Cows really do seem to reflect their owners personality, Richard’s cows seemed so calm ,just like him. A wonderful set up, low stress. Bravo to you all.❤️❤️👍🐄🐄🐄
We just don’t appreciate the farmers enough for what they do, it’s not just a job it’s a life of dedication and worry for very little compared to any other kind of living, thanks for all you give us your all amazing beings.
Several farms around here uses sand bedding and has a sand recycling system. They don't scrape too often because each alley is flushed with 1000s of gallons of water every 10 minutes. The sand is filtered & "washed" and it dries very clean and reused many times. All the manure goes through digesters which produces methane which is burned by generators to produce electricity for the dairy. They also have most buildings covered with solar panels. They actually sell excess electricity back to the grid because they produce so much per day. The water eventually (after about 12-15 "reuses" gets pushed to the field irrigation system. There is no runoff.
Brilliant video Tom. I'm no farmer and 60yrs old but I find farming fascinating. But why I love watching your videos is because you tell us knowing most of your viewers are not farmers. So you explain it so we do understand. Without farmers we don't have food or milk and most people don't think about that. I wish more people would support farmers cause you all get a rotten deal, in my opinion. Take care, give Ginge a thank you too 🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄
Privileged to see this farm in operation, spent many years milking cows, abreast parlours and herringbone. Those cows are the cleanest I have ever seen. Great family great set up.
Anyone tempted to think cows are "dumb" animals, that have to be driven and abused to exploit them, needs to watch this. They're willing participants that are quite comfortable with their lives. Cueing up 3 times a day, they quietly walk onto this machinery and stand to be milked, without even the incentive of food reward. There is no better picture of a contented cow, than these girls calmy chewing their cud and looking quite curious about what's going on around them.
There willing participants because they are trained with food 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 And as most women know when the tits get full it #$/=÷_< Hurts. They are female that's why they are smart.
I am as you say gobsmacked! That many cows three times a day and that enormous amount of milk above their old way of milking. It boggles the mind. I love the mechanics of the rotary parlor. Please continue these visits to other parlors we always find something new or at least done differently to learn from.
My wife's older sister married into what is now the largest dairy farm in Wisconsin U.S.A. I know their Carousel holds 100 cows and last I heard they are milking around 5,000. I wish I knew more so I could share. I have seen the cows leisurely walking in large groups waiting for their turn on the Carousel. Peaceful and stress free. Keep up the great work.
Martin and his family are lovely people great to see the parlour as I only live down the road. Those boys know how to work hard. I think they only stop to go to sleep 💤.
A truly great set-up but the really amazing thing is the genetics in that herd of cows. Whoever is responsible for the breeding side of the operation is the hero on the farm.
This has to be the best video you have done in my opinion, Iv milked cows for Over 30 years an this must be one of the best productive farms Iv seen . The milk yields are staggering. Well done Tom you smashed this video .
Yes Tom love it keep all your hard work up and pls don’t give up UA-cam for a long time unless u want to business pls do more long videos up to 30 min long
It's fascinating to watch the rotary milkers do their thing! I ran across Derrick Josi's videos earlier this year - his dairy farm, part of the Tillamook co-op in Oregon, uses one - and I learned a lot about them from watching his content. What was really interesting to me was that it is so easy to train the new heifers to the rotary even without the lure of an extra treat of feed while they take a spin, and he occasionally has a rider who decides to go for another circuit instead of backing out, even with the 'nudger' at the end of the rotation that encourages the dawdlers to exit. 😄 Loved all the extra info I learned from this video - thanks Tom! ❤🐮❤🚜
Derrick’s setup is something else, he said one day it started as a drawing on the fridge in 2014, $6M later, a gorgeous setup, and out of the floodplain which is always a plus in Oregon.
I worked on dairy farms in the 1960's 70s' & 80's , the largest one in the 80's had three farms around 1000 acres milking 600 cows and rearing all the followers. I felt that was a large concern .BUT THIS IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL!!!! AMAZING. And as already mentioned really CLEAN COWS.
Richard , Tom may have slowed you down but thank you so much for Showing us how the rotary works.. I wondered why the cows kept picking up their feet ?
You need to come to New Zealand mate 650 is considered a relatively small herd over here. there are farms milking upwards of 1600 cows twice a day it would blow your mind man
Wow Tom you always have such interesting videos. Love when you show us the new technology that’s out there. You have such a keen interest in it that you just naturally ask all the right questions and your always itching to get in there and have some hands on experience. You demonstrate the ease of it and your so well versed in the equipment that you’re able to tell us what the old way was like and the benefits of all these new innovations. Wonderful video and thank you’s to the family that let you come out, video there production and they were wonderful in explaining and giving comparisons and such. Please send my thanks to them, it was incredible to see. Congrats to you and Joanna on becoming parents to that beautiful son of yours. Congrats to the entire Pemberton family and to Joanna’s family on this beautiful new family member. All my best wishes to you all!❤❤
Just started watching and for a moment thought you were in our parlour. We have a very similar set up but De Lavel mainly because our local dealer is De Lavel. 2 differences, a strap comes down behind a problem cow to stop her coming off, and we have a teat dip robot. We went from milking 21 hours a day in a 20/20 herringbone to 9 hours for 3 milkings. 750 cows. Lovely to see you visiting others farms
We had one of those teet wash systems, we only had a 16/16 herringbone. But it was a perfect parlor, auto id, acr, air line for dump bucket, auto feed auto wash. Absolutely amazing parlor for a small herd of cattle.
A few years ago I got the chance go round the Duke of Westminster estate ( over your side of the country) can’t just remember but sure they milked over 2000 cows. Each shift did one and a half milking. They filled an artic milk tanker trailer parked in the yard, driver swapped an empty one for a full each time😳 they do tours so sure they would welcome a UA-cam visit.
People who are not from a farming back ground would not realise that its 7 days aweek all year no days off . My dad milked 14 cows with buckets with clusters on them for years then had a pipeline system in and was a world of difference that was before parlours were around.
Great video! That is one heck of a setup! Using your 42l per cow per session.. a little math, a little calculator... 27,720 liters per day... 7,323 US gallons per day.. 2,672,895 US gallons or 10,118,008 liters per year! That is a lot of milk! Watched till the end & these figures are low. One of the brothers said a 34,000 liter lorry would have to return to get the last couple hundred liters left in the tank, per day. Quite a nice operation they have.
The biggest thing that jumped out at me was that every animal and worker was relaxed/calm. That is a huge thing in being successful with livestock. Their entire system is well thought out and works smoothly. Their work load is not too physically taxing either, that really cuts down on fatigue. This is like outer space when compared to how my Grand Father milked in 1970. He milked 20 cows by hand into a five gallon bucket and ran the milk through a strainer on top of a ten gallon milk can. He then took a hand dolly and move the can across the road to the can milk cooler. ( Not a heavy enough electrical service in the milk barn to run the coolers) IRC the can plus the milk, weighed right at 90 lbs.
That's a brilliant farm! These guys should have their own UA-cam channel. Nice clean, content and happy cows. When I first started working on dairy farms, the farm I started on had a six abreast milking parlour. Not great because the cows had a big step up to make to get in the stall. And when there, a chain was put across the back of each cow to stop them backing out. A lever was then turned to dispense provin and away you go. You also had to keep an eye on the cows when they wanted a pee or a dump, very easy to get an unwanted shower or pasting because you are stood about 18inches below the back of each cow. The second farm I worked on still milked in shippons using the old pipeline system. That was a completely different experience.
That's a well set-up dairy, I work on a 1100 head Holstein farm we milk 2 times a day on pasture and silage in australia its good to see how other countries do things
That was so cool! Tom, please thank that wonderful family for letting you visit! I spent my childhood on a dairy farm. Around a 50 cow (?) barn, usually milking around 42 (?) at a milking. In a stanchion barn with a pipeline system. This system blows my mind! At 55 and gone from farming many years, this is beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Hugs to you and all your family! ❤️🖤🤍🐄
GREAT EPISODE TOM! Amazing operation they have! Fascinating how farm engineering/technology has progressed to improve everything for the cow and the farmer.
i visited a farm with 800 milking cows (they were even expanding to 1200) averaging 47 liters per day (best cows were up to 60 liters, insane numbers), it was insane how much caring was put into the cows.
they looked nice and happy - bet you if you put a speaker pusher robot playing the sound of the tractor and feeder more cows would get up to feed and more feed equals more milk.
Good morning from NZ. Wow Tom, that was amazing. How interesting😊. Doesn't matter what you do Tom, we love it. Hope the ginger is keeping well. Cheers and thank you.🙏🙏👍👍❤❤😊😊
Wow ! 42 l/head average. In the 70's when my Father milked the cows, 6 gallon (27litres?)/ cow was a good milker. 4/8 herringbone parlour. What a great setup. Thank you Tom for a fantastic video
Great video Tom ! The Ickes are not far from where I live ,the farm is run really well and the cattle are so looked after. You couldn’t meet a more laid back person than Richard which reflects by how calm the cows are 🐮👍🏻
Even with that amount of cows that's one of the cleanest farms I've ever seen.
Cows really do seem to reflect their owners personality, Richard’s cows seemed so calm ,just like him. A wonderful set up, low stress. Bravo to you all.❤️❤️👍🐄🐄🐄
We just don’t appreciate the farmers enough for what they do, it’s not just a job it’s a life of dedication and worry for very little compared to any other kind of living, thanks for all you give us your all amazing beings.
Several farms around here uses sand bedding and has a sand recycling system. They don't scrape too often because each alley is flushed with 1000s of gallons of water every 10 minutes. The sand is filtered & "washed" and it dries very clean and reused many times. All the manure goes through digesters which produces methane which is burned by generators to produce electricity for the dairy. They also have most buildings covered with solar panels. They actually sell excess electricity back to the grid because they produce so much per day. The water eventually (after about 12-15 "reuses" gets pushed to the field irrigation system. There is no runoff.
Brilliant video Tom. I'm no farmer and 60yrs old but I find farming fascinating. But why I love watching your videos is because you tell us knowing most of your viewers are not farmers. So you explain it so we do understand.
Without farmers we don't have food or milk and most people don't think about that. I wish more people would support farmers cause you all get a rotten deal, in my opinion.
Take care, give Ginge a thank you too 🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄
same here
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Privileged to see this farm in operation, spent many years milking cows, abreast parlours and herringbone. Those cows are the cleanest I have ever seen. Great family great set up.
In 1966, i worked a 50 cow shed with buckets on a vacuum line. All of these parlours are a world away.
I’m no farmer but I found that so interesting. Thank you.
Anyone tempted to think cows are "dumb" animals, that have to be driven and abused to exploit them, needs to watch this. They're willing participants that are quite comfortable with their lives. Cueing up 3 times a day, they quietly walk onto this machinery and stand to be milked, without even the incentive of food reward. There is no better picture of a contented cow, than these girls calmy chewing their cud and looking quite curious about what's going on around them.
Great video impressive 👏👏
They suffer if they don’t get milked .. amazing animals ❤
That's because people confuse docile with dumb.
There willing participants because they are trained with food 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And as most women know when the tits get full it #$/=÷_< Hurts. They are female that's why they are smart.
Absolutely 💯 love cows!
That rotary station is AMAZING! The cows form such a polite Que 🤣😂🤣.
I am as you say gobsmacked! That many cows three times a day and that enormous amount of milk above their old way of milking. It boggles the mind. I love the mechanics of the rotary parlor. Please continue these visits to other parlors we always find something new or at least done differently to learn from.
My wife's older sister married into what is now the largest dairy farm in Wisconsin U.S.A. I know their Carousel holds 100 cows and last I heard they are milking around 5,000. I wish I knew more so I could share. I have seen the cows leisurely walking in large groups waiting for their turn on the Carousel. Peaceful and stress free. Keep up the great work.
Martin and his family are lovely people great to see the parlour as I only live down the road. Those boys know how to work hard. I think they only stop to go to sleep 💤.
What a fantastic operation, a fantastic family, and a fantastic vid. Can see why you were so excited about it Tom
Cows are spotless, credit to the lads
Those cows are clean enough to show straight out the parlour. Theyre gorgeous
That was a bloody impressive operation, run by a very knowledgeable and able family 👍
A truly great set-up but the really amazing thing is the genetics in that herd of cows. Whoever is responsible for the breeding side of the operation is the hero on the farm.
That was Awesome Tom. Bet Georgia was pleased when you buggered off 🙂
This has to be the best video you have done in my opinion, Iv milked cows for Over 30 years an this must be one of the best productive farms Iv seen . The milk yields are staggering. Well done Tom you smashed this video .
Yes Tom love it keep all your hard work up and pls don’t give up UA-cam for a long time unless u want to business pls do more long videos up to 30 min long
The per cow output is mind-blowing. Contented cows give good milk. 😊👍👍
Amazing video.
Thoroughly enjoyed today's video. What a set up!!
It's fascinating to watch the rotary milkers do their thing! I ran across Derrick Josi's videos earlier this year - his dairy farm, part of the Tillamook co-op in Oregon, uses one - and I learned a lot about them from watching his content. What was really interesting to me was that it is so easy to train the new heifers to the rotary even without the lure of an extra treat of feed while they take a spin, and he occasionally has a rider who decides to go for another circuit instead of backing out, even with the 'nudger' at the end of the rotation that encourages the dawdlers to exit. 😄 Loved all the extra info I learned from this video - thanks Tom! ❤🐮❤🚜
Derrick’s setup is something else, he said one day it started as a drawing on the fridge in 2014, $6M later, a gorgeous setup, and out of the floodplain which is always a plus in Oregon.
It's good to see how other farm's work and to get ideas.
Congrats on your new baby boy! Harvey Jon Andrew Pemberton 🎉
What a stunning bunch of cows- such amazing condition-they must be doing something right!
they are doing everything right
I love a well structured and organized farm.
Really fantastic seeing how different farms operate, should be a TV serious where you go visit milking farms all around the world.
Quite impressive. But when I look at your old videos and compare to you latest ones, WOW!!!!! What an operation. You have much to be proud of!!!
Thanks Peggy ☺️
Wow, that’s impressive. So relaxed as well. It’s nice to have the work come to you with the rotary table.
I worked on dairy farms in the 1960's 70s' & 80's , the largest one in the 80's had three farms around 1000 acres milking 600 cows and rearing all the followers. I felt that was a large concern .BUT THIS IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL!!!! AMAZING. And as already mentioned really CLEAN COWS.
What an udderly fantastic video Tom. Something to aspire to towards.
I don't think the word 'WOW' was used enough....... Cheers for the vid Tom..... :-D
Cool Parlor! That teat washer is fantastic and no paper towel usage.
Richard , Tom may have slowed you down but thank you so much for Showing us how the rotary works.. I wondered why the cows kept picking up their feet ?
You need to come to New Zealand mate 650 is considered a relatively small herd over here. there are farms milking upwards of 1600 cows twice a day it would blow your mind man
What a Great Set up all Credit to Richard & Simon those Cows are something to be really proud of.
Well Tom i think with the amount of wow`s you found that very impressive 😲, because i sure did and thats just watching it on a screen 👍👍
It is great to see you so excited Tom!! 2 gentleman and 1 lady there!! What a mine of knowledge they are!! Amazing set up!! WOW!!
That's pretty cool, amazing how they know to back off from the rotary as well
What an incredible farm, cows happy, clean and obviously amazingly looked after. What a great site that parlour was. Happy cows, happy farmers.
Great content tom..respect and thanks 2 all the farmers out there.
So very similar to my cousins set up, the alleyway they walk back down is via a foot bath for when its needed
Wow nice farm. The cows all look happy and content. Lots of yummy milk to feed us the things we love ! ❤
Tom and his Father are Fantastic Farmers. Thanks for another awesome upload
Hats off to those lads, that's some setup. Times on your side Tom.
Wow Tom you always have such interesting videos. Love when you show us the new technology that’s out there. You have such a keen interest in it that you just naturally ask all the right questions and your always itching to get in there and have some hands on experience. You demonstrate the ease of it and your so well versed in the equipment that you’re able to tell us what the old way was like and the benefits of all these new innovations. Wonderful video and thank you’s to the family that let you come out, video there production and they were wonderful in explaining and giving comparisons and such. Please send my thanks to them, it was incredible to see. Congrats to you and Joanna on becoming parents to that beautiful son of yours. Congrats to the entire Pemberton family and to Joanna’s family on this beautiful new family member. All my best wishes to you all!❤❤
What a fantastic parlour and how easy it is to milk such a large herd. 42L per head is awesome, very informative and interesting. Thanks Tom
Just started watching and for a moment thought you were in our parlour. We have a very similar set up but De Lavel mainly because our local dealer is De Lavel. 2 differences, a strap comes down behind a problem cow to stop her coming off, and we have a teat dip robot. We went from milking 21 hours a day in a 20/20 herringbone to 9 hours for 3 milkings. 750 cows. Lovely to see you visiting others farms
who knew such aparlor existed- thank you for the field trip- how efficient. Learned so much thank you again
What a fantastic family farm. They should be proud 😊
We had one of those teet wash systems, we only had a 16/16 herringbone. But it was a perfect parlor, auto id, acr, air line for dump bucket, auto feed auto wash. Absolutely amazing parlor for a small herd of cattle.
A few years ago I got the chance go round the Duke of Westminster estate ( over your side of the country) can’t just remember but sure they milked over 2000 cows. Each shift did one and a half milking. They filled an artic milk tanker trailer parked in the yard, driver swapped an empty one for a full each time😳 they do tours so sure they would welcome a UA-cam visit.
People who are not from a farming back ground would not realise that its 7 days aweek all year no days off . My dad milked 14 cows with buckets with clusters on them for years then had a pipeline system in and was a world of difference that was before parlours were around.
So agree. No animal needs to be abused to gain compliance. Those cows are all special. They need love too! ❤
Very interesting! Georgia, Richard, and Simon were well spoken and explained things so that a non-farmer could understand! Thanks for sharing this.
Haha thank you we try our best
I have learnt so much since I started watching your channel thank you Tom I have a huge appreciation for British farmers
Yes Tom! Milk in an abreast! You should visit Patrick Holden's farm in Wales where he makes cheddar cheese. They've got a ten unit abreast.
Brilliant video Tom what a fantastic set up,thanks for sharing.
Great video! That is one heck of a setup! Using your 42l per cow per session.. a little math, a little calculator...
27,720 liters per day...
7,323 US gallons per day..
2,672,895 US gallons or 10,118,008 liters per year! That is a lot of milk!
Watched till the end & these figures are low. One of the brothers said a 34,000 liter lorry would have to return to get the last couple hundred liters left in the tank, per day. Quite a nice operation they have.
The biggest thing that jumped out at me was that every animal and worker was relaxed/calm. That is a huge thing in being successful with livestock. Their entire system is well thought out and works smoothly. Their work load is not too physically taxing either, that really cuts down on fatigue.
This is like outer space when compared to how my Grand Father milked in 1970. He milked 20 cows by hand into a five gallon bucket and ran the milk through a strainer on top of a ten gallon milk can. He then took a hand dolly and move the can across the road to the can milk cooler. ( Not a heavy enough electrical service in the milk barn to run the coolers) IRC the can plus the milk, weighed right at 90 lbs.
That's a brilliant farm! These guys should have their own UA-cam channel.
Nice clean, content and happy cows.
When I first started working on dairy farms, the farm I started on had a six abreast milking parlour. Not great because the cows had a big step up to make to get in the stall. And when there, a chain was put across the back of each cow to stop them backing out. A lever was then turned to dispense provin and away you go. You also had to keep an eye on the cows when they wanted a pee or a dump, very easy to get an unwanted shower or pasting because you are stood about 18inches below the back of each cow.
The second farm I worked on still milked in shippons using the old pipeline system. That was a completely different experience.
Great set up I know a family from the bad county in N Ireland it was taking 15 hrs a day to milk put the rotary in 2 and a half hours.
That is a fantastic parlor Tom thanks for the visit to a different way of milking cows.
That's a well set-up dairy, I work on a 1100 head Holstein farm we milk 2 times a day on pasture and silage in australia its good to see how other countries do things
Wow. What an operation. Thanks for showing us. Be well and safe travels.
Really really good , amazing how dairy farmers work so we all can enjoy our milk. Thanks for a very informative video. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Great video, remember when we had an 8 stall parlour. Seeing that setup is incredible, thats some outfit and the cows looked great 👍
Wow,wow,wow,wow.A rotating parlour
How good is this! Thanks Tom! Fantastic!
The farm is so clean !
That was so cool! Tom, please thank that wonderful family for letting you visit! I spent my childhood on a dairy farm. Around a 50 cow (?) barn, usually milking around 42 (?) at a milking. In a stanchion barn with a pipeline system. This system blows my mind! At 55 and gone from farming many years, this is beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Hugs to you and all your family! ❤️🖤🤍🐄
GREAT EPISODE TOM! Amazing operation they have! Fascinating how farm engineering/technology has progressed to improve everything for the cow and the farmer.
That’s quite a system. Very efficient. Thanks for sharing
impressive setup. your are still a craftsman, they are proper industry.
Fantastic set up. You can see the family are so happy with it and that makes them relaxed too.
Noticed how clean it is
Very impressive farming, thank you Tom
All I can say is what a Class setup
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Fascinating , I am not a farmer , thankyou for showing us this .
And the family that allowed it .
Really nice folk .
Awesome video Tom. This video totally debunks the animal rights activists. That really don’t have a clue. Farmers truly do care about their animals.
Great Farm and Family. Thanks for sharing your story of your trip to their farm Tom.
i visited a farm with 800 milking cows (they were even expanding to 1200) averaging 47 liters per day (best cows were up to 60 liters, insane numbers), it was insane how much caring was put into the cows.
they looked nice and happy - bet you if you put a speaker pusher robot playing the sound of the tractor and feeder more cows would get up to feed and more feed equals more milk.
I have never farmed and I just loved watching this
Good morning from NZ. Wow Tom, that was amazing. How interesting😊. Doesn't matter what you do Tom, we love it. Hope the ginger is keeping well. Cheers and thank you.🙏🙏👍👍❤❤😊😊
That was an extremely good video and very interesting. Tom loved every minute of it, thanks, Tom
Superb ,very interesting, thankyou sue & elliot
I remember seeing a rotary parlor back in the 1950s. In New Jersey USA
As great as it is Tom there is nothing to compare with your cows scampering into the fields when the weather is better... superb video...
WoW now that’s a lot of happy cows!! Thanks for the video Tom.
A really interesting video Tom, Thankyou.
Thanks for sharing! I've heard of these kind of milking parlors, and could see it was very efficient.
Wow ! 42 l/head average. In the 70's when my Father milked the cows, 6 gallon (27litres?)/ cow was a good milker. 4/8 herringbone parlour. What a great setup. Thank you Tom for a fantastic video
Wow that was amazing thanks Tom
Ad that right there is why the Holstein cow is the best there’s nothing to touch her when looked after and fed right!!
Love it, automation for pushing up…you know that Ginge is gonna give you a broom and say one man power lol! Happy days
Great video Tom ! The Ickes are not far from where I live ,the farm is run really well and the cattle are so looked after. You couldn’t meet a more laid back person than Richard which reflects by how calm the cows are 🐮👍🏻
Tom that is amazing.
It's good to see how other farms do things in comparison to others etc