Every day it rains.🌧 (Farming The Alps #2)
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good morning it's a nice rainy day I'm getting quite a bit of rain here lately and snow up on the ridge is washing away it's leaving pretty quick which is a little bit sad I'm not really sure what the plan is today so uh let's go find out all right so the plan is to do some sheep fencing uh we're gonna be taking the londini here and I gotta find the fencing brand new
we're gonna be setting up the fence on this bank right here
Switzerland is a small country with lots of steep Rocky Mountains there's a very limited amount of farmland and of that Farmland a much smaller amount would be considered somewhat flat in Switzerland you can't just buy more land to expand your farm a lot of times there just isn't more land to be head for this reason farmers have to use the land they have very carefully to get the most out of it the rain's cleared up a little bit and uh starting to get a little bit brighter maybe it'll clear off completely I doubt it though I think it's gonna pour on me all day at least that's what the weather says ah boohoo I'm gonna get the most out of his land Eric uses different parts of his land for different things farming the flat ground is the least labor intensive so it is almost always reserved for making hay sheep and cows can both go on steep slopes but when you have lots of heavy cows walking on these slopes it tends to damage the ground so sheep take the steepest pastures and cows are pastured on the more moderate slopes and the out this new net has got some rigidity using these plastic like splines I don't know what you called it which is really nice because it keeps the fence from bunching up on the ground this is an electric fence so if the grass is wet and it's touching the electric fence then you lose a lot of your uh electrification but I'm really liking this the question is does it stay or does it just get all kind of bent up like that time will tell it's still raining my boots are uh starting to get wet and I'm out of coffee life is hard but the good news is the fence uh is almost done on this field this corner we're going to leave a section open here for the sheet to come in I think the Sheep are probably going to come over there and then right in here oh yeah so now that this field is done I think we head back to the farm and start working on another field hello okay so it's still raining like crazy so we have a new plan here we are gonna clean out one of the hay Lofts and get it all ready to start making hay here
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Yup, plenty of rain this spring, but damn, everything is so gorgeously green because of it!
Great video as always mr. Philip! I like when you talk to the sheep
Well, thank you, Mr. Perkins
It rains every day in the canton of Vaud as well 🌧️😢
Cool video btw 😊
Heard its a very wet year so far in Switzerland, there is only one way to make hay in wetter like this its with Schwedenreutern or Rollenreutern (Heinzen und usw) there is a video on youtube haying like that ya might have to ask your wife to look it up they are called Landwirtschaft gestern: Heinzen und Puppen 1942 or Leben und Arbeit in der Landwirtschaft 1958 my grandfather still made hay that way and I have tried it once too and it works. Awesome video as always
We really need the rain! (Snow up here in the hills above Zermatt) 😎👍
Saw you were sporting some Cat wear while in the hay barn!
Haha, yeah! Actually, most of the stuff I was wearing in this video was from my Cat days.
We've also had our share of rain here in Bern!
All plants in my garden are growing like crazy, it's absolutely delightful!
Didn't watch your channel for quite a while, but always interesting to see when something pops up what your view on things is. Quite often I find things that people who grew up somewhere else might find odd, but I just never thought of it and took it as normal...
If you do a video about the wolves, i would like to see the actually practical side of things.
There are enough videos and articles out there which either discuss the political side of things or just end up being "city-milkcomesfromthesupermarket-people-bashing" or "wealwaysdiditlikethat-farmer-bashing". Therefor would like to see what the purely practical side of things is. Thanks!
Haha, I will be talking about wolves in episode 4.
Feel exactly the same. Will catch all episodes for sure.
that system in the hayloft I remember it well we had it too and what surprised me a few years ago General Electric in the US made a film in the 1940s about the same system for US farmers the film is called Green hay if ya like to check it out
I will look it up. Thank you for telling me about it.
With the limited space, do they use daily rotational grazing? or just open pastures? Do farmers use those Italian maremma dogs to guard the sheep? or is there a proper Swiss dog for that?
I haven't seen the rotational grazing here. I'm sure it's done somewhere but I don't know why not more often. I will have to ask.
Lots of people use maremmas, but Kalberweidli uses donkeys. I'm going to talk a little bit more about the wolves coming up here.
This is starting to be a very interesting series of videos. Can’t wait to watch the follow-up. Hope you get enough of Benji‘s terrific coffee so you can stand the rain.
Haha, it's keeping me going. Thank you for watching!
As a Swiss it saddens me how certain Cantons want to shoot the wolves and bears. Hope the people in Schwyz have more sense and compassion for the wild animals we have.
Nice work you are doing!
I'm going to talk about wolves a little bit more in an upcoming episode. Thank you for watching!
@@AmericameetsSwitzerland I'll be back to catch it. Thanks for showing me your perspective of Switzerland, it's nice seeing it from a non Swiss point of view.
Hello, i would just like to know if anybody knows what are those webs called, and who is the manufacturer. Thank you
You mean the electrical fencing he uses ?
Missing the states yet? 😂😂