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- Prep for corn silage harvest and touring our 50 cow freestall barn,
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The Mac Farms Channel is based on our small family dairy farm in Nova Scotia Canada. We farm approximately 150 acres, and we milk 45-50 cows.
We run mainly Massey Ferguson tractors, our equipment lineup is as follows:
Massey Ferguson 135, 375, 4253, (2) 3070's, 1105, and 3650. (2) Case/David Brown 885's, and an AGCO White 6710.
Great video! You can tell a lot of thought went into this barn. Thanks for the tour Mac!
Thanks Mike!
First time I've seen carts and a silo setup like that. Awesome.
Thanks Jason.
Never knew I'd be curious about
50 freestall Canadian barn.
Now I know about carts 1st cut, second cut, locking head gates.
Really amazing to a green horn!
Glad you learned a little. Thanks for watching!
That's a nice setup, looks like a very well oiled machine that you guys have there.
Thanks Andy, we are pleased with it, there is always thing's you'd change looking back but no reason we can't fix them in the future either.
Nice freestall barn 👍🏻
Thanks
I like that idea of the gravity fed manure set up. Really like your barn and cattle.
Thanks Brent. The gravity system is nice but we have had some issues in the summer with it plugging up put in the sump, more dry manure that time of year. It’s not a huge deal, happens maybe once a year.
Say what you like about gravity it very rarely breaks down
Lol yes that’s true
Great video and I really see the confidence in your voice!!! You had a subject and did very well......."maybe" some of your past videos were just a video to say you uploaded one that day but this video shows your capability and your access to great subject material. In this video your attitude was upbeat, kept the conversation going, etc.. Keep this up and the Channel will soar!!!!
Well thanks for the video review Jamie, I appreciate the feedback it certainly helps!
Nice Mac, good to see more of the milk stall, thanks for sharing
Thanks Jan.
Very good setup! If you feel like doing a video, I would be interested in learning more about the quota system.
Well I’m not an expert in the system but I can explain the basics I guess lol
Very interesting. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for watching!
Good explanation and video of the dairy barn.
Thanks Wayne!
Nice and simple, the way it should be.
Thanks
Nice setup
Thanks
Good setup
Thanks Phil
That is a nice set up in your barn!!!
Thank you!
Interesting info! Thanks for sharing! This is why I like watching channels like yours because it's different all over and I would have never know about the quota and some other stuff without watching your video. Good video! Thanks for posting! Will the next video be corn silage? 😉🤣🤣
Thanks man. Next video has to be corn silage now I backed myself into a corner lol
Nice set up Scott.
Thanks man.
Good looking setup!!!!!!
Thanks!
That's a really nice set up. Quota went here in 2015 cow numbers sky rocketed big problem with the bull calves now
They aren’t worth nothing here either, couple bucks at the sale
Nice big clean barn👍there very few barns in Australia as most cow herds spend there time outside all year round but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t get cold as milk plants are exposed like -6oC in winter . I have milk in small 8 double up to big 60 stand rotary dairies. Grandma had 13 double up, milking 110 Jerseys cows.
Thanks, I’ve seen pictures of some setups where it basically looks like a freestall barn and parlour without the barn, pretty crazy. Everything is different all over the world.
that is a nice setup
Thanks man!
Nice barn!
Thanks Mark!
Big set up. John
Thanks John, I don’t know about big but it’s what we have
G'day great video mate.
Thanks Murphy
Great Video and thanks for the barn tour! Nice open set up with loads of space for the cows to act natural. But with such an open space do you ever have problems with the parlour freezing up in winter
No issues at all, we close up the big windows in the barn and can keep it just above freezing in the parlour and freestall all winter long. Ventilation is still very good with the chimneys in the roof. The milk house on cold days we will run the heat pump and keep it warmer in there.
Great vid man. Even I thought the audio was better!! 😁👍
Thanks Calum, used the Osmo with the Rode mic for the first part, GoPro on the second part, GoPro audio isn't terrible as long as your inside where there is no wind. Little bit of audio editing Premiere Pro and it turned out decent.
Hey man it worked!! Lol 😆👍
Great tour barn setup looks good cows look great too👍does the pipe from barn to pit ever block up if so how do you unblock it?
Usually once a year it will plug just where the sump is, usually can just push it around a bit with the Hitachi and it will go, there is an enormous amount of suction on it, doesn’t take much.
Great awesome video,
Thanks Man.
Thats a huge barn. Nice cows and calves. I work on a dairy farm with a very similar setup. Are any cows expecting soon?
Thanks. There is a couple getting close, we have 7 dry right now.
Grew up milking 50-55 in tie stall didn’t know how hard it was till milked In my brother inlaws parlour lmao
Lol started off in a stanchion barn with a pipeline, parlor was a big upgrade
Nice
The Quota system has its pros and cons but it was removed here in Ireland and sadly our family farming model of operating is quickly disappearing
Yeah we prefer the quota system but it certainly has its down sides too.
The biggest problem is the calves I don't know what will happen this spring but I imagine it won't be pretty
The quota system must work, We milk 2000 here in the states and were going broke. The unfortunate side effect is in order to survive we have to continuously grow or we go and going would probably result in prison time due to the amount of bad debt accumulated. It blows my mind that in 2019 50 cows in Canada can support several families yet here in the states 50 cows comfortably supported the same but in 1940. I mean zero disrespect by the way! You have a beautiful place.
Thanks! I agree, the quota system certainly has its advantages, I’d much rather milk 50 cows vs a couple hundred if at the end of the day I’ll have the same $$ in my pocket. I do feel bad for the people that want to get into it but can’t because if the high start up costs though. I don’t think the US has it figured out, from my perspective it just seems to end up being a race to the bottom, I’m glad that some people can make a go of it though.
Farming the Mitten I’m thinking the exact same. Let alone all the automation this place has. Obviously he hasn’t downgraded since he’s locked in so that means 50 cows paid for this not 1200. Crazy. I can’t imagine some of the huge dairies income now up there.
Redhawkfarmsllc well it’s worth mentioning that they started the milk quota in 1970 and we built the barn between 2007-2012 around there. So it wasn’t easy for us by any means, and we milked in an old stanchion barn for a lot of years before we could afford the new barn, and on top of that we did 90% of the work ourselves to cut costs. It worked out for us but I wouldn’t say we are a typical example of a 50 cow dairy up here either. Now, as far as the large farms up here I’m sure they do bring in a lot of money, but it’s a lot of overhead getting there and they can’t grow any faster that anyone else really. A big farm up here would be 400 cows, I know of a few that are larger in the province but there isn’t many.
Hey Mac, just wondering what your ceiling in the barn is made of?
I’m not sure what the brand is but it’s like a styrofoam with white woven plastic laminated on one side and a shiny reflective layer on the other side. The walls in the freestall are the same thing. I think the Ag-tuff plastic is a better way to go but it’s probably more money too.
Thanks for showing us your barn and milking set up, I found it very interesting. In the UK we call the passage where you put the feed a feed passage, or at least that's what I know it as.
Thanks for watching. I don't usually call it anything in particular to I had to think on the fly haha. Feed passage works as good as any other name for it lol.
Cool
Thanks Mr Nate
Nice barn, do ever plan on getting a robot milker
Thanks Kirk, I’d love to go towards robots but my father and uncle would sooner give up farming than see robots put in the barn unfortunately.
With the quote system you have no growth you got some bureaucrat looking over your shoulder helping you milk but he never gets dirty let him walk in his Sunday Best out in the cow barn Maybe they would have a change of mind Interesting video
It certainly has its advantages and disadvantages like anything else, we can’t really grow here anyway we are choked by lack of farm land.
How long to milk 50 cows?
45 minutes to an hour actual milking time.
@@macfarms that seems really good.
Are u beside lake Ontario?
Atlantic Ocean
Ok, nova Scotia?
Yep. Cape Breton Island
Ok, I'm in Montana. Been there though, my aunt lives in glace bay
Myron Taylor cool!
Heads sheared off studs because someone had over tightened them.
I would say at some time they must have been yep.
Thermal expansion
Nice tour. I always wanted to milk but the quota thing was a deal so I married a dairy princess instead.Lol I in Ontario.
Lol yeah that’s one downside to the quota it’s hard to get into it unfortunately.
yes I do not mind the quota just the over piece to buy more quota's we had to we are now maxed in the barn my family wanted to go much bigger had 100 cows to 300 cows my brother was milking 100 cows as well here have 6 step-sisters and 6 step-brothers my brother have dairy herds to they did the some 6 of them now milk 300 head each I am the only child for my parents they were married before they meet the age between is 18 years different I know the mistake child
they did put in up for adoption too
my dad's grandparents adopted me they are 103 and 107 now they were in milk cows to 7 years ago we got out of it we kept 4 cows just to have farm milk what we do not need the neighbour's pigs to get the milk exit week we are butchering 40 pigs and 60 cows the hunter all wanted have pig and have cow too for the wild meat this year have 20 buffalos to do too like the meat as well the Indians will tan the hides for me I am very big in to leather works with some of the Indians
Well I think making it hard to go bigger was kind of one of the idea's behind the quota system, it all has it's pro's and cons. Thanks for watching.