I found your channel a few weeks ago. I come from a farming background and I really enjoy your videos. You re so down to earth and give a fresh perspective to farming and how even a small farm can survive.. Keep the videos coming
Fellow Mainer here. So glad the type of farm you are! Better for the cows, better for the community, better for the land. Love that you can keep your cows for so long and they are happy!
How you operate the farm is definitely old school. I like it. It's unconventional and different. I like it. Its been helping me out in figuring out how to run a small Homestead. Very inspiring. 😊❤
No need to apologise, video is good. As a small dairy farmer in Ireland I appreciate the problems that a small operation faces , we feed our cows grass for about 280 days a year and grass silage for the rest, we have given up on compound feed ( nuts) as well and feed ground maize beet pulp and soya which we mix ourselves to the required protein and fibre that our cows need at any particular time of the year. We have black and white cows most are about 80 percent Holstein and 20 percent Friesian but our Holstein cows are breed for higher fat and protein not volume so we only produce about 6500 litres of milk per head per year which is c. 550 kgs of solids( multiply by 2.2 for lbs) we get payed for the solids and deducted for the volume. Most of our what you call feed work is done by contractors as we could not afford the machinery needed to do it ourselves, we only have one old tractor and a small loader . We have a parlour and cow cubicles ( what you call a free stall ) we have a lot less land than you guys but we milk about 120 cows . We raise our own replacements 15 to twenty per year. There is me and my family on the farm, wife minds calves and kids are getting more useful as they get bigger. We milk twice a day and it takes about an hour morning and evening, not including getting them in from the paddock which adds about 20 mins to half an hour. Where I live there used to be 40 odd dairy farmers in my parish now there are only 4 . Enjoy the videos.
I have to give an A+ on this video. Tay you have given the best description of your farm life as anyone has ever given. i am Impressed with the way you explained it all and Now that you have, I completely understand the workings of Brent's farm. Make's a lot of since now. Thank You for your video and for sharing.
Thanks for the share. Nothing more peaceful in the early morning than a Stanchion barn milking. Brent is extremely lucky to have someone with your passion for the farm.
Tyler, l believe your wisdom comes from from Brent. Thank yourself for keeping your mind eyes and ears open! You have found the best life ever. Tell Brent for me that he has great youthful excited help in his employee.
Great video. Reminds me of the 50's and 60's farming. Grew up on a farm in NY. during that time. It sure does bring back memories of farming. We had a 300 acre farm and milked about 50 head. We didn't have the sophisticated milking equipment like you do. Ours was milk cans, with a milkhouse, to keep milk overnight, small cans to pump the milk into right from the cow, and in the AM after milking loading the 8 to 10 cans onto our truck and bringing it to the creamery. Glad to see some old-fashioned farming. Good luck in your farming adventures.
@@tayfarms Hard but enjoyable. More fun when when a cow gets out of the pasture into the crab apple grove and geets drunk on rotting crab apples and takes 8of us to get her back down to the barn..
Stunning! What a wonderful video. You explain so much and are so clear and concise. Easy to understand. I grew up on a dairy farm about the same size as yours. We milked about 60 to 70 Holstein cows twice a day. We averaged about 2400 lbs of milk per day. It has been 45 years since I left the farm life and entered the military. You bring back such great memories and also, clearly show all parts of the modern, small dairy farm life. I look forward to every one of your videos and would not complain if you put a new one out every day.
Excellent videos!! I worked on a similar size dairy in the 90s. Then went on a much larger operations. Certainly something to be said for small conventional farms…. Thanks
With all the work you have to do, I don't see how you have time to film any !! But I am so very thankful you do film !! I enjoyed your description of the farm and the way you all farm !! Thank you so much !!! Please don't overdo !!! Stay safe and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
GREAT VIDEO.THAT MAIN BARN IS A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.I JUST FOUND YOUR VIDEOS A FEW DAYS AGO AND THIS VIDEO ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS I HAD ABOUT NO CORN SILAGE AND FEEDING THE CORN MEAL.ITS GREAT YOUR COWS LAST SO LONE.THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US
You have no need to apologize. You do a great job! I grew up in Southwestern Ohio, Butler County, next to the biggest registered Holstein herd in that area... and they milked 42 head in a stanchion barn. I was there a lot when I was a young guy. I loved it! Working with the cows and doing field work. That was in the 50's. I don't think there's a better place to be than on a farm. Many times, over the years, I wish I had never left that life. Thank you for the video. What you do on that farm is very much same as how they ran their farm.
Very interesting video, it's sad but here in Nova Scotia there are very few small family dairy farms left, as they are taken over and cannot compete with large factory farms whose cows never see the light of day. I love your videos and your cows are kept so well and clean.
Thank you for your explanations Back in the 50's I was raised in west new York dairy country and loved squirting milk from udder to cats mouths. They were faithful eating barn rats and I returned thanks with fresh milk. We called them mousers.
I was born 1951, and visiting my Grand mother's 60 dairy cow farm in Hammondsport, NY, overlooking Bluff Point on Keuka Lake. All you saw was dairy cows covering the surrounding hill sides around Keuka Lake. Now the cows are gone and the old farms are now vineyards. From 4-6 wineries in the 60's to roughly 100 today on hills surrounding Keuka and Seneca lakes. Tourist industry rules big now. I will add that some of the old derelict farms have been brought back to life by Menonite/Amish families overflowing from Penn and Ohio.. very diverse farms with dairy and vegetables. Beautiful to see these New old farms coming to life where old 1800's -1950's faded to falling barns . Great work Tay. Please farm safe with protective gear. You'll wear out your body quicky if you dont. 💚
guy that rents my farm has a grass fed dairy does things like you guys as in milking 2 guys doing the work doing hay on a 50 cow farm. but he raises his replacements also converting to arshires doing well with it in northern ny great explaning by the way
Hello from Denmark. I watch your videos with interest and pleasure. I was born and raised on a farm in the 50s/60s. A farm with Jersey cows, sows and fattening pigs. We milked 14 cows and raised calves/heifers. The farm was four-sided, cowshed, feed barn, piggery and farmhouse. The sows fared in the cowshed, where there were faring paths. The pigsty, the feed barn and the roof of the cow shed burned. The cowshed was built in the 40s and had a fireproof deck, so the cowshed could continue to be used. A new pig shed, machine house and upper floor of the cow shed were built. Hay, straw of wheat, barley and oats were stored on the decks above the stables. We fed sugar beets and turnips. The operation was very much like Jeres, we had two milking machine pails which we carried from cow to cow and emptied into milk transport pails with a funnel with sieves with fields. Ví only had vacuum tubes over the cows, no tube milking. My father drove transport buckets from the area's farms to the dairy with tractor and wagon. The farm included 39 Tønderland, corresponding to 21 hectares. It is interesting to follow your work and I like your thinking and philosophy of operating in a way so that you have a reasonable economy with relatively simple solutions and probably a well-balanced economy with low investments in machinery and not expensive investments in fixtures and installations such as e.g. milking parlor or robots, under the philosophy the cows feel good and live longer and you probably do too. I saw in a video that you got a note about wasting corn under the corn silo and I have seen that you are filling buckets, probably because you cannot get the corn feed truck under the silo. You want to learn to become a skilled welder. So I could suggest you make a structure for the silo to stand on, so you can drive under it. My parents sold the farm in 1967 and we moved into a detached house. I was apprenticed as a bricklayer when I was 14. studied engineering 15 years later. As such, my advice for the construction would be to consult with an experienced blacksmith who can advise on dimensions and welding technique. Alternatively, I could suggest casting some column foundations on which the silo could be hoisted up. Perhaps the manufacturer of the silo already has a construction to extend the legs. I watch more videos with other farmers. Some with all the latest technology. It is impressive with GPS, auto steering, giant machines, large construction machinery or car park. I take my hat off to your insistence on keeping it simple and prioritizing quality of life for the animals and your lives. I have retired and have plenty of time and have had the special pleasure of stopping my working life of 53-55 years due to COVID-19. I worked for the last half a dozen years in project employment and as an apprentice mason in between. At first I worked after school on a farm with cows and pigs and before that on the farm at home feeding calves, cutting beets, bringing in beets from the beet ball, shoveling and wheelbarrows. It is pure nostalgia and joy for me to watch those videos.
Awesome video as usual I sure did miss you thank you for the video please be safe and careful and as usual you are absolutely the most beautiful woman on the planet
Its such a shame that the american dairy industury has gone the way it is. Im an irish dairy farmer and 70 to 100 cow grassfed dairy farms are the normal here in ireland and the majority are profitable . I myself along with my father milk 100 cows grazing 10 months of the year and feed grass silage in the winter. We supplement the grazed grass with a ration in the parlour. Your type of dairy would be a common system in ireland. Thanks for your videos. I really enjoy them
Love the barn! I just returned home from 12 hours of hauling grain thought I'd see what you were up to, young lady your love of what you do shows in your actions your knowledge and your abilities!!! I could go on and on but all I will say for now is keep up the good work!!!
Looks like I found me a good channel. I grew up on a 50 cow dairy. We milked in a flat barn too. For years we had no pipeline to milk tank. Milk was carried and dumped into strainer on tank. Fun times there. Lol. Thanks for a nice video and keep up the good work !!!
Good to see the small farms still getting it done! Small businesses are the best places to work! If I ever win the lottery I can guarantee you I will buy me a farm of my own and work 7 days a week! I am on the spectrum and I also have Tourette's and the thing I find satisfying is work. I feel welcome at work, puts money in savings, buys me nice stuff, and get to play with cool toys (tri-axle, track skid steer , backhoe, etc.) When you get paid to do what you love it ain't work! Great content I'm subscribing! Awesome to see another person in their 20s who loves to work!
Nice video. Great descriptions of your farm activities/processes. Just to clarify for your viewers: you actually are feeding grain ( ground cornmeal) but have stopped feeding a commercial high protein pelletized grain (I'm guessing). Ground cornmeal is a relatively low protein grain that is normally supplemented with either a high protein commercial grain (usually pellletized) or a ground soybean product which is also very high in protein and is sometimes home-grown.
Bigger and more modern is not always better for the animals or the farmers. I like your approach. They hybrid vigor of the crossbred cows insures a more healthy and durable animal and definitely improves longevity. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, an uncle and a sister of mine used to buy all their replacement milkers in their operations as both could focus on just using all the land for milk production. They had far more freetime than l do with rearing all our replacements and with the spiralling feed costs its becoming an expensive part of the business.
That’s great! I can only imagine, everything seems to be tripling in cost, yet the price the farmers are being paid don’t match it…. Thanks for watching!
What does the corn meal consist of and it actually is grain. I use to figure dairy rations and help dairy farmers in my area of south central Minnesota before I retired. The herds I help had trouble when the grain was ground that fine. About how many # of the corn meal do the cows get as an average? Thank you for the great video that show the different ways of dairying even in the USA. Have you gotten any connections with the huge dairymen to possibly get their overrun of breed heifers. Most of them have some great breeding programs for their own replacements? Thank you again.
Feeding corn silage will give the animal more energy and higher milk production, but at the cost of negativly altering the microbes in the rumen that will affect the overall health and longevity of the cow.
Amazing. Milking cows put me through college (WI) nearly 50 years ago. Your turnover rate is unbelievable. The so-called modern dairy operation results in 25% of the herd added as first calf hiefers per year. Half of these may make it to a second calf. Production demands have a negative impact on conception rates. Just found your channel and can not wait to learn more. Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
It's great to see the next generation enthusiastic about dairy farming. I can appreciate the work you do as I have been working on the family farm all my life. There is nothing else I would rather do. I do have one question. Was it a hard transition for your cows when you dropped the corn silage from their ration? You're right about corn being an expensive crop to grow, especially with fertilizer prices skyrocketing this year. I just found your channel lately...very interesting. Keep up the good work 👍.
Hi! Always great to hear from another farmer. Dropping silage wasn’t hard for the cows because we did it relatively gradually. It was a little difficult for us. It was a little nerve racking to what the production drop a bit, not knowing if it would stop dropping. But it all worked out very well the production leveled off and the amount we lost was not equal to the amount of money it took to raise a corn crop. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!!
You keep doing what your doing. We never had the fancy stuff, we did have a pipe line for a couple years but my uncle sold that farm and we got a smaller one and went back to the old surge milkers but did have a transfer station we pulled along as we milked. Was in Minnesota and cows stayed in the barn all winter. Our cows all had names, got petted and most had some age on them. Not many milk and have a dairy like what you have and some would consider it a hobby farm because you don’t milk hundreds. Funny our barn burnt in the 65 and we built a small 18 stall barn, wood floor and gutters and sold it and moved further north to bigger farm and lots better and bigger barn.
All your videos are awesome I love that little farm you work on I would come work there for free I like how you show everything about milking cows the free stalls the field work and how old do cows are I can't wait to do another video I'll be waiting for it I hope your family and your bosses family are all healthy you guys take care and God bless
Hi Tay I live in the Midwest and I find your channel very interesting and again you amaze me with all your knowledge WOW… And I love to see young farmers like yourself still have a love for farming… Do you have a video of how milk is collected and transported??? And definitely you’re old school which is AWSOME
I grew up in up state new york on a dairy farm and I milked 100 cows and I know how hard it is to do your chores and field work love your videos sweetie
from Massachusetts. thanks for letting me know your out there and surviving. I worked for my uncle around late 1970 to 80s the same way with no land available. that's real farming. hope it lasts a lifetime
Hello Tay really love your video I felt you explained it very well you're milking farm reminds me of my grandpa's farm my dad's dad he had a small milking farm himself well I used to go over there I'm not as it is just young little kid. But as I've gotten older here I've been on and scene has a big commercial ones and I got tell you as far as treating the cows better the small farms do much better job so touche to you girl job well done❤
Nice videos, discovered your channel recently and enjoy very much. As a retired businessman, I’d come from grandparents and great grandparents and families who were farmers. So I just like the info on the farming, the animals, the outdoors. And you are always enthusiastic with energy 🙋♂️🐈🐈
Just came across your channel accidently....and this is a good channel! I have watched 7 vids so far. Just finished watching this one. I grew up working on a small farm in CT. The farm remains, but it no longer farms. We have only 2 active farms in town, the other 12 farms have closed or sold out to development. Most of the farms we had were dairy ranging from 6 heads to 150 heads. We live 10 miles from a dairy farm that is fully automated milking 2500+ cows on a self moving round table. All robots. They are going for quantity, not quality as you mentioned. I am glad to see there is a younger generation coming up and supporting our farmers. I try to buy locally as much as possible, especially when I am in Maine which is several times a year. Hope to move up there some year. Excellent vlogs Tay!! Fellow TH-camr Big Guy DIY
Hi! Thank you, I’m so glad you enjoyed the video😀 crazy how many farms have just disappeared. Thanks so much for watching and commenting have a great day!
i am enjoying your videos I milked for 41 years, I live in northern Minnesota we might have about the same weather as you. some years the snow will come November 1 and stay till May 1. why to long but once and awhile we get lucky and have a little shorter helps a lot to have a nice November
What a Beautiful Barn. Really enjoyed your honesty and enthusiasm about your farm and the Dairy Farming. Not treating it like an industry. It is a way of life and their is money to be made. Yes but the way you treat your cows. That you for being the person you are. So enjoyable to listen to you. 🤗😊
Great video Taylor. I’m from a dairy farm in Ireland but live in NYC now. So it’s wonderful to watch & see you explain to the non farmers. Keep up the good work.
Great video...my first vist and really enjoyed the clear and well communicated explanation of how the farm operated. Good to see and hear how the health and safety of the cows featured prominently.
Great overview of how your small dairy operates to have a profit. There are lots of farms in my SW Indiana county but no dairy farms and only a few beef cattle. you are a champion for working on this farm. God bless you. Maine I hear it is one of the prettiest place in the USA.
It's great to see a small dairy farm still making it, there aren't many left around here. I spent some time when I was little on a similar farm following my Dad like a shadow while he worked on some of the equipment the farm had. When the owner retired about 20 years ago the kids stopped farming. Had a great time while I was there back! You're videos are great, love every one, a lot has changed but amazing how similar your operation is to the one I had experience with.
Thanks for commenting! I love hearing people tell stories of how farming has in someway touched their lives. It’s very sad how the younger generations don’t seem interested in keeping farms alive….so glad you enjoyed the videos! Thank you again!
Hi I'm from Indiana and I came across your channel about a week ago and I really enjoy it! I had cousins that farmed when I was a kid and I loved spending time at their farm. I like the smaller channels better because people like yourself are much more genuine. Keep up the good work and I'll be watching. Thank You
Good video and explanation of why you farm the way you do. Here in west central Ohio we have big dairy operations, some with parlors and some with robots, but very few who milk cows like you. Your operation makes sense to me.
I'm happy you love what your doing, I've always loved that sort of job, I used to milk my own one cow but now I have goats, after watching you and others on TH-cam I really want a cow again. Good job. 👍
Hi Tay, I just found your channel a few days ago and am really enjoying your videos. I grew up on a 70ish cow dairy farm in upstate NY, we did not have a parlor either, just stanchion stalls, our house and barn were built in 1862, we were a little behind some of the more updated neighboring farms who had kick balers and automatic take offs. 😊 I enjoyed it then and it's great to see the workings of a similar farm in current days.
Awesome video. I just realized who u and Brent are. I work we’re u get sawdust for the cows bedding. I get 2 watch u get loaded. I watch lots of farming videos and want to say u do a great job.
Thank you very much for explanation. Love to hear about feed ration and improved health as a result. Very important info to remember as one day I would like to do dairy for my own consumption as homesteader.
Wow. I fully agree with you. I'm actually switching back to a tie stall too after spending on a free stall (basic tech). I also prefer to buy replacements and it's very hard to introduce one outsider to a freestall herd (one actually died trying to escape the bullying). Thank you!
thank you for sharing. It is hard for the family farms now day with the big operators out there. in my area there was so many farms but now. The barns are being torn down or just falling apart. old hip roof barn. 100 acres plus family farms just turning into housing development. I could talk about this all day.. but I better just let you go.. sorry if I wasted your time? looking forward for more of your videos.
Nice to see a few of us left my family milks about the same size herd as you do in a tie stall barn. We are one of two left in our town. We are also in Maine.
You do very good job and yes lots of farms have change and now all big farms are pushing small family farms out of the door 🚪 and I am not happy about that and big farms is not a family farm no more it’s a factory firms now and I don’t understand why the government give them money for today they don’t need it they can run by them self with our Government breaks and small farms really can use it more and the Green Party want us less cows 🐄 today for we don’t eat lots of cows meet and milk today because they want us all eat lest meet
Hey, hi! I love your videos. I also grew up on a dairy farm in Panama, Central America, and I'm currently working in New York. My dream is to go back to where my roots belong, which is farming. I wanted to ask you if there are any farms that use Brahman bulls and cows for beef, or which are the most common breeds for beef there.
Taylor, I have been told that corn, even in a Human it is very difficult to digest so I can imagine what it does for cows I am a new viewer to your videos as I am very inquisitive about farms and cows❤
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Of all the farm videos on YT yours are the best. So calm and down to earth. keep them coming.
I found your channel a few weeks ago. I come from a farming background and I really enjoy your videos. You re so down to earth and give a fresh perspective to farming and how even a small farm can survive.. Keep the videos coming
Fellow Mainer here. So glad the type of farm you are! Better for the cows, better for the community, better for the land. Love that you can keep your cows for so long and they are happy!
Hello!! Thanks so much for watching!
A contented cow is a Happy Cow 🤣😅😊😊
You are doing a great job with video and helping Brent with the farm, God bless.
Thank you 😊
How you operate the farm is definitely old school. I like it. It's unconventional and different. I like it. Its been helping me out in figuring out how to run a small Homestead. Very inspiring. 😊❤
No need to apologise, video is good. As a small dairy farmer in Ireland I appreciate the problems that a small operation faces , we feed our cows grass for about 280 days a year and grass silage for the rest, we have given up on compound feed ( nuts) as well and feed ground maize beet pulp and soya which we mix ourselves to the required protein and fibre that our cows need at any particular time of the year. We have black and white cows most are about 80 percent Holstein and 20 percent Friesian but our Holstein cows are breed for higher fat and protein not volume so we only produce about 6500 litres of milk per head per year which is c. 550 kgs of solids( multiply by 2.2 for lbs) we get payed for the solids and deducted for the volume. Most of our what you call feed work is done by contractors as we could not afford the machinery needed to do it ourselves, we only have one old tractor and a small loader . We have a parlour and cow cubicles ( what you call a free stall ) we have a lot less land than you guys but we milk about 120 cows . We raise our own replacements 15 to twenty per year. There is me and my family on the farm, wife minds calves and kids are getting more useful as they get bigger. We milk twice a day and it takes about an hour morning and evening, not including getting them in from the paddock which adds about 20 mins to half an hour. Where I live there used to be 40 odd dairy farmers in my parish now there are only 4 . Enjoy the videos.
Thanks you! Sounds like a well run operation you have!
I have to give an A+ on this video. Tay you have given the best description of your farm life as anyone has ever given. i am Impressed with the way you explained it all and Now that you have, I completely understand the workings of Brent's farm. Make's a lot of since now. Thank You for your video and for sharing.
Thanks so much!
@@tayfarms Your very welcome.
Thanks for the share. Nothing more peaceful in the early morning than a Stanchion barn milking. Brent is extremely lucky to have someone with your passion for the farm.
Yes mornings on the farm are so calming, sound of the cows chewing feed is the best! Thank you so much for your comment😊
Tyler, l believe your wisdom comes from from Brent. Thank yourself for keeping your mind eyes and ears open! You have found the best life ever. Tell Brent for me that he has great youthful excited help in his employee.
I believe you are right about that! I’ll tell him! Thanks for commenting and watching!
Great video. Reminds me of the 50's and 60's farming. Grew up on a farm in NY. during that time. It sure does bring back memories of farming. We had a 300 acre farm and milked about 50 head. We didn't have the sophisticated milking equipment like you do. Ours was milk cans, with a milkhouse, to keep milk overnight, small cans to pump the milk into right from the cow, and in the AM after milking loading the 8 to 10 cans onto our truck and bringing it to the creamery. Glad to see some old-fashioned farming. Good luck in your farming adventures.
Sounds like some hard work! Folks nowadays could use some good old fashioned hard work! Thanks so much for commenting
@@tayfarms Hard but enjoyable. More fun when when a cow gets out of the pasture into the crab apple grove and geets drunk on rotting crab apples and takes 8of us to get her back down to the barn..
Finished binge watching these now..
Great video. Great content.
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Stunning! What a wonderful video. You explain so much and are so clear and concise. Easy to understand. I grew up on a dairy farm about the same size as yours. We milked about 60 to 70 Holstein cows twice a day. We averaged about 2400 lbs of milk per day. It has been 45 years since I left the farm life and entered the military. You bring back such great memories and also, clearly show all parts of the modern, small dairy farm life. I look forward to every one of your videos and would not complain if you put a new one out every day.
😄 thank you! Sounds like a wonderful childhood…. I’m glad it could bring back good memories!
Excellent videos!! I worked on a similar size dairy in the 90s. Then went on a much larger operations. Certainly something to be said for small conventional farms…. Thanks
Great videos. I don’t notice much of a break I sequence. I farmed and milked for a life time. Good way of life.
Thank you! Your absolutely right farming is a wonderful life..
People need to understand where their food comes from, support local farmers!!!! Excellent video!
With all the work you have to do, I don't see how you have time to film any !! But I am so very thankful you do film !! I enjoyed your description of the farm and the way you all farm !! Thank you so much !!! Please don't overdo !!! Stay safe and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
It can be a struggle to find the time but I so enjoy making these videos for you all! Thanks so much for watching and your wonderful comments!
GREAT VIDEO.THAT MAIN BARN IS A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.I JUST FOUND YOUR VIDEOS A FEW DAYS AGO AND THIS VIDEO ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS I HAD ABOUT NO CORN SILAGE AND FEEDING THE CORN MEAL.ITS GREAT YOUR COWS LAST SO LONE.THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US
You have no need to apologize. You do a great job! I grew up in Southwestern Ohio, Butler County, next to the biggest registered Holstein herd in that area... and they milked 42 head in a stanchion barn. I was there a lot when I was a young guy. I loved it! Working with the cows and doing field work. That was in the 50's. I don't think there's a better place to be than on a farm. Many times, over the years, I wish I had never left that life. Thank you for the video. What you do on that farm is very much same as how they ran their farm.
Very interesting video, it's sad but here in Nova Scotia there are very few small family dairy farms left, as they are taken over and cannot compete with large factory farms whose cows never see the light of day. I love your videos and your cows are kept so well and clean.
Thank you for your explanations
Back in the 50's I was raised in west new York dairy country and loved squirting milk from udder to cats mouths. They were faithful eating barn rats and I returned thanks with fresh milk. We called them mousers.
😄 that’s great! Thanks for watching!
Your video is very authentic. We had Ayrshires. Great Dairy cattle!
Hi, thank you! They are great cows.😊
You have moved into my top 3 farm videos
Cool!
Great video Taylor
Thank you!
I was born 1951, and visiting my Grand mother's 60 dairy cow farm in Hammondsport, NY, overlooking Bluff Point on Keuka Lake. All you saw was dairy cows covering the surrounding hill sides around Keuka Lake. Now the cows are gone and the old farms are now vineyards. From 4-6 wineries in the 60's to roughly 100 today on hills surrounding Keuka and Seneca lakes. Tourist industry rules big now. I will add that some of the old derelict farms have been brought back to life by Menonite/Amish families overflowing from Penn and Ohio.. very diverse farms with dairy and vegetables. Beautiful to see these New old farms coming to life where old 1800's -1950's faded to falling barns .
Great work Tay.
Please farm safe with protective gear. You'll wear out your body quicky if you dont.
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guy that rents my farm has a grass fed dairy does things like you guys as in milking 2 guys doing the work doing hay on a 50 cow farm. but he raises his replacements also converting to arshires doing well with it in northern ny great explaning by the way
That’s great! I just love hearing everyone’s stories! Thanks for commenting!
new follower . enjoying . wisconsin dairyer . very familiar.
Cool! Thanks for commenting!
Great video looking forward to seeing the next one, stay safe🇬🇧👍
Taylor LOVES her work , it is not a Job !
Great to see small operations still running
Thanks for watching!
Hello from Denmark. I watch your videos with interest and pleasure. I was born and raised on a farm in the 50s/60s. A farm with Jersey cows, sows and fattening pigs. We milked 14 cows and raised calves/heifers. The farm was four-sided, cowshed, feed barn, piggery and farmhouse. The sows fared in the cowshed, where there were faring paths. The pigsty, the feed barn and the roof of the cow shed burned. The cowshed was built in the 40s and had a fireproof deck, so the cowshed could continue to be used. A new pig shed, machine house and upper floor of the cow shed were built. Hay, straw of wheat, barley and oats were stored on the decks above the stables. We fed sugar beets and turnips. The operation was very much like Jeres, we had two milking machine pails which we carried from cow to cow and emptied into milk transport pails with a funnel with sieves with fields. Ví only had vacuum tubes over the cows, no tube milking. My father drove transport buckets from the area's farms to the dairy with tractor and wagon. The farm included 39 Tønderland, corresponding to 21 hectares. It is interesting to follow your work and I like your thinking and philosophy of operating in a way so that you have a reasonable economy with relatively simple solutions and probably a well-balanced economy with low investments in machinery and not expensive investments in fixtures and installations such as e.g. milking parlor or robots, under the philosophy the cows feel good and live longer and you probably do too. I saw in a video that you got a note about wasting corn under the corn silo and I have seen that you are filling buckets, probably because you cannot get the corn feed truck under the silo. You want to learn to become a skilled welder. So I could suggest you make a structure for the silo to stand on, so you can drive under it. My parents sold the farm in 1967 and we moved into a detached house. I was apprenticed as a bricklayer when I was 14. studied engineering 15 years later. As such, my advice for the construction would be to consult with an experienced blacksmith who can advise on dimensions and welding technique. Alternatively, I could suggest casting some column foundations on which the silo could be hoisted up. Perhaps the manufacturer of the silo already has a construction to extend the legs. I watch more videos with other farmers. Some with all the latest technology. It is impressive with GPS, auto steering, giant machines, large construction machinery or car park. I take my hat off to your insistence on keeping it simple and prioritizing quality of life for the animals and your lives. I have retired and have plenty of time and have had the special pleasure of stopping my working life of 53-55 years due to COVID-19. I worked for the last half a dozen years in project employment and as an apprentice mason in between. At first I worked after school on a farm with cows and pigs and before that on the farm at home feeding calves, cutting beets, bringing in beets from the beet ball, shoveling and wheelbarrows. It is pure nostalgia and joy for me to watch those videos.
Awesome video as usual I sure did miss you thank you for the video please be safe and careful and as usual you are absolutely the most beautiful woman on the planet
Howdy Howdy liked and shared.....have a great day.
Hey.thanks for telling us more about the farm.have a great day.sending positive vibes to u from the uk.
Thanks for watching!!
Its such a shame that the american dairy industury has gone the way it is. Im an irish dairy farmer and 70 to 100 cow grassfed dairy farms are the normal here in ireland and the majority are profitable . I myself along with my father milk 100 cows grazing 10 months of the year and feed grass silage in the winter. We supplement the grazed grass with a ration in the parlour. Your type of dairy would be a common system in ireland. Thanks for your videos. I really enjoy them
I agree it is a shame.. I’m glad the small farms are staying alive and well in Ireland. Your dairy sounds wonderful! Best wishes! Thanks for watching
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Yes used to be even smaller farrms within few miles from each other. U enjoy how operation works.cant ask for anymore.
Love the barn! I just returned home from 12 hours of hauling grain thought I'd see what you were up to, young lady your love of what you do shows in your actions your knowledge and your abilities!!! I could go on and on but all I will say for now is keep up the good work!!!
Thanks so much!
Looks like I found me a good channel. I grew up on a 50 cow dairy. We milked in a flat barn too. For years we had no pipeline to milk tank. Milk was carried and dumped into strainer on tank. Fun times there. Lol. Thanks for a nice video and keep up the good work !!!
I did the same in the 60s finger lakes in New York
Good to see the small farms still getting it done! Small businesses are the best places to work! If I ever win the lottery I can guarantee you I will buy me a farm of my own and work 7 days a week! I am on the spectrum and I also have Tourette's and the thing I find satisfying is work. I feel welcome at work, puts money in savings, buys me nice stuff, and get to play with cool toys (tri-axle, track skid steer , backhoe, etc.) When you get paid to do what you love it ain't work! Great content I'm subscribing! Awesome to see another person in their 20s who loves to work!
Very interesting to hear about your small dairy and the way you explain about it thank you
Thank you for watching!
My barn has been built in 1995 but I have to honestly admit that this is the most beautiful vintage barn I have ever seen. That's insane
Thanks so much! Are you a dairy farmer yourself?
@@tayfarms Yes I am. 70 cows in tie stalls as well hahahaha. Eastern Québec. But we raise our heifers in free stalls.
@@desross2002 that’s great!!
Nice video. Great descriptions of your farm activities/processes.
Just to clarify for your viewers: you actually are feeding grain ( ground cornmeal) but have stopped feeding a commercial high protein pelletized grain (I'm guessing). Ground cornmeal is a relatively low protein grain that is normally supplemented with either a high protein commercial grain (usually pellletized) or a ground soybean product which is also very high in protein and is sometimes home-grown.
Bigger and more modern is not always better for the animals or the farmers. I like your approach. They hybrid vigor of the crossbred cows insures a more healthy and durable animal and definitely improves longevity. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, an uncle and a sister of mine used to buy all their replacement milkers in their operations as both could focus on just using all the land for milk production. They had far more freetime than l do with rearing all our replacements and with the spiralling feed costs its becoming an expensive part of the business.
That’s great! I can only imagine, everything seems to be tripling in cost, yet the price the farmers are being paid don’t match it…. Thanks for watching!
What does the corn meal consist of and it actually is grain. I use to figure dairy rations and help dairy farmers in my area of south central Minnesota before I retired. The herds I help had trouble when the grain was ground that fine. About how many # of the corn meal do the cows get as an average? Thank you for the great video that show the different ways of dairying even in the USA. Have you gotten any connections with the huge dairymen to possibly get their overrun of breed heifers. Most of them have some great breeding programs for their own replacements? Thank you again.
I always thought it depended on when corn was harvested that determined if it was grain or vegetable.
Feeding corn silage will give the animal more energy and higher milk production, but at the cost of negativly altering the microbes in the rumen that will affect the overall health and longevity of the cow.
Exactly! Thanks for commenting
Go Taylor. I like your style
Thank you!😃😊
Great video, your a natural in front of the camera 🙂🙂
Amazing. Milking cows put me through college (WI) nearly 50 years ago. Your turnover rate is unbelievable. The so-called modern dairy operation results in 25% of the herd added as first calf hiefers per year. Half of these may make it to a second calf. Production demands have a negative impact on conception rates. Just found your channel and can not wait to learn more. Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
It's great to see the next generation enthusiastic about dairy farming. I can appreciate the work you do as I have been working on the family farm all my life. There is nothing else I would rather do.
I do have one question. Was it a hard transition for your cows when you dropped the corn silage from their ration? You're right about corn being an expensive crop to grow, especially with fertilizer prices skyrocketing this year.
I just found your channel lately...very interesting. Keep up the good work 👍.
Hi! Always great to hear from another farmer. Dropping silage wasn’t hard for the cows because we did it relatively gradually. It was a little difficult for us. It was a little nerve racking to what the production drop a bit, not knowing if it would stop dropping. But it all worked out very well the production leveled off and the amount we lost was not equal to the amount of money it took to raise a corn crop. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!!
@@tayfarms Thanks. Milk production WAS what I was curious about.
Thanks!
You keep doing what your doing. We never had the fancy stuff, we did have a pipe line for a couple years but my uncle sold that farm and we got a smaller one and went back to the old surge milkers but did have a transfer station we pulled along as we milked. Was in Minnesota and cows stayed in the barn all winter. Our cows all had names, got petted and most had some age on them. Not many milk and have a dairy like what you have and some would consider it a hobby farm because you don’t milk hundreds. Funny our barn burnt in the 65 and we built a small 18 stall barn, wood floor and gutters and sold it and moved further north to bigger farm and lots better and bigger barn.
That’s so cool, thanks for commenting!
All your videos are awesome I love that little farm you work on I would come work there for free I like how you show everything about milking cows the free stalls the field work and how old do cows are I can't wait to do another video I'll be waiting for it I hope your family and your bosses family are all healthy you guys take care and God bless
Hi Tay I live in the Midwest and I find your channel very interesting and again you amaze me with all your knowledge WOW… And I love to see young farmers like yourself still have a love for farming…
Do you have a video of how milk is collected and transported??? And definitely you’re old school which is AWSOME
Thanks so much! Not sure if I could do a video like that in the future or not… I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for watching!!
You hate the British don't you??
I grew up in up state new york on a dairy farm and I milked 100 cows and I know how hard it is to do your chores and field work love your videos sweetie
With 70 cows milking you would be in the top 1% biggest dairy farms in Norway
Really? It’s my dream to visit Norway! It seems like such a beautiful farming country!!
from Massachusetts. thanks for letting me know your out there and surviving. I worked for my uncle around late 1970 to 80s the same way with no land available. that's real farming. hope it lasts a lifetime
Hi! I hope it last too! Thanks for watching
Hello Tay really love your video I felt you explained it very well you're milking farm reminds me of my grandpa's farm my dad's dad he had a small milking farm himself well I used to go over there I'm not as it is just young little kid. But as I've gotten older here I've been on and scene has a big commercial ones and I got tell you as far as treating the cows better the small farms do much better job so touche to you girl job well done❤
Nice videos, discovered your channel recently and enjoy very much. As a retired businessman, I’d come from grandparents and great grandparents and families who were farmers. So I just like the info on the farming, the animals, the outdoors. And you are always enthusiastic with energy
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Wow are you good at explaining things. That was a lot of information I had to watch it twice:)
Just came across your channel accidently....and this is a good channel! I have watched 7 vids so far. Just finished watching this one. I grew up working on a small farm in CT. The farm remains, but it no longer farms. We have only 2 active farms in town, the other 12 farms have closed or sold out to development. Most of the farms we had were dairy ranging from 6 heads to 150 heads. We live 10 miles from a dairy farm that is fully automated milking 2500+ cows on a self moving round table. All robots. They are going for quantity, not quality as you mentioned. I am glad to see there is a younger generation coming up and supporting our farmers. I try to buy locally as much as possible, especially when I am in Maine which is several times a year. Hope to move up there some year. Excellent vlogs Tay!!
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Hi! Thank you, I’m so glad you enjoyed the video😀 crazy how many farms have just disappeared. Thanks so much for watching and commenting have a great day!
Wow great video. Just shows there is still a place for small farms everywhere. Keep the videos and information coming. 👍from Ireland 🇮🇪
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What a wonderful video. Please keep us updated on your dairy farm. 😊
Thank you!
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Taylor you're great! Thanks for sharing
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i am enjoying your videos I milked for 41 years, I live in northern Minnesota we might have about the same weather as you. some years the snow will come November 1 and stay till May 1. why to long but once and awhile we get lucky and have a little shorter helps a lot to have a nice November
Glad you are enjoying!
What a Beautiful Barn.
Really enjoyed your honesty and enthusiasm about your farm and the Dairy Farming. Not treating it like an industry. It is a way of life and their is money to be made. Yes but the way you treat your cows. That you for being the person you are. So enjoyable to listen to you. 🤗😊
Great video Taylor. I’m from a dairy farm in Ireland but live in NYC now. So it’s wonderful to watch & see you explain to the non farmers. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much!
Very educational video
Love your videos. You are amazing.
Fantastic video love old school tie stall operations
Great video...my first vist and really enjoyed the clear and well communicated explanation of how the farm operated. Good to see and hear how the health and safety of the cows featured prominently.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always 😀Keep up the great work and awesome enthusiasm
Thank you!
The guy you work for seems like he has a good head on his shoulders. Quality of milk and life for the cow > bigger faster cheaper lower quality milk
He is very good at farming.. thanks for commenting!
You are doing a great job😊
Great video!! Thanks so much!! I grew up on a farm very similar, but smaller, in NY and it is the best life ever!! Best wishes to you!
Great overview of how your small dairy operates to have a profit. There are lots of farms in my SW Indiana county
but no dairy farms and only a few beef cattle. you are a champion for working on this farm. God bless you.
Maine I hear it is one of the prettiest place in the USA.
Thank you, sad to hear that there are no longer farms in your area… Maine is pretty beautiful, it’s just the long cold winters that get ya down😄
It's great to see a small dairy farm still making it, there aren't many left around here. I spent some time when I was little on a similar farm following my Dad like a shadow while he worked on some of the equipment the farm had. When the owner retired about 20 years ago the kids stopped farming. Had a great time while I was there back! You're videos are great, love every one, a lot has changed but amazing how similar your operation is to the one I had experience with.
Thanks for commenting! I love hearing people tell stories of how farming has in someway touched their lives. It’s very sad how the younger generations don’t seem interested in keeping farms alive….so glad you enjoyed the videos! Thank you again!
Hey Tay western Australian dairy farmer just come across your farm channel. Interesting on your feed as we are pelletised grain , hay and grass.
wow what a great worker...
I'm jealous. Great job
Very informative thank you
Hi I'm from Indiana and I came across your channel about a week ago and I really enjoy it! I had cousins that farmed when I was a kid and I loved spending time at their farm. I like the smaller channels better because people like yourself are much more genuine. Keep up the good work and I'll be watching. Thank You
Hello! I’m so glad you enjoy watching, thank you for commenting!
Good video and explanation of why you farm the way you do. Here in west central Ohio we have big dairy operations, some with parlors and some with robots, but very few who milk cows like you. Your operation makes sense to me.
I'm happy you love what your doing, I've always loved that sort of job, I used to milk my own one cow but now I have goats, after watching you and others on TH-cam I really want a cow again. Good job. 👍
Hi! So cool that you have goats! Do you milk them or just pets? Good luck with your cow if you decide to get one!!
P.S. I totally think you should!😁
Hi Tay, I just found your channel a few days ago and am really enjoying your videos. I grew up on a 70ish cow dairy farm in upstate NY, we did not have a parlor either, just stanchion stalls, our house and barn were built in 1862, we were a little behind some of the more updated neighboring farms who had kick balers and automatic take offs. 😊 I enjoyed it then and it's great to see the workings of a similar farm in current days.
Thanks for the explanation I for one appreciated it. Great videos Taylor I enjoy seeing how people farm around the world!
Awesome video. I just realized who u and Brent are. I work we’re u get sawdust for the cows bedding. I get 2 watch u get loaded. I watch lots of farming videos and want to say u do a great job.
Thank you. Such a small world!!
Thank you. Such a small world!!
Hallo again a great video, the way you manage the farm is very interesting. Nice greetings from germany 😁
from durham uk good
Thank you very much for explanation. Love to hear about feed ration and improved health as a result. Very important info to remember as one day I would like to do dairy for my own consumption as homesteader.
Wow. I fully agree with you. I'm actually switching back to a tie stall too after spending on a free stall (basic tech). I also prefer to buy replacements and it's very hard to introduce one outsider to a freestall herd (one actually died trying to escape the bullying). Thank you!
thank you for sharing. It is hard for the family farms now day with the big operators out there. in my area there was so many farms but now. The barns are being torn down or just falling apart. old hip roof barn. 100 acres plus family farms just turning into housing development. I could talk about this all day.. but I better just let you go.. sorry if I wasted your time? looking forward for more of your videos.
Nice to see a few of us left my family milks about the same size herd as you do in a tie stall barn. We are one of two left in our town. We are also in Maine.
That’s fantastic! Great to hear that there’s more of us😁
Great video. Keep it up.
Thanks!
You do very good job and yes lots of farms have change and now all big farms are pushing small family farms out of the door 🚪 and I am not happy about that and big farms is not a family farm no more it’s a factory firms now and I don’t understand why the government give them money for today they don’t need it they can run by them self with our Government breaks and small farms really can use it more and the Green Party want us less cows 🐄 today for we don’t eat lots of cows meet and milk today because they want us all eat lest meet
Awsome video Taylor, Amazing information on farms in maine.
Great content and thank you!
Hey, hi! I love your videos. I also grew up on a dairy farm in Panama, Central America, and I'm currently working in New York. My dream is to go back to where my roots belong, which is farming. I wanted to ask you if there are any farms that use Brahman bulls and cows for beef, or which are the most common breeds for beef there.
Taylor, I have been told that corn, even in a Human it is very difficult to digest so I can imagine what it does for cows
I am a new viewer to your videos as I am very inquisitive about farms and cows❤