Finances Behind Raising Holstein Steers
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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All $ amounts are in CAD
Ah, no translation to USD?
1 CAD = 0.77 USD
I'm not sure if its rite to not put a price on the waste milk u guys feed..after all it costs u around 10$ to feed a milking cow.. regardless if u dump the milk in sewer it still costs you.. but u are using it the rite way
@@bigthumperfoot is it that difficult to convert it yourself? Come on lazy
@@bigthumperfoot Not intelligent enough to do that yourself?
Very informative. I don't think your average person has any idea what time and expense goes into raising livestock. Well done.
Well, we get a rough idea when we go shopping for beef and end up buying chicken.
Someone on here said that he was going to get himself some beef patties from a store tonight and make a burger and he too said thank you for that "now" upscaled perspective of beef lol... Is that how you think people now have a better understanding?🤣🤣🤣
@@GilmerJohn actually you don’t. A good chunk of farmers can’t even make money raising calves. A lot do good to break even. Everyone else that gets their hands on cattle after the farmers are the ones making money and jacking up the price
What is the most respectable is how well those steers are treated
for that minimum profit !
Thank you for that !
disagree no shelter provided ??!!!!
@@edcrego396 you’ve obviously never stepped foot on a farm
@@edcrego396 what shelter do deer have? They do pretty well without having running water and nutrient balanced diets formulated by an animal nutritionist.
@@edcrego396 noob
Very nice of you to share your information. People have to see this as a business of taking care of cows. The other thing most people don’t connect is you, the farmer has to put the cost upfront for 18 months before you get a payday. 1800 buck is a lot of money to have just hanging around on 4 hoofs.
It’s very interesting hearing the reasoning behind your farming decisions. I think a lot of people think farms are like the ones portrayed in the Lassie series from the 60’s. It’s great to see how you balance your love of animals and rural life with making a successful and sustainable living. I enjoy all your videos and commentary
life with love is excellent
Excellent, honest video. We must remember infrastructure and electricity etc.
Yes, you should definitely see more of these types of videos.
I remember a rhyme from when I was a kid. "How now, brown cow?" Today we got a close up of that cow. I have seen her in previous videos and now will always be watching for her.
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I worked for a old farmer who always milked a handful of extra cows and dumped the extra milk in a long thin trough his calves all got milk right up to the ten month mark and wow did they look great. Great setup you guys run
2 more items to add to costs: 1) cost of infra Structure amortized + repair costs 2) cost of money invested over the period. - " what interest you could get had you left the money in the bank" use either future of present value of the costs over time
Great video. I love seeing all of your videos. I would love to see more of these types of videos. I think it is great that you took the time to make this video. There is so much miss information out there about dairy farming. You did a great job explaining how everything works. People think that it is so easy to farm . Thanks again and have a nice day.
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Big fan! Thank you farmers around the world!!
It would be great to see the other side of the dairy industry before it gets into the gallon jugs. Or for your weird Canadian 1 litre milk bags lol.
Thank you for allowing us into the more personal/ intimate side of your operation.
I would be curious what your electric bill is for an operation that big.
Really like the close up pictures of the cows and calfs. They really seem to like to ham it up to the camera. You did an excellent job of explaining how you raise the steers. Thanks so much for sharing that. Hopefully your costs will go down and you make a better profit.
Jan, thank you for sharing that information. It appears to me that you really take good care of the steers and cows. I am glad to see that you get a fair amount of profit for those steers. I am 80 years old and had a career as a licensed electrical design engineer. Every day eating beef and drinking MILK. I am a huge fan of milk. Never out grew my love for a cold, cold, cold glass of milk. As a kid dad had a couple of brown milk cows. They provided milk and mom provided the butter milk (yummmmmmy), butter, corn bread and soft cheese. One person that worked on the farm taking care of the cows, mules and horses was a wonderful old black man. He took care of me for many a day while dad worked. I really think of and miss him a lot. He was a wonderful, unforgetable Christian man.
Good luck with the farm,
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Extremely good explanation. Farmers usually --undervalue their own labor. Otherwise very very video. Glad to see you using pails for feeding calves. Bottles are really a recipe for disaster and spreading of disease from one calf to another. Keep up the good work ! You are on a roll here !!!!
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When we see the cost of good meat in the supermarket, you realize it's not the farmer making the profits.
Supermarkets are not your friends Jan, but this doesn't come as a surprise I bet.
Excellent content, and I can say educational.👌😎
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One side of farming that not many share with us,,,, Thanks!!
Great video Jan, thanks for all the extra effort that went into this. Big thanks to your dad as well who probably did a double take when you suggested this topic. Safe to say the future of your farm and operation is in great hands. Thanks!!
The cycle of a steers' life for all the meat eaters watching this video. Informative as always
great job
I love hearing the business side of things as well. Thanks
Thanks Jan, that was a very informative look at a side of dairy farming most people don’t even think about. Your Dad has a very good business sense and I am sure you do as well. The timing was great as well, I am having beef burgers for supper tonight and this video puts my meal into perspective for sure.
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Very well done, thanks for sharing all that. We raise red Angus here in the states and we also background all our steers to finish, around 1300 lbs. We are on an all natural program so no antibiotics or hormones so they take a little longer to finish than your steers do, but our net profit comes out pretty close to what you showed.
Really interesting to see the financial breakdown. My sons just got done raising dairy feeder calves for 4-H that were 5 months old. We buy them weaned and vaxxed for 600.00. Then we spend around 250.00 in feed. I did not keep track of hay, bedding, or labor. You guys definitely have your operation running very efficiently!
Thanks for sharing with us!
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I look forward to any tip of your videos. And look forward to some new and different videos that you do. You always do great videos
So interesting. I love watching these and seeing what goes on behind the scenes. What hard work!
Great analysis on the accounting of the steers, thanks for doing that. I can only think to add the cost of space rental in the calf barn as well as the corrals. You can figure this by estimating how much the whole building / corral would cost to rent and dividing it by how many cows you can put in each. Also, couldn't you get paid for the manure that is taken out of the areas they stay? That could be a negative number on the cost side of the accounting. The farming operation should pay the steer operation for the manure if it enough to recognize in the accounting.
A rental cost is one way to look at this expense, another way to do that is to assign a capital acquisition cost. Overtime, it will be prudent to look at a cost for replacing the structure. We handle this with a percentage of gross receipts, saved toward repairs, and a separate fund toward replacement acquisition costs. They are small but important numbers on a unit basis.
Very informative video. One of the problems with most farm videos is a lack of transparency. SOME farm YTers, not you or your family, make more money off YT than they do actually farming. You've gone a great job laying the facts and figures out, plus you've also showed how your family takes care of dairy bullocks. There's a lot of BS and old wives tales about this subject that is the complete opposite of what the vast majority of dairy farmers do. You've shown proof, and dispelled those rumors with video evidence how you care for those calves. Well done, as a family and farm, and well done to show the naysayers how it should be done.
Jan, do you ever look at the genetics of the sire bull and the performance of the cow and decide to bring a particular bull calf to maturity for either breeding or selling off to a breeder? It would seem to me being one of the few pure Holstein herds those bulls would be very desirable especially if you are maintaining the pedigree of the cows. Just wondering.
I remember one of the videos he mentions they have one bull in a pen with the females just in case the artificial breeding doesn't take hold.
I work on a dairy farm in Ontario and we have raised a few bulls for breeding. I'm going to say out of the 15 years I've worked there we've only had 2 bulls that made it to the big show. The big show is when Select Sires or Genex pick your bull for semen sales, his seman was sold all over the world. It takes a lot of work and luck to get a bull in the system. If you put a bull out on pasture you have to be really careful, because they can get very protective of his girlfriends.
I like this sort of topic, especially focusing on things that stand out as different on your farm compared to other dairy farms
Good vlog; good detailed analysis. (but the "waste milk" including medicine-tainted milk in my opinion is not free: that milk is a revenue for the milk cows' enterprise analysis; so therefore it is an expense for the steer calves' enterprise analysis). Best wishes. P.S. would love to see your sister's enterprise analysis for her goats; it makes me so curious.
Thank you for all your work and congratulations for raising such nice beef
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Great job Jan.
More dairy farmers need to do this. Awesome video
Well done. And congratulations
Love the transparency
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Well done on the up front costs but don’t forget depreciation on tractors, equipment, buildings etc. along with fuel,fertilizer, hydro and all the other costs involved. Really enjoy yours and Nelines videos. Super well managed dairy!
From a Toronto City Kid. Thank you for doing this.I have learned a lot
I’m from Toronto as well.
Very interesting video . Your farm is so is clean it’s great to see all your family work the business
Great video , very honest and open
Be great to do one on the dairy side of the farm
Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent presentation. Not many farmers would be that open and honest with their finances. Thanks very much for sharing.
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Thank you for this information. Very informative
Great content! Thanks for putting in the extra time.
Very well explained great video 👍
Thanks for sharing! A great video as always!
Very informative, you did a great job explaining!! Would you be willing to do a video on the quota system in Canada?
Thanks for another great video!!
Excellent video Jan very informative
Very informative video thanks.
💯Thanks! That was an Awesome video! We want more!
Thanks for your “presentation.” SOLD!
Nice job, and those steers are lucky!
Great info. Thanks Jan.
great info keep on beautiful animals
HI from Mesa AZ
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Definitely a great video now you could see how much time and effort is put into just your beef cattle great job informs everybody and how hard it is to work on a farm your family is fantastic because I see they're all involved with the farm one way or another God bless and kudos to you 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️
Great video!! You explained everything very well.
Awesome video! Very informative.
Thank you for the informative presentation regarding the steer calves and how they are raised. All your cows look very healthy and well cared for...males & females. Thank you for the video 😊👍
great vid clear and concise
Excellent Job !!!
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Well done Jan, thanks for what you and your family do!
Very informative! Jan and family, you all do a very good job with creating this content, it’s very impressive. I appreciate that you take the time to visit these topics to help inform those that aren’t familiar with how a farm is run. I watch and enjoy everyone of your videos and must say that this is the best one so far. One of the best farm videos I’ve seen. Thanks for all the effort and time put into these!
I really appreciate your cost analysis Jan, it was pretty accurate but did you factor in the infrastructure and machinery wear and tear? I understand that it is probably counted at a higher level and distributed across the whole farm exploitation. Thank you for really interesting and vocabulary clean videos.
In finance you would add in an item called cost of capital- they had to ""borrow" all that money for inputs. Effectively 1800 across 17 months. Each company has different costs so you can't just set a standard rate but you can calculate it.
Exactly what I had wished for - puts things into perspective👍🏻
Excellent video Jan. You spent a lot of time and effort to produce this for us and I certainly appreciate it! Thank you!
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Very informative clip. Thank you!
Your family has such an awesome calve barn/setup, you can def see the investment payback with healthy & happy calve's ... When do you do guys do dehorning? While they're still in their single calve stalls or do you wait until they're outside?
Very cool! I had no idea of the costs. Well done
That was very informative and loved your breakdown. Thank you so much for explaining it all. Great job.
very well done, transparent and comprehensive!
Do a video on milk cost/profit...
Ultimately your main operation is milk production I would think...
Im an middle age & I drink half a gallon a day.
My mother used to buy 2 extra gallons a wk when I was growing up , just to keep me in milk..lol.
I still love it today .
Great information. Thanks for sharing.
awesome video, Jan. Thank you
Hello again from London, UK. I love the way you continue to introduce yourself - and - how you continue to keep your videos interesting by varying the content so they are not 'same-old, same-old' etc. Same for your Sister's channel. Well done Y'all :)
very informative....thank you for doing this.
Great job. Thanks
Thank you for the transparency and helping us to understand the intricacies of farming and livestock.
Excellent video Jan! You put a lot of time and effort into all your videos. Obviously, this video required a lot of extra work compared to your normal videos. Excellent result for the video! Truly appreciate the deliberate way you approached the subject. No complaints here for any part of the video. Nothing but compliments and well wishes for you and your family!
Good info! 👍
Have been enjoying your videos for a while now.
Thanks
Bruce
4:18 The cow is like whatcha doing up there 🐄 🥛
Thank you for a very honest informative video.
Very good information Jan. Thanks.
Love this! More please!
Well done !!! That was VERY interesting ! Thanks for your efforts !!
Excellent video as always. Informative and interesting at the same time. Hard work for you, your family, and hired hands. Very interesting to see in real time how much of our food is made. Many thanks and I hope you make a lot of money with the videos and I admire the production values and editing as well.
AWESOME video, THANK-YOU for sharing this!
Thanks, I enjoyed this info.
Great video, thanks!
thanks for doing this.
Hello young man iam do happy your viedo
You didnt have to tell us anything but.i want.to say. Thank you and your family for.shRing.that.with us
Just wanted to tell how you handle you self iam really proud.of you .i live in the United States a littlr state call Delaware
Ythnk you again
Great information
Good work
Great information, Thanks.
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Very informative. Thank you
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so well explained, with numbers. well done!
very good and informative video. thank you
Very very good video!! More like it will be great! Your doing a fantastic job!!!
Very informative keep up the good work