Fully agree with you on solar. Hate seeing farm land not being utilized. We’ve looked into doing it for our poultry houses but they wanted to put it in the fields instead of the roof. Just can’t sacrifice the acreage.
You are absolutely right about large solar projects. In my state, California, large solar and wind projects do great for the first 20 years, until they come to the end of their life and the utility cannot re furbish them then they get abandoned. No one has figured out what to do with the solar panels when they inevitably die, setting up a toxic waste problem of stupendous proportions. Small scale rooftop installations focused on demand reduction appears to the smarter strategy until we figure these disposal issues out.
This video was enough to make me vegetarian. The sheer terror and horror in the animals behaviour, and this isn't even the worst bit they'll have to endure. Yeah, I'm tapping out for a few decades. D:< Poor fucking creatures, nothing deserves the treatment we inflict on cattle. Especially now the religious nut lobbyists used the BSE scare to pretend that captive bolt guns (you know, actually occasioning instant brain death) are a 'biohazard' for BSE and thus pushed for all countries to abolish their usage for killing, only 'stunning', leading to 40%+ of animals being butchered alive and 100% dying from blood loss over time to appease allah. Every abattoir in my country is halal now, I should have tapped out then.
@@bashkillszombies How where the cattle treated badly in this video? Everything they did was for the animals own benefit. If this "makes" you go vegetarian you have been severly out of touch with the world, death is a natural part of it and will happen even if we stop producing meat. If not anything this video shows how much farmers care for their animals, everytime you work cattle you are taking a huge risk, they arent running the through the chute to "terrorise" them or just for fun. To butcher the animal you need to kill it, if you dont have any suggestion about how we can kill them more humanely I suggest you keep your mouth closed. I go by the thought of "You can complain about something as much as you want as long that you are willing to fix it." Not doing anything other complaining is wasting everybodys time, given that you have a limited amount of it I suggest you do something more productive. Farmers always want the best for their animals, even if they just want to make money (not that you are going to be a millionare of farming). A calm healthy cow produces more milk than a stressed one, a healthy steer more meat. I dont know about you, but I'm going to be eating my steak with peace of mind, knowing that the farmer took care of the animal to the best of his ability.
So here’s what little information I know about those solar panels. They put a solar farm in on roughly an 80 acre hayfield very close to the farm. Doesn’t sound like it’s as big as the project that’s going in near you. If I ride my four wheeler through that property in the summer the ambient temperature is noticeably higher on a bright sunny day. None of the radios in the barn or the shop come in anymore. A.m. or FM it’s just static. The radio in my truck is affected probably roughly a mile radius around the area as well. Due to the fact that the solar panels feed directly back into the power grid I have noticed changes in the power. I install the gauge on one of the panels what normally runs around 239 V coming into the panel is sometimes 248 or higher. When I weld the welder acts differently now and I have tried different machines to try and prove to myself that it’s not being affected by those solar panels feeding into the powerlines that feed the shop. But I really believe it is. The amount of radio noise those panels produce is amazing to me
Solar panels only produce DC (direct current) so it has to be converted into AC (alternating current) before it can be distributed. This step is terribly inefficient and probably the source of the noise or effects you noted. Later! OL J R :)
Ryan, We had solar Panels put on our house, Being in the " Sunshine State" you would think Ahh What A Great Idea ! Wrong !!!! 30 Panels on our house is costing us $36,000 dollars. Yes we got a rebate back from the Government of $10,000, But it takes them 3 years to pay you back. Now I am all for saving money like everyone else. Would I do it again putting panels up, HELL NO ! The State of Florida is building 5 Very large Solar Farms all over Florida. One is in my sisters back yard in Ruskin FL. I could go on and on, Long of the short, No I do Not agree with Solar Farms. They hurt the Environment !!!!! Thanks for letting me vent a little.
My nephew is an electrical engineer for Minnesota power. He works on managing the power grid and where power needs to be when for new businesses or factories or things like that. He said solar power and wind power if they put as much as they possibly could in Minnesota it would still only make up about 8% of what they actually need for power. So it’s doing absolutely nothing to stop power plants or help anything except take up a bunch of valuable land and build an even larger infrastructure trying to get all the power from thousands of different locations. Not to mention just the aesthetic I saw an affect on the environment and wildlife etc. You could imagine if everyone had an electric car tomorrow how much the power grid would have to grow exponentially to handle the demand.
Michigan State University did the same thing with their student parking lot. It looks like a good deal to me considering, each parking spot has its own shelter now. So your idea has already been done and I agree that is a better use of space, for that kind of project.
I'm with you on the solar panel placement not on productive farmland I agree with you 100% needs to be like you said over parking lots or Industrial buildings 👍
Heh, that's one way to push the cattle into the barn with the teleskid! Could make note for during the summer months to have it run continuously for a while or so just to prevent the water from sitting so long in the pipes. Do you get the bulls tested every late Spring before turning them out? Your cows look healthy, so don't think they would be malnourished on something but would be something to look into. Rough winters or dry summers can hurt. I don't know what your feelings about maybe turning a bull on those open ones and have them calve in the fall for a temporary band-aid? I know fall is a busy time of year too with harvest and other work, but would allow you to keep some of those critters yet if you feel some of them are worth keeping yet.
15 of 39 cows are bred, that's very unfortunate. I know it sucks and is very disappointing but I'd sell the 24 open cows and buy bred replacements...even if you sell 24 and can only buy 12, it will at least give you a larger stock to calve and feed this spring...then maybe keep your heifer calves as replacements and you might be right back at your 40 cows calving next year. I'd probably get the bull tested too and replace him if he's not up to par...this sucks, but I wouldn't compound it by keeping dead weight around. From an ex-cheesehead farm boy, thanks for the videos and hang in there...keep up the good fight
There is a good size solar field going in Fitchburg WI. It is sad to see, it was last year farm land. I'm not a farmer in any which way but it still saddens me being a outdoorsman. I think we need to look at refurbishing buildings for living instead of expanding outward! Soon Southern Wi (Madison area) will not have any untouched land!
I feel your pain. My wifes family farm who is now owned by her nephew is going to be covered with 4-5 hundred acres of solar panels to create electricity to transmit to Florida. The company who is running it doesn't care about the loss of property values. I asked a rep from the company if we could get free electricity and he said it doesn't work that way. We live at the north end of Seneca Lake in the finger lakes region of New York. Like you we're sure the N.Y. state government is going to get a good chunk of change out of this.
"watch us crank tubing around the nitter sack,,, but you may be squeamish when we remove the headgear....." sorry Ryan,, ya got that one backwards for me,,, (I had to ice me teste's just watching that!!)lol
I feel you on the solar project. They are building a 1,800 acre solar farm two miles from my house in southwest Georgia. Roughly half of that came out of crop production. Lost over half of the farm land that i have filmed on for the past ten years. I don't know what they are paying the landowners but it must be pretty high.
The area around Potosi is such a weird place to build a solar facility. I agree with you on this one. I'm all for solar, but it could be done better than what they're planning over there.
When ya farm it's always events...part of the game. I've spent many early morning hours pulling calves out of first time heifers usually during a snow storm. Funny you mentioned getting run over...been there done that. Had a young 600 lbs bull decide I was a toy and thru me around a loading pen one day....that sorta ended my love of cattle ranching.
Feel your pain on the soler panels. They just put windmills up in Iowa and the amount of good farm land used and destroyed was rediculis keep speeking your mind it worked around us and got thim stoped but took time to do so
Saw a video about those power windmill blades at end of useful life span, those blades can't be recycled due to materials it used when made those blades. It sits much like the planes grave yards.
Ryan I don't envy you at all. Not only is that hard work, can be dangerous too. I grew up around dairy cows. The interactions were much different. Lots of respect to you and your brother and father. Some people think beef comes in a package at the store have no idea the amount of work a farmer puts into caring for and raising the herd. I'm 110% with you on dehorning. It is much safer for the animals as well as you all.
We bought a bull that had sperm that did not have tails. He bred 1 cow out of a 22 cow herd, so we ended up with that herd fall calving. This was about twenty years ago, took 10 years to cull those cows and get them back in sync. We no buy bulls from a producer who does breeding soundness exam on every bull sold. He tells me he has a couple fail each year but would rather lose a sale than sell a dud bull to someone. I’m surprised you didn’t notice the open cows bulling.
If they take land, why good farm ground and not marginal lands? The centralization concept is so power companies maintain control of transmission lines and distribution; governments like that. They can't get taxes on a panel on your barn like they can on a large facility. That puts your school district on their side for valuations going up also. We have wind generators in Western Iowa and they say they hurt large birds but I have seen more Eagles in the past 10 years than I did in the previous 30. Best of luck. Oil isn't the answer for our future, but careful studies as to regional and local emissions should carry more weight.
Ironically, I read in todays news about a 2600 acre solar farm being built here in West Central Ohio. That is the first that I have heard of it. There was a meeting recently and of course some who attended were opposed. From what I could glean from the article it is going to be built but reduced acreage to 1400.
I don’t understand why they don’t build projects like this in areas like eastern Kentucky where there are large abandoned surface mines that aren’t good for anything else
Your getting solar panels we are getting houses next door. Suppose its something to do with less voices in the countryside than in a town easyer to get what they want. Keep us posted stay safe 🏴
Ps. You'll get plenty free panels when the winds pick up a bit broken though. On that note how much claims for damages with all that glass flying about 😲🤨
I’ve noticed around our farm land what they call progress 🤔 for many years as the town boundaries get extended closer and closer to us . Developers had bought the land between us and the town years ago and farmed til now and now makes it prime for development. No stopping those bulldozer 🤔🤔🇮🇪
Great video Ryan. Walmart rooftops in much smaller scale instead of car port rooftops. They are billionaires and would support it I"m sure since they also going green. I don't know a single person that doesn't shop at WalMart. Agreed the distribution of money in Grant County is unfair and how this project even became a reality.
WOW....and I thought we had a lot of iron in our water in South Jersey ! We installed a new house well down 125 feet and minimal iron compared to the old well. At the farm, it's down 450 feet and free of iron. At my parents house, the old plumbing was replaced and the old 3/4 inch galvanized pipe, you could barely pass a pencil through the inside diameter
At the time we had holding pens prior too the corral....we had a long shoot that led too the corral. We had too get get one whiteface limousine to get in there. Me and our mechanic "nuther story" had her headed that way.. I ran to close her in with the gate she turned and charged me in the corridor I looked around found an old T post and wrapped it around this ol cows head. Her butt went down she skidded a bit I was on the fence...she eventually came too and I walked into the corral
As someone who has studied sustainability and works in the architectural field, I have quite a few problems with solar panels. In small scale, direct applications they serve their purpose and are ideal for providing a "net-zero" power consumption and in those cases I 100% support them. But these large scale applications are terrible not only for the surrounding land (especially farms) but solar panels are borderline MORE harmful to the environment in terms of manufacturing and distribution. Then there's the batteries and power supply system needed (as mentioned in the video) that are in their own world of destructive to the environment. I'm sorry to hear what you guys are having to deal with, and unfortunately like you said it seems the people most effected by it don't matter, only the people who benefit from it. Reading the info on the public comment hearing, I wasn't surprised to see this - " A person shall limit a public comment to nontechnical personal knowledge or personal opinion". Its very common for situations like this to take advantage of the "nontechnical" comment requirement because people like you, me, or anyone else who understands the details of these systems, can quickly convince bystanders that there are larger issues at hand with hard facts. They've basically limited commenters to say "we don't like it, but we can't say why" which really holds no strength in a public hearing. I will definitely still be tuning in and providing what comment I have against this however. Thanks for the update and info on this!
Man, I got sick to my stomach at number 4 open. God bless you! I think checking the bull is a good move. It's hard to believe there's that many open cows. Green energy is not always green.
Hey Ryan I sincerely doubt that a neighbouring solar farm will have any climate differences to your fields. Consider how far away you can feel your salamander outside and that has ridiculously more heat then would ever be thrown off panels. Converting farm land is a genuine concern though and you are absolutely right about using the roofs we have. A big solar farm has a big advantage in that’s its a whole lot cheaper then roof top though. They can run higher voltages because of less regulations but also because there’s less risk of some of the panels being shaded. Maintenance is also a whole lot easier being close to the ground and having dedicated caretakers at that scale. Great idea on the carport as well,to take it a step further can you image one day where roads are covered. No more plowing!
Great videos!, maybe try giving Crystalyx barrels to cows BGF 30’s or 20’s...really helps with reproduction, and could possibly have a bad bull I’d say
I grew up in Wisconsin. They must have some really efficient panels because there's so little sun in Wisconsin. I've lived in Florida the last 30 years. It's difficult to get solar as a viable alternative power source here. How many solar plants have gone belly up in the desert? Solar plant in Wisconsin will go belly up. Then you can buy the land back at a discount.
@@FoodwaysDistribution There's 2 plants they built in the desert at over $1 billion a piece. Both are tits up. On one of them they spent another half billion to expand the natural gas power plant to more then what the solar was spec'd out to produce. At some point, somebody's got to smarten up here. I know, Germany's got a lot of solar, but they're not the U.S.. And they certainly are not Wisconsin.
Hey Ryan how's it going? I couldn't agree more with you about the solar project, however let me throw you a couple of thoughts to chew on. First, back in the 80's solar was becoming a big thing. Look at Gays Mills when they moved up the valley away from the Kickapoo, everything was solar paneled that could be covered on the roofs and sides of the new buildings. And then compare it to today. How much is even operating? Second, to put solar in parking lots and roofs of large spaces like Walmart, Menards, Kennedy Mall, etc. those owners are going to want some kind of compensation for it regardless if it is perceived beneficial to their customers. Unfortunately we as utility consumers will end up footing that bill with increases in our utility rates. And while a better choice would be on public buildings such as UW-P, then ascetics get in the way when dealing with century old buildings. And this leaves us where we are today, trying to site a project with the minimal amount of impact. Unfortunately you are the one to be the most impacted by the project. Let me know what you think. Be safe in these temperatures.
A project very similar to this is coming across the county I live in within the next few years. The solar company will be leasing around 3,000 acres of farm land privately.....such a shame.
Feel your pain our local council brought a local farm, first denied it then said they were going to run it as a council farm for new entrants to agriculture then threatened other farms surrounding it to either sell their land and sign gagging orders or they would compulsory purchase the land and pay as little as they can then unveiled plans to turn it into a new town before awarding themselves planning permission behind closed doors.
That’s what they did in our area was a lot of farmers, us included put up barns for solar panels. Unfortunately they have put in well over 10000 acres worth of panels in our county so far
Your best bet would be to sell all those opens, and buy back breds. With Keeping the old opens, they probably won't breed back, even with a different bull.
Bummer to hear that something wasn't just quite right with the breeding of the cows this year. I have to say, that was a no punches pulled video on the farming life. Appreciate it, even though that ratchet action made me wince. Hopefully you and the neighbors can squash that solar. The engineer in me looks at that and shakes my head in disbelief - letting good farmland, that reliably produces the bounty of food a hungry world needs, go to waste. And for what? Unreliable, expensive, daytime only power to assuage the misbegotten conscience of urban greens. 200 MW....yeah, it'll actually churn that out for just a fraction of the daylight hours, only part of the year. If the local grid needed 200MW, they'd be better off with a combined cycle nat gas plant - that'll crank out 200MW, exactly, reliably 24/7/365 on only a few acres to tens of acres of foot print. The ability of renewables (solar and wind) to produce their "name plate" power output in a sustained manner (power * time = energy produced) is sadly pretty pathetic. Typical wind farms for example only generate 35% of the potential energy that their name plate rating indicates. Compare and contrast to conventional power, where they're typically north of 90% of their potential, and much of that missed potential is due to scheduled maintenance. Of course, with that solar, they'll still need the nat gas plant in warm spinning reserve since solar is so unreliable. For example, what will happen to the output when your normal summertime thunderstorm (or even puffy clouds) shades out the sun? You can certainly speak to that from your lived experience as the neighbor of the proposed location. The output will be slashed to but a fraction of what it was only a few minutes earlier - hence the need for warm spinning reserve to pick up the slack on literally minutes notice. Further, I'd suggest asking what that derecho would have done to a solar plant like that which is proposed. Those panels are more or less sails - catch them with some 100+ MPH winds (especially if said wind came from the north to catch the high side of the panels tilted to face south) and oh my goodness. I have to imagine the additional destruction from debris of demolished structures was bad enough - now add who knows how many more pieces of debris to the mayhem. I shudder at the thought. The only reliable thing that solar plant will generate is taxpayer subsidies for the owners - nothing else. The rest of you will get stuck with the bill for that....and the decommissioning costs in 20 years when all those shiny panels are broken down, rusting monuments to the foolishness of the current generation of power policy "experts".
here in NW Ont. Canada you drive the country roads, and about every mile or 2 you see a big long rack of solar panels on the edge of farm fields with cows around them. i have a video up showing them. on the closest hydro pole to them you see a hydro meter and cables running up the pole hooking on to the 3 phase lines that have always been there, about 15 years ago they came to me wanting me to put in a ground solar system, that would cost me $160,000 and they sign a 10 year contract at $0.65 per kwh. sure it sounded good until i asked why only 10 years, i was told if i replace the panels after 10 years they will re-new my contract at what ever the new payout rate is for another 10 years, this is because the life of solar panels are 10 year, after 10 years you lost over 30% output or more, and at that loss it not profitable for ether side, there some sheep farms here that have many rows of annals on ground racks with sheep feeding in and around them. in the city the big malls have systems set up on there flat roofs. from what i have heard the pay out rate is well over the $0.65 per kwh now, i had also asked how can you pay out $0.65 per kwh when the highest hydro rate we pay per kwh is $0.12 at peek times and at off times $0.05 per kwh, they said the save on building and maintenance of new power generating plants. but we have so many big rivers and lake, as we are known as the land of a 1000 lakes, and with in 100 miles of me there only 5 water generating station, when there could be a whole lot more, there also about 12 privit owner of small water generation unit around me, all of these are on rivers that run into the largest of the great lakes in town
Hey Ryan don't feel alone the state I live in is virginia and they did the same thing with the solar deal they took good farm land and put that junk in them .also removing acres upon acres of trees to then to install solar panels it's a complete joke .
How many years has the bull been in? If your cow/half ratio has normally been well prior years and this year its dismal, there is a chance the bull injured himself during breeding. Hopefully everything gets sorted. Stay Safe & Healthy. God Bless.
As I can understand your concern, I wouldn't want that eye sore next to me either. However it would be nonsense to try to put panels on small buildings. There are so many reasons they belong on the ground. The car port idea could work, but would cost a fortune.
Actually, the cost would increase by only a few cents on the watt. Solar power cost per watt has decreased over $.70 in just the last few years. It can be done cheaply in comparison.
Was the bull tested before being put with the cows? If he was ok maybe he got injured or this to me sounds like it couldve had trichomoniasis. Maybe it could be a good practice to preg check 2 months after the bull was taken out. This way if you do have problems you can get another bull, late calves are better than no calves for sure.
Imagine a 800 bull I had already caught in the shoot during an ice storm was trying too put the nose pliers on him then the shoot just opens and we stare at each other for a moment he backs up thank god and I lunge for the gate lever. Got him but think I peed a little.
Hey Ryan speaking from experience back when I farmed I had a Bull first year I had him I had all kinds of calves the next year it was hit or miss, cost me a lot of money. Good luck and stay safe 👍
We've had issues in cold temperature s with hereford calves they aren't as hardy and we had death loss like crazy. This was about 25 years ago and we went to straight Black Angus and we lost 3 calves in 25 years now we have 3 Black Angus bulls, Two of them are semen checked at 85% and the best one is at 97%
I agree with your take on the Solar project. No common sense. Only $$$. On the water system try to put a permanent blow off on the inlet and outlet with ball valves and make it a routine to blow them out every month. Thanks for the video.
There is a large solar project in construction in my county. It is around 1,400 acres give or take a few acres. I'm hearing talks of some others as well. Hopefully they dont happen. We have enough housing growth happen and loosing land left amd right to that. Im in southern middle Tenneesee and north Alabama.
I like that they resurrected a gas fired power plant that burned down many years ago in ny. The gas line was there. Some of the power lines were replaced, but the right of way was still there. They used a farmers field with Matt's on top to store all the pieces a mile away. Since it's been running he must have plowed up that field (compaction), fertilized and grew corn 🌽 this year. They also paid him some rent I think. Yes I have seen solar farms in fields. I say it's the transmission lines that affect your health and your farm. If one of those transmission lines (high tension) would fall to the ground and start a brush fire 🔥 in the dry summer. How much would you loose. Would insurance cover it? Would insurance go up. Second link will be blancorillio about california and the camp fire. Watch that too. www.berkshireeagle.com/archives/pittsfield-residents-heated-over-25-acre-solar-project/article_b8865d8c-0277-59ec-9d36-63bb3bf8a031.html czcams.com/video/W5jaFNPPXMw/video.html
We hear all the time that farming doesn't make money. If the land is more valuable as farmland, it would be used as farmland. When it becomes worth more as housing, it gets built on. Electrical power generation has been problematic since it's inception. Everybody wants power but nobody wants the power production facility near them. A solar farm seems like it might be a good neighbor. Nobody to complain about the smell, noise or farm equipment on the roads. Nobody driving to work creating more traffic. No loud noises. Seems like the only better neighbors would be a cemetery. There are many worse things that could be there like a large dairy, cattle or hog raising facility. If solar energy doesn't pan out, the panels can be removed and the land is still open for farming.
We had a similar issue-- thought it was the bull.. ended up being a very dominant cow that thought she was a bull and kept the bull from breeding.. got rid of that one cow-- and the bull did his job quite well..
I saw your 4020 and I was wondering where your breather was that I haven't 4020 and your breezer stacks not there it was another video the last one you put out thank you I am really video
Lets put solar in a place that snows! Its brilliant and will still produce power! ... Not..... Roof tops, buildings, car parks, all thats needed. Also, need to power banks to store the power as nighttime and snow drastically cut it.
Fully agree with you on solar. Hate seeing farm land not being utilized. We’ve looked into doing it for our poultry houses but they wanted to put it in the fields instead of the roof. Just can’t sacrifice the acreage.
You are absolutely right about large solar projects. In my state, California, large solar and wind projects do great for the first 20 years, until they come to the end of their life and the utility cannot re furbish them then they get abandoned. No one has figured out what to do with the solar panels when they inevitably die, setting up a toxic waste problem of stupendous proportions. Small scale rooftop installations focused on demand reduction appears to the smarter strategy until we figure these disposal issues out.
If people only knew the work it takes to get them their burgers and steaks. Mad respect for keeping food on the table guys.
This video was enough to make me vegetarian. The sheer terror and horror in the animals behaviour, and this isn't even the worst bit they'll have to endure. Yeah, I'm tapping out for a few decades. D:< Poor fucking creatures, nothing deserves the treatment we inflict on cattle. Especially now the religious nut lobbyists used the BSE scare to pretend that captive bolt guns (you know, actually occasioning instant brain death) are a 'biohazard' for BSE and thus pushed for all countries to abolish their usage for killing, only 'stunning', leading to 40%+ of animals being butchered alive and 100% dying from blood loss over time to appease allah. Every abattoir in my country is halal now, I should have tapped out then.
@@bashkillszombiesif people weren't eating animals, predators would eat them alive, it's the nature of the world, get over it.....enjoy your weeds
@@bashkillszombies How where the cattle treated badly in this video? Everything they did was for the animals own benefit. If this "makes" you go vegetarian you have been severly out of touch with the world, death is a natural part of it and will happen even if we stop producing meat. If not anything this video shows how much farmers care for their animals, everytime you work cattle you are taking a huge risk, they arent running the through the chute to "terrorise" them or just for fun. To butcher the animal you need to kill it, if you dont have any suggestion about how we can kill them more humanely I suggest you keep your mouth closed. I go by the thought of "You can complain about something as much as you want as long that you are willing to fix it." Not doing anything other complaining is wasting everybodys time, given that you have a limited amount of it I suggest you do something more productive. Farmers always want the best for their animals, even if they just want to make money (not that you are going to be a millionare of farming). A calm healthy cow produces more milk than a stressed one, a healthy steer more meat. I dont know about you, but I'm going to be eating my steak with peace of mind, knowing that the farmer took care of the animal to the best of his ability.
@@bashkillszombies go away troll
What do you want to bet that bashmouth supports third trimester abortion-on-demand as a "woman's right to expel unwanted inanimate tissue"?
So here’s what little information I know about those solar panels. They put a solar farm in on roughly an 80 acre hayfield very close to the farm. Doesn’t sound like it’s as big as the project that’s going in near you. If I ride my four wheeler through that property in the summer the ambient temperature is noticeably higher on a bright sunny day. None of the radios in the barn or the shop come in anymore. A.m. or FM it’s just static. The radio in my truck is affected probably roughly a mile radius around the area as well. Due to the fact that the solar panels feed directly back into the power grid I have noticed changes in the power. I install the gauge on one of the panels what normally runs around 239 V coming into the panel is sometimes 248 or higher. When I weld the welder acts differently now and I have tried different machines to try and prove to myself that it’s not being affected by those solar panels feeding into the powerlines that feed the shop. But I really believe it is. The amount of radio noise those panels produce is amazing to me
Solar panels only produce DC (direct current) so it has to be converted into AC (alternating current) before it can be distributed. This step is terribly inefficient and probably the source of the noise or effects you noted. Later! OL J R :)
Good comments on Solar power. Its just another example of the rich getting richer at the expense of the poor (in this case middle class farmers).
Ryan, We had solar Panels put on our house, Being in the " Sunshine State" you would think Ahh What A Great Idea ! Wrong !!!! 30 Panels on our house is costing us $36,000 dollars. Yes we got a rebate back from the Government of $10,000, But it takes them 3 years to pay you back. Now I am all for saving money like everyone else. Would I do it again putting panels up, HELL NO ! The State of Florida is building 5 Very large Solar Farms all over Florida. One is in my sisters back yard in Ruskin FL. I could go on and on, Long of the short, No I do Not agree with Solar Farms. They hurt the Environment !!!!! Thanks for letting me vent a little.
My nephew is an electrical engineer for Minnesota power. He works on managing the power grid and where power needs to be when for new businesses or factories or things like that. He said solar power and wind power if they put as much as they possibly could in Minnesota it would still only make up about 8% of what they actually need for power. So it’s doing absolutely nothing to stop power plants or help anything except take up a bunch of valuable land and build an even larger infrastructure trying to get all the power from thousands of different locations. Not to mention just the aesthetic I saw an affect on the environment and wildlife etc. You could imagine if everyone had an electric car tomorrow how much the power grid would have to grow exponentially to handle the demand.
Michigan State University did the same thing with their student parking lot. It looks like a good deal to me considering, each parking spot has its own shelter now. So your idea has already been done and I agree that is a better use of space, for that kind of project.
You should contact Sonne Farms for a new bull 😉
I'm with you on the solar panel placement not on productive farmland I agree with you 100% needs to be like you said over parking lots or Industrial buildings 👍
Heh, that's one way to push the cattle into the barn with the teleskid! Could make note for during the summer months to have it run continuously for a while or so just to prevent the water from sitting so long in the pipes.
Do you get the bulls tested every late Spring before turning them out? Your cows look healthy, so don't think they would be malnourished on something but would be something to look into. Rough winters or dry summers can hurt. I don't know what your feelings about maybe turning a bull on those open ones and have them calve in the fall for a temporary band-aid? I know fall is a busy time of year too with harvest and other work, but would allow you to keep some of those critters yet if you feel some of them are worth keeping yet.
Need to turn water on full blast periodically to prevent build ups in pipes.
Have been doing that with the one by the waterer, hasn’t helped, but the air pressure has!
15 of 39 cows are bred, that's very unfortunate. I know it sucks and is very disappointing but I'd sell the 24 open cows and buy bred replacements...even if you sell 24 and can only buy 12, it will at least give you a larger stock to calve and feed this spring...then maybe keep your heifer calves as replacements and you might be right back at your 40 cows calving next year. I'd probably get the bull tested too and replace him if he's not up to par...this sucks, but I wouldn't compound it by keeping dead weight around.
From an ex-cheesehead farm boy, thanks for the videos and hang in there...keep up the good fight
There is a good size solar field going in Fitchburg WI. It is sad to see, it was last year farm land. I'm not a farmer in any which way but it still saddens me being a outdoorsman. I think we need to look at refurbishing buildings for living instead of expanding outward! Soon Southern Wi (Madison area) will not have any untouched land!
I feel your pain. My wifes family farm who is now owned by her nephew is going to be covered with 4-5 hundred acres of solar panels to create electricity to transmit to Florida. The company who is running it doesn't care about the loss of property values. I asked a rep from the company if we could get free electricity and he said it doesn't work that way. We live at the north end of Seneca Lake in the finger lakes region of New York. Like you we're sure the N.Y. state government is going to get a good chunk of change out of this.
Sorry to hear that there weren't more pregnant. At least the water was an easy fix. Was another great video.
"watch us crank tubing around the nitter sack,,, but you may be squeamish when we remove the headgear....." sorry Ryan,, ya got that one backwards for me,,, (I had to ice me teste's just watching that!!)lol
Good luck with your cows and also the solar panel development im rooting for ya
I feel you on the solar project. They are building a 1,800 acre solar farm two miles from my house in southwest Georgia. Roughly half of that came out of crop production. Lost over half of the farm land that i have filmed on for the past ten years. I don't know what they are paying the landowners but it must be pretty high.
The area around Potosi is such a weird place to build a solar facility. I agree with you on this one. I'm all for solar, but it could be done better than what they're planning over there.
Hilliest part of the state!
@@HowFarmsWork Thats what I was thinking. We used to drive around between Potosi, Platteville and Lancaster on the "Rollercoaster Roads"
Sorry to hear about your bull, Ryan. I remember when you picked him up, he had good papers.
The bull's signature was a forgery.
When ya farm it's always events...part of the game. I've spent many early morning hours pulling calves out of first time heifers usually during a snow storm. Funny you mentioned getting run over...been there done that. Had a young 600 lbs bull decide I was a toy and thru me around a loading pen one day....that sorta ended my love of cattle ranching.
It's amazing that they don't object more to the castration bit. I would be screaming!
Kind hard to argue when they gotcha by the balls🤣🤣
Feel your pain on the soler panels. They just put windmills up in Iowa and the amount of good farm land used and destroyed was rediculis keep speeking your mind it worked around us and got thim stoped but took time to do so
Saw a video about those power windmill blades at end of useful life span, those blades can't be recycled due to materials it used when made those blades. It sits much like the planes grave yards.
Ryan I don't envy you at all. Not only is that hard work, can be dangerous too. I grew up around dairy cows. The interactions were much different. Lots of respect to you and your brother and father. Some people think beef comes in a package at the store have no idea the amount of work a farmer puts into caring for and raising the herd. I'm 110% with you on dehorning. It is much safer for the animals as well as you all.
Why can they use park lots and buildings to put power paddles on top of them
We bought a bull that had sperm that did not have tails. He bred 1 cow out of a 22 cow herd, so we ended up with that herd fall calving. This was about twenty years ago, took 10 years to cull those cows and get them back in sync. We no buy bulls from a producer who does breeding soundness exam on every bull sold. He tells me he has a couple fail each year but would rather lose a sale than sell a dud bull to someone. I’m surprised you didn’t notice the open cows bulling.
If they take land, why good farm ground and not marginal lands? The centralization concept is so power companies maintain control of transmission lines and distribution;
governments like that. They can't get taxes on a panel on your barn like they can on a large facility. That puts your school district on their side for valuations going up also.
We have wind generators in Western Iowa and they say they hurt large birds but I have seen more Eagles in the past 10 years than I did in the previous 30.
Best of luck. Oil isn't the answer for our future, but careful studies as to regional and local emissions should carry more weight.
Keep us up to date on the construction.
Thank you Ryan. I say your Pro common sense regarding energy generation. Hope you get your sire problem straighten out.
Great Vlog, a real shame about the empty's great to see the work you put into rebuilding the lot fences etc working well, thanks for sharing
Ironically, I read in todays news about a 2600 acre solar farm being built here in West Central Ohio. That is the first that I have heard of it. There was a meeting recently and of course some who attended were opposed. From what I could glean from the article it is going to be built but reduced acreage to 1400.
Hi Ryan I am a dairy farmer I farm in Northern Ireland and I have 70 dairy cows and 60 cattle I love working with cattle
I don’t understand why they don’t build projects like this in areas like eastern Kentucky where there are large abandoned surface mines that aren’t good for anything else
Your getting solar panels we are getting houses next door. Suppose its something to do with less voices in the countryside than in a town easyer to get what they want. Keep us posted stay safe 🏴
Ps. You'll get plenty free panels when the winds pick up a bit broken though. On that note how much claims for damages with all that glass flying about 😲🤨
I’ve noticed around our farm land what they call progress 🤔 for many years as the town boundaries get extended closer and closer to us . Developers had bought the land between us and the town years ago and farmed til now and now makes it prime for development. No stopping those bulldozer 🤔🤔🇮🇪
Great video Ryan. Walmart rooftops in much smaller scale instead of car port rooftops. They are billionaires and would support it I"m sure since they also going green. I don't know a single person that doesn't shop at WalMart. Agreed the distribution of money in Grant County is unfair and how this project even became a reality.
Switch the cows to fall calving, get a new Bull now
Solar in Wisconsin. Yes you heard that right.
WOW....and I thought we had a lot of iron in our water in South Jersey !
We installed a new house well down 125 feet and minimal iron compared to the old well. At the farm, it's down 450 feet and free of iron. At my parents house, the old plumbing was replaced and the old 3/4 inch galvanized pipe, you could barely pass a pencil through the inside diameter
At the time we had holding pens prior too the corral....we had a long shoot that led too the corral. We had too get get one whiteface limousine to get in there. Me and our mechanic "nuther story" had her headed that way.. I ran to close her in with the gate she turned and charged me in the corridor I looked around found an old T post and wrapped it around this ol cows head. Her butt went down she skidded a bit I was on the fence...she eventually came too and I walked into the corral
And I thought my neighbor had some wild cows, lol.
I'm really appreciative for farmers.
I enjoy my beef, chicken, pork, but I don't have it in me to see to the end.
If know what I mean.
As someone who has studied sustainability and works in the architectural field, I have quite a few problems with solar panels. In small scale, direct applications they serve their purpose and are ideal for providing a "net-zero" power consumption and in those cases I 100% support them. But these large scale applications are terrible not only for the surrounding land (especially farms) but solar panels are borderline MORE harmful to the environment in terms of manufacturing and distribution. Then there's the batteries and power supply system needed (as mentioned in the video) that are in their own world of destructive to the environment. I'm sorry to hear what you guys are having to deal with, and unfortunately like you said it seems the people most effected by it don't matter, only the people who benefit from it. Reading the info on the public comment hearing, I wasn't surprised to see this - " A person shall limit a public comment to nontechnical personal knowledge or personal opinion". Its very common for situations like this to take advantage of the "nontechnical" comment requirement because people like you, me, or anyone else who understands the details of these systems, can quickly convince bystanders that there are larger issues at hand with hard facts. They've basically limited commenters to say "we don't like it, but we can't say why" which really holds no strength in a public hearing. I will definitely still be tuning in and providing what comment I have against this however. Thanks for the update and info on this!
Man, I got sick to my stomach at number 4 open. God bless you! I think checking the bull is a good move. It's hard to believe there's that many open cows. Green energy is not always green.
We ranch in Canada. Hard to watch that vet say open so much! That hurts the pocket book! Feel for ya dude!
Thanks for the update Ryan and dang bull
Hey Ryan I sincerely doubt that a neighbouring solar farm will have any climate differences to your fields. Consider how far away you can feel your salamander outside and that has ridiculously more heat then would ever be thrown off panels. Converting farm land is a genuine concern though and you are absolutely right about using the roofs we have. A big solar farm has a big advantage in that’s its a whole lot cheaper then roof top though. They can run higher voltages because of less regulations but also because there’s less risk of some of the panels being shaded. Maintenance is also a whole lot easier being close to the ground and having dedicated caretakers at that scale. Great idea on the carport as well,to take it a step further can you image one day where roads are covered. No more plowing!
we as a country now have an excess amount of farmland in production due to the efficiencies increases in farming.
The barrels help conception rates
Great videos!, maybe try giving Crystalyx barrels to cows BGF 30’s or 20’s...really helps with reproduction, and could possibly have a bad bull I’d say
I grew up in Wisconsin. They must have some really efficient panels because there's so little sun in Wisconsin. I've lived in Florida the last 30 years. It's difficult to get solar as a viable alternative power source here. How many solar plants have gone belly up in the desert? Solar plant in Wisconsin will go belly up. Then you can buy the land back at a discount.
Yep efficiently cheap rubbish from china that will set neighboring crops on fire
@@FoodwaysDistribution There's 2 plants they built in the desert at over $1 billion a piece. Both are tits up. On one of them they spent another half billion to expand the natural gas power plant to more then what the solar was spec'd out to produce. At some point, somebody's got to smarten up here. I know, Germany's got a lot of solar, but they're not the U.S.. And they certainly are not Wisconsin.
Hey Ryan how's it going? I couldn't agree more with you about the solar project, however let me throw you a couple of thoughts to chew on. First, back in the 80's solar was becoming a big thing. Look at Gays Mills when they moved up the valley away from the Kickapoo, everything was solar paneled that could be covered on the roofs and sides of the new buildings. And then compare it to today. How much is even operating? Second, to put solar in parking lots and roofs of large spaces like Walmart, Menards, Kennedy Mall, etc. those owners are going to want some kind of compensation for it regardless if it is perceived beneficial to their customers. Unfortunately we as utility consumers will end up footing that bill with increases in our utility rates. And while a better choice would be on public buildings such as UW-P, then ascetics get in the way when dealing with century old buildings. And this leaves us where we are today, trying to site a project with the minimal amount of impact. Unfortunately you are the one to be the most impacted by the project. Let me know what you think. Be safe in these temperatures.
Another great video thanks! Love the snow 😊
If it isn't too private, I hope to hear your plan on the open cows situation on future video.
A project very similar to this is coming across the county I live in within the next few years. The solar company will be leasing around 3,000 acres of farm land privately.....such a shame.
That sucks about the wind farm, hopefully it all works out for you guys!
Feel your pain our local council brought a local farm, first denied it then said they were going to run it as a council farm for new entrants to agriculture then threatened other farms surrounding it to either sell their land and sign gagging orders or they would compulsory purchase the land and pay as little as they can then unveiled plans to turn it into a new town before awarding themselves planning permission behind closed doors.
That’s what they did in our area was a lot of farmers, us included put up barns for solar panels. Unfortunately they have put in well over 10000 acres worth of panels in our county so far
Time for a "breeding soundness exam"........should have been done BEFORE you buy the bull.
I think you are right. The Solar should be broken into many smaller separate project incase 1 goes down you would still the other ones.
Your best bet would be to sell all those opens, and buy back breds. With Keeping the old opens, they probably won't breed back, even with a different bull.
What a crap world we really live in, I feel for you in the solar panel part of the video. Big city’s and big tech is not the answer.
Some of those are proper live wires. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
I was watching old videos of yours when you posted this new one 😂
Sorry to hear about the bull man
The same thing happened here in il solar panels and wind mills it is pretty obvious That we don't matter anymore by the way good video
Bummer to hear that something wasn't just quite right with the breeding of the cows this year. I have to say, that was a no punches pulled video on the farming life. Appreciate it, even though that ratchet action made me wince.
Hopefully you and the neighbors can squash that solar. The engineer in me looks at that and shakes my head in disbelief - letting good farmland, that reliably produces the bounty of food a hungry world needs, go to waste. And for what? Unreliable, expensive, daytime only power to assuage the misbegotten conscience of urban greens. 200 MW....yeah, it'll actually churn that out for just a fraction of the daylight hours, only part of the year. If the local grid needed 200MW, they'd be better off with a combined cycle nat gas plant - that'll crank out 200MW, exactly, reliably 24/7/365 on only a few acres to tens of acres of foot print. The ability of renewables (solar and wind) to produce their "name plate" power output in a sustained manner (power * time = energy produced) is sadly pretty pathetic. Typical wind farms for example only generate 35% of the potential energy that their name plate rating indicates. Compare and contrast to conventional power, where they're typically north of 90% of their potential, and much of that missed potential is due to scheduled maintenance. Of course, with that solar, they'll still need the nat gas plant in warm spinning reserve since solar is so unreliable. For example, what will happen to the output when your normal summertime thunderstorm (or even puffy clouds) shades out the sun? You can certainly speak to that from your lived experience as the neighbor of the proposed location. The output will be slashed to but a fraction of what it was only a few minutes earlier - hence the need for warm spinning reserve to pick up the slack on literally minutes notice. Further, I'd suggest asking what that derecho would have done to a solar plant like that which is proposed. Those panels are more or less sails - catch them with some 100+ MPH winds (especially if said wind came from the north to catch the high side of the panels tilted to face south) and oh my goodness. I have to imagine the additional destruction from debris of demolished structures was bad enough - now add who knows how many more pieces of debris to the mayhem. I shudder at the thought. The only reliable thing that solar plant will generate is taxpayer subsidies for the owners - nothing else. The rest of you will get stuck with the bill for that....and the decommissioning costs in 20 years when all those shiny panels are broken down, rusting monuments to the foolishness of the current generation of power policy "experts".
What we do we run around same amount of cows we use called a clean up bull have to 2 bulls in the field to keep one from falling behind
here in NW Ont. Canada you drive the country roads, and about every mile or 2 you see a big long rack of solar panels on the edge of farm fields with cows around them. i have a video up showing them. on the closest hydro pole to them you see a hydro meter and cables running up the pole hooking on to the 3 phase lines that have always been there, about 15 years ago they came to me wanting me to put in a ground solar system, that would cost me $160,000 and they sign a 10 year contract at $0.65 per kwh. sure it sounded good until i asked why only 10 years, i was told if i replace the panels after 10 years they will re-new my contract at what ever the new payout rate is for another 10 years, this is because the life of solar panels are 10 year, after 10 years you lost over 30% output or more, and at that loss it not profitable for ether side, there some sheep farms here that have many rows of annals on ground racks with sheep feeding in and around them. in the city the big malls have systems set up on there flat roofs. from what i have heard the pay out rate is well over the $0.65 per kwh now, i had also asked how can you pay out $0.65 per kwh when the highest hydro rate we pay per kwh is $0.12 at peek times and at off times $0.05 per kwh, they said the save on building and maintenance of new power generating plants. but we have so many big rivers and lake, as we are known as the land of a 1000 lakes, and with in 100 miles of me there only 5 water generating station, when there could be a whole lot more, there also about 12 privit owner of small water generation unit around me, all of these are on rivers that run into the largest of the great lakes in town
Hey Ryan don't feel alone the state I live in is virginia and they did the same thing with the solar deal they took good farm land and put that junk in them .also removing acres upon acres of trees to then to install solar panels it's a complete joke .
He is not the steer of the year, now he is ready to go to the Senate.
Really enjoy the cattle videos, we're AI-ing our cows this weekend, hopefully we'll have a bunch of babies in November
How many years has the bull been in? If your cow/half ratio has normally been well prior years and this year its dismal, there is a chance the bull injured himself during breeding. Hopefully everything gets sorted. Stay Safe & Healthy. God Bless.
That’s a heck of an idea build them over Walmart I agree with you I’m sorry you you are having to deal with that
Them ladies be swipin left on that bull
when I visited Hawaii a lot of the parking lots had solar power panels as you were describing
Can work cattle without a corral failure! I like your views on that solar farm. We are loosing land to windmills here
As I can understand your concern, I wouldn't want that eye sore next to me either. However it would be nonsense to try to put panels on small buildings. There are so many reasons they belong on the ground. The car port idea could work, but would cost a fortune.
Actually, the cost would increase by only a few cents on the watt. Solar power cost per watt has decreased over $.70 in just the last few years. It can be done cheaply in comparison.
@@HowFarmsWork I can agree with that....... Hope your staying warm!!
Was the bull tested before being put with the cows? If he was ok maybe he got injured or this to me sounds like it couldve had trichomoniasis. Maybe it could be a good practice to preg check 2 months after the bull was taken out. This way if you do have problems you can get another bull, late calves are better than no calves for sure.
Imagine a 800 bull I had already caught in the shoot during an ice storm was trying too put the nose pliers on him then the shoot just opens and we stare at each other for a moment he backs up thank god and I lunge for the gate lever. Got him but think I peed a little.
It’s about 1:30 am I live I farm and just remembered I have work.😂
Round them up with a skid loader I've seen it all that's funny but safer🤠😁🐃 that was a good video Ryan👍
Hey Ryan speaking from experience back when I farmed I had a Bull first year I had him I had all kinds of calves the next year it was hit or miss, cost me a lot of money. Good luck and stay safe 👍
I like your idea
Put two Hereford bulls on those black cows. You’ll have more calf vigor higher weaning weights and calmer calves.
That what we always do!!
But they wouldn't be angus then would they?
We've had issues in cold temperature s with hereford calves they aren't as hardy and we had death loss like crazy. This was about 25 years ago and we went to straight Black Angus and we lost 3 calves in 25 years now we have 3 Black Angus bulls, Two of them are semen checked at 85% and the best one is at 97%
Man that crazy ones gonna be really pissed when you're finished with it.
I agree with your take on the Solar project. No common sense. Only $$$. On the water system try to put a permanent blow off on the inlet and outlet with ball valves and make it a routine to blow them out every month. Thanks for the video.
At 13:14, I mean wasn't my first thought but.
Nice video, as always, Ryan.
There is a large solar project in construction in my county. It is around 1,400 acres give or take a few acres. I'm hearing talks of some others as well. Hopefully they dont happen. We have enough housing growth happen and loosing land left amd right to that. Im in southern middle Tenneesee and north Alabama.
Lincoln county??
@@tomharrington1393 yes sir
I like that they resurrected a gas fired power plant that burned down many years ago in ny. The gas line was there. Some of the power lines were replaced, but the right of way was still there. They used a farmers field with Matt's on top to store all the pieces a mile away. Since it's been running he must have plowed up that field (compaction), fertilized and grew corn 🌽 this year. They also paid him some rent I think. Yes I have seen solar farms in fields. I say it's the transmission lines that affect your health and your farm. If one of those transmission lines (high tension) would fall to the ground and start a brush fire 🔥 in the dry summer. How much would you loose. Would insurance cover it? Would insurance go up. Second link will be blancorillio about california and the camp fire. Watch that too.
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We hear all the time that farming doesn't make money. If the land is more valuable as farmland, it would be used as farmland. When it becomes worth more as housing, it gets built on. Electrical power generation has been problematic since it's inception. Everybody wants power but nobody wants the power production facility near them. A solar farm seems like it might be a good neighbor. Nobody to complain about the smell, noise or farm equipment on the roads. Nobody driving to work creating more traffic. No loud noises. Seems like the only better neighbors would be a cemetery. There are many worse things that could be there like a large dairy, cattle or hog raising facility. If solar energy doesn't pan out, the panels can be removed and the land is still open for farming.
We had a similar issue-- thought it was the bull.. ended up being a very dominant cow that thought she was a bull and kept the bull from breeding.. got rid of that one cow-- and the bull did his job quite well..
I saw your 4020 and I was wondering where your breather was that I haven't 4020 and your breezer stacks not there it was another video the last one you put out thank you I am really video
Good stuff Ryan, like Your new yellow cattle driver:):):)
1 bull for 39 cows? Maybe I was mistaken. What about a pre purchase exam which includes a full evaluation and sperm check?
"Checking out The Bull " now that will be a great video !
I the idea 💡of building solar energy where it is used.
My uncle showed me how he would burn a young calf s horns with a special tool called the''horn burner''!
You should put in a new bull in May and have early spring calving next year
Lets put solar in a place that snows! Its brilliant and will still produce power! ...
Not.....
Roof tops, buildings, car parks, all thats needed. Also, need to power banks to store the power as nighttime and snow drastically cut it.