How beautiful Cows have their soft pasture I love Cows and I love to go I live in Minneapolis Minnesota I am Adelina Marban and congratulations on your videos that leave thanks 🙂 😊 ♥️
Our family grows 2500 acres of round up corn in a sandy desert where we get 8' of rain/yr. we're 10 miles from the nearest river. we irrigate with center pivot irrigation. we use raw manure for fertilizer. our corn produces enough oxygen to meet the respiratory needs of half a million people. we compost and use it for fertilizer on 1500 acres of alfalfa. we milk 5000 cows and support 80 families. we sell 425,000lbs of milk /day to a local cheese plant. we pump millions into the local enonomy.
Sorry to wolfpelt, i was replying to ckfarms comments. As far as i can figure you're doin it right and givin the consumer what it thinks it wants. I agreed with your comments!
Have you considered raising Free Range Chickens? Doing so would have mutiple benefits it eliminates the Cow Patties in the Field there by eliminating the Flies and it creates another Income source for you as well. It's really simple to impliment you simply cross fence your fields in small sections using portable electric mesh fencing. This forces your Cows to eat more of the grass in each section instead of roaming over the whole field. It also gives your cows more selection in time .cont.
Pushing 60 and we are strongly considering acquiring some farmland to build a state of art organic farming (cattle, pork, chicken and goat) for my retirement/business income and provide job opportunities. Your dairy farm is exactly what i have in mine and I am a Minnesotan as well
Because they will naturaly strow more seeds producing a salad effect as opposed to to grass alone which intern helps insure that your cows stay healthy without every having to vacinate. It also rapidly improves your Land building even better top soil. Glad to see more Farmers going back to the basic's of a healthy Farm Life.
No antibiotics? do you let them just die when they are sick? How do you pasture in the winter? Minnesota has long cold winters don't they? Fossil fuels are used to power the dairy, run the tractors & trucks, transport the milk & feed , plant and harvest the fields, process the cheese, pasteurize the fluid.
Thank you for this informative video,i would like to ask questions though about organic practices. What happens after the cows finish lactating? and how do they keep on lactating for how long? Are Organic cows, artificially impregnated every year like the non organic cows? When they give birth, how is the life cycle of their offspring? Last question, is, are the Organic Dairy cows sold for their meat when they can no longer give their milk? These are important questions for the concerned thanks
I can't teel you how much I enjoyed this video. I've seen so many horror stories about the dairy industry I was ready to give up on animal protien all-together. I'm so glad not to see assembly line production and squishing the animals in the smallest space available.
I believe they remove cows that are given antibiotics (when necessary) and send them to a kind of retirement home for cows. This is because cows given antibiotics can't still be milked and be sold as organic. This way they don't die.
No antibiotics needed "cuz cows aren't eating corn which makes them sick. Cows are ruminants, designed to eat grass. When fed corn they get sick and need antibiotics. No fossil fuel used to raise feed (corn). Summer grass is stored for winter forage.
How beautiful Cows have their soft pasture I love Cows and I love to go I live in Minneapolis Minnesota I am Adelina Marban and congratulations on your videos that leave thanks 🙂 😊 ♥️
Our family grows 2500 acres of round up corn in a sandy desert where we get 8' of rain/yr. we're 10 miles from the nearest river. we irrigate with center pivot irrigation. we use raw manure for fertilizer. our corn produces enough oxygen to meet the respiratory needs of half a million people. we compost and use it for fertilizer on 1500 acres of alfalfa. we milk 5000 cows and support 80 families. we sell 425,000lbs of milk /day to a local cheese plant. we pump millions into the local enonomy.
Great stuff. Thanks for taking care of the earth and humans.
I love that barn. It looks so iconic.
Sorry to wolfpelt, i was replying to ckfarms comments. As far as i can figure you're doin it right and givin the consumer what it thinks it wants. I agreed with your comments!
Have you considered raising Free Range Chickens? Doing so would have mutiple benefits it eliminates the Cow Patties in the Field there by eliminating the Flies and it creates another Income source for you as well. It's really simple to impliment you simply cross fence your fields in small sections using portable electric mesh fencing. This forces your Cows to eat more of the grass in each section instead of roaming over the whole field. It also gives your cows more selection in time .cont.
Pushing 60 and we are strongly considering acquiring some farmland to build a state of art organic farming (cattle, pork, chicken and goat) for my retirement/business income and provide job opportunities. Your dairy farm is exactly what i have in mine and I am a Minnesotan as well
Because they will naturaly strow more seeds producing a salad effect as opposed to to grass alone which intern helps insure that your cows stay healthy without every having to vacinate.
It also rapidly improves your Land building even better top soil.
Glad to see more Farmers going back to the basic's of a healthy Farm Life.
Proud to see a fellow organic dairy farmer out there
@robothat You're a city slicker aren't you?
how many cows do you milk on how many acres with how much production per cow?
What do you do with the calves?
What do you do when the cow is old or unable to produce milk?
GreyhoundLoverHere we raise the calves and use the old cows for your McDonald's hamburger. Ur welcome
@jbrussell1 nope
No antibiotics? do you let them just die when they are sick? How do you pasture in the winter? Minnesota has long cold winters don't they? Fossil fuels are used to power the dairy, run the tractors & trucks, transport the milk & feed , plant and harvest the fields, process the cheese, pasteurize the fluid.
robothat you dump the milk when cows are sick
Thank you for this informative video,i would like to ask questions though about organic practices. What happens after the cows finish lactating? and how do they keep on lactating for how long? Are Organic cows, artificially impregnated every year like the non organic cows? When they give birth, how is the life cycle of their offspring? Last question, is, are the Organic Dairy cows sold for their meat when they can no longer give their milk? These are important questions for the concerned thanks
I can't teel you how much I enjoyed this video. I've seen so many horror stories about the dairy industry I was ready to give up on animal protien all-together. I'm so glad not to see assembly line production and squishing the animals in the smallest space available.
Plumynut for Africa.
How How do I know...that this is not some Dairy Council propaganda that kind of stuff is all over CZcams
I believe they remove cows that are given antibiotics (when necessary) and send them to a kind of retirement home for cows. This is because cows given antibiotics can't still be milked and be sold as organic. This way they don't die.
Look how strong
That's sustainable!!!!
Your dairy is the FIRST one I've seen where calves are with their mothers. Why is this?
No antibiotics needed "cuz cows aren't eating corn which makes them sick. Cows are ruminants, designed to eat grass. When fed corn they get sick and need antibiotics. No fossil fuel used to raise feed (corn). Summer grass is stored for winter forage.
J
So you're sayin all that don't pay twice for organic will burn in hell? u do your thing i'll do mine, just don't sell yours using scare tactics