I live in western pa and all the dairy farmers have quit farming in my area I'm glad you are still dairy farming in Michigan I don't know what America is going to do without Dairy farmers in the future. Thank you for still dairy farming in 2022
Kip as you and I know there are lots of great people out there and have worked and planned there life. Things change in life and you have to adapt. The man you talked to I could tell he was a mover and shaker no grass grows under his feet. I personally wish him all the best. Great video thanks Kip.
That looked like it was one hell. Of a set up when they were milking would have loved to seen it when it was operating great video kip and thank Jerry for the tour
As an old guy I’m envious of you and your brothers as you farm into the future. Having a family team all playing the same game is awesome. Thanks for letting us follow you, your family and your farm. Keep on farming and I’ll keep on watching.
Kip. Great tour. I liked how you listened and absorbed everything without interrupting. It’s too bad someone else didn’t take over. But like Brian’s TH-cam Farm, he should be ok growing and selling without any cows or cattle. Thank you for carrying the milking tradition forward and finding the good in all the hard work. 👍🏼
I noticed in one of your old videos that when your feeding round bales your doing it the difficult way, if you will keep a cheap razor blade knife in all the machines you feed with then you can cut the net wrap on one side, raise the bale up, pull the bottom of the net wrap underneath to the other side, and pull it off the top, takes a little effort but not much, works better than trying to pull the net wrap off if the bale is sitting on it after sitting it on its side on the ground.
Good to hear you thinking of parlor expansion,it sure would speed up milking over your old side opening parlor and give you time for other things and may be add a few cows for future generations. Thanks KIPP
Thanks Kip and Jerry that was very interesting. Six hundred cows seems to be a lot to me. Couldn’t imagine how much feed that would take. I appreciate what the farmers do for the country.
Awesome farm tour from Jerry!! You can tell from him talking, the life experience, and dedication he had into his dairy operation. He spoke proudly about it. It just saddens me to see another dairy farm operation just cease operation. It’s unfortunate that farming isn’t like many other careers that you can train for via college or tech school. Most people who don’t grow up on a farm never have a chance to get into farming.
Thanks Kip and Jerry for a great video !! You see so many farm operations change as Generations change, farming is a lot of long hour days especially Dairy farming and to many young people want the eight hour weekend off jobs and we all know there are days you don't blame them if it's not in there hearts it doesn't work 🙁🤗🙂❤️
Kip thanks for a absolutely great video. Your visit to Jerry ‘s place I think I have his name right was ever so interesting. He had quite the setup and hopefully you can use some of his stainless which would be great for you. What you did get was good. What a nice person he was. Kind of him to show you the operation. Sad he has no family to continue the cow operation. Really sad. He should do good with his grain operation. He is got it doing good already. Good man he is. Glad you got some items off him. Will be big operator with cows gone. Kip thanks so much for taking us and showing us. So very very interesting. Thanks The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
ThAnks for the awesome farm tour , that man had worked hard for what he had just like what you and all your family is doing to keep your family farm rotating, god bless
Great video hope y'all can work out a deal to get part of the parlor . Hope you and your family are doing good . God bless and keep you and your family .
That was a awesome tour. Depressing to see a once functional dairy operation shut down. Maybe one day i could take a operation over. We ll see. God bless, be safe, have fun
Kip, the young man sounded very passionate about being a dairy farmer. I was very impressed. Very sad he didn’t have anyone to carry on with his dreams. Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Sad to see next-generation not doing anything with the milk cow. That was my dream as I was growing up. In mich worked on farm untell 21 years old .61 years old late now been driving truck for 34 years now ...great video..Kip
Biggest struggle I see on the farms around here, and ours, is finding help. We have some great employees but there's just so much work and time involved that it's never enough to get everything done that's needed
Thanks Kip you do a awesome job on your videos. Thanks Jerry as well very nice tour could see a very successful dairy farmer best of luck to you Jerry . That parlor would work very well for you guys Kip hope it works out for you brothers and you
That would be so exciting if you could the 16 stalls! Hope it comes true for you...very interesting video..ty! God bless 🙏 oh....and thanks for sharing picture of you two and the baby. . precious 💕
Great editing, same overhere in the netherlands, young people dont wanna work 7days a week for nothing beside all the regulations we got here,its becomming hard to be a farmer, thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
If you are serious about the parlor, I would research the GEA take-off control boards to see what replacement cost is and availability. Seems lately the companies are discontinuing older boards and forcing people to upgrade. Thanks for the content. We sold our 700 cow dairy in January. 2 hrs straight west of you
Wish I still lived in Decker I remember going with my dad to help milk cows at German farm ,shaws farm that was 40 years ago lost my dad Marvin Fishell 4 yr ago miss the middle thumb area thanks kip in Tennessee doing heating and air
I’ve spent a lot of time on the next mile over from Jerry’s on Jon Nelson’s farm it’s an all grass fed beef operation I guess it’s just crazy how us Imlay city guys can end up in Midland
Think earlage or they call snaplage could work for you. We do like it. We do have a crew do it for us but we have a p240 New Holland to do other chopping for us plus a few custom jobs.
Yes. The ones that do want to start can't afford it. I'd love to be able to farm/ranch. It's not sustainable with land prices, equipment prices, fertilizer, etc. Unless its a legacy farm for decades/century or a homestead act continuation, just not possible. Blackrock, Bill Gates, Chinese all buying up land driving prices up. Enough to make you sick.
There are a lot of farms selling out because there isn’t anyone to take it over. Where I live in Minnesota there are only 3 dairy farms in the county. Pretty sad. Growing up you could drive 5 miles any direction and there were dairy farms but not anymore
I often hear of farms shutting down because of lack of help, noone to take it over ect... an I often question this. Could be because of where I'm from, but I see, lower pay, no consistent work schedule, or mostly no farmers want to try an teach anyone that's not imitate family how to do anything! I guess it's true, be born into it, or marry into it!!!
@@aaronemmett2785 I'm a truck driver by trade. I always have guys saying come drive for me, come help when you can. That's all good an we'll, but they never need ya long enough to make a living doing it! Then they say, well you don't know how to do this or that, so why keep you around. To this I say, teach me to do said other jobs you need so I can afford to be there for the trucking. I can't leave a steady job for a couple months of inconsistentsy. I suppose that's what I mean!
What a shame to dismantle a beautiful working dairy farm like that...I would have sold it all together and moved to town, maybe kept a small cabin down in the grove by the old home place.
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I live in western pa and all the dairy farmers have quit farming in my area I'm glad you are still dairy farming in Michigan I don't know what America is going to do without Dairy farmers in the future. Thank you for still dairy farming in 2022
I lived in Michigan for over a decade….great people in Michigan. What a shame…all that hard work evaporated.
Never met a bad farmer; everyone has been good guys. Farmers don't have time for games, straight shooters all the time.
Great video Kip. Jerry, what a legend. So much knowledge there. The world needs more Jerry's!
@Dave Evans Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
This fella sounds like he went on and on talking fast so Kip had to really listen good to process it all. I love it, this guy is a very smart guy.
Kip as you and I know there are lots of great people out there and have worked and planned there life. Things change in life and you have to adapt.
The man you talked to I could tell he was a mover and shaker no grass grows under his feet. I personally wish him all the best. Great video thanks Kip.
@Wayne Rogers Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
There is a lot of valuable dairy equipment in barns all over michigan. God bless you guys still milking cows
Great video just sad to see another dairy farm get shut down at least he's still farming
That looked like it was one hell. Of a set up when they were milking would have loved to seen it when it was operating great video kip and thank Jerry for the tour
As an old guy I’m envious of you and your brothers as you farm into the future. Having a family team all playing the same game is awesome. Thanks for letting us follow you, your family and your farm. Keep on farming and I’ll keep on watching.
@Raymond Scott Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
Kip. Great tour. I liked how you listened and absorbed everything without interrupting. It’s too bad someone else didn’t take over. But like Brian’s TH-cam Farm, he should be ok growing and selling without any cows or cattle. Thank you for carrying the milking tradition forward and finding the good in all the hard work. 👍🏼
I noticed in one of your old videos that when your feeding round bales your doing it the difficult way, if you will keep a cheap razor blade knife in all the machines you feed with then you can cut the net wrap on one side, raise the bale up, pull the bottom of the net wrap underneath to the other side, and pull it off the top, takes a little effort but not much, works better than trying to pull the net wrap off if the bale is sitting on it after sitting it on its side on the ground.
Good to hear you thinking of parlor expansion,it sure would speed up milking over your old side opening parlor and give you time for other things and may be add a few cows for future generations. Thanks KIPP
@Greg Catlett Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
Props to this man, he accomplished a lot with success. Thanks Kip for this video. Take care
Hello from Saskatchewan , Canada great videos thanks for sharing
Glad he let you video his place
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing that tour. What an impressive place. So sad though. Another dairy gone.
Thanks Kip and Jerry that was very interesting. Six hundred cows seems to be a lot to me. Couldn’t imagine how much feed that would take. I appreciate what the farmers do for the country.
@Scott Miller Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
He's right snaplage saves a ton of work. I love the setup too bad wasn't closer to Wisconsin...
Awesome farm tour from Jerry!! You can tell from him talking, the life experience, and dedication he had into his dairy operation. He spoke proudly about it. It just saddens me to see another dairy farm operation just cease operation. It’s unfortunate that farming isn’t like many other careers that you can train for via college or tech school. Most people who don’t grow up on a farm never have a chance to get into farming.
@Cory Fritz Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
Thanks Kip and Jerry for a great video !! You see so many farm operations change as Generations change, farming is a lot of long hour days especially Dairy farming and to many young people want the eight hour weekend off jobs and we all know there are days you don't blame them if it's not in there hearts it doesn't work 🙁🤗🙂❤️
@Scott Hawkins Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
Thanks for sharing your vids with us
What a great video! Keep up the great work!
Thanks to the Truckers an farmers for the dedication ya'll have done for the American people 👍
That was a cool video…warranted a subscription to your channel. Nice shot of going over the famous Zilwaukee Bridge. The eight wonder of Michigan. 😂
It’s fun seeing other dairy’s. End of the day though no dairy is like your own home dairy.
Kip thanks for a absolutely great video.
Your visit to Jerry ‘s place I think I have his name right was ever so interesting. He had quite the setup and hopefully you can use some of his stainless which would be great for you. What you did get was good.
What a nice person he was. Kind of him to show you the operation. Sad he has no family to continue the cow operation. Really sad.
He should do good with his grain operation.
He is got it doing good already.
Good man he is.
Glad you got some items off him.
Will be big operator with cows gone.
Kip thanks so much for taking us and showing us. So very very interesting.
Thanks
The Iowa farm boy.
Steve.
@Steve Nicoson Hi how are you? Hope we can be good friends..
ThAnks for the awesome farm tour , that man had worked hard for what he had just like what you and all your family is doing to keep your family farm rotating, god bless
Great video hope y'all can work out a deal to get part of the parlor . Hope you and your family are doing good . God bless and keep you and your family .
Thanks for the memories
That was a awesome tour. Depressing to see a once functional dairy operation shut down. Maybe one day i could take a operation over. We ll see.
God bless, be safe, have fun
Kip, the young man sounded very passionate about being a dairy farmer. I was very impressed. Very sad he didn’t have anyone to carry on with his dreams. Great video. Thanks for sharing!
What an operation.... Really sorry to see it go. Hopefully he finds another use for those barns.
Sad to see next-generation not doing anything with the milk cow. That was my dream as I was growing up. In mich worked on farm untell 21 years old .61 years old late now been driving truck for 34 years now ...great video..Kip
Biggest struggle I see on the farms around here, and ours, is finding help. We have some great employees but there's just so much work and time involved that it's never enough to get everything done that's needed
Great video!! Best one in a while!! Keep them coming
Good to be home. Makes me appreciate this place that much more. My favorite lines from this video. Keep on keepin on, Kip!!
Thanks Kip you do a awesome job on your videos. Thanks Jerry as well very nice tour could see a very successful dairy farmer best of luck to you Jerry . That parlor would work very well for you guys Kip hope it works out for you brothers and you
Always a joy listening to the history of farms! Thank you!
Great video Kip, thanks...... An upgrade to the parlor may be a great thing, easier and more efficient is always better!!!
Man in the year 2000 that would have been a high tech place. Still pretty nice today
How long has it been since they were milking there thanks kip for the tour
That would be so exciting if you could the 16 stalls! Hope it comes true for you...very interesting video..ty! God bless 🙏 oh....and thanks for sharing picture of you two and the baby. . precious 💕
living history!
Great editing, same overhere in the netherlands, young people dont wanna work 7days a week for nothing beside all the regulations we got here,its becomming hard to be a farmer, thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
If you are serious about the parlor, I would research the GEA take-off control boards to see what replacement cost is and availability. Seems lately the companies are discontinuing older boards and forcing people to upgrade. Thanks for the content. We sold our 700 cow dairy in January. 2 hrs straight west of you
Wish I still lived in Decker I remember going with my dad to help milk cows at German farm ,shaws farm that was 40 years ago lost my dad Marvin Fishell 4 yr ago miss the middle thumb area thanks kip in Tennessee doing heating and air
You got the right idea get up grades for cheap. All that stuff new would take for ever to pay off if you got a loan. Love the channel
Great video Kip. Interesting to see how some farmers just move on and switch production. LETS GO!! from Norway.
I’ve spent a lot of time on the next mile over from Jerry’s on Jon Nelson’s farm it’s an all grass fed beef operation I guess it’s just crazy how us Imlay city guys can end up in Midland
It would be pretty cool Kip to see you with a new parlor
Thank you for the tour!
Great video
Think earlage or they call snaplage could work for you. We do like it. We do have a crew do it for us but we have a p240 New Holland to do other chopping for us plus a few custom jobs.
Awesome tour, thank you
Great video , great old farmer. You should take that sprinkler system of his.
Enjoy your videos
That was beautiful county!
Very informative
Very interesting!
Vary cool stuff. Keep up the good work kind sir
Well explained by this gentleman , Kip I bet you get many ideas , stay safe , have fun !! Money saving ideas !!
Yes, this gentleman explains things and reasons it all out like George Gierok. These men are a very valuable resource.
Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for the great video very interesting video keep up the great work you do on your family's farm
Thank you. Much appreciated
That barn would look good at the Siegler's.
Awesome tour Jerry very interesting guy hope you took in all the knowledge he gave you Kip
I am really excited to see you place and learning dairy farming plz give ma chance
Nothing quite like home 👌
When I was living in Virginia I milked in a parlor very much like that one
the guy is smart , why did he quit milking 600 head cattle he had a nice setup?
As my dad always said some farmers lose equals a improvement of another farmer if used correctly 🇺🇸😎
Grab what you can out of there. Save you some big bucks.👍
superb uploading.ese you later~Kip! =)
So sad to see the next generations that don’t want to keep the legacy going
Yes. The ones that do want to start can't afford it. I'd love to be able to farm/ranch. It's not sustainable with land prices, equipment prices, fertilizer, etc. Unless its a legacy farm for decades/century or a homestead act continuation, just not possible. Blackrock, Bill Gates, Chinese all buying up land driving prices up. Enough to make you sick.
And then there are people like me who wish to have been born into it
New set up in the parlor would be great.
Nice video interesting set up
Beautiful farm
They definitely knew how to get milk out of their cows!
Very sad to see dairy's going out of business we need dairy farmers so so sad but a good video kip
Thank you
Good 👍 job man
Kip The air view what are the little sq. in the fields?
You where close to where we are. We beef farm in Rosebush
There are a lot of farms selling out because there isn’t anyone to take it over. Where I live in Minnesota there are only 3 dairy farms in the county. Pretty sad. Growing up you could drive 5 miles any direction and there were dairy farms but not anymore
Another Awesome 👍🏻 Video 👍🏻
Wow! Talk about your fully automated. I can see why with 600 head.
I often hear of farms shutting down because of lack of help, noone to take it over ect... an I often question this. Could be because of where I'm from, but I see, lower pay, no consistent work schedule, or mostly no farmers want to try an teach anyone that's not imitate family how to do anything! I guess it's true, be born into it, or marry into it!!!
hahaha. Even being born into it is No guarantee to keep your job if THE BOSS WONT LET GO OF THE WHEEL . AN RIDE SHOT GUN . TAKE IT FROM ME. 😮😮😮
@@aaronemmett2785 I'm a truck driver by trade. I always have guys saying come drive for me, come help when you can. That's all good an we'll, but they never need ya long enough to make a living doing it! Then they say, well you don't know how to do this or that, so why keep you around. To this I say, teach me to do said other jobs you need so I can afford to be there for the trucking. I can't leave a steady job for a couple months of inconsistentsy. I suppose that's what I mean!
It's sad to see the next generation not carry on when there's guys like me that didn't get the choice.
Man to milk 16 vs 8 would give you way more time for family 👪
It's a shame he couldn't sell his place as a dairy
smart guy to bad there is nobody to take over in his place
Very cool but sad to say the.guy misses it
It's too bad you couldn't get Jerry to talk a little bit more.....
What a shame to dismantle a beautiful working dairy farm like that...I would have sold it all together and moved to town, maybe kept a small cabin down in the grove by the old home place.
Shame to see an other operation out of business
Sad Sad 😞
It's very sad to see that big of a farm go bye.
It’s now a 0 cow dairy.
This is a really sad video…
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