Farming in Switzerland!
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- Farming in Switzerland! Today we got to tour two farms in Switzerland. The first farm is a very modern farm with a lot of automation and technology. They also had a handful of very nice tractors and equipment. The next farm we visited was more on the traditional side of a Swiss dairy. He milked 20 Brown Swiss in a tie stall barn similar to ours. You could tell he focuses a lot on his herd's genetics and makes sure every cow is very efficient and healthy. Thank you to both of these farms for giving us a tour!
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This is even closer to us.
The JD dealer Forrer Landtechnik is only 5 minutes from here. 🚜
Awesome!! Excellent video!!
Art & Melissa from Ohio
Injoying your hiliday.
So very very cool 😎. Thanks 😊.
some nice equipment for only 55 cows.
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Thank you so much for shareing such a nice video.
Good video farmers there must make a lot more money. The first one must have over 3 million investment in equipment. Take care be safe and well.
Thanks for sharing
Thank You Thank You so much for taking the time out of your vacation to talk farming in the community you were visiting.
Beautiful farms and beautiful community. Thanks again 😊
I know a guy that works on installing & maintaining DeLaval robots! I have a John Deere! 52 B, and a 53 massey harris # 15 ground drive manure spreader!!
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Very very cool!
Great video
Hi, very nice video.
Thanks for sharing the video. Very interesting!
Awesome video
There are some very good videos on youtube on haying in Switzerland.
I must admit I'm jealous!!!
Man...their machines and farm is spotless. Very beautiful
Wow what a great video keep them rolling!
So awesome to see the farms there. I can’t believe the automation. Kind of cool but I love the old ways.
I understand that Swiss Farms are almost always clean. Like show places. Someday I would be excited to see that myself.
it's the entire country and the way of how the people like to keep their stuff.
Modern version of Cow Bells!
Looks like they take a LOT of pride in upkeep of their farms!!!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
What a awesome video, learned a bunch about Switzerland dairy farms
The Iowa farmer has that system in his place
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ village
That's what I also wanted to see arin great video and trip I also live across the street from all Holstein dairy farm her in north central Massachusetts they milk just under 200 cow a big percentage of there milk go into Gouda cheese at there own plant on the farm.
Nice farm nice video I love Switzerland from Bangladesh
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I'm so happy for you to be able to go there and be with your family and tour the farms. I now have a strange craving for Swiss cheese. Stay safe, and God bless.
I like the new ways but ill always love the old ways. Just a better way
Thanks for taking us along on the tours. Beautiful Contry and Farms ♡
Nice video!
Beautiful thanks for sharing your trip
Wow , what a great job you did in talking about the dairy farms on your visit , amazing , thank you , you made it happen George & mom must be very proud also , stay safe !
Amazing the automation on such a small farm. They must get more for their milk.
Seriously. In upstate NY most farms that size went out of business years ago.
Beautiful experience
They must have some very good quality hay.
yeah, presumably harvested still quite wet and then dried at the farm. this way you keep a lot more leaves which often get destroyed / ripped off by tedder and pickup tines.
Just awesome farms
Wow
How nice to see both farms and their approach to animal husbandry.Brown Swiss has always been my favorite dairy cow but our farm had 100 yr old stock from Great grandads stockers.Thanks so much for the tour. Your bride must be so proud of your dedication to your craft.
Awesome!
That was a great set of equipment - the automated hay dispenser was amazing.
Nice to see small farms in Europe doing well. Wish we had more here in The USA.
Thanks for the tour really enjoyed it.
over here dairy is quite the challenge for small farms, too. i'm not too familiar with the swiss market but over in germany you're in trouble if you milk less than a 100 cows. due to recent events milk prices have recovered quite a bit but there's still a lot to catch up with from the last years.
Well, europe is big, and alot of countries that are very diffrent from eachother. In Sweden is quite hard to survive as a smal farmer. Most here today is medium and large farms.
Wow, I love how the dairy barns have wood siding and they are so aesthetically pleasing. I’m tired of seeing the same rectangle, metal sided barns/buildings with no eaves here in the US.
Great video! Those were both very beautiful farms, and awesome scenery!
Cute dog
nice video
What an education. The milking robots were a shock to me (a non-farmer). Very interesting to how they do things in Switzerland.
Robotic milking is very common across Europe now, though 90% of the kit is Lely. This farm is really small to have converted to robots. Typically the farm size needs to be between 120-200 cows to justify the conversion costs.
Cheese making is an art form and the Swiss are known for their magnificent cheeses. Did you try some while there? I find it interesting that they do not feed silage to cows that produce milk for the cheese. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
silage contains certain micro bacteria that'll find its way through the cow into the milk. if you only make young and soft cheese out of it, it's normally not a big issue. but the longer you want to mature the chesse (older, harder cheese) the higher the risk becomes that the micro bacteria blows up the cheese like yeast does to a dough. once the cheese rind is cracked you can no longer store or mature the cheese but have to eat it soon. so you have to filter the bacteria out of the milk (chemicals, mechanical filtration etc.) or don't put it in the milk in the first place.
really interesting , so good to see how things are done in other places in the world , thanks for showing us
The reason for feeding no silage is that the creamery produces rawmilk-cheese like Emmentaler. Byproducts from silage can get to the milk and affect the quality of the cheese during the maturing process. And maybe they don´t feed egg-white for protein, it´s probably a case of "lost in translation" because protein is "Eiweiss" in German which is egg (Ei) + white (weiss). Thanks for the interesting video!
Interesting tire tread on that Deere, looks like a cross between tractor and truck tires
I'd guess the creamery makes their cheese with unpasteurized milk. Which means no heat to destroy toxic byproducts of fungal or bacterial activity in silage.
There is an award wining cheesemaker near me -Jasper Hill - that only feeds dry hay to their cows. They absolutely believe there is a significant effect on cheese flavor.
I grew up on a dairy farm and the local cheese plant could tell when cows were put on pasture in the early summer. Most people did not like taste compared to when the cows were primarily eating dry feed.
In Switzerland if they make cheese out of raw milk your not allowed to feed silage only hay or let them out on pasture, the silage bacteria's disturb the fermentation from the cheese
The new barn addition looked like it had huge wooden beams. I thought Europe harvested its large timber long ago.
Inspirational
Looks amazing!!!
So fun & interesting to see your ancestors/country and how they operate their dairies. I have to say, I love the Swiss cows better. Idk if they are healthier or have better longevity, but isn't their milk higher is fat? Really beautiful farms, both of them! Thx💙
Beautiful
Interesting to see how it's done elsewhere. Automation is great, but the investment has to be huge. It would be interesting to see the numbers justifying the investment. Happy for you that you and your wife are able to see family in Switzerland.
You have to block out the old way of thinking that you as the farmer have to do everything yourself. In the US, the cost of an employee is over double his wages and he/she is just an employee not the owner (attitude towards the animals or machinery). The automation operates 24/7/365 with maintenance, the owner wants rest and sleep, his family wants vacation and activities. Automation is not cheap but it provides the owner, his time, to concentrate on his animals or diversity of the operation or his equipment. The hardest part in retrofitting a farm to automation is usually the existing facility, it's easier/cheaper to start with a new, dedicated to automation, facility. Still, it's not a cheap investment but a long term investment, especially for a father that wants the farm to stretch generations. Remember the old song "How you gonna keep them down on the farm, after they see Parie (Paris)"
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Ya that was really Cool seeing all that automation going on, very interesting and definitely less labor intensive, on the down side, that's also alot more things to go wrong.. I thought it a little strange, that they don't feed silage, we've always as part of the feed we give to our herd, is silage, I'm curious to know what that does to the taste of they're milk and cheese ??
Oh and one more thing, I had to turn down the volume on my t.v. not sure why you felt you needed to hey all threw the video lol
Great video with Great content, enjoyed that, Stay safe and Farm on my Friends, Peace
When old people try a hay milk, they all say it tastes just like it used to in their childhood, when silage was non existent, just hay feed over the winter and grazing the rest of the year. So is the taste of meat, unbelievably tender. Hay products are also more expensive, but quality always is🤷🏼♀️
As for no silage feed, its byproducts can get into milk, and since milk used for traditional swiss cheeses is not pasteurised, it can cause a lot of problems.
Beautiful Dairy farms. I wish all the dairy’s here in the US were like that. I agree that 62lb average on dry hay diets are milking very well.
The farmers must get paid better in Switzerland than the US
The horns of the cattle were all growing back away from the face. Do they use anything to train the horn direction so they're less dangerous to other cows? Are horned Brown Swiss more agressive (bossy) toward polled cows?
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That robotic crane is nuts. The feed mixer is also robotic?
the feeding process can be automated by almost 100%. you have to restock the piles where the crane picks up the different components but as long as the crane has something to pick up it can throw it in the mixer that can then drive autonomously along the cows to lay down the feed. also allows for different mixes for different groups (like dry cows).
That brownswiss calf looks like it was mixed with a linebacker the way it's face looked and back!!
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Great video. Are u going to la forge. It must be just down the road😃
farming as it should be....
It doesn't matter how much the cows are making each day, it matters how much profit there is. You can't have all these swanky overheads and high feed cost if it is not paying for it's self
How are such small farms profitable? Do they get government subsidies? All that automation must be a big initial outlay.
they do most do in the EU , except for UK where we in a right mess because of our incompetent Government
ag subsidies are THE biggest expense, however they come with a lot of rules and control over how you have to run your farm. plus it's a huge redistribution of wealth because the subsidies keep the prices in the stores low so less wealthier people can live a good life, too with the wealthier high-tax-payers paying part of their meals.
I thought I heard parts of Europe weren't allowed to use fermented feeds by law, so now silage.
no GMO grains allowed over there either....I think - no expert on that.
@@UnkleAL1962 you can use imported GMO feed, but you are not allowed to crow GMO crops. some farms run under a non-gmo program by choice as something in between conventional and organic. i don't know of any legislative restrictions on silage, even a lot of organic farms use (and are allowed to use) silage. however there are creamerys that only take silage-free milk because silage brings certain micro bacteria into the milk that can blow up your cheese, especially the old ones.
How are automatic milkers Justified with a 50 cow herd? I've heard of them in the US but not with that small of a herd. Loved the video.
boils down to supply and demand. especially for old cheese, creamerys like to use silage-free milk since silage brings in certain micro bacteria that'll blow up your cheese when you plan to make an old / mature one. and there's not too much supply of silage-free milk since it's normally easier and cheaper to use silage.
In Switzerland farming is really heavy subsidized from the government I would say half of the farm income
@@christophniggli4750 that's even true for all of europe. helps the governments to get their hands on private property (subs come with many rules farmers have to comply with) and is a tool of redistribution of wealth: prices in stores stay low, so even the less wealthy can afford pretty much anything with the high-tax-payers paying part of their meals.
Does the modern farm have a social media account?
Really cool video, Europe is weird when it comes to farm equipment cuz ya don't see the big equipment like ya do in Wisconsin....
@Garnet Holman dam that's small 9 feet 8 inches
@@Blackwellll3066 in europe there aren't many rural areas left. lot's of other infrastructure, buildings, roads, people ... when you travel from field to field chances are the road leads through narrow village and city centers where there's buildings right next to the street.
go to norway pls
Don,t be to exiting.
This is not comercial farming,here comes a part of income from some another source or subventions.
I farming 400 km east from Swiss in EU and I know wery well how comercial farming goes.
55 cow,s can not cowered all this machinery
DOS the farm with milk Roboter have an electrical emergency backup system
Not to get personal but what is the little bag on your waist
I didn’t see any of those annoying bells that effect the cows hearing.
bells are mostly used in the mountains where cows can spread across huge areas with lots of trees and are therefore often hard to spot just by eye but can be heard when they move.
Well Swiss cheese has more value :)
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Stop yelling.
LOL You don't need to yell. I am not deaf.
difficulties when it comes to voice overs ... can be a bit a challenge to match all levels from live recording as well post production
@@7pdude LOL I was only teasing. I am content creator too so I know.
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