Regenerative Farming at Ballymullin Farm
Regenerative Farming at Ballymullin Farm
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New Zealand Dairy Farm | Planting a Mixed Summer Crop for Stock Grazing
Today, Lance is using the Massey Ferguson Seed Drill to sow our first Summer Crop Mix. The Crop is planted now (in mid spring) to be grazed by our cows in late summer/ early autumn. The mix includes 23 different species listed below. This is a great opportunity for us to move away from our usual mono crop of turnips and add more diversity in our permanent pastures and into the cows diet.
Cocksfoot
Prairie Grass
Fescue
Digby Rye Grass
Advantage Tetraplod
Rocket Italian Ryegrass
Fascinate Annual Italian
Phalaris
Timothy
Plantain
Chicory
White Clover Double Blend
Red Clover Double Blend
Oats
Peas
Sunflowers
Phacelia
Vetch
Daikon Radish
Kale
Spitfire Rape
Millet
Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazing kids and as a family we are trying to live a slow, self-sufficient lifestyle, growing much of our own food off our small farm and homestead.
We have owned our small dairy farm in Taranaki, New Zealand for 7 years. This year is the start of our journey to begin to transform our farm with regenerative practices.
We look forward to sharing our journey with you as we take our next steps into regenerative agriculture and our food growing endeavors. We'd love it if you subscribed to our channel, liked our videos and leave us a comment.
You can also follow us on
Facebook and Instagram @Ballymullin_farm
Lance also shares his Ferguson and Massey Ferguson tractors and implements on Facebook and Instagram @ferguson_nz
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Farm Vlog | Sheep Shearing and Effluent Spreading
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The weather is starting to warm up so it’s time to get the sheep shorn to help them feel more comfortable over the summer months. Matt Denson and his crew from 100 to 1 Mobile Farming spend the morning on the farming shearing our small flock of sheep. We have a mixed flock of Arapawa (a New Zealand heritage breed), Suffolk and Texel. We use the wool from the sheep as mulch for our vegetable gar...
Using our Vintage Ferguson Weeder for our Spray Free Potato Crop
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Lance is getting out his old Ferguson implements today to get our crop of potatoes weeded. Here, at Ballymullin Farm we grow a spray free crop of potatoes for our local community. The Massey Ferguson 35 and the Massey Ferguson Weeder work perfectly to pull small weeds to the surface where they can be scorched by the sun. We find that after weeding the ridges are left in a bit of a mess so it’s ...
Improving our Pastures with Multi-species Summer Crop
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We’re really looking forward to creating more diversity in our pastures by introducing different pasture species. The seed for our planned “Soil Connection” summer crop has arrived and in this video Lance explains what plant species we are using and the reason why we are wanting these plants in our pastures. Greg Barkley Soil Connection www.soilconnection.net Charlotte and Russell Heald are New...
Using the Ferguson Seed Drill to Under Sow after Calving
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Today Lance did some more undersowing with the Ferguson 732 multipurpose seed drill. The goal is to create more diversity in our pastures by increasing the number of pasture species. He undersowed a mix of oats, vetch, daikon radish, chicory, and plantain into a paddock that was grazed with our dry cows. Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazing kids and as a family we are trying ...
FULL GARDEN TOUR | Spring Vegetable Garden | NEW ZEALAND
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It’s garden tour time!!! It’s spring here in New Zealand and we are excited to get our summer vegetable garden planted. We still need to wait a couple of weeks before we can plant, so in the meantime we thought we would give you a tour of our garden so we can watch how it grows over the spring and summer months. Thank you so much for watching. Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five ama...
Potato Planting using Vintage Ferguson Tractors and Implements.
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Welcome to Ballymullin Farm In today’s video Lance and his dad Bernie, plant potatoes for the 2024-25 season. We grow potatoes for our own personal use as well as to sell to our local community. Lance is using the Petrol Massey Ferguson 35 with the Massey Ferguson 718 Automatic Potato Planter and Ferguson R-DE-20 ridger. Thanks for watching. Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazi...
OUR NEW ZEALAND DAIRY FARM | Episode Two | Farm Goals
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Welcome to Ballymullin Farm. Today is episode 2 of our 10 part series about our New Zealand Dairy Farm. In today’s episode we share some of our goals and aspirations we have for our farm and our family to help you understand a little bit more about us and our farming operation. In the next episode we are going to talk all about what regenerative agriculture means to us and how we are planning t...
OUR NEW ZEALAND DAIRY FARM | Episode One | Farm Facts and Figures
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Welcome to Ballymullin Farm. Today is episode 1 of our 10 part series about our New Zealand Dairy Farm. In today’s episode we share some of our facts and figures to help you understand a little bit more about us and our farming operation. In the next episode we are going to talk all about our farm goals and our plans for the future. Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazing kids a...
Feeding New Born Lamb on the Farm
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These lambs are the most interesting breed of sheep we have had born on the farm. They are from an Arapawa Mum and will also have a mix of Suffolk and possible Texel. In today’s video, we share a few tips on feeding new born lambs. Arapawa sheep a rare New Zealand Breed of sheep that were discovered on the Arapaoa Island in the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. We don’t have a preference for t...
Vintage Cream Separator and Making Butter
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Today, we are using our Lister Cream Separator to separate cream to make butter. Our goal is to be more self sufficient in our food, and although we’ve made butter in the past it’s not something that we’ve done consistently. We aim to make enough butter this spring to freeze for use throughout the year. Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazing kids and as a family we are trying t...
Unboxing Fertile Chicken Eggs for Our Brinsea 24 Maxi Incubator
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It's always exciting when a package arrives! Today our fertilised eggs arrived from Chick and Egg (see below). We are so excited to keep building our flock with different breeds of chicken that will lay a mixture of different rainbow coloured eggs. This time we are filling our incubator with 4 breeds; White Leghorn (White eggs), Olive Eggers (Olive Eggs), Lavender Araucana (Pale Blue/Green Eggs...
How to Teach a Calf to Feed: New Zealand Dairy Farm
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Today we are teaching our new calves how to feed on our Milk Bar Adlib Calf Feeders. We share some tip and strategies for those of you that are new to feeding calves. We hope you find this information helpful. Thanks for watching. Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazing kids and as a family we are trying to live a slow, self-sufficient lifestyle, growing much of our own food off...
Our Chicks are Hatching and Setting up Our Brooder Vlog
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Our Chicks are Hatching and Setting up Our Brooder Vlog
Calf Rearing on Our Regenerative New Zealand Dairy Farm
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Calf Rearing on Our Regenerative New Zealand Dairy Farm
Kiwi Seed Haul and Garden Vlog
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Kiwi Seed Haul and Garden Vlog
Regenerative Farming - Sowing Multispecies Pasture with Ferguson Tractor and Implement
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Regenerative Farming - Sowing Multispecies Pasture with Ferguson Tractor and Implement
Finding the Positives - Farm and Garden Vlog
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Finding the Positives - Farm and Garden Vlog
My Favourite Tomato Varieties and Soil Blocking for the First Time - New Zealand
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My Favourite Tomato Varieties and Soil Blocking for the First Time - New Zealand
Renovating Pug-damaged Pastures on Ballymullin Farm
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Renovating Pug-damaged Pastures on Ballymullin Farm
Planting a Cover Crop using Vintage Massey Ferguson Tractor and Implements
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Planting a Cover Crop using Vintage Massey Ferguson Tractor and Implements
Gardening Experiment: Starting Tomatoes in Autumn
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Gardening Experiment: Starting Tomatoes in Autumn
Autumn Garden Jobs: Planting Carrots and Peas
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Autumn Garden Jobs: Planting Carrots and Peas
Feeding ANZAC our New Highland Calf
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Feeding ANZAC our New Highland Calf
Welcoming a New Highland Calf onto the Farm
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Welcoming a New Highland Calf onto the Farm
Our New Vortex Effluent Bladder
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Our New Vortex Effluent Bladder
Unloading the Tow and Fert
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Unloading the Tow and Fert
Starting our Regenerative Farming Journey with a Tow and Fert
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Starting our Regenerative Farming Journey with a Tow and Fert
It’s Garlic Planting Time!
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It’s Garlic Planting Time!
Moving Towards our Sustainibilty Goals: Soil Testing on Our New Zealand Dairy Farm
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Moving Towards our Sustainibilty Goals: Soil Testing on Our New Zealand Dairy Farm

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  • @kiwikid1
    @kiwikid1 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love Agee jars. There are a lot of different types of lids through Perfit seal. We have been preserving with Agee jars for many years and have never brought new jars. I even have Agee brown jars for pickled onions.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Awesome. Thank you for watching.

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    can you show us a follow up of the flat bladder and that was a interesting story about your sheep thanks

  • @mynameis123456ish
    @mynameis123456ish 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool to see older equipment put to work. I'd love to have a set up like this one day, contractors bills can add up over the years

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s been a really good way for us to help keep our costs low. We try and do as much of our own as we can and the vintage gear is all pretty cheap and easy to fix.

  • @BraxtonWitteveen
    @BraxtonWitteveen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    would be awesome to see all the machines both new and old on the farm

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome. We have plans in the works for something like that. Thanks for watching. 👍

  • @plzdont6110
    @plzdont6110 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hey nice video mate, how big is your rotary shed and how long does milking take?

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks mate. It’s 30 bale but was originally 16 bale. One person milking takes about 1.5-2 hours for 230 cows.

    • @plzdont6110
      @plzdont6110 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ awesome mate i milk 160cows 16aside milking takes 1.5hr how are the girls doing production wise?.

  • @michellehanley9928
    @michellehanley9928 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So glad I found your channel. I bought a load of Kates kitchen jars and I HATE them.. over half of them dont seal. Love my Agee jars

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for your comment. It’s so nice to hear that kind of feedback. I’m hoping to make some preserving content this summer as the produce comes in from the garden.

  • @666bruv
    @666bruv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm keen to try taters under mulch, and see tillage removed from the system

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Perfect. We do that with our home garden, it’s a little more tricky on larger scale. Good luck with your crop. 👍

    • @666bruv
      @666bruv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ballymullinfarm you don't cut round bale hay?

  • @daveklooster4905
    @daveklooster4905 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's nice to see that old equipment still working.

  • @Beingmemyselfi
    @Beingmemyselfi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely to see your garden, I’m in Masterton, Wairarapa 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much for watching. 👍

  • @kveale17
    @kveale17 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've grown Liseta potatoes for a couple of years now and I really love their vigour, production and earliness. Also, just letting you know that the 'Sean's yellow' tomato is a dwarf determinate variety and you it wont do very well pruned to a single leader, so I reckon just let it grow as a bush.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome. Thanks for the advice about Sean’s Yellow. I completely missed that in the description when I bought it. 👍

  • @jorunngramvordal3940
    @jorunngramvordal3940 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for a great video. I'll be trying using wool for the first time in my garden in Norway. I got almost no soil, just sand and really need the moist retaining abilities . Not many garderners has discovered wool as a garden resource yet, but I think it will come in the future.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We really love it. 👍

  • @veetwin75
    @veetwin75 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    American machinery at its finest in the day

  • @LinksviewAcres137
    @LinksviewAcres137 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely little fergy. I have a 1954 Ferguson which I use around my little lifestyle property here in Waimate. Great little tractors

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They get lots of use here on the farm. Very handy.

  • @zerofull6936
    @zerofull6936 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing children running full of glee on the farm gives me hope for humanity. The best education they will get!

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s awesome to be able to bring them up this way. 👍

  • @trevorpearson1832
    @trevorpearson1832 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice job. Thanks for the video.👍

  • @icryostorm3727
    @icryostorm3727 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    have you tried the no-till spud way? an unroll of junk hay bale and then seed potatoes - then another bales on top..

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. That is how we like to grow potatoes in our home garden. It would be a bit tricky for us to do that on such a large scale.

  • @SurajkumarMandal-i8m
    @SurajkumarMandal-i8m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have intrested plz how to aply job your farm plz help

  • @MrZimmaframe
    @MrZimmaframe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    34:14 When was the last time you cleaned your air filter? lol 😂

  • @SurajkumarMandal-i8m
    @SurajkumarMandal-i8m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello sir

  • @robynrauna623
    @robynrauna623 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good tip about canning plums and factoring in they could be bitter if you don't add enough sugar to the syrup :) Love the tip too about canning leftover syrup from your canning sessions

  • @belleraduechel7510
    @belleraduechel7510 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting! I know the price you pay for jars is steep there due to shipping costs, but I was totally astounded at the price for Ball jars there (I'm an American)! I hadn't heard of the Agee jars, interesting to me. I've picked up some Le Parfait and Weck jars, but am scared to use them, as I am used to the lid and band system, lol. :) Also, half-pints jars are called jelly jars, not quarter. I do have some quarters, but use them for dried herbs. Jelly here is fruit juice thickened by pectin, think it may be something else there. Half-gallons are only approved for canning fruit juices. :)

    • @belleraduechel7510
      @belleraduechel7510 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, what does "op shop" stand for? I'm assuming it is the same as a thrift shop here in the US? :)

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank for your comment. Agee Jars are NZ jars that were originally made in NZ but now made in China and unfortunately ones bought today are pretty poor quality. I have found using Le Parfait awesome.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes that’s right. It stands for opportunity.

  • @beginnerinvestorforlongter3218
    @beginnerinvestorforlongter3218 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nace farm❤❤ lowly life

  • @trevorpearson1832
    @trevorpearson1832 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video.👍

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching!

  • @michellepaton6239
    @michellepaton6239 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome work guys ❤

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks Michelle. 👍

  • @travissmith2762
    @travissmith2762 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    With the ad Lib feeding, how often do you need to clean the milk feeder and lines on it, as I’m thinking of going to that next season Cheers from south Canterbury

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We don’t actually wash our calf feeders. With our old feeders we would always take them outside and leave them in the rain to wash and the sun to kill bacteria. Our new feeders are in the outside part of the shed so they are in the weather all the time. We do wash our milk tank that we use to fill the feeders.

  • @johnmartin-sg7cv
    @johnmartin-sg7cv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was good. Keep going with the rest of the series please. Very interesting

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you, that’s really great to hear!

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cheers

  • @trevorpearson1832
    @trevorpearson1832 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video.👍

  • @Jerseyhunger
    @Jerseyhunger 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the informations. Great!

  • @FamilyFarmingandFun
    @FamilyFarmingandFun 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video

  • @jadenvoshall1173
    @jadenvoshall1173 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you can make more videos of useing the tractor that will be great

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have more planned really soon. I’m pleased you enjoyed them.

  • @MrT79shakeshake
    @MrT79shakeshake 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ......I know its probably NZ/Ireland lost in Translation thing but I am 2 minutes in and I haven't seen any flat faced, inbred, badly breathing dog's ripping up the land....... anywhere.........

  • @trevorpearson1832
    @trevorpearson1832 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video. 👍

  • @plzdont6110
    @plzdont6110 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that's interesting😁i feed my calves once a day all season as i'm by myself makes it easier and it works.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I usually feed the calves on my own too. Having a simple system makes it heaps easier. Thanks for watching.

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cheers for the videos

  • @kiohaha
    @kiohaha 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:19 what a lovely mountain view in the BG. Class

  • @joevenluisoniii871
    @joevenluisoniii871 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do you hire foreign for dairy farmer ma'am?

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi there. We do not hire and staff here on our farm. Our farm is not big enough to need extra help. 👍

  • @cowboy2180
    @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great seeing your different chickens and how you set up your electric fence and also why. Looking forward to seeing the progress you make with your different coloured layers

  • @cowboy2180
    @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do you choose to keep him seperate as opposed to being in with the other calves?

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Our highland herd don’t calve at the same time as our main dairy herd so we kept him separately until he was big enough to go back into the herd.

    • @cowboy2180
      @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ballymullinfarm got you

  • @cowboy2180
    @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cute looking little guy! Aside from highlands are there any other cattle breeds you’d recommend for medium to steep land that’s had quite a few years being farmed minimally and has regenerated to bush a bit?

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi, I’m sorry but we don’t have experience will steep land, so I don’t feel like we could be of help to you there.

    • @cowboy2180
      @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ballymullinfarm that’s ok, thanks for your honesty

  • @cowboy2180
    @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really enjoyed that one, it’s cool seeing what your process is getting the little guy to feed and with milk powder prep, thanks

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching. 👍

  • @cowboy2180
    @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was a really helpful video thanks team. Excellent tips and tricks for what to do. I’m subscribing!

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cowboy2180 awesome. Thanks heaps for watching and subscribing. We appreciate it. 👍

  • @TheOne-er7nk
    @TheOne-er7nk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This must have cost millions to set up?? How did you start?

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was an existing shed on the farm. It would have probably cost us $5000 NZ to set this up including timber, gates, new calf feeding equipment. We also try to keep costs down by using things we already have around the farm. Keep in mine that this is the first time in the 20 years we've been farming that we've spent more then a few hundred dollars on our calves.

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are you once a day or twice a day

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have been working towards the goal of milking once a day for the last few years by reducing our debt level and culling for high cell count. At the moment, we milk our heifers once a day all season and we milk the rest of the herd twice a day through until the end of mating and then we go 10 and 7.

    • @lukeduke3001
      @lukeduke3001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ballymullinfarm do some farmers milk twice a day until after the peak season then change to once a day for the rest of the season

    • @lukeduke3001
      @lukeduke3001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ballymullinfarm could you do a video about twice a day versus once a day for us

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lukeduke3001 yes that’s in essence what we do but we go 10 in 7 instead of OAD.

    • @cowboy2180
      @cowboy2180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was a really helpful video thanks team. Excellent tips and tricks for what to do. I’m subscribing

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hi just curious,,, why don’t you leave the calf on the cow for 4 days until the milk is ready to go in to the vat so why not 4 days

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for your comment. To be honest we have pretty relaxed/easy systems since it’s just Lance and I on the farm. I think if we left the calves for too long there would be too many cows and calves in the paddock to manage. We find that it’s a good system because the calves get fresh gold colostrum and we don’t need to worry about keeping that seperate in storage.

  • @rebeccatiller8413
    @rebeccatiller8413 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Claire! I'm from Auckland. Loved your in depth jars talk! Brilliant information. I've actually bought some AGEE Special 500ml jars from Mitre10 a while ago and really like that size. I know what you mean about the lid and ring they provide. Really liked how you explained the difficulty there. I've just now put these jars in the canner, and because of your warning was very careful to make sure the lid stayed on the rim evenly as I fiddled getting the ring on. But all went well. So I'm hoping for a good result when they come out of the caner. Thanks for letting us know what regions have more second hand jars. I had never thought of it before. So I'll be on the look out now for second hand stores if I'm ever in the Hawkes bay area. I'm new to caning and loving the food security it brings when you know the food won't spoil if the power goes out. All the best! Rebecca

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi Rebecca. Thank you so much for your comment. I am so pleased that you found our video useful. I love canning as well and hope to provide more kiwi content about this over the summer months. Thanks for watching.

    • @rebeccatiller8413
      @rebeccatiller8413 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ballymullinfarm Thanks Claire for your nice reply. An update on my canning: I checked my AGEE 5 jars this morning after canning them yesterday. Interestingly, when I tapped the lids, three of them sounded good, and two of them sounded different. Those two had siphoned and not sealed properly once I took the rings off. I may have filled them a little too much for the type of contents I was canning, so maybe my fault. It was a raw pack Chicken meat cubed in Salsa Sauce with some raw chopped onion and no extra liquid added because the Chicken would also release it's water. But there is definitely a problem with those AGEE Lids with their Rings. So I'm going to sideline them and use better lids and rings next time. Looking forward to your next video.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rebeccatiller8413 wow that sounds delicious, it’s a pity about the lids. If you are ok with purchasing from Amazon ForJars lids are really awesome.

  • @christinebjerringc
    @christinebjerringc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love it

  • @delwynedginton9309
    @delwynedginton9309 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just discovered your channel. Great to see more kiwis putting out this sort of content. Had the same jar lid / ring niggle with Kayes Kitchen pint jars (drove me nuts and they have been relegated to storage only). Love, love, love the older Agee utility jars and have amassed lots of them from op shops and Trade Me. Love me a jar hunt. I think the quart jar you have with the detail on the bottom is an old Nescafe coffee jar.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much for watching. I haven’t tried Kates Kitchen but I haven’t heard great things. How cool is it that back in the day an old coffee jar could be reused for preserving.

  • @angelahutt4957
    @angelahutt4957 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So choice to find this NZ channel and familiar varieties and growing conditions to me! I started my dwarf tomatoes today but am soooooo tempted to start some big ones too. The peppers are already started but that is about it so far for warm season stuff.

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s awesome. Thank you for watching. It’s exciting when we get to start seeds again aye!! I’m always tempted to start way too many tomatoes.

  • @KiplingAngel1
    @KiplingAngel1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just started my spring seeds yesterday Wirth 3 varieties of tomatoes. Pink Brandywine, Cherokee purple and Artisan blush. I've also started Roselle Hibiscus, which apparently makes the most delicious jelly from the calex. As always, tons of peas and beans, pumpkins, squash and courgettes and trying a few watermelons too

    • @ballymullinfarm
      @ballymullinfarm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That sounds awesome. It’s exciting when seed starting time rolls around. I just got some seeds for Artisan Blush, I’ll be excited to see how it goes in our garden and what we think.