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Wheeling Dairy Farmer
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Educational videos detailing operations on a dairy farm from the perspective of a wheelchair user.
Oh Crap! We cut Hay and it is Going to Rain
We harvest our first crop of alfalfa haylage and I show how it gets to the bunker with some up close views of the process.
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Oh Crap! How Our Manure Gets From the Cow to the Field
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I explain how the manure on our farm gets from the cow to the field. We also had a mishap and the drone took a dive into the manure. It was messy but survived.
Oh Crap! The Pumpkin Exploded!
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We relieve stress by blowing up a couple pumpkins. We also relieve stress by other less destructive methods. Let's all work together to help farmers relieve some stress. This video is dedicated to Randy James and all other farmers who have left this profession and earth by their own hand. We miss them.
Oh Crap! Someone Wants to Swim in the Manure Dumpster
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I am giving a tour and explanation of the manure application using our trucks
Oh Crap! I Can't Drag The Hose! Gotta Get the Poop Flowing
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Laying out the manure pumping hose and dragging it under the highway.
Dirt is Flying Two tractors in the Field
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Spring tillage is in full gear so we have two tractors preparing the field for planting the crop.
Oh Crap! The dumpster is empty.
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Hauling manure to a remote location with the trucks. Dumping into the dumpster and pumping the manure from there.
Wheeling Dairy Farmer Seeding Alfalfa
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We start seeding alfalfa to be used in the future as hay to feed our cows
Wow! That is Where Cheese Comes From
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An educational video documenting a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Scenes highlight operations of growing and storing the feed crops for the animals along with recycling the animal waste nutrients back to the soil for next years crops.
Wheeling Dairy Farmer Harvesting Soybeans
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Cool drone footage of the combine harvesting soybeans in Wisconsin. For amazing footage of combines harvesting wheat check out @TrevorStruthers
Walking View of the Manure Application Equipment
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Closeup view of the manure application equipment with description of it's use.
Manure Application Equipment - A short Overview
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A short overview of the equipment used in the application of manure to a field in close proximity to the farm.
Manure Application Through a Hose
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Applying manure using a hose directly from the pit to the field
Hi, Bruce. Great video! Does your farm also put up dry hay later in the season? If so, do you use hay rakes and tedders then? You have a nice farm and top notch equipment! Six generations is a very long time! Your family should be very proud.
We round bale a little hay later in the summer. Thank you for your compliment and I am glad you enjoy the video.
Cool process. Thanks for sharing!
I am glad you enjoyed it
I wish we had one of those mowers for our tractor. Good to hear you got your pc issues solved.
They really are cool. It requires a front pto on the tractor. Ours is a Claas brand. In perfect conditions we can travel at 15 mph.
The battery falling out maybe helped you save the drone. Dang lucky.
I cannot believe a cow didn't step on the drone. It was laying right under the feet of at least three cows. Very lucky indeed.
286 views with only 248 subscribers means you did really well with this one. It's a slow burn but you are doing it.
Thanks I enjoy making the videos.
What part of Wisconsin are you in
East central Wisconsin
I'm in Rib Lake, WI
Thanks for the ride along, good video.
You are welcome. I am glad you enjoy the video.
At three minutes that shows how beautiful it is there. Thanks also for the mention of suicide. You never know.
It is beautiful here in a different way from your area. Our farm borders a state forest. 12,000 acres of forest and wild land. My good friend's son took his life about a year ago. His parents will never be the same. All I can do is be here for them. Thanks
Nice. That is a big pumpkin. 300lbs of pumpkin is how many lbs of the boom juice.
8 lbs for 300 lbs 10 for 400 lbs.
incredible!
Thank you. I hope you enjoyed it.
3:18 I laughed out loud when the manure landslide obviously startled your camera girl there for a second.
She is a real sweetheart. Definitely not afraid to poke her nose in not so pleasant places. As you can imagine the smell is pretty strong around the manure areas.
Thanks for the video Bruce. That thing with the motor to the left of the dumpster looks like part of a concrete pump truck. Why is it so tall? Is it to create pressure in its descent? Or why is the pump mast gotta be so tall if you are not pumping it uphill? I used to drive a concrete conveyor truck and it just looks like part of a concrete pump truck.
While watching the video I realized it was most likely so it wouldnt flow backwards through the hose when you shut it off.
The boom on the pump truck is actually not connected to any hose right now. We built the truck in our shop and don't have it completed yet. It is meant to hold the suction hose when parked next to the pit at the farm. Right now it is just used to hold the remote control antenna which allows the applicator operator in the field to control the the motor on the high pressure pump. When the dumpster gets empty he has to shut the pump down so it does not run dry. Burns the seals out. I should have explained that better. Thanks fore asking
@@WheelingDairyFarmer ypu are explaining it now! Another great video. Ty bruce
Hey Bruce, if you don't mind me asking what happened that you're wheelchair bound were you born that way or just a freak accident happened.
I was in an auto accident 41 years ago. Spinal cord injury. Always happy to explain what happened and teach other wheelchair users. Thanks
@WheelingDairyFarmer thank you for explaining not many like talking about those incidents. I know 10 years before I was born, my aunt got pinned between two tractors trying to pull start the other and it popped off right away and climbed the back of the one in front she's some what fine has back pains from it at times
Thanks! Great drone footage!
Thank you
Very informative,thanks for the video.
Thank you. I am glad you like it
I like the video but damn the music drather hear the semi going down the road
Thank you for the comment. I am still learning and will take that into consideration
That is just my opinion thank u for reply
Is the Quad trac new this year? Have not seen that one around the farm.
It has not been around the farm before. We are just borrowing it. Thanks for watching
Great video. My only suggestion would be to lose the music
Thank you I will take that into consideration
Very interesting and a good video. What is a typical application rate with liquid manure? Thanks.
We are permitted to apply 8,000 gallons per acre. We usually apply less depending on the field.
New subscriber. Brilliant video 💪🏻 🏴
Thank you. Did you like the information content or the video style
@WheelingDairyFarmer all the above 🫡 I was farming up until my accident. 120/140. This is a incredible outfit. All the best 💪🏻
@@lordofhowell7158 Thank you
At 5:00 what are you guys doing with that pit you're digging? Mining for gold or something?
There was a pretty steep hill and hole there. A local road construction project needed a place to dump some fill so they stripped the top soil off and dumped several hundred loads of fill into the hole. It is now covered over and seeded. Much easier to farm now.
I thought it was a gravel pit.
@@kevinkoepke8311 Nope we are just making farming a bit easier in that spot.We live in the Kettle Moraine area and that is in geologic terms a Kettle. Thanks
@@WheelingDairyFarmer oh thats pretty smart. I wish we could do that but it would take too much dirt.
You would need a LOT of dirt for youe hills:-)
lol. lay out some hose and pump some poo. The voice over part was perfect. It sounds good and you didn't make it sound like it was only for dairy farmers. I think everyone will be interested in this stuff.
Thanks Trevor I am getting more comfortable with the voice overs.
STEP ONE TO FOOD ON THE TABLE!
Yes Thanks
kill the music too loud
Thanks for the reply. I will take it into consideration
Congrats Bruce. I told you your videos would be a hit. Give it some time. Great things! BTW your intro about your dairy sounds loud and not very high quality compared to the rest of the voice over.
Trevor Thanks I will redo the whole sequence. Thank you for your support.
What do you use on the cows's beds? Not sand, right?
We use the dried solids from the manure for bedding. It is treated with a probiotic to avoid unwanted pathogens in the composted solids. Sand is not a good bedding material.
@@WheelingDairyFarmer sand its the BEST Bed for cows's confort, if its well worked and moved you dont have any pathogen either. Where i live, people has used diferent systems, but everyone backs to sand
Thanks for the reply. We find sand is very hard on the pumping and hauling equipment. Also settles out in the manure pit. There are pros and cons to every method. Thanks again
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Great video, I really enjoy seeing all the red tractors working. Where are you located in WI?
We are in East Central Wisconsin. Love the red.
I'm enjoying watching your video's, (along with many others farming ones on TH-cam,) you haven't said how much land your farm? I live in Wisconsin as well, right in the middle of the state about 3 hours from you, (it took a few minutes to find you!) your land looks more productive than we have here, my wife inherited the family farm in Wisconsin years ago, the crop land is rented out and we just manage the forestry side. I have been in farming all my working life on my farm in England, we had dairy way back in the 60's / 70's but moved to beef cattle, I retired from farming when I moved to America, "Living the dream" out and about on the back roads in our motor home whenever we get chance! but I miss the work and the challenges on the farm everyday (but not the constant challenge to make a profit!) For the time being we still have the farm in England which my son runs, making money from it is getting harder and harder with the cost of inputs, believe me costs here are a lot, lot lower then in England! looking forward to the next video's.
Thank you for watching and welcome fellow Wisconsinite. Our land is not the most productive in the state but we do the best we can with what we have. We have lots of stones that cause a lot of maintenance on equipment. I'll keep posting new videos
Smoothest seed bed I've ever seen
We like to get it nice for alfalfa. These fields are pretty nice ground. We have some with a lot of rocks that don't look as nice.
Hello fellow wisconsinite
Wisconsin is a great place
@WheelingDairyFarmer yes sir that it is don't really care to leave it much anymore
@@Thegrim326 I agree
Great video, thank you for the explanation. When I was growing up, we used manure spreaders.😊
Thank you We still have a manure spreader on the farm. I'll show more in future videos
Ah the smell of cows
A lot of folks don't like the smell but we get used to it and like it.
Great information
Thank you. Glad you appreciate it
Too bad the barn fell down there .
It has been in that condition for many years.
Thanks, Bruce! I would like to see how the manure is collected and moved to the pond.
That is a video that will definitely be coming. Thanks for asking.
I've been watching your videos, very informative. I've never seen this type of manure spreading. I'm from a farming family that has been farming in ohio for over a century. Thanks!
Thank you! This is the way larger dairy farms manage their manure. Compress the dry matter out and haul the liquid to be incorporated into the soil.
We drag harrow after we plant peas to help cover it a bit better as well.
The interesting thing is that JTI sells McFarland drag harrows which are made in a small town in Wisconsin. Same one we use.
@@WheelingDairyFarmer lol. Thats pretty cool.
I watched it before, but I will watch it all the way through to help with the metrics! So will my sweetheart. I love seeing this doing well. I knew it would.
Thank you
Some good views on this one!
Trevor Thanks
It's really interesting to learn about a completely different type of farming activity than what I see the farmers in our area doing. If you ever do a video about cow breeding strategies (like how you breed for the quality of cows you need) and also how calving works and stuff like that, I'm very interested to learn more. I've been tagging along with Trevor's boss to learn about those things with the red Angus herds.
I will work on that. Thanks for the questions . There are two strategies right now in dairy breeding. One is to cross breed with small beef so the calves are smaller and put less stress on the cow to maximize milk production. Other is to maximize genetics by breeding with the best bulls. With 1,200 cows we have 3 calves a day but I am not sure if the calving process would be an acceptable video on TH-cam. I'll think on that. I'll talk to my nephew who is the herd manager to get you more information.
Very cool footage! Trevor and I did some post-harvest hand harvesting of the remaining garbs in one of his boss's fields last year and it was really interesting to see the legume crops up close at that life cycle stage. I'm more familiar with the wild legumes (my background is in wild grassland restoration) and we had a lot of cool wild legumes (mostly lupines) at our prairie sites that would make really fun sounds like popcorn when their pods dried up and the seeds burst out. I'm assuming soy has been selectively bred to NOT have the seeds burst from the pods once they are at this harvest stage?
Thanks for the question. Soybeans are bred to keep the beans in the pod. The field in the video had gotten 8 inches of snow dumped on it a few weeks earlier. It knocked the plants down but did not shell the beans. They are bred to drop their leaves but hold the pods. I love legumes. We have our alfalfa which is so important in our crop rotation and feed stock.
Thank you for the walk around! I like that your vanna white is helping so much. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Thanks. I will get more with her in the future. They will start pumping on Monday.
ahh. The top down drone view. I think the machine looks super cool from that angle but i think its because ive seen every other angle while running them. Good video!
Thanks Trevor. I am sure this one is boring for you.
@@WheelingDairyFarmer It lacks the views I am used to, and perhaps the danger of some the land I drive them on. Still I love seeing other places and them farming there.
The answers to my burning hose questions! Thank you for sharing this! Looking forward to more! I got to go do a tour of red Angus calving herds with Trevor’s boss earlier this month. Learning about cow breeding, calving, biology, etc. was very interesting. If you make videos about that kind of stuff I’d love to see them!
That will be my focus in the future
Sustainable agriculture at its finest! Re-using the poop to make the food to make the poop to make the food. The circle of life.
Good point Trevor. Unfortunately not everyone sees manure application as a benefit to the soil. Thanks for the comment.
@@WheelingDairyFarmerWe are going to get some red Angus manure soon from Trevor’s boss! I’m turning our yard into a mini-farm this year. Vegetables, native wildflowers, etc.
I am also stunned by the length of this manure hose! When your farm orders it from the manufacturer, how on Earth do you get it to the farm?!?! Does it come in pieces? Or is there a massive semi truck trailer that has the most unbelievably large cinnamon roll of a hose strapped to it that this world has ever seen?!?!?! Also, do you have to store it out of the elements during winter? Is there any risk of the manure freezing and expanding enough to burst the hose? (Who knew I would have so many questions about a hose!)
The hose collapses like a fire hose so it lays flat. It comes on a spool when we buy it. It is rubberized fabric. We actually blow out the hose every night. We insert a foam ball and hook up an industrial air compressor to pressurize the hose and push the ball through clearing the hose. We cannot let manure freeze in the equipment. Looks like I need another video. Thanks
Im here to watch it a second time and i still cant believe how long of a hose you have. Thats crazy and very interesting.
Glad you enjoy it. You will have to get out here to see it sometime.