Big Changes For Our Farm (150)
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- In this week's video, I'm discussing a few exciting things going on our farm. New cooperative, brand partnership, and expansion project at Cows & Co!
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My name is Piet van Bedaf, together with my wife and my parents, we own and operate a family dairy farm in North Dakota. We are originally from the Netherlands, and immigrated to Canada first and then the United States in 2008. Subscribe and follow along to see the ins and outs of a modern day dairy farm!
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Yes interested in a plant tour Piet. Noticed quite a few more red calves in the calf barn,are you using more red bulls? Congrats on the dairy milk move, and look forward to the future with Supreme as well.
We're not using more red bulls, just a coincidence that we have a few together in the same time period.
WOW! Huge changes on the farm. When one door closes, another one usually opens up. Great work ya'll. Absolutely interested in a bottle plant tour.
Thank you!
We had a neighbor the last few years he milked cows he sold his milk to bongards. He always mentioned they were extremely nice to work with and did pay better. We do use there sliced cheese for cooking and it is good stuff.
Far as the dfa not working out… im guessing that had to do with river view dairy being ampi was previously involved. They supply a large portion of ampi’s production
Hopefully we have the same experience with Bongards!
Great news, glad you were able to get in with Bongards , also glad of the Supreme sponsorship. Looks like there is relief in all your concerns. Congratulations and best wishes here on and forward.
And more so....thank you for feeding us.
Thank you!
I used to haul powdered milk from northern Iowa and the plant there always had cheese curds, always very good.
Really looking forward to a plant tour. That would be awesome.👍
Exciting stuff for your whole family. Looking forward to the plant trip. Well kept dairy!!! Thanks for posting
Thank you!
I have been buying Bongards cheese for a while now really good, We have some large Riverview dary farms around here i believe their milk goes to Perham too.
Hey Piet, really enjoy your channel. Keep the videos coming, thx...
Congrats on all the great news! Look forward to a milk plant tour.
Oh wow exciting stuff happing at Your Dairy! I would love to see a video of where the milk is processed. I wish You all the very best in the new company that is buying Your milk! Hope it’s a real good very long relationship!! Congrats on Your Supreme TMR mixing wagon sponsor! That’s awesome! The dealership where I worked was a Supreme dealer and it is very nice, well built TMR wagon for sure! That’s also exciting news that Your Sister’s Creamery is expanding! All kinds of good news! Thanks for sharing that all with us Piet! 👍👍
Thank you!
Congratulations on your customer 'upgrade' and good luck with that. It is amazing to see the changes in the distribution of millions of gallons of milk and wonder how the market can adjust to that.
You may know the 99-cents Only retail chain recently closed all their stores (371 stores) and I shopped there. Their milk was $3.60/gal, while the next cheapest was $4.99 in our area, more likely $5.99/gal and above. So they went thru a lot of milk, and I was wondering how their supplier could adjust to that. But there is a store now selling at $3.80/gal so that may be where their supply went. Somehow the market adjusted very quickly as the notice and store closings was very quick.
You are correct, the market moves very quickly!
Good for you guys on the farm everybody works hard to make everything look good and very productive congratulations on your sponsor
Thank you!
Sounds like exciting times. Good job, and thanks for sharing your farm!
Thank you!
Congratulations!!! Nice job putting that deal together. Exciting times at Van BeDaf Dairy and Cows and Co.
Amie and Tim.
Yes…a plant tour would be great.
Wow big changes on your farm! Yes to the plant tour. Maybe follow the milk truck to the plant and then follow the process to the end product. A plant tour of the feed wagon company would be interesting. Keep the video's coming.
Good news Piet on your new market for your milk. I think a tour of the new processing plant would be of interest. I have been a long time viewer of your videos and appreciate the attention you give to detail and maintaining quality. You are successful because of your attention to detail.
Thank you!
Good to hear you've gotten with a partner that is providing a longer term business relationship with you. From time to time I pickup some of your fluid milk at Brew Halla - I appreciate the difference in the milk taste. Like watching your business progress, you're good people.
Thank you!
I imagine you’re aware of Riverview dairy possibly building a couple large dairy’s near Fargo. Would that have an impact on your farm?
I'm not expecting it to have a short term impact, but it could be positive long term for us. North Dakota lacks milk processing, we need more cows to attract processing to the state.
Awesome 👍
Love to see tour of your new milk receiving plant.
Hi Piet!! Beautiful farm!! You're very knowledgeable and a great narrator! Great news for the farm .
Thank you!
Love your vids i learn so much. Keep it coming !! Well done on an excellent operation you have going it is very inspiring.
Thank you!
Great job
Love all the red and white calf’s
Congratulions Piet
Sucess in my company Milk.
Thank you!
Oh nice Wetaskiwin that’s in our area of the woods
I’ve toured there facility Took some pictures And they got me to erase them
Any factory tour would be great!!
Another great video !!! Plant tour would be great. Keep up the good work and Good Luck in the future.
Thank you!
Maybe it is an idea to supply to supermarkets youself. Proces it your self, bottle it yourself and drive it to the supermarkets your self...you will get a higher price...and its a shame of them that they didnt even talked to you while you made them rich in 15 years
They already do. Although on a small scale. Their A2A2 milk is available at Brew Halla.
@@barrychouinard4019 i have not seen Jerseys only holsteins
Processing all of our own milk is a distant future goal! It's a misconception that the colored breeds are mainly a2a2 and holsteins are not. Jerseys can be a1a2 also. About 80% of our herd that's been tested is a2a2, we have 3 100% a2a2 pens that supply cows & Co with a2a2 milk.
Glad to hear you had a better option than DFA. In our experience with them, if you weren't one of their pets you got treated pretty poorly.
Had the same experience DFA. When I was still milking.
@@kevinanderson89 it seems like DFA doesn't really want to be in the milk processing business
Most definitely
I think you have a great diary farm,like your videos. If you need any help let me know, I want to see you be successful.
Thank you!
The milk plant Expansion yes to make room for all the milk from Riverview farms
Riverview will help fill the expansion, but it won't be the majority of additional milk.
Bongards is probably gonna be getting milk from the 2 new river view dairies in nd 40k cows. Nelson creamery is popular same area mn as another option
Bongards receives a percentage of their milk from riverview daries, it's likely these new daries will ship to riverviews own processing plant that's going to be built.
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 they said more then likely perham
Bongard's is terrific! Great products
Good luck with the new milk buyer,how far is your milk trucked now?
About 3 hours from the farm.
Very interesting comment. Good luck. Would be interested in a tour.
Congrats Pete
Hi Piet. I would very much like to see the plant you are talking about.
Plant tour would be nice to see
Great video Piet, can’t wait for the milk plant tour, do you have any health issues with the calves on straw? What is the red bull you’re using. Cheers 🇦🇺
No, our are doing good on straw. We are currently using Havefun-Red as our red sire.
Great projects ans impressive farm Piet
Thank you!
I likely bottled your milk, or made sure the machines were running to bottle your milk! that cass clay plant is a dumpster fire, lotta gotta folks there, but when I was there boilers were about shot, just a shotty building and no space for expansion all they seemed to care about was their yogurt line and some big spendy machine from across seas. France I think?
Btw I live in NE nodak now. Be cool if that little creamery could supply the local area. Plenty would buy in to that!
Our goal is to expand our fluid milk sales across the state!
Hi Piet. Well, wasn't that a "Supreme Video" today !! he he Sounds like you inked a good deal to ship milk out, yes?? Well Done. The farm does really good production and has the numbers to prove it, so they speak for themselves. You just needed to right group to come in a see the potential I think, and they did and now everybody wins !!
Yeah, I'd like to see a site tour of the milk processing. We see where the milk is made, now we should see where it goes, and what happens to it when it leaves the farm.
My Papa pastors a church in Wetaskiwin, in the middle of a field. Been there for twenty plus years now.
I suppsoe the creamery needs to get the enclosed spaces done, sooner than later, right? Before we know it, it will be winter once again !! Booooo.
Thanks for the comment! They're on schedule to have the exterior finished before winter, hopefully that's still a couple of months away!
nice piet de kalvers binnen ,niceeee
Beautiful R&W heifers mate! Who are they sired by?
Watching from Western Australia 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you! Their sire is Rebel-Red 507ho15825
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 thanks for replying mate, keep up the great content 👌🏼
As Cows and Co seems to be expanding rapidly is there any expressing of concern by your coop buyers about your being in competiton ( even on such a small scale ) with them?
No, they are excited about Cows & Co! We're not in direct competition, we make small scale artisan products.
Great channel, how many cows are you milking. Thank you
We are milking around 1600 cows.
Dfa did you a good service by not getting back to you 😅
Hey Piet, goed overwogen keuze. Ik zie de positieve kriebels op je gezicht..😂 Heb je dan aandelen gekocht van die melkerij? Ik wil mee op plant tour... supreme zal supergoed zijn maar ik blijf bij mijn Peecon😅 groetjes uit Loenhout...
We hoefden geen aandelen te kopen. Peecon maakt ook en goede mixer!
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Do you haul your own milk to the plant
We work with a local trucking company, they haul milk and feed for us.
😊سلام.صحتك.بخير
Maybe buy your own trucks
We work with a local trucking company on milk and feed hauling, we have a good relationship with them.
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can you feed fresh.grass???? or is that te intensief ???
niks beter as vers gras !!!
It's difficult to grow grass in our climate. This summer has been wet, but we're typically too dry to grow consistent grass.
@@pietvanbedaf-nddairyfarmer9047 thats the reason , ok thats i forgot .then you have feed like you do this way. nothing better then fresh grass and ,,bleu,, hay
DFA is horrible as a whole.
Beaucoup d'éleveurs peuvent prendre exemple pour la propreté. 🧹