Moving Hay Bales and Feeding Cows!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Today we are moving all types of feed on the dairy farm. We start off by finishing the silage. Then it’s onto moving a wagon full of small square bales. Thank you all for watching!
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On my 150 acre farm in Minnesota, I grow pasture hay ( small bales ) and corn for grinding into feed for local customers,, charge enough for fuel bill and keep the lights on, farms payed off , so my only cost is food and beer,, and payoff is to enjoy each day farmin😎 and after 32 years military, its putting a smile on my face
Numbers always help things make sense. Good idea!
Like the #'s - not the bean counter stuff but feed consumption figures and diesel usage etc.
As I finished up the data for tax prep, it's interesting to see the yearly changes. Our property taxes and insurance will be up this year. Numbers are all part of the game. Good to see you've got plenty of feed to go around. The cattle we have here and at my son's place are actually his. I take care of chores and field work. Just a young kid of 73, but keeping going keeps me going. Doesn't seem to matter if you have a small place or a large operation...always things that need done.
Good for you, Don, keep 'er lit!!!
We took over a dairy farm in northern Sweden in October 2020. Neither one of us have...or I guess now I should say 'had' any farming experience from before. We're both helicopter pilots actually. But now we've managed to survive and live through some pretty challenging years and with a fourth daughter being born last summer...
We still love the farming life and your videos have helped us immensely. We milk around 55 cows, with mainly Holsteins and some Swedish reds. Erin has been mixing in Jersey ans Brown Swiss which was a recommendation from Semex. We'll just have to wait and see how they perform.
Thanks again for your inspirational videos and all the best!
Numbers are interesting, very important, but can be somewhat personal. So only if you’re comfortable. Nice video Aaron.
Great video, thanks for sharing.😊
You could have a live cam on the cows all day for people to tune in and relax and enjoy:). Stress relief
Interested in your dad's plans for the saw mill wood? Does he have plans for building new calf barn or does he just plan on selling hard wood to local furniture/flooring vendors?
I enjoy watching
Thanks for moving the camera, that hay dust was starting to make my eyes itch and my nose run😁
Sir thank you for your videos. Know it’s a lot of hard work for you guys. It reminds me of growing up in Minnesota on a dairy farm back in the 60’s and 70’s before I went into the army to be a medic. Back then in a lot of ways farming made army life easier. Again Thanks.enjoy the weather while you can.
Love to hear some numbers - nothing specific, just ballpark is cool.
Hello Aaron and George,
My husband and I are curious about the financial portion of running a small dairy herd. We live in New Hampshire and when we would take our daughters to the college barns near where we live, the workers would talk to us , they told us that in order to be profitable at least 100 cows need to be milked.
Farm management and advanced farm management were my 2 favorite ag courses at UW in the early 70's. I wore out a tax code book studying for those courses. Id love to hear about your numbers and compare to yesterday numbers. Farms costing $10,000 dollars and a six pack of Coca Cola for 35 cents back in 1958.😊
my dad bought 200 acres 1962 50 per acre
Great video Aaron
I think you’re doing just fine with the videos!
Hello from western Tennessee, this is my very first time watching your channel. I’m autistic and numbers really fascinate me, especially when it relates to farming. I’ve been involved with farming all my life and love ❤️ farming. Our goal is more family sustenance. We just want to know exactly what and where our food comes from. I really appreciate your efforts to make your experience available through UA-cam. Thank you and blessings to you and your family for taking the time. 40 Shades of Green Farm, Jackson Tennessee
Good idea!
Yes tax side would be interesting
Great video for sure
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO AARON 😊
Back when my dad was dairy farming, we had 3 Farmall tractors; an H, an M and a 656. Also, we had Guernseys. My mom remembers, back when she was a girl, her grandpa's Jerseys.
I would like to see the number side of the business. Years ago when I worked part-time at H & R Block I did a few farm returns. Mostly dairy at the time. Now in this area in Northern Illinois it's mostly grain farming.
Hi numbers are always an interested topic. One not too many open up about. We enjoy your videos and appreciate the time&labor it takes all day. I watch 4dairys&3-4meat producers and dairy is much more physical and something I'd think about doing in my 2nd career. so to know those numbers would be nice
I still have my chains on my tractors here in Up NY. Been mild here too, about mid 60's also. But I still wonder if we'll all get one more wet heavy sloppy gloppy snow before winter is done. I do see some buds on the trees just starting to peek out. No sprouts from the ground yet. My worry is buds will pop on the trees, then we'll get a really hard freeze. The measure is trees with blossoms (apple, cherry, crab-apple, etc) if they start to pop then it might really be spring. But still keeping my chains on just in case lol.
Numbers! Can't wait.
Just found ya and love your footage! All the best from Idaho
I can't help but think that a simple silage cart, like a Shuler model, wouldn't be a good thing to have in y'all's situation. Daily cleaning of the silage bunker face might reduce the mold spreading into the pile. Great video, and thanks for making my life look easy!😂
Yes would love to see financial side an see if compares to us here in Vermont 😊
Nice to see an Oliver appearance. Is it still getting water in the oil?? Sure looks, feels like spring but you never know.... We thought it was spring in 2018 but then we got 18" of snow in later April.... Might want to keep the chains on just a little longer yet??
It's been a different winter for sure I hope all the bugs got frozen in the ground hope not to have insects this summer great videos as always 😊
Yes Aaron would love to see a numbers video. I a;ways wondered the costs for the farm. Great video😊😊😊😊
Yes, if you can share some meaningful numbers without divulging info that is none of our business, I'd be interested. I like numbers, too, until they start to scare me. When that happens it's time for a long walk in the woods to enjoy a beautiful day.
I would like to learn more about the wood business. This has been an easy winter on feed. Hopefully we don't pay for it this summer
Firewood too!
Yeah a numbers video would be great, keep up the good work 😊
Chain Tractor 😂 50° ( Snow ) March 16,24 Thanks 💪 (Digger )
The numbers side of your farm would be fascinating.
Habe ich da richtig gehört? Die Schwalben sind schon aus dem Winterquartier zurück.
Not necessarily numbers of cost but percentage of your calves ,that you keep what you sell without the dollars amount, I think that is private and family affairs that your viewers don't need to know.
Yup, numbers video!
Numbers are interesting. I'd be interested in hearing how the economy has effected your operation. Inflation, regulations, government intrusion all have big influences on small businesses. Farming is a tough business with weather thrown in on top of all the other stuff. I'm betting you could put together a very interesting video on the numbers side of the business.
Do the cows over there ever go into the paddock? Cows in New Zealand live in the paddocks all year round, grass feed with supplement feed as the season dries off.
Was curious how Ollie was.
I attended a Ag event put on by the University of Tennessee on Thursday this week. The instructor mentioned that it cost $824.96 to produce an acre of corn. She also is suggesting that we would be able to produce a crop of 175 bushels per acre. With her calculations, she said it would cost $0.08 per pound to produce. Or $0.07 to purchase given the reduction in corn’s value per bushel in the market currently. She recommends buying corn rather than growing given the current market. Your thoughts??
Hey man good job
Yes it be interesting
I would love to hear the numbers for opperating costs and profitability and imput costs for your farm.
Might be interesting to understand your break even range of milk pricing per hundred so we can have sense of how things are going. Know it has been a lot of up and down in milk pricing which has run shocks threw the industry in last few years.
we have had a mild winter to here in the uk but so much rain here , we do have to remember we do get these mild winters sometimes , we cannot keep relating it all to climate change i understand your concern but i feel we are relating everything to climate change and forgetting that mild winters happen , love to see some of the numbers too
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You might as well take the chains off them tractors the way things are looking yeah in my area the river is always overflow this time of the year you can actually see the bottom of it I live in Clintonville Wisconsin hopefully it's not assigned to what's coming for everybody this year
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Aaron what happened to your Oliver ? I thought you had one aswell ?
There are no flaws in your tractor ownership... (minus the Deere lol) Oliver and International/Farmall 💯
If its red leave it in the shed 😂
@350mack If it's not red, it doesn't belong on the property 🤣
Tractors are like watermelon you keep the Red and throw away the green
Especially that green
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@@Dextamartijn Yea Oliver
Hey, what sunglasses are you wearing?
i would like to know the numbers
I would like to haar about the numbers
Have you ever considered a defacer attachment for the Bobcat for your silage pile. Just a thought instead of digging at it with a bucket.
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Have you guys thought about a defacer for the skidsteer to use on the silsge pile?
Really not big enough to justify it, but not a bad thing to have handy for use. 👍
I'm an engineer. I love numbers. It would be really cool to see that.
Shirt sleeve weather in the middle of March!! WOW!! Yes to numbers. Do you make enough money to get a pair of gloves without holes? 🤔 Thanks😊
Please do
Don't share your personal business information with anyone !
Numbers are always welcome however don’t feel like you have to. It’s probably pretty scary anyway