Zero grazing system at the Harpur Farm in Bessbrook
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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Irish Farmers Journal Dairy Editor Jack Kennedy visits the Harpur family's dairy farm in Bessbrook as part of the Ulster Grassland Society's Spring Visit.
Modern dairy farm and managed very well ... !!!
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very scientifically managed and uses state of art modern dairy management equipments and techniques. Good job.
I love agriculture, very good video, I love this video, good job. Keep farming lads!
this is very great ...... how i wish this type of technology is brought to our small country Uganda
wonderful ...it is so amazing i like it so much
Fresh grass is one of the foods that cows on every farm want
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Really nice setup, lots of great ideas. Thanks
I can't say I'm happy that I watched this
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These Irish farms are indeed the greatest in the world for cows. Ireland must have the best beef and steaks
Wow very good
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My dream is to start a dairy farm in Ghana. This vid is extra motivation!
Is it normal that I'm crying in tears while watching this .. ???????????????
No i dont think so
Thank you for responsible video
These cow have the best life ever
I'm Egyptian man i want take this work
Overgrazing is actually a problem and causes desertification. This is a lot better system because the cows can't pull out the root system of the grass, keeping it intact.
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Very nice
I think it might cost more to do this but then again maybe not after you think of the cost of manufactured feed and transport, and you can't argue with a natural diet. They all seem happy and clean. I'm sure the milk is awesome.
This is why I happily pay for the expensive milk, that comes from cows who can walk around outside if they feel like it.
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Really sad, especially if you've ever seen how happy cows are to get out to pasture in the spring. Then again, seeing how people treat their own pets, it's not hard to believe.
Hi, our cows are out on pasture year round but this isn't possible everywhere especially not with dairy cattle. At least these cows don't have to live in a tie- stall, some cows are chained up all there lives.... Just google "tie-stall, dairy cattle"
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I'm amazed at how many people think they know what makes cows happy.
Even the herd looks happy.
To all those people saying this is cruelty you have obviously never been on a dairy farm it is hard graft and even of the cows are inside they still get a great life sometimes it is even better as the farmer can keep a close eye on them so can stop a disease spreading through the herd!
Looks easier but in time you gonna need fertilizer for the fields, plus espensive machinery. The natural way the cows cut their own grass and fertelize the land.
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Beats feeding them corn and soy, but still would be better to have the cattle on the land manuring to add fertility to replace the material taken; otherwise they will likely resort to/require petrochemical fertilizer inputs to keep this system productive.
It's called a manure spreader.
Fair point, although that's also diesel powered so from an energy perspective still dependent on off farm resources, still much better than corn and soy, and using animal fertility much better than using fertiliser.
I feel the same as you... I thought its a better way to feed them devoid of soy and corn. But what about relieving the stress hormones that accumulate in their systems. That's a part of their hormone balancing that is ultimately a part of the milk they give. Well... Baby steps I guess (:-/
The fertilizing benefit of manure is over rated. It is not a closed system where all the nutrients are returned. Most nutrients leave the farm as meat protein.
lindentr33 tell that to our ancestors who used compost, manure, resting land and green manure exclusively. Chemical fertilisers are a recent invention which have simply ushered in an unsustainable and unhealthy mono cultural industrial farming model which requires constant inputs from off site, basically a form of strip mining farming land. The use of modern conventional industrial farming destroys soil and is worse for the animals, worse for the consumers and worse for the land. Plenty of good information about Manure as fertiliser is available on Wiki, which includes a reference to is successful usage by humans for centuries. To the best of my knowledge, plants use NPK and trace elements to synthesise amino acids which are then combined to form protein; therefore low protein levels in a herbavoires manure is not surprising or concerning, but the removal of the trace elements and reduction in NPK are important factors. Application of manure and use of farming systems which leverage nitrogen fixing green manure plants appear key to maintaining high levels of productivity on land without compromising on sustainability or food quality. Polyface farm is a good example of a highly productive animal system which is not only sustainable, it is restorative, it heals the land and builds soil; they use no imported fertiliser products to achieve this.
For everyone who thinks this is a terrible way to farm well your wrong if you opened the doors thise cows would run out for about and hour come back in and that would be it. We have beef cattle and they have the option during the winter and they will choose to stay indoors around 95%if the time. Also they are cows who care what they think they were made for this very reason nothing more and nothing less so grow up. Infact this is a brilliant way of feeding as they get the lush green grass all year round. Also the grass would not be sprayed with anything or need any treatment like some silage.
Very nice video
And i forgot, they are much much happier.
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why are you people hating cattle farming?! this is my future! I don't care weather the moo moos are outside or inside, you guys are saying it's bad to feed. cows grass and silage, WHAT ELSE WILL THEY EAT?! ITS NOT A PRISON, ITS A CATTLE FARM!!!!!!! good vid
+ger mc it's just crazy vegans hating on cattle farming.
Actually these cows look very happy. They are content.
very nicee and good work
Stop complaining about the cows irish treat there cows like family
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It should be cleaned udder handkerchiefs or towels before placing the milking device
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I'm genuinely amazed at how many people are criticizing this when a lot of the time it sounds like they no idea what they are talking about... If this farm is using zero grazing system then its probably because they've worked out that that's the most efficient way to do it otherwise why would he be doing it? Different systems work best for different farms so its not like there's a right or wrong answer specifically. Chill your beans guys.
Would it make sense to throw some salt on the ground after the cleaning or prior or add a hose that moves with the tractor that cleans...what do I know...
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They're kept in all year round? They aren't even allowed to go frolic in the spring? Poor little buggers.
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+Kenazzle Is it better for them to be outside in the pissing rain howling wind and up to their knees in mud? It does rain a bloody lot in Ireland
William Beattie But... but... the frolicking!
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What's so great about compacted soil for one.
I like the culture of the Irish people and Ireland ( Eire ).
In the normal farm the dining room is also the toilet. Cows spend most of their time walking over their food sniffing to find clean feed. Contary to perceptions, this is hard work,especially in winter
How would you like to pick up your cornflakes from the floor, when you could have them clean from a packet?
There's lots i dont like about the dairy industry, but this isn't one.
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If all you critics care so much about the animals welfare why didn't you start your own farms with the methods that you espouse. You may find that you have no idea what you are talking about.
or how about set them free in general
Najee Benton start your own farm! You will learn a lot. Start with a couple cows on pasture and go from there
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Poor cows they should be in that field
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So let me get this straight, the farmer provides the inputs needed to collect the feed, and collect the waste, and fertilize the crops? The cattle may get fatter, but they don't appear to get much exercise and probably need more medication to remedy the ensuing illnesses.
Are the cattle healthier? Are the fields reliant on human intervention? It seems as though the farmers are missing something. Wouldn't it be more efficient for the cattle to mob graze, fertilize the fields, and get their exercise through a more natural means?
How can it be more profitable to do all the things for this system with human and energy resource investments than to let the cattle graze? Doesn't make sense in any manner!
Everything the farmer does is worked out to make a more efficient system, so you can afford to buy the product. "Doesn't make sense"? This is a business system that is as finely tuned as Formula 1 racing. But I'm sure the Ag. Science people will be looking at your comments and implementing your "new" suggestions in their next field research programmes.
We've already done this type of system. It's called a feedlot. It's great at getting the most production out of each unit. Problem is the waste collection and disposal, more drugs needed to combat illnesses that result from the sedentary nature of the cattle. Why pump drugs into the cattle and then through to human consumers?
The cost vs. benefits are good only short term. For this system to be sustainable it really needs to be more natural. What are the fertilizer loads on the fields? Add up the infrastructure costs and tell me this is more efficient.
Mars Rover You are half right and half wrong. It is more expensive in many ways to keep the cows indoors, and cows will fertilise the fields themselves when outdoors, rather than storing slurry and then using machines to spread it on the fields. However, cows kept indoors will generally achieve higher milk yields, and this dilutes some of the costs of keeping them inside. Cows kept indoors, also, do not actually need a lot more drugs than those kept outdoors, but they do tend to have more lameness problems. Nevertheless, there are plenty of farms that keep cows outdoors and also achieve high milk yields.
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Its Funny how everyone complaining about the cows not going out to pasture are not farmers, have no idea about modern agriculture, and are just keyboard warriors....
I live/work on a 480 milking cow farm where they run a zero grazing system, all the cattle never see a field apart from calving time in the summer. This brings more benefits than hindrances... Haven't had mastitus in 8 weeks, No foot problems, Less disease, Healthier cows, more content cows, Tighter calving index and overall its cheaper for the farmer!
now all the keyboard warriors who say the cows are not happy or that they deserve to go outside, you might be shocked at this but most of the cows given the choice would prefer to stay inside, on a dry clean bed, eating tasty nutritious food, rather than out in the rain, in the mud eating the little grass they have to fight there friend over...
Now learn something about agriculture before going on about enjoying life and there well-being, they are enjoying life and are being looked after...
by the way what happens to their calves .
robert bridger Heffier calfs are reared to go back in to the milking heard and bull calves are reared until 4 weeks when they get shipped to another farm on a BLADE calf program, i can assure you all you are doing is making an argument out of nothing as you are clutching at straws trying to abolish factory farming..
***** But how many cows do you have? its respective if you have less cattle you have more time for each cow.. we have 5 staff to about 1000 total animals on the farm, thats a ratio of 200 cattle to each member of staff, im guessing your ratio isnt out of the twenties...
You say that keyboard warriors would be shocked to know that cows would prefer to stay inside. Are you really telling me that you have NOT noticed the reaction of cattle when they are turned out for the first time in spring? What is all this nonsense about cows having to fight over a small amount of grass in the mud? It is laughable that you cannot grow enough grass to be grazed when you have no problem growing enough when you want to make it into silage. Ever heard of grazing management? You also say its cheaper for the farmer. So then you do not have to cover the extra costs of making more silage, storing and feeding more silage, storing and spreading more slurry, and additional labour?
***** Yes i agree cows go dappy when first let out to pasture, but we have found they soon get over that...
Our cattle are giving approximately from 10-12 thousand litres each per lactation, and if you can get a cow to do that from grass and just grass i would love to know how!
We have worked this out with our advisor plenty of times, to put our 480 cattle out to grass and keep them up to that amount of milk we would 4x the amount of grass in the ground and close to the farm, which is not paticually practical as we already have all the walk-able fields close to the farm in grass...
We also worked out the cost of production inside vs outside, The outcome was that it is more labour efficient to keep the callte inside all year using the staff more efficiently to keep up together with the yard and field work, it costs us 0.9 of a penny less to keep the cattle inside than if they were out, that is including the price of feed and labour!
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Why no udder washing before milking?.
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I wonder how much of Monsanto's rbgh is pumped into these cows along with other antibiotics?
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No cleaning the udder before you put the milking machine on ?????????
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why not let these cows out to eat the grass in the field?
profit and greed is the problem.
At least they get grass still
+TheLastLogicalOne It's like saying that you are in a prison with thousand others being FED just to keep you alive. What's worse is that they are not people, but cows which we slaughter to eat. Don't get me wrong, I am not a vegan!!! I am just sayong that it would be damn better to give these cows a little more freedom than just feeding them
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when the cows came into the parlor they put the the units on with no fore stripping or washing of the teats ?????? wth is the lpc and the scc at ??
my dad came from bessbook in 1929 to toronto canada my god that tractor and baler looks what i see out west my farm is only 120 acres
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Please tell me that the cow are still allowed outside !
+Chas Waldron No, that's what zero grazing means, once they can't produce milk anymore they slaughter the cows and serve them at McDonald's.
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That cow wanted to feel the grass beneath it's feet. What a bloody awful life for them, they're just a commodity. Very sad it needs to stop.
Debbieanne Marsden We have a couple acres of pasture and our cows rarely go out to feel the grass beneath their hooves
+Debbieanne Marsden research has shown that cows been treated like this are less stress full an produce better milk and meat people complain all the time yet there probably eating or drinking some thing that comes from dairy milk or eating a chunk a meet
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The field is soaking wet also and bogging.
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Is this supposed to sound good? Zero grazing? All year inside system? I am confused trying to figure out if this is a whistleblowing video about bad animal welfare management or a bad taste commercial.
So the animals never walk on grass or see sunlight
When cows graze, they don't just eat the tops of the grass, they often eat roots and dirt. When you mow and give them the clippings, you miss important minerals and roughage. Also, this is saddening! Poor cows kept inside for "efficiency". They should be free to live out their lives, not be milked three times a day and kept for human profit.
***** Not always, of course, but sometimes roots do get pulled up and they will eat dirt.
better keep quiet than expose your stupidity....are cows rodents???...the problem of letting the cows graze in the fields is that there is alot of pasture wastage...it is all about management..once the cow steps on the grass it won't eat coz of the dirt....ZERO grazing is one of the efficient methods
Edgar kimutai Kemoi I don't disagree with that. But, these cows live on are covered in the collective groups feces and, my personal favorite is that they don't even pretend to sanitize the teats in any way! My God. I mean I'm all for efficiency, but there's no reason in a factory farm like this can't operate much cleaner for very little cost. The obviously already have hoses hooked up to clean the floor, at least they could spare a few drops water for the cow, who I'm sure doesn't relish living in a state of caked on manure it's whole life. No one's asking for them to spray disinfectant or get their hands in to any soap and water for God sake! They evidently can't hose the area the cows are maintained in ordinarily either. That wooden floor with miniscule slats for the crap not to fit through. Guess that's not a milk industry standard. I'm also not keen on the over milking and less than comfortable existence these creature must endure.. Tsk, Tsk and No Sale!
By not grazing the cattle, they must use fertilizers, they must use antibiotics and the pastures will deteriorate. You like deserts?
Thank you for that more educated and deeper evidence that this is still not the way to go for producing less toxic and better milk supply!
so sad... if he just used a paddock shift system with some permaculture applications their farm would be much more profitable.
more sustainalbly? Problably......more profitable? How? Please explain.
When your inputs go down, your profits go up.
KwoodNationRevlation but in an operation this big....how???? explain. What you said before is obvious but in an operation this big....how???
Look at Joel Salatins work. He has a very large operation. He is also probably the best short term intensive grazing farmer I have ever seen, but it is still something that is possible. Also look at Allan Savorys work. They are both prime examples.
Hopefully this is helpful. If you have anymore questions ill try to help.
Most people would think "grassfed" meant that the cows are out in the pasture, free to roam and soaking up the sun's rays so that their bodies can produce Vitamin D. I would like to see a nutritional analysis on this milk. I can see it's a better operation than a lot of others I've seen.
it's exactly the same as all other milk.
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Fine, I'll pay an extra half-dollar a gallon for milk! Let the damned cows walk in the sun, okay?
+CromemcoZ2 you might pay extra, but the truth is, most of the consumers are governed by price. That is what drives the industry forward in terms of cost cutting and production increases per cow.
+William Beattie this is what drives it downwards in the race to the bottom
Are you saying that free range farms are lying? I think there are free range farms that do not treat their cows like this... they do not make as much money and they are being regulated out of business because Monsanto (in the USA) and other big agra businesses have a bought federal government to keep the CAFOs unregulated and the organic- free-range- organic farms over-regulated- ready to put them out of business.
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This is crazy. It is absolutely unnecessary to keep cows indoors all-year-round, use a machine to cut grass, and milk three times a day to get a milk yield of 9,000 litres. This is especially so in Ireland that has a huge advantage in being able to grow lots of grass. Any good dairy farmer could achieve the same yield with the cows outside grazing and twice a day milking. A lot of farmers have lost the ability to farm.
show me the cows then and the farmers?? a 9000ltr herd average is amazing, that's 30ltrs a day per cow every day in a 301 day lactation. ireland is mostly outdoor grazed with low amounts of concentrated feed about 500kgs per cow a year. and the production average in around 5300ltrs a cow. that's about 17.5ltrs a day per cow. now add to that the stocking rate on a outdoor grazed low concentrated feed input system needs far far more land per cow to get this level of production and you'll see that it's actually quite inefficient.
JCB411abuser There are plenty of herds that achieve 9,000 litre lactation yields without being housed all year-round. I am aware that Ireland is mostly grass-based systems with low yields and low concentrate inputs. That doesn't make 9,000 litres on a non-zero grazing system impossible. The highest NMR recorded herd in the UK in 2012 was managed on a outdoor grazing, semi-TMR system - a farm in Shropshire.
***** not impossible but very very hard to do as efficiently as a zero grazed system, and i'd wager impossible to get the same amount of milk from teh same amount of acres. TMR systems are superior again to zero grazing as the level of precision of feeding can be very easily managed.
JCB411abuser You are now saying that TMR is superior to zero grazing, because TMR has a higher level of precision of feeding. Surely both have a high level of precision? I wasn't actually comparing the two. Moreover, I originally said that zero grazing is unnecessary to get yields in the region of 9,000 litres. You say you get more milk per acre (I assume you mean with an indoor system) but you also get all the additional associated costs of making more silage, storing more silage, feeding more silage, scraping and storing and spreading more slurry, more bedding, more lameness problems, almost certainly higher labour, and also more electricity. I doubt very much that margins are any higher. It may be worth it for high yields (10,500 litres plus), but not for 9,000 litres. Yields of 9,000 litres are achievable under a grazing and semi-TMR system without incurring a lot of unnecessary costs.
***** no actually zero-grazing can be very varied, but easier to manage than grazing. in a wet day bringing in the same volume of grass won't get you the same milk, plus it upsets the cows and makes them skitter, saem thing with grazing but with zero grazing you can just cut a bit more if needed whereas you'd have to change the fence position in a grazing system, which is harder to do while being efficient. a TMR system is far more stable, you cut on a dry day a few times in the year and make top quality feed. as you say you can get over 9000ltr yeilds in semi grazing and grazing systems but very few without losing a substantial amount of grass in the field. for a cow to clean a paddock like a mower does she has to be hungry, and grazing lighter covers to get enough feed takes more energy. you either put cows into enough grass to feed them but lose the grass that they won't eat, or put them in lighter covers that they will clean up but leave them hungry and lose milk and condition on cows. now a semi-TMR system you'll top up those hungry cows with silage, but there is a fine line between giving not giving them enough to top them up and giving them far too much, causing alot of headaches measuring grass covers in the field and changing the TMR accordingly. a full TMR system is much easier managed, you give them a certain amount per cow per day and top them up with concentrate in the parlour for cows that need it. we used to graze and changed to zero grazing them to zero grazing and TMR and now for the last 3 years we are indoors on just TMR and it is the best most stable system of them all.
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