Same here today. Lmfao I started watching nonstop and love these vids. After that vid I was like hell yeah im going to watch back to back and subscribe. These vids so great I hit the like before finishing lol
Back here in the UK quit dairy farming 20 years ago. Started watching manure hauling videos and thinking the roads looked familiar now watching the farm tour realise my son who passed this Christmas lived 12 miles away ,When corvid is under control and we can get back to visit my daughter in law and grandchildren I am going to bring them for ice cream and the tour.
I spread for 9 years. 5 years with a Mack and 3600 gallon tank then 4 years with a 6100 Jamesway and 7250 CaseIH. I enjoyed it but it is seasonal work. I got out of spreading for more uniform work and income. I now run truck year round. Hauling ag and forestry products. We still farm the ground but we quite milking in 2014. Thanks for your videos.
New sub here Duff. Like the different perspectives your channel shows. Been watching Millennial Farmer for a couple years and this channel just popped up. Keep up the good work man.
Glad to see farming is still going. I was a fourth generation dairy farmer before we had to sell out. Its nice to see holsteins brings back memories lol seen your video on the crazy lady and had to sub to see what the future holds for you guys and best of luck. And yes my family misses farming mostly the cows lol
Nice operation! Those robotic milking systems are the future of dairy farming. My family used to milk about 80 head but we switched to crop and beef cattle farming. Here in southern michigan we farm over 5200 acres and custom farms another 2200 acres anualy for other farmers and landowners. By focusing on crops and not dairy we tripled in size and the quality of our crops and yields got better . I enjoy watching other farmers and learning about other methods and styles of agriculture. Nice video stay safe and farm on my friend !
Dang!! That cow has a Gene Simmons tongue!! 18:21 LOL! I have Oakridge Dairy in Ellington CT 4 miles down the road from me. Huge operation since expanding their milking barn less than 10 years ago. Kids complain about the smell when they spread manure. To me is smells fine. My wife's Uncles are mostly farmers from Canada in the Saskatchewan Province. Great channel.
Grew up in an old non working dairy farm next to a working hundred Holstein dairy farm. They ran a sugar house in the spring, loved that part. North of Montpelier Vermont. They worked hard, just like you.
The farm I work at did a demo with a Cat skidloader and I share your dislike of it. Thanks for taking the time to provide a tour of the farm as I was curious what the layout of your farm was and this really helped things make more sense for sure.
New subscriber, I really enjoyed the robotic tour, hopefully you can do more as there is a lot of interest in them. We have looked at installing them, just reluctant to move forward. Thanks for your great videos.
i had a stake body dump c70 that looked a lot like yours. Had a 366 motor in it. They used to run 366s in old school busses off of propane. Mine was gas though. Awesome channel man. Subbed.
Glad i found this channel i used to come here as a when i was younger and i still do thought i recognised some of the equitment keep up the good work you guys have the best ice cream! subscribed!
Just found your channel last night and I absolutely love watching your content different from the welker farmers up in Montana but super cool smaller equipment but still cool to see you find old treasures! 🤘🏼
wow we got a heat shrink machine and we have shrink warp ever thing on the farms to yea last year we did have 6 semi-trucks had to sit outside we wrapped them up kept the thieves out of them we kept them plugin and a battery charger on them make sure the trucks had fuel to one a week the start-up and ran for 2 hours we sold the 6 by springtime NO were planed on selling any of them
Im from schoharie county and know who Greg Lloyd is and that was a cool shout out that you made about his straw! Best damn soil in the country here in schoharie!
Very interesting tour! Good to see an operation from "across the pond". Interesting to hear that "moseying" around is done in your area as well as here in Ireland.
It been interesting watching it interesting I found out by you posting a video on the silage kings face book and then I watched master Choices podcast and found out some awesome stuff about this place
Theres about 100 dairy's left in Massachusetts. lot of vegetables and once you get into the western part of the state in the Connecticut river valley you will find tobacco and potatoes
Thanks for the information! I had no idea that of any of that happened in MA. Since I am from Kentucky, I just assumed that urban sprawl had eaten MA, CT, And RI. My error and keep the videos coming.
With the robot units, What do you do with or how do you handle first calf heifers to start them in there? What do you do when or if a cow has mastitis? How do you know she is infected? How do you separate the milk and save it for the calves? Do you have a special needs pen. How do you stop the units from freezing? Thank you I am viewing from Eastern Ct.
For heifer training we have them in the sort group for the 1st few days and we put them thru 4 times a day and work with them. if they are nervous we will manually milk them in the robot. majority pick it up in the 1st day. With milk that is none saleable we enter it in the computer the robot diverts the milk from that cow and washes the system automatically. when feeding cows we divert the milk the same way right at the robot. the robot uses conductivity sensors and color sensors per quarter of the cow and can tell when one is elevated to alert us. we have a special needs pen for 6 cows that cows can automatically be sorted to. the barn is insulated and stays 35 in the winter. In none insulated barns we close up the robots as much as we can and have heaters. they will run in cold weather just some of the functions using water may have issues so its key to keep them above freezing.
Wow I don’t know how you do it up there. I couldn’t deal with the town like that lol. You must have big enough heifers at 12 months I never started breeding mine till 15 months.
have awesome growth in first 2 months and carry it on. we dont always caught heat on our heifers so we try to get them by 12 months or we have a clean up bull. we do have activity system to put on our heifers. just need some time to run wires over
we use the manure spreader and make rows of it about 7 foot tall 9 foot wide then we turn them over the year. we have an employee apartment above the shop
@@DuffyAg Ok. Would be interesting to see some of that someday. BTW, love the channel, especially when you casually take apart a transmission (or similar part that is incredibly complicated) and say something like "all I have to do is hammer this part back into place. No big deal". And it works!
The state owns the The facility. we own a majority of the the insides of the barn. All the equipment the silos the manure storage. its a unique situation has its pros and cons. we run the operation as if we own it.
Great video! I use to work as JD mechanic & on their skid steers for 12 years. This will be the first of a broken crankshaft that I have seen.. Does it have many hours on it?
small work. The dealership I work for is in North Franklin Connecticut. we got out of the cranberry business 5 years ago now. market collapsed and could not justify continuing any more
I worked on a farm that had a new subdivision built at the edge of the largest field. Lady came out yelling at me once telling me we were hurting her property values. I reminded her that the field was here when she bought the place.she said she didn't know the fields were still being worked . People are so irritating with their absolute stupidity.
Heifer manure can vary due to weather conditions because of indoor outdoor set up. usually the manure is more solid. the cow manure is usually more liquid. some has to do with the diets
We can find a few blocks but they are more then we bought the tractor for. can buy a running one for as much as a block usually. biggest factor is we dont have much to do with a tractor that size. it mixed feed for years but was under powered with the bigger loads
I personally own a good amount of equipment. My parents own the remaining equipment. we do not own any land. land prices are 6 figures or more for a acre and could never justify owning any in this area
How come you went with de Laval then lely milking robots!? You said you work for them was that it or another reason!? Theirs no de Laval robots in our area but getting to be more lely's tho
we installed the robot long before I ever thought of working for delaval. At the time Lely would not come to the area. we wanted delaval for the ability to manually milk cows and wanted a guided flow barn to maximize labor efficiency. Biggest thing now is dealership support. There specific areas where one brand or another takes most of the sales and leads back to how much the dealership invests in the idea of robots
@@DuffyAg thanks duffy, that's interesting to know why you chose them over another!! Service is a huge deal now when getting something, lots of things are getting that way, have to travel so far for service in between farms now
we lease the farm. when the state purchased the farm is it was farmed for a few more years then sat empty and the state put a ad out looking for a farmer to run it and have a operational dairy farm open to the public. we only run 60 acres of state park land then a lot of town and private land
I know those are rounded estimates but he said “maybe more than 10,000 lbs. per day” / 8.61 lbs. per gallon = 1,161.44 gals. / 120 cows = 9.67 gals. Per cow per day? Is my math right here? Are y’all miking twice a day?
Pretty close on the number. we average 85-88lbs a cow a day. so right around that 10 gallons a cow. since cows are in the robots it varies on average its 2.6-2.7 milkings. cows making more milk will milk up to 5 times a day
Interesting watching this in august of 23, You have been through a lot since this was shot and I appreciate your videos.
You have a nice setup there
Hey Andy I appreciate it. always enjoy your content
My dad watches you all the time
New fan here! God bless the UA-cam algorithm - found you from the crazy hassling lady in my recommened feed. Subscribed.
Thanks for joining along
Same here today. Lmfao I started watching nonstop and love these vids.
After that vid I was like hell yeah im going to watch back to back and subscribe. These vids so great I hit the like before finishing lol
Same 😂
same here
@@DuffyAg what's the info on that Kodiak truck.
Back here in the UK quit dairy farming 20 years ago. Started watching manure hauling videos and thinking the roads looked familiar now watching the farm tour realise my son who passed this Christmas lived 12 miles away ,When corvid is under control and we can get back to visit my daughter in law and grandchildren I am going to bring them for ice cream and the tour.
I walk with the dog here every morning, love the videos and appreciate the inside look. You make it look like I’ve never worked a day in my life.
Glad you enjoy the park and thank you for the support
Thank you for farming! Smartest and most hard working folks are farmers! God bless!
Good to see I'm not the only one without brand new equipment! Love my old iron 👍
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I spread for 9 years. 5 years with a Mack and 3600 gallon tank then 4 years with a 6100 Jamesway and 7250 CaseIH. I enjoyed it but it is seasonal work. I got out of spreading for more uniform work and income. I now run truck year round. Hauling ag and forestry products. We still farm the ground but we quite milking in 2014. Thanks for your videos.
Thanks for watching
New sub here Duff. Like the different perspectives your channel shows. Been watching Millennial Farmer for a couple years and this channel just popped up. Keep up the good work man.
Glad to see farming is still going. I was a fourth generation dairy farmer before we had to sell out. Its nice to see holsteins brings back memories lol seen your video on the crazy lady and had to sub to see what the future holds for you guys and best of luck. And yes my family misses farming mostly the cows lol
So sad. I hate working for a massive corporate monarchy where you're just a nameless number on a spreadsheet. I'd rather be farming.
Nice operation! Those robotic milking systems are the future of dairy farming. My family used to milk about 80 head but we switched to crop and beef cattle farming. Here in southern michigan we farm over 5200 acres and custom farms another 2200 acres anualy for other farmers and landowners. By focusing on crops and not dairy we tripled in size and the quality of our crops and yields got better . I enjoy watching other farmers and learning about other methods and styles of agriculture. Nice video stay safe and farm on my friend !
That old barn would be awesome to clean up and show folks
Dang!! That cow has a Gene Simmons tongue!! 18:21 LOL!
I have Oakridge Dairy in Ellington CT 4 miles down the road from me. Huge operation since expanding their milking barn less than 10 years ago. Kids complain about the smell when they spread manure. To me is smells fine. My wife's Uncles are mostly farmers from Canada in the Saskatchewan Province. Great channel.
Grew up in an old non working dairy farm next to a working hundred Holstein dairy farm. They ran a sugar house in the spring, loved that part. North of Montpelier Vermont. They worked hard, just like you.
The farm I work at did a demo with a Cat skidloader and I share your dislike of it. Thanks for taking the time to provide a tour of the farm as I was curious what the layout of your farm was and this really helped things make more sense for sure.
Glad it was helpful!
We don't like are cat either, vs are new holland but if you compand each it would be the best skidsteer. But also needs a easy access to engine let.
"Stinky job but somebody does it." Never been understated more than that. Keep up the great work. 😂
Fun tour. We need to see more of your cattle dog!!
Tour of older equipment, loving it, then POW, state of the art robot milking parlour. You run a farm I can relate to, nice to find you 🥂
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New subscriber, I really enjoyed the robotic tour, hopefully you can do more as there is a lot of interest in them. We have looked at installing them, just reluctant to move forward. Thanks for your great videos.
Thanks for the sub. I plan to do a more in depth barn tour video this winter
i had a stake body dump c70 that looked a lot like yours. Had a 366 motor in it. They used to run 366s in old school busses off of propane. Mine was gas though. Awesome channel man. Subbed.
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Nice farm you got there love the older equipment and also just subscribed
Thank you
Your welcome also found you’re channel in UA-cam recommendations
Love it all. Thank you for everything you show
Glad i found this channel i used to come here as a when i was younger and i still do thought i recognised some of the equitment keep up the good work you guys have the best ice cream! subscribed!
Thank you for the support glad you enjoy the ice cream
Farming with Duffyc91 your welcome keep up the good work I love seeing the old iron I love coming here with school sadly not this year though
Celebrities. I'm so intrigued, can't wait to see who.👍 Beautiful old barn. Great looking animals.
Just found your channel last night and I absolutely love watching your content different from the welker farmers up in Montana but super cool smaller equipment but still cool to see you find old treasures! 🤘🏼
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Nice operation. Plus ur a robitic man. Mechanic ect ect.plus u tuber. . U will go far.
You guys have a nice setup thanks for the tour
Thanks for taking the time to do a tour, great video!!!
Just subscribed these videos are becoming my favorite thing to watch on UA-cam 👌🏼
Appreciate it. Glad you like them!
Nice video! I really enjoyed the tour... You have an interesting place...
just subbed from lockport newyork love the vids keep on spreadin
Beautiful spot you have there! Thank you for the tour!
wow we got a heat shrink machine and we have shrink warp ever thing on the farms to yea last year we did have 6 semi-trucks had to sit outside we wrapped them up kept the thieves out of them we kept them plugin and a battery charger on them make sure the trucks had fuel to one a week the start-up and ran for 2 hours we sold the 6 by springtime NO were planed on selling any of them
Love your videos , regards from Ireland 🇮🇪
Im from schoharie county and know who Greg Lloyd is and that was a cool shout out that you made about his straw! Best damn soil in the country here in schoharie!
Just subbed. Great content love the farm. Keep the vids coming.
Thanks! Will do!
Very interesting tour! Good to see an operation from "across the pond".
Interesting to hear that "moseying" around is done in your area as well as here in Ireland.
So happy to watch your channel grow
Appreciate the support
New subscriber here! Nice setup. Greetings from a dutch collegue
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Congrats on 100k subs!!!
But really you will be there this time next year if ya keep it up.
some day hopefully. thanks for the support
Try Cook Tractor in Clinton Mo for your 3020 block.
It been interesting watching it interesting I found out by you posting a video on the silage kings face book and then I watched master Choices podcast and found out some awesome stuff about this place
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Thought you looked familiar, you helped start our robots almost 3 years ago now.
Hey he helped us to!!:):):)
Where's your farm at
Yo, bud. What about the awsome looking slammed S10?
That is my brothers. Its a cool ride
Nice farm you got there 👍
great video
Nice keep up the good work 👍
Thank you and thanks for watching
I’ve got a small dairy farm out in Hardwick Massachusetts.
that's really great! what generation are you in it? how many head do you milk usually? thank you!
@@CuriousEarthMan we milk about 35-40 cows and I’m 6th generation on the same land.
Keep the videos coming and I will definitely be keeping the sub hit
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Nice setup.
Grew up down the road from you in Acton. Great videos man 👍🏻
If u want a skid steer that’s durable try a case out
Buddy has one that I actually filmed today
We have one and its an old 75xt and it works really well
If u had a new one they would prolly be biss
Boss sorry
the algorithm must be in your faver.new sub from MN here like the content.
Thanks for the sub!
I worked on a dairy farm when I was growing up we had 95 head we milked twice a day.. I sure miss them good old days
Best piece of equipment on the farm is that red DM 600 Mack
Its been a awesome truck want another R model someday
Good video! Like the diversification of the farm...ice cream, compost, manure, milk. I have to admit I didn’t think MA had any agriculture at all.
Theres about 100 dairy's left in Massachusetts. lot of vegetables and once you get into the western part of the state in the Connecticut river valley you will find tobacco and potatoes
Thanks for the information! I had no idea that of any of that happened in MA. Since I am from Kentucky, I just assumed that urban sprawl had eaten MA, CT, And RI. My error and keep the videos coming.
With the robot units,
What do you do with or how do you handle first calf heifers to start them in there?
What do you do when or if a cow has mastitis? How do you know she is infected?
How do you separate the milk and save it for the calves?
Do you have a special needs pen.
How do you stop the units from freezing?
Thank you
I am viewing from Eastern Ct.
For heifer training we have them in the sort group for the 1st few days and we put them thru 4 times a day and work with them. if they are nervous we will manually milk them in the robot. majority pick it up in the 1st day. With milk that is none saleable we enter it in the computer the robot diverts the milk from that cow and washes the system automatically. when feeding cows we divert the milk the same way right at the robot. the robot uses conductivity sensors and color sensors per quarter of the cow and can tell when one is elevated to alert us. we have a special needs pen for 6 cows that cows can automatically be sorted to. the barn is insulated and stays 35 in the winter. In none insulated barns we close up the robots as much as we can and have heaters. they will run in cold weather just some of the functions using water may have issues so its key to keep them above freezing.
Thank You
Like all of your equipment
I knew there was something about you the other day ...your the farm Rain Man
You got some good machines there. Me I like the CAT and New Holland machines. Sadly farming simulator 2019 don’t have CAT stuff.
Very interesting !
No way. Ur in Massachusetts too? 😱 I farm about 200 acres in North Andover mass!!
Sure is a small world
Dad worked here and mostly almost nothing has changed
Congrats on the 1k! I just hit 200, no k lol! I love to see how others farm across the country.
Wow I don’t know how you do it up there. I couldn’t deal with the town like that lol. You must have big enough heifers at 12 months I never started breeding mine till 15 months.
have awesome growth in first 2 months and carry it on. we dont always caught heat on our heifers so we try to get them by 12 months or we have a clean up bull. we do have activity system to put on our heifers. just need some time to run wires over
Do you still have that kodiak you wanted to get rid of?
We do, have to talk to my father about it, its just sitting let me see if he wants to let go of it, you may have to remind me
I’d even help you take the body off the back. I know how it is with having more hands. But yea I’ll remind you
Clukey ag. Service, Cortland N.Y may have some silage boxes, and poo tanks?
just subed to you loving the vids keep up the good work !!
Thanks for the sub!
Dang I live 15 miles away didn’t know about this farm
We have neighbors that dont even know we have cows. Glad you watched
Does your dad/you own the barns ? I know you said state park owned the farm ground just wasn’t sure
Thanks
Could you do another feeding video
How do you "windrow" manure (13:25) and what are the rooms over the garage? Looks like someone lives up there.
we use the manure spreader and make rows of it about 7 foot tall 9 foot wide then we turn them over the year. we have an employee apartment above the shop
@@DuffyAg Ok. Would be interesting to see some of that someday. BTW, love the channel, especially when you casually take apart a transmission (or similar part that is incredibly complicated) and say something like "all I have to do is hammer this part back into place. No big deal". And it works!
hey duff luv intro
An åkerman h3 digger in the us?? Those are reare even here in norway😅
Only seen a few over here too. parts are hard to come by
What with the hellcat
So if it is a state park do u own the farm or is it just in a trust or does the state own it
The state owns the The facility. we own a majority of the the insides of the barn. All the equipment the silos the manure storage. its a unique situation has its pros and cons. we run the operation as if we own it.
@@DuffyAg that is a unique situation it seems like the people there don't care about u or the farm
What’s up with the charger? 392?
My brothers workers car, yes 392
You guys ever have trouble with the slurry store manure shavings crusting really hard on top where you can't get it broken up an be a problem!?
Never had a issue on the top. had a blockage issue coming in once. this year we did add 50k gallons of water to help get any solids out
what kind of Cat do you guys have (i think its a cat it could be a jcb too) i didnt see it in this tour
Great video! I use to work as JD mechanic & on their skid steers for 12 years. This will be the first of a broken crankshaft that I have seen.. Does it have many hours on it?
Had 6k hours. It is uncommon from what I have heard as well. The 5 cylinder engine makes it so not many after market parts are not available as well
Would love to hear more about you farming on a State Park and how that came to be
I will have to do a history of the farm video in the future
Years back I delivered grain to your farm from Cargill grain out of Franklin Connecticut Do u guys do cranberries also
small work. The dealership I work for is in North Franklin Connecticut. we got out of the cranberry business 5 years ago now. market collapsed and could not justify continuing any more
@@DuffyAg do you work for the handfields they are related to us My home town is Franklin
I worked on a farm that had a new subdivision built at the edge of the largest field.
Lady came out yelling at me once telling me we were hurting her property values.
I reminded her that the field was here when she bought the place.she said she didn't know the fields were still being worked .
People are so irritating with their absolute stupidity.
Maybe a dumb question,
Why sell a farm to the state, what's pro's of?
Imo,I wouldn't, really limits a person.
Iowa guy here and live in john deere's back yard of the quad cities did you get your parts yet for your tractor?
Headed west the end of the week
Thanks for the background Duffy;;;;
What's the deal on the kodiak.
What transmission does the international truck have in it
I’m 53 I sold my cows in 2011 just to concentrate on the crop farming we milked in a 65 cow tie stall too labor-intensive hard to find help
What difference between heifer manure and standard manure?
Heifer manure can vary due to weather conditions because of indoor outdoor set up. usually the manure is more solid. the cow manure is usually more liquid. some has to do with the diets
Richard brown out of new Paris indiana can’t find you a block?
We can find a few blocks but they are more then we bought the tractor for. can buy a running one for as much as a block usually. biggest factor is we dont have much to do with a tractor that size. it mixed feed for years but was under powered with the bigger loads
👍👌🇨🇦❤, new sub, gr8 stuff
Thanks for the sub!
I’m in Middleburgh
Do you still fill the upright stave silos still!?
The have not been used in 35 years and are in pour shape
Do you own any of the equipment or any land?
I personally own a good amount of equipment. My parents own the remaining equipment. we do not own any land. land prices are 6 figures or more for a acre and could never justify owning any in this area
I am also from mass
How come you went with de Laval then lely milking robots!? You said you work for them was that it or another reason!? Theirs no de Laval robots in our area but getting to be more lely's tho
we installed the robot long before I ever thought of working for delaval. At the time Lely would not come to the area. we wanted delaval for the ability to manually milk cows and wanted a guided flow barn to maximize labor efficiency. Biggest thing now is dealership support. There specific areas where one brand or another takes most of the sales and leads back to how much the dealership invests in the idea of robots
@@DuffyAg thanks duffy, that's interesting to know why you chose them over another!! Service is a huge deal now when getting something, lots of things are getting that way, have to travel so far for service in between farms now
We own a 7520 to man
How did your dad buy the farm in the state park or is it rented?
we lease the farm. when the state purchased the farm is it was farmed for a few more years then sat empty and the state put a ad out looking for a farmer to run it and have a operational dairy farm open to the public. we only run 60 acres of state park land then a lot of town and private land
I know those are rounded estimates but he said “maybe more than 10,000 lbs. per day” / 8.61 lbs. per gallon = 1,161.44 gals. / 120 cows = 9.67 gals. Per cow per day? Is my math right here? Are y’all miking twice a day?
Pretty close on the number. we average 85-88lbs a cow a day. so right around that 10 gallons a cow. since cows are in the robots it varies on average its 2.6-2.7 milkings. cows making more milk will milk up to 5 times a day