re barn
I would like to start dairy farming again just not sure when I will be doing that
Sad day for the small dairy. In central iowa one giant produces all the milk for 4 county’s
I thought everyone who Farmer in Wisconsin Milked Cows!!!!😮
No, were close to the river, so there's always been crop farmers too
You need to come to Rollag
I am north of that town
It's so sad and not good for our country to see the small farms go away.
i had a herd of brown swiss they left 6 years ago i still miss them very very much. but i wasnt fortunate enough to find a wife or have kids so i made decisions wether they were right? i dont know?
We had Brown Swiss and sold 10 years ago. I do not miss it.
Thanks for the memories.Its a dam shame small farms can't make a living.It kept more open land and young kids busy. I'm 69 and used to spend summer at my grandparents.But I was at the dairy farm down the road everyday!!!!🙏🇺🇸
Over by the Minnesota line but in wi
You talking jerseys I allways thought they were the best eating don't get as much meat but nice and tender
Will his son take o er the farm and raise crops?
What book is that you mentioned please
Round Barn
The hardest thing is the loss of a farm or a family member. Like I ask visitors at rollag, why are you here? Is it the loss of a farm, the loss of a loved one. Maybe you want to point at an 806 or a 4020& tell your kids that was grandpas or dads big tractor
Where is this farm, I heard you say something about Hartland, there is no dairy farms there any more.
A little piece of this once great nation dies with every farm we loose……..😢
where are the cow's going
In our street we are only dairy and other is 3,5 mile away they are cheese makers and they sell on farmers market and its small heard of 14 cows. Moust of them sold cows in 2010. Here in croatia they almast killed all dairy farms in 2013 when we got part of Europian union. Due to iport of milk from Poland , Slovinia. Now price of milk is 50 eurocents.
I'm sorry to hear about that
So why are farmers quitting milking
Just not enough margin on a small farm
The buying power of the margin per cow is not great enough to financially support yourself and family due to inflation. You either have to get larger or do something else that adds profit margin. Some larger farms are able to invest in barns where they can milk more cows per man hour than small farms so that is why they keep milk cows.
So what do you get paid for the milk sorry I am in Ontario Canada and here to milk cows it's 25,000 a cow to buy the quota
@@RyanKelly-Wititan2and older dairy farmers children don’t want to farm
Are these cows registered Holstein and how do I contact owner
No, if you want grade cows I can ask
I hear you know my uncle that is a mlsna
One neat tidy dairy glossy maintained machines likewise happy healthy cows from family farms where dat milking pride held from centuries & millenniums but wen ppls talk against dairy seldom they differentiate between corporate & family farms shocking critics cunningly playing wid financial livelihood of neat tidy family farms bcuz they hav incentives from corporate world
We are loosing America with the loss of the small farms................I personally think something, and I don't know what, will reset the Bigger is better trend.