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The method that I calf kind of remotely unsupervised set me up for greater chances of predation

I remember you saying that yeah this summer it’s easier look like a hero up here because we’re getting a lot of rain

Second cutting grass is kind of coming in slow. It’s surprises me, considering all the moisture we have had in a normal year, however though second cutting grass doesn’t really start growing until about now.

@michiganhay7844 Noticed the same thing this year. Second crop grass is definitely stunted. . . .

This would be the best time here to visit if you really wanted to see a lot of action and be busy

@@michiganhay7844 That's what I like! I am a person who hates to sit still!

I had big ambitions as a youngsters

Thanks, Tony you probably haven’t seen skunk cabbage since you were a kid in Michigan

I got a lot bigger fire stick in the truck now

Hey Rick, wish I could show more bobcat work but it’s impossible to film driving that thing

@@michiganhay7844 You are right, it's a rough ride. One day I hope to see it in person and then you can make videos to see how I do!

Hey Tony , I was strongly considering a donkey

Wow, that’s pretty bad attacking full grown cows yeah maybe I gotta get me one of those 17s like you carry around with you

@@michiganhay7844 they were going for the calves as they were coming out of the cow.. at a point the cow couldn't get up fast enough..

@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin same thing happened to one guy that I know he used to have an area in early spring. He would calve out in the woods and he had to stop.sa

I’ve tried some actual production, Hay tarps and they are waste of money. They’re really heavy. They really don’t last any longer than just the six mill bunker covers and none of them really have a provision to have coverage on the ground. You’re still usually just stacking on the ground, probably work better way out west and dry, interior desert type climate.

JD but I used to have a couple Olivers

For us, tarps are ok for temporary.. but over winter, may as well not tarp, as the loss is 80-100% either way..

@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin There are some advantages to being frozen solid from November to April I guess.

@@farawayfarm2520 yes! But even there, a roof would make a difference. Most of Eastern Oregon and Washington used to stack outside. Deal with the loss.. then they started building roofs.. only takes a few years for the roof to pay for itself.

If I tarp them correctly and they are on a high and dry spot, it comes out just like barn stored hay. There’s a special way I’m doing it however, do you see how I’m putting plastic on the bottom as well most of your rotten humidity under the tarp comes off from the ground, if you really wanna do it, do it right me because it took me years to do it right wrong then yeah it’s not good but I’ve done square bales

Money rollS. I said the hell with it we needed to cover some ground doing the square bales really does slow us down.

Well, I cut 130 acres and I still got probably about 30 more acres of First cutting after this

Don’t really have any in this area. It’s not an issue this far north.

Getting any hay mow yet

@@michiganhay7844 Yes sir, getting it done.

Hey Tony, hope you guys are enjoying your new Homestead. Excited to see some upcoming videos getting back out into the country.

Yeah, I figured you really had the hammer down. You must be going like nuts. You got the ability to bail. A lot of hate at one time.

Doesn’t that Foxtel kind of look like the German millet you were doing except just a little bit thinner

The German millet I planted gets a really big head like a cattail

@@AgWildNebraska looked a lot more coarse this stuff is the green and giant Foxtail that everybody hates because it gets into the wheat corn and beans but makes great Forage if you cut it green

@@michiganhay7844 but it's not good for horses right?

@@AgWildNebraska only because there are some instances supposedly of the seeds getting caught in horses, gums and causing inflammation in the mouth. They’ll tell you the same thing about cattle as well but then there’s something they call Foxtail in the west like California that is not related, but it’s just a common name that actually gets an animals eyes and causes serious issues because of the seeds.

Actually, the farm I was on as a pheasant hunting farm and I think that’s why they got that big blue stem. I don’t think it generally makes very good. Hay looks pretty coarse and it doesn’t do well to repetitive mowing and grazing from what I understand. Pheasants that far north huh? I can’t imagine you actually have any wild pheasant that survived the winter up there do you Almost extinct the 77 blizzard is took them out

@@michiganhay7844 No wild pheasants here. They have to grow there own. On a mild winter like last year some that escape do make it.

Do cows eat it

Yeah, I think it be a cool video about if you did something in your area with the displacement of small farms and meat production in the area and now what people are used to seeing is processed and fast food carbohydrate model there’s a lot to talk about there

@@michiganhay7844 Yes I wish I had more pictures of what we had. I always looked forward to visiting our farm friends because they had all the fun equipment, animals and the great stories from the old days. Even in our suburbs we had small farms, plant nurseries and every yard had fruit trees and some vegetable gardens. Now people get doordash and Uber eats!

Hey Jack, Yeah, that’s what a couple other people had said as well

Just got in cut 45 acres today probably gonna cut another 40 tomorrow. I’ll be all caught up if the weather holds up good way to go to fall.

Yeah, the keyword Rick is that ecosystem. You must know a little bit of body ecology but yes, there’s some smarts and some of these cattle. She’s had bull calves the last three years and generally want to keep the heifers if she has them to pass those genetic 20 years old for a bowl that’s really oldballs don’t last very long

@@michiganhay7844 I have no idea how his bull lasted so long he dropped dead shortly after turning 20. He wasn't an aggressive bull either. Became more of a pet than anything. Many people don't realize that small farmers and ranchers sometimes keep a few of the herd long term, they are almost like pets. I know that bull was a top breeder but somehow he got old and was just put out to pasture.

Oh, you are getting cold

@@michiganhay7844 lol.. first 100° spell in the spring, mornings were 36-42... UHG

Sure, Does Dave

Probably have to wait until about mid June up there to plant it. It’s gotta be hot. I suppose it will grow in wet areas. Nice thing is it’s a short day crap so could wait till a field dries out Midsomer to put it in.

It’s amazing what suburbia you live in now and you talk about growing up on all these farms. It’s just sad that those farms must’ve disappeared really fast.. yeah I might sound like a broken record about this crabgrass but like you said the stuff just grows anywhere it’s like a miracle Forage

@@michiganhay7844 The drug money of the 1980's really turbocharged development. People used to laugh at how our area was the boondocks and living with horses. There us still a tiny part of horse country west of me, and there was one east and it became Mc Mansions especially in the last 15 years. That used to be fish farms, landscape nurseries and tiny homes with homesteaders. I need to make a video about the history of the area as soon as I can figure out how to get my computer to cooperate.

@@chargermopar that would be a good video how much of that Miami Vice stuff was true did he get that crazy down in Miami?

@@michiganhay7844 When I was a kid there was a shootout at the mall we went to (Dadeland). We had a neighbor who got into a shootout with police who were raiding their drug operation. There was also an explosion that damaged a friend;s family home not that far from here because the drug dealer rigged everything to explode. There were a lot of exotic cars in Miami in the 1980's.

Well good maybe there’s hope I find that old cow. I’ve got a field from last year that I put in the crabgrass. Let the seed get ripe before I bailed it it up this spring put in some ryegrass and clover and all the crabgrass came right back up, so yeah that’s the beauty of it. If you let it go to seed it’ll come up the next year. I think the stuff I show in the video. I don’t think the seeds ripe yet,

Thanks, Ed. I’ve already got a Coyote Hunter out.

I think you could get it grow up there, grows everywhere.

@@michiganhay7844 I bet it would do fine. I'll have to do a little research.