We had some nice black faced sheep (no idea what breed). One ewe had twins and she ignored one. SO my sister & mom bottle fed the beauty. That long legged critter was downstairs in our basement where my bedroom was. Eventually I would be RUDELY awakened by the cute lamb bellering inches from my face!
The aerial shots on the hay cutting were spectacular. Ground level doesn’t even give you the full scope of how much land is required to give you what you actually need for your animals.. wow.
What you do is so interesting.....people don’t realize all that goes into farming....whether it be hay etc.. or live stock.... I love lamb and will think of you when I get to eat it.....thank you for sharing
Love the drone footage! Can not believe how green the hay still appeared in the video after being rained on three days in a row. Still amazed how well your family pulls together to get the crops in. Thanks for sharing.
I'm so jealous of the perfectly flat, no rock fields you have. I see lots of old equipment that doesn't see much abuse. I hit rocks with my disc mowers all the time, even tiny ones that are hard to see. My hay fields are a little larger, at 700-800 acres each x 5 fields, I can never remember exactly where the rocks are, just the vicinity. I hit them every year. I just got a brand new Pottinger triple mower in April of this year and wouldn't you know it, I've hit about 12 rocks this season. I bite my tongue each time. Really, really pretty fields you have there!
800 acre fields??? OMG. Mark's dream... As for stones, we seem to be able to grow those really well also. LOL. We do our best when we plant to pick what we can, and roll after... but we all know after winter, they seem to be able to show themselves again. We've been lucky so far this year!
@@SandiBrock Yup, my farm is just under 12k acres…I’m a cattle and hay operation from Virginia. At one time I had the largest Angus ‘Lucy’ herd but I don’t know if that’s still the case. I raise registered breed stock cattle. For hay, I do about 600 acres in alfalfa and 3000 acres in orchard grass, timothy and fescue (endophyte free). I make round and lg squares for both myself and to sell. You guys have a much more impressive operation with cops, hay, cattle and sheep. It’s quite an operation you have and I love that the family is all involved! I don’t have the kind of rocks that can be easily picked. I have to first break them with a excavator and hammer. It’s been a lot of work getting my fields in shape. I’m also hilly in some places and some areas have so much rock, that land goes to complete waste.
Really like the daily stuff but would love to see a combo of both because it’s super interesting to learn about the sheep too! Love your videos- really appreciate the time and effort it takes to put them together❣️🐑
A family that farms together stays together, I think we're lookin' at the next generation of Shepherd Creek Farms. Well done Brock Family! Always enjoy your vids Sandi #twothumbsup
Hi Sandi, I like both if that helps. I am watching all your video's from 1 to ??? I miss lambing and your video's are satisfying that feeling I get with the livestock I love.
A very good and interesting video very proffesional, and well edited, love the ariel shots really amazing, and beautifull scenery..well done to you all,.
I like both styles of videos. I get to see a lot of things I never would get to see otherwise. The behind the scenes glimpse is fascinating and the shorter, more specific videos are great too. Off to check out Mark's channel now.
Very nice video, keep going Sandi. Usually I prefer short videos but I don’t mind one long video per week if needed like this one. Waiting for your next short video 😉😘
Good looking alfalfa. Too bad it rained so much. Been three lifetimes since I threw my last square bale. Used to work in Ontario and Quebec. Miss it sometimes.
I love my Tedder we get our hay dry so much quicker. And we don't have to worry so much about wet spots in our hay bales.Dont know how we ever got it dry without it. And your right it seems like no rain for days until you cut hay.
My Uncles Raised beef and Fields of food stuff East of Cambridge, Mn. And just South of Rush Point. One Vacation we visited it Rained for our Entire Week except the Day before we left. It delayed hay harvest. For City Boys born of Farm raised parents, it was disheartening. My Uncle Said the Following week dried up and was perfect hay harvest. 🙈
At 6:16 I see Ashtabula and Conneaut, Ohio. I spent summers in Conneaut at my grandparent's house on Lake Erie. They had the best weather and a constant breeze off of the lake. They had a boat and we fished and swam in the lake. Winters were magical when I lived with them for three years before I joined the US Navy.
It's been awhile but if i remember correctly the time of day will affect the protein content. Morning is high protein and low suger and later in the day high sugar and low protein i tried for sugar more than protein . your protein is a measurement of nitrates in the feed. It's raining today and I'm bingeing on your videos thanks so much for them it brings back some wonderful memories.
Nice mix on the cover crop. Good diversity and with that manure I'm sure it really pops out of the ground. I really like tillage radish in a late summer cover crop mix like that. It really holds onto N over winter
I went up north to see my family this week and saw a good amount of downed wheat on the way; it reminded me of your problem a few videos ago... Some of it looked pretty widespread. I sure didn't envy those folks!
Sure fire way to end a dry spell - mow hay! I don't have any kids just few beef cows, my brother has crop farm and now he calls his older kids interns! All summer and weekends when they are home he puts them to work!
Wow. What a bummer. I know nothing about farming but I tell ya, if I didn’t live in AZ I would help you guys in a heartbeat. I realize that’s a useless comment but geez, the amount of work with one little setback. Holy smokers.
Your videos are so honest. I am always so glad to see them. I just finished trimming our little flock and it was humid and hot and I have to admit sweaty sheep handler odor is uniquely horrible😋 We are in SC Kentucky and it is dry dry dry, for us anyway. For us that means better quality hay but not as much. Your video of cutting was so awesome, but I loved the tedding, you looked so old school....no cab👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. Alfalfa isn’t a great crop here, hard to get established. Our hay is predominately orchard grass.
When I was a kid I'd try to get my father to open up fields for me and he would just tell me I wont get any better at it if he does it. First you have to get good then you get fast!!
I think you need to talk to Mark about getting a 6 bowl tether. Sure it will cost but the fuel savings will help out! Love to watch you work the sheep and your videos.
I found this channel recently (with one of the leg-casting lambs) and have just finished a binge-watch from vid #1 in time for this vid. Its been not just entertaining but also interesting to see the ups & downs of the daily running of a sheep farm. Keep up the hard work and hi from the UK
Just about jumped out of my skin wathcing you clear the jam with hands and arms into the equipment!!! I know you know what you are doing but knowing how quickly a crush injury can happen and how slowly it heals...
LOVE the music on this!! We love to watch these videos about harvesting , taking care of the sheep 🐑 . Hard hard work. Amazing work. Thank you for sharing. Wait! You have Poutine at McDonald's?!? 😋 Blessings!
To address the issue with the chopper not blowing the haylage far enough. Adjust or replace the paddles in the blower. Should be just enough clearance to go over a dime but pick up a Nickle. I’ve dealt with the same headache and that’s the remedy for it.
I see most farmers today wear ear protection. I’m out of the 50 thru late 70’s era, we filled two sixty foot Harvestores with hay and chopped corn and a forty footer with high moisture corn. We had no cabs and never heard of ear protection, it’s a wonder my ears work at all.... lol. Ear protection looks hot to me. 😂. Enjoy the videos, thx
You know... ear protectors were never much a thing in my family growing up too... it was when I started farming with Mark's family that I started wearing them. They are big promoters of them.
This video answered a 20 year old question... a good friend lived next to a hay field and I could never figure out why things always seemed different... now i know
Love seeing both kids working together with parents ❤ The good, the bad, the happy and the mad😡 You got it all covered!
We had some nice black faced sheep (no idea what breed). One ewe had twins and she ignored one. SO my sister & mom bottle fed the beauty. That long legged critter was downstairs in our basement where my bedroom was. Eventually I would be RUDELY awakened by the cute lamb bellering inches from my face!
TOO sweet!!!
What’s funny to me is how casual you guys are about alfalfa. It is GOLD down here in Georgia for our hard-keeper horses. And it is EXPENSIVE!!!!
What beautiful property. I love the drone shots and all the trees between the fields.
Thanks! I never know what I'll see until I edit... love it!
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Hard working family , like the way you work together . thanks for taking us along .
I have so much respect for you, not only as a mother and wife but as one hect of a farmer.
That means so much! Thanks Todd!
@@SandiBrock you four are special people, GOD BLESS.
I agree!!! She's a woman on a mission!!!
Love the drone shots of you mowing great looking farm you need to be very proud.
Thanks so much Randall!
How beautiful to see the whole family's hard work and lovely natural environment!
The aerial shots on the hay cutting were spectacular. Ground level doesn’t even give you the full scope of how much land is required to give you what you actually need for your animals.. wow.
Love watching you and Mark together
What you do is so interesting.....people don’t realize all that goes into farming....whether it be hay etc.. or live stock.... I love lamb and will think of you when I get to eat it.....thank you for sharing
I hadn't realized how much upside down sheep look like drunks Sunday morning.
BAA hangover!
I'm watching these old videos love your farm .
Scenery is awesome
Love the music, aerials are phenomenal.
You are one of the hardest working women I've ever seen. Love watching your videos.
Old but full of vigor and vitality...good very good....love this
Love the drone footage! Can not believe how green the hay still appeared in the video after being rained on three days in a row. Still amazed how well your family pulls together to get the crops in. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much Dan! We will miss the kids next week when they go back to school!
Harvest butterfly , what a cool name Sandi !! Enjoy ! Bob
Wow. That shot of the clouds at 15:25 is spectacular.
Right!? and that actually went around us!
So humble...🤪downplaying your beautiful hay field like it’s nothing out of the ordinary. I hope some day I can grow 3rd cut this good😍
Thanks Robert!
Sandi Brock No problem, just finished watching it. It was a great video! Some really great drone shots! Very well done!
I'm so jealous of the perfectly flat, no rock fields you have. I see lots of old equipment that doesn't see much abuse. I hit rocks with my disc mowers all the time, even tiny ones that are hard to see. My hay fields are a little larger, at 700-800 acres each x 5 fields, I can never remember exactly where the rocks are, just the vicinity. I hit them every year. I just got a brand new Pottinger triple mower in April of this year and wouldn't you know it, I've hit about 12 rocks this season. I bite my tongue each time. Really, really pretty fields you have there!
800 acre fields??? OMG. Mark's dream... As for stones, we seem to be able to grow those really well also. LOL. We do our best when we plant to pick what we can, and roll after... but we all know after winter, they seem to be able to show themselves again. We've been lucky so far this year!
@@SandiBrock Yup, my farm is just under 12k acres…I’m a cattle and hay operation from Virginia. At one time I had the largest Angus ‘Lucy’ herd but I don’t know if that’s still the case. I raise registered breed stock cattle. For hay, I do about 600 acres in alfalfa and 3000 acres in orchard grass, timothy and fescue (endophyte free). I make round and lg squares for both myself and to sell. You guys have a much more impressive operation with cops, hay, cattle and sheep. It’s quite an operation you have and I love that the family is all involved!
I don’t have the kind of rocks that can be easily picked. I have to first break them with a excavator and hammer. It’s been a lot of work getting my fields in shape. I’m also hilly in some places and some areas have so much rock, that land goes to complete waste.
Really like the daily stuff but would love to see a combo of both because it’s super interesting to learn about the sheep too! Love your videos- really appreciate the time and effort it takes to put them together❣️🐑
Great feedback! Thanks Valerie!
Great video, Sandi! Fantastic to see the family working together.
Thanks so much!
The sound of the forage harvester cycling up brought back so many memories, could almost smell the grass
Thats awesome!
Twine & duck tape , are way to heaven ! Enjoy !
Day in the life are the best!! True reality TV. Wouldn’t pass up a tutorial though.
Your family is awesome. Nice bibs Jess!
Thanks!!!
Sandi
Love the day in the life style Vlogs. All of it. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us
Awesome! Thanks Pat!
I admire you and your family's never quit attitude. You always get the job done no matter natures circumstance. Great drone work.
We do... Even when we want to quit... Thanks so much!
Wow that shot you got of the clouds was really cool! So much perspective and volume
Constance battle with weather, equipment, and available manpower!
Hard working family , beautifull and real life
A family that farms together stays together, I think we're lookin' at the next generation of Shepherd Creek Farms. Well done Brock Family! Always enjoy your vids Sandi #twothumbsup
You're the best! Thanks Keith!
Busy team love the way you all work together to get the job done.
Hi Sandi, I like both if that helps. I am watching all your video's from 1 to ??? I miss lambing and your video's are satisfying that feeling I get with the livestock I love.
Love those aerial shots of the field work! Just stunning. I like the mixed vlog style.
Yes! New Sandi! Always the perfect thing to relax to after work 🐑💗
Awe thanks!!!
I hope ", I get to see you all taking a good break", that you guys need to enjoy", you all do a good job 🌹 👏 😊
A very good and interesting video very proffesional, and well edited, love the ariel shots really amazing, and beautifull scenery..well done to you all,.
Thanks Peter.
Ha Ha. Holds up hand full of haylage, SMELL THIS! Mark didn't bite. Smart Man.
"And now we're done Haying..."
Love it
I like both styles of videos. I get to see a lot of things I never would get to see otherwise. The behind the scenes glimpse is fascinating and the shorter, more specific videos are great too. Off to check out Mark's channel now.
Great!! Thanks so much for the feedback!!
wow, great tradition and especially the kids are around and help which is awesome.. well-done family wishes you years of prosperity and health.
Very nice video, keep going Sandi.
Usually I prefer short videos but I don’t mind one long video per week if needed like this one.
Waiting for your next short video 😉😘
Thanks so much for the feedback!
I love your editing themusic is nice but every now and than it's nice to hear the machinery it gives us a full picture. Keep it up
Like that your kids help out when they can. Good family fun you have even with all the issues that crop up.
They've been a Godsend this summer!
It will always rain when a farmer cuts hay. When the farmer waits, the skies are blue!
Totally!
Loved watching. It brings back memories. Farming is such a gamble but full of fun also.
Sure is!!
Loved this video, I felt the aggravation with you. Just watching that hay made my allergies go into overdrive!
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!!! Non- farmer from Minneapolis MN
Thanks so much for watching!!!
Veno, Tebbe and Horsch my my! Those are some topbrands.. Nice te see your farm, greetings from a fellow sheepfarmer in the Netherlands👍💪
Good to see smiles from daughter
Good looking alfalfa. Too bad it rained so much. Been three lifetimes since I threw my last square bale. Used to work in Ontario and Quebec. Miss it sometimes.
thankfully the rain didn't do too much damage...
I love my Tedder we get our hay dry so much quicker. And we don't have to worry so much about wet spots in our hay bales.Dont know how we ever got it dry without it. And your right it seems like no rain for days until you cut hay.
You're definitely a heavy ruminator...🦋👌👍😁 I can just almost see your brain working...man your farm is beautiful...
Great job 👍 Sandi on backing up to the trailer
Best hay video I've seen all year on UA-cam even tho it didn't go as planned. Love the drone shots
Good to see Sandy doing the raking
I love the drone footage it's oddly satisfying. Thanks
It never fails for me in MN, if you need rain, you cut hay......
LOL. Seems to always work here too!
My Uncles Raised beef and Fields of food stuff East of Cambridge, Mn. And just South of Rush Point.
One Vacation we visited it Rained for our Entire Week except the Day before we left.
It delayed hay harvest.
For City Boys born of Farm raised parents, it was disheartening.
My Uncle Said the Following week dried up and was perfect hay harvest. 🙈
At 6:16 I see Ashtabula and Conneaut, Ohio. I spent summers in Conneaut at my grandparent's house on Lake Erie. They had the best weather and a constant breeze off of the lake. They had a boat and we fished and swam in the lake. Winters were magical when I lived with them for three years before I joined the US Navy.
It's been awhile but if i remember correctly the time of day will affect the protein content. Morning is high protein and low suger and later in the day high sugar and low protein i tried for sugar more than protein . your protein is a measurement of nitrates in the feed. It's raining today and I'm bingeing on your videos thanks so much for them it brings back some wonderful memories.
Nice mix on the cover crop. Good diversity and with that manure I'm sure it really pops out of the ground. I really like tillage radish in a late summer cover crop mix like that. It really holds onto N over winter
Congrats on completing the harvest👍🏻😊
Great job raising those kids!
I went up north to see my family this week and saw a good amount of downed wheat on the way; it reminded me of your problem a few videos ago... Some of it looked pretty widespread. I sure didn't envy those folks!
Sure slows down the process thats for sure!
Looks like an absolutely gorgeous day out there! A job well done. 😁🌻🌾🍀🌱☘️🌽🌽
Sure fire way to end a dry spell - mow hay! I don't have any kids just few beef cows, my brother has crop farm and now he calls his older kids interns! All summer and weekends when they are home he puts them to work!
LOL! I can relate!
Wow. What a bummer. I know nothing about farming but I tell ya, if I didn’t live in AZ I would help you guys in a heartbeat. I realize that’s a useless comment but geez, the amount of work with one little setback. Holy smokers.
I enjoy watching y'all. Amazing how different and at the same time the same as we do down here in the south.
Hello Sandi and family, for the hileros to alfalfa. Up with the rotoempacadora with the part "trasera" up,
Your videos are so honest. I am always so glad to see them. I just finished trimming our little flock and it was humid and hot and I have to admit sweaty sheep handler odor is uniquely horrible😋
We are in SC Kentucky and it is dry dry dry, for us anyway. For us that means better quality hay but not as much. Your video of cutting was so awesome, but I loved the tedding, you looked so old school....no cab👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. Alfalfa isn’t a great crop here, hard to get established. Our hay is predominately orchard grass.
Thanks Fiona! I love hearing the differences of how certain crops grow better or worse depending where we live!
Place is beautiful!Never farmed a day in my life but it’s all I watch on UA-cam!If I could get into farming I would!
Thats awesome! Thanks so much for watching David!
When I was a kid I'd try to get my father to open up fields for me and he would just tell me I wont get any better at it if he does it. First you have to get good then you get fast!!
LOL. I agree!
Oh one more thing I wish you could all go to beach. Y'all need it.
Excellent job on the haying and the video!
Thanks George!
Everybody working together is so wonderful. Like poetry in motion. Ok, maybe more like Klingon poetry, but poetry nonetheless! 😄
Mark is a Canadian version of me, lol, throwing that pry bar!
I think many can relate to that part! LOL. Left a heck of a mark on his collarbone!
I think you need to talk to Mark about getting a 6 bowl tether. Sure it will cost but the fuel savings will help out!
Love to watch you work the sheep and your videos.
I'll gladly pass that on! Thanks!
Looks great country, like the drone footage. Interesting how you keep your sheep inside.
Coyotes are a brute here...
Love the music nice shot of fields.
Your life is beautiful❤❤❤🇨🇦❤❤
Nice episode. Plenty of suspense & drama, with a happy ending. This was a good one.
Thanks so much!!
Nice ending at MacDonalds. Great video.
LOL. Thanks Wayne!
I found this channel recently (with one of the leg-casting lambs) and have just finished a binge-watch from vid #1 in time for this vid.
Its been not just entertaining but also interesting to see the ups & downs of the daily running of a sheep farm. Keep up the hard work and hi from the UK
WOW! The entire library! Thank you soooo much!
Congratulations. The hay still had a decent leaf count it seems in spite of the several rains.
Yes, I like the extended day in the life vids
Great! Thanks Tandy!
Just about jumped out of my skin wathcing you clear the jam with hands and arms into the equipment!!! I know you know what you are doing but knowing how quickly a crush injury can happen and how slowly it heals...
You're so right Cheryl. In the moment, we don't even think... and it happens so fast. I see it when I edit. and cringe also!
Got a couple of friend missing fingers from farming accidents.
That poop spreader really shoots it out. Great video.
Its a great spreader!
LOVE the music on this!! We love to watch these videos about harvesting , taking care of the sheep 🐑 .
Hard hard work. Amazing work.
Thank you for sharing.
Wait! You have Poutine at McDonald's?!? 😋
Blessings!
Thanks so much!!
A nice vlog form Sandi with good wishes from south germany
Thanks Josef!
Well the kids hate hay but they'll still talk to you after your inspirational trip through the drive thru for dinner.
To address the issue with the chopper not blowing the haylage far enough. Adjust or replace the paddles in the blower. Should be just enough clearance to go over a dime but pick up a Nickle. I’ve dealt with the same headache and that’s the remedy for it.
Thats exactly what we were discussing yesterday around our kitchen table! Definitely on the to-do list before first cut 2020! LOL
I see most farmers today wear ear protection. I’m out of the 50 thru late 70’s era, we filled two sixty foot Harvestores with hay and chopped corn and a forty footer with high moisture corn. We had no cabs and never heard of ear protection, it’s a wonder my ears work at all.... lol. Ear protection looks hot to me. 😂. Enjoy the videos, thx
You know... ear protectors were never much a thing in my family growing up too... it was when I started farming with Mark's family that I started wearing them. They are big promoters of them.
Great video,haying is stressful,congratulations on your success in getting it done
It was a lot of hard work but looks like you saved the hay harvest.
I love it! I enjoy watching and learning the process. I wish I could come volunteer with you for a summer.
Thanks so much!
No volunteers to help you out...Why? Agrotourism is big in some areas...
I Love ALL your videos. Short or long.
Awesome!! thanks so much Jay!
This video answered a 20 year old question... a good friend lived next to a hay field and I could never figure out why things always seemed different... now i know
Great video 👍 mist the day's on the farm 👍👍
That hitch coversion system is very clever, who thought of that..brill..