Who would have thought a 70-year-old lady would be absolutely fascinated by this. I am amazed. Thank you so much. I bet first thing you do when you get home is hit the shower. Mike, you have truly kicked it up a notch. Thank you so much.
Worked with Chad for several years in agronomy across the northern plains. He knows his shit and he’d give you the shirt off of his back. Great operation-Great video!
As a grandson of farmers and ranchers I under stand the grain distribution as we hauled our crops to the elevators during harvest. Buying in bulk saves you money and with a bit of work you can distribute the feed to your livestock as the feeding process is needed in the winter months. Farmers erect the storage bins so they can sell their crops as the market favors the need for them to sell at a price they want. That information on the bushel prices is important to farmers and ranchers so they can have more control on their yearly income. Good video Mike!
I am a city person. Very interesting. Great thumb nail sketch of a feed mill and grain elevator operations. Every time we get a little more of an idea of meat production. Now if we could only get an accurate truth of origin labeling for what we buy at the grocery store.
Most interesting tour. I lived in Fort Worth for many years and wondered what goes on inside one of the large grain elevators of which there are many scattered around the area. And here I am with you and Our Wyoming Life and I finally get a great tour. Very nice. Many thanks.
It was probably really fun for that guy to give you a tour of the mill. He does this every day & it is fun to have someone shadow you & show them what you do for a living!
John Wayne, in the movie “The Cowboys” drove his cattle to Belle Fourche. Had never heard the name other than the movie and where you are going to get feed. The Cowboys is my favorite movie. Love your channel.
Exactly what I thought of Cherry Bomb! I love that movie also. Guess it's like watching this channel, things I'm familiar with and can relate to in my life (Hardy Fimps, my hero =)
Thanks for taking us along Mike, it is always great to see genuine hard workin' blue collar Americans in an industry that also helped build our great Nation! Excellent educational video 🇺🇸❤ Keep on keepin' it country! 🤠👍
Good idea for a video. My son George worked at a grain elevator here in Nebraska for awhile. He got pretty dirty, and at harvest time, he worked very long hours.
We bought some feed for our chickens from our local mill . Plus molasses for our dairy cows. We milled our own grains into feed in a hammer mill we had. Then we bought a grinder and made life much easier. W ed also got our field grains to plant and fertilizer from the mill as well. They still ground corn mill for people as well. As a noisy child my nose was in everything but they liked to show me how things were done. I got alot of knowledge from that noisy nose and still have after 64 years! But it was great to learn so much.
Wow! Mike big huge thank you for taking us along with ya today for sure. Knowledge, history absolutely loved it. Love what you have done with your channel with these daily vlogs. I am with you every day just do not comment much. Glad Grace had her private birthday with those in the family. Y'all Take Care & God Bless
I use to drive grain truck for a feed mill here in Minnesota and always liked going inside to watch them make feed. Best job I ever had and liked doing. You talking about the boiler room for the heat, the rest room we had was right in the boiler room and you can imagine the heat in there in the middle of the summer.
Great video. My dad ran a feed mill and then a grain elevator in Minnesota. Not many old school operations left like the Dakota Mills mill. The Dakota Mill is way more modern than the operation that I remember. Thanks for another peek into how things work
I love the small town service. They do it well, with pride and good service. I try to buy stuff from my local businesses. You might pay a little more but it’s usually worth it.
I haven't seen a cigarette lighter in a car/truck in years. As if life on the ranch wasn't educational enough, you bring us on a road trip to teach us even more about the world of agriculture. Thank you Mike.
This Video was SPECTACULAR! I am building models of some of the grain-feed mills and elevators and this video has really helped me to do it correctly! I see those yards in central Pennsylvania here but have never been up close to one like this. Thanks for making this video!
Hey Mike, Wow this was a really cool video learning all the ends and outs on how grain is made. It is a scientific project of percentages just to get the right mixture and we get to see how it's done. A lot of work goes into this and these guys deserve a pat on the back for it for doing the job right. Mike I give you two thumbs up on this video, so what's next for OWL keep up the good work it's see you on the next video🤔🤠😉👍
There are no unimportant job's when it comes to farming and ranching. Thank God for the farmers that grow the grains that the ranchers feed their livestock and gives us the best food supply in the world.
Very cool video Mike. We buy feed once in a while in the Winter, this shows exactly how its produced and where it comes from.👍 cheers from Prairie Sunset Ranch☀️
Thanks Mike! This is an awesome video. I've gone to the feed mill for years and never had a clue other than trucks dumping and me picking up stuff. Very cool!
I worked in feed mills in Southern California for 49 years. I estimate I filled, sewed and stacked around 2 million bags in my career. Most of the time I was making bulk feed, though. One man operated 8 grain rollers, and often rolled 1000 tons a day. It was dirty, thankless, and stressful work. This little mill would be a more pleasant place to work.
There are many 2-300 year old mills here in Lancaster County Pa that are still operating - the one in New Holland also has a geographical marker at it - love going into them and watching how they do things
Nice video Mike. I used to formulate my own feed rations for my lactating cows. It was interesting to see how changing their ration would affect their milk production. I like how the mill still uses burlap sacks. I didn't think anyone still used them.
I really enjoyed this video. It was Ruby great to see a man take pride in his job. He was more than just sacking feed. Although I no longer live in the rural area Listening to him talk about his job made me proud to say I worked around men like him. Men that took pride in their job. Thank you.
They still make the I - Ball. I bought one two years ago to help me hitch up my RV that uses a ball to pull with. Since I am a senior citizen I use one of those grabber thing to place and remove the camera. A lot easier than that climbing in the bed.
Local elevator - greatest farmer hangout in the area, except church. As a kid and a 14-18 year old truck driver, I spent many hours in the elevator or mostly in line. That is fun to see the instant dock-age and protein, right in the elevator. It use to be, that it had to be sent to the state lab for those tests. Here in Montana, that was Great Falls. The elevator would fill a 3lb coffee can with grain sample from each truck. Every evening, (example my wifes cousin), she would take off in a Volkswagen with a diesel engine and drive just over 400 miles (by the time she got to each elevator) from Glasgow to Plentywood and back, picking up samples. Those were then transferred to a pickup who then picked up samples on the way to Great Falls. Next day we would know if we got docked for bad grain, usually weed seed, or bonus for protein. The drier the year the higher the protein for spring red, but fewer bushels. Last year on the farm we got an average of 14.4 protein but only 19 bushels per acre.
Where they feed-out cattle, one can hear the mills fire up early in the morning and run for hours. Mike maybe some of your quality cattle end up in my back yard. Within 20 miles of my farm the mills in the local feedlots have to keep about 1/4 million cattle each day content. Often the cattle are shipped in 800 miles just as feed comes in by unit train to the Panhandles and Colorado from the Mid West.
It sounds like this is the same Grain Mill in Belle that 65 yrs ago I helped Dad take in a truckload of barley and they added the other components and we went home a few hours later with our load of Cake which the cattle loved. We traveled about 2 hrs west to get there.
Been through Belle Fousche a number of times great town and people. This was a great video never really understood how the elevator's worked. Would not like to be working in all that heat. Thanks Mike for sharing.
Very educational and interesting! Thanks Mike for taking us along. My uncle was an elevator agent for years so always found interesting. Every town had a small elevator so there is definitely some nostalgia with them. Good job
Hi Mike, thanks for taking us along. It is neat to see the inner workings of a old feed mill still steam driven and with hand pulls for all the cylos and bins. All new and upgraded mills are all automated now, push a button and computer does it all for them. A lot of the corn and grain farmers have gotten their own moisture and protein % meters. Sure helps them with the right time to harvest for quality and higher $ for their product provided mill quality control is met.
There's another great informative video . Mike you and Erin show so many folks how farm and ranch products get to the public threw small and large businesses all across America . It's like spokes in a wheel and it sure works better when we work together .
Thanks, Mike. My brother-in-law works at a feed mill in central Pennsylvania, and I used to make hog & cattle feed (in a former life) with a feed mixing truck. Take care and be safe.
Who would have thought a 70-year-old lady would be absolutely fascinated by this. I am amazed. Thank you so much. I bet first thing you do when you get home is hit the shower. Mike, you have truly kicked it up a notch. Thank you so much.
Worked with Chad for several years in agronomy across the northern plains. He knows his shit and he’d give you the shirt off of his back. Great operation-Great video!
Shane was a cool dude. Loved how he took pride in his work.
Shane is one busy guy. Takes pride in his job. Very important.
This was great. I never realized the complexity of an elevator operation. Thanks for these 'behind the scene' videos.
Another fantastic video! I absolutely love the behind the scenes "why's" and "how's". Thanks for taking us along!
Our pleasure!
Judy
Let’s go to South Dakota then! We’re all with you in spirit
Salute to Shane. It is so good to see someone who takes pride of his job and his product.
As a grandson of farmers and ranchers I under stand the grain distribution as we hauled our crops to the elevators during harvest. Buying in bulk saves you money and with a bit of work you can distribute the feed to your livestock as the feeding process is needed in the winter months. Farmers erect the storage bins so they can sell their crops as the market favors the need for them to sell at a price they want. That information on the bushel prices is important to farmers and ranchers so they can have more control on their yearly income. Good video Mike!
You make sure you tell the guys at the mill thanks from all of us!!! Thanks for taking us with you!!!
I am a city person. Very interesting. Great thumb nail sketch of a feed mill and grain elevator operations. Every time we get a little more of an idea of meat production. Now if we could only get an accurate truth of origin labeling for what we buy at the grocery store.
Thank you very much!
Most interesting tour. I lived in Fort Worth for many years and wondered what goes on inside one of the large grain elevators of which there are many scattered around the area. And here I am with you and Our Wyoming Life and I finally get a great tour. Very nice. Many thanks.
It was probably really fun for that guy to give you a tour of the mill. He does this every day & it is fun to have someone shadow you & show them what you do for a living!
John Wayne, in the movie “The Cowboys” drove his cattle to Belle Fourche. Had never heard the name other than the movie and where you are going to get feed. The Cowboys is my favorite movie. Love your channel.
Exactly what I thought of Cherry Bomb! I love that movie also. Guess it's like watching this channel, things I'm familiar with and can relate to in my life (Hardy Fimps, my hero =)
Shane is the epitome of a hardworking American. Takes pride in how he does his work and what his end product looks like. Damn fine, sir! Damn fine!
Great video. love to see people take pride in what they do. I had no idea what all went into making feed. Thanks.
Our pleasure!
"Dakota Mills" sounds like a country music singer
Thanks for taking us along Mike, it is always great to see genuine hard workin' blue collar Americans in an industry that also helped build our great Nation! Excellent educational video 🇺🇸❤
Keep on keepin' it country! 🤠👍
Good idea for a video. My son George worked at a grain elevator here in Nebraska for awhile. He got pretty dirty, and at harvest time, he worked very long hours.
Thank you for educating the public about how their food is raise and what it takes to grow that food. I truly love your videos.
We bought some feed for our chickens from our local mill . Plus molasses for our dairy cows. We milled our own grains into feed in a hammer mill we had. Then we bought a grinder and made life much easier. W ed also got our field grains to plant and fertilizer from the mill as well. They still ground corn mill for people as well. As a noisy child my nose was in everything but they liked to show me how things were done. I got alot of knowledge from that noisy nose and still have after 64 years! But it was great to learn so much.
Wow! Mike big huge thank you for taking us along with ya today for sure. Knowledge, history absolutely loved it. Love what you have done with your channel with these daily vlogs. I am with you every day just do not comment much. Glad Grace had her private birthday with those in the family. Y'all Take Care & God Bless
Glad you enjoyed it
Great to see how things work. Also nice that they were willing to let you film the experience, things most of us will never see.
I use to drive grain truck for a feed mill here in Minnesota and always liked going inside to watch them make feed. Best job I ever had and liked doing. You talking about the boiler room for the heat, the rest room we had was right in the boiler room and you can imagine the heat in there in the middle of the summer.
I currently work at a grain elevator. Even though its listed as one of if not the most dangerous job according to OSHA, I absolutely love it.
Absolutely loved this. Brings back a lot of memories dealing with bulk goods in a totally different industry. Great job as usual.
Another great field trip. Learned a lot today. Thank you for taking us along with you. Looking forward to tomorrow’s video.
Looks like old technology, but the old saying is if it works don't mess with it.
Great tour Mike,and very interesting
Shane is a chef ! Made with the most important ingredient, American Pride! The grain elevators are our skyscrapers in the Texas Panhandle...
Good morning to Our Wyoming Life
Nice to see an old elevator running like that yet. The new ones are a lot bigger.
Thanks for stopping by mike love see all the videos and see South Dakota being part of the video 👍
Great job today Mike .
Hard work goes in the taking care of the ranch too.
Godbless you Mike
You got that right!
Best video for feed mix I've seen. Loved it. Lancaster Cty., PA. here.
I really enjoy your videos the music you use is spot on every time as a farmer my self I get a little smarter with every video thank you sir
Great video. My dad ran a feed mill and then a grain elevator in Minnesota. Not many old school operations left like the Dakota Mills mill. The Dakota Mill is way more modern than the operation that I remember. Thanks for another peek into how things work
Bring back memories from our farm with 350 head of Black Angus..
I love the small town service. They do it well, with pride and good service. I try to buy stuff from my local businesses. You might pay a little more but it’s usually worth it.
I haven't seen a cigarette lighter in a car/truck in years. As if life on the ranch wasn't educational enough, you bring us on a road trip to teach us even more about the world of agriculture. Thank you Mike.
This Video was SPECTACULAR! I am building models of some of the grain-feed mills and elevators and this video has really helped me to do it correctly! I see those yards in central Pennsylvania here but have never been up close to one like this. Thanks for making this video!
Hey Mike, Wow this was a really cool video learning all the ends and outs on how grain is made. It is a scientific project of percentages just to get the right mixture and we get to see how it's done. A lot of work goes into this and these guys deserve a pat on the back for it for doing the job right. Mike I give you two thumbs up on this video, so what's next for OWL keep up the good work it's see you on the next video🤔🤠😉👍
There are no unimportant job's when it comes to farming and ranching. Thank God for the farmers that grow the grains that the ranchers feed their livestock and gives us the best food supply in the world.
Thank you for what you all do every day!
Most interesting, surprising how little we know about the manufacture of a lot of our daily products. Thanks for bringing us along
Very cool video Mike. We buy feed once in a while in the Winter, this shows exactly how its produced and where it comes from.👍 cheers from Prairie Sunset Ranch☀️
Thanks to the grain company for allowing you to take us on a tour
Learned something new
Thanks Mike! This is an awesome video. I've gone to the feed mill for years and never had a clue other than trucks dumping and me picking up stuff. Very cool!
This Is my favorite video yet ! It brought back the memories as a kid of going to the local feed mill with my papaw in Montpelier Louisiana !
ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW
HOW THEY DO THE GRAINS
HARD WORKING PEOPLE
THIS FOLKS ! 👏👏 👏☺
👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👌
THANKS MIKE ! ✔
🌎⛵🐬🌠✨🌌❇
Dumped more loads than I care to remember at an elevator growing up but never actually went inside other than to the restroom. Cool video Mike.
Thanks to Dakota Mill & Grain and to you -- that was really interesting!
Very interesting! I have never seen the inside of the mill workings!! Thank you for the insight.
I worked in feed mills in Southern California for 49 years. I estimate I filled, sewed and stacked around 2 million bags in my career. Most of the time I was making bulk feed, though. One man operated 8 grain rollers, and often rolled 1000 tons a day. It was dirty, thankless, and stressful work. This little mill would be a more pleasant place to work.
Well done Mike. Loads of information.
There are many 2-300 year old mills here in Lancaster County Pa that are still operating - the one in New Holland also has a geographical marker at it - love going into them and watching how they do things
Nice video Mike. I used to formulate my own feed rations for my lactating cows. It was interesting to see how changing their ration would affect their milk production. I like how the mill still uses burlap sacks. I didn't think anyone still used them.
Awesome Video Mike and Much LOVE From Lexington, Kentucky!!!!
Thanks Mike.
So cool thank you that was really fun learning all about the mill. Very hard working men. The American way love it. Granny B.
Very interesting. Also how nice were the co workers over there. Big thumbs up!!
What a nice drive!
Sure Is a beautiful country out there,! I was out that way years ago. And hope to be again! Some day!
So cool. Its interesting to see that they keep to the old school ways. Probably get a better product that way. I'm sure the pigs will approve.
Thanks for the tour, Mike. Very interesting.
Thanks for showing this video mike!!
Thanks for the tour
Thank you for the grain tour. Great video
thanks Mike
I really enjoyed this video. It was Ruby great to see a man take pride in his job. He was more than just sacking feed. Although I no longer live in the rural area Listening to him talk about his job made me proud to say I worked around men like him. Men that took pride in their job. Thank you.
Shane is such a nice guy.
They still make the I - Ball. I bought one two years ago to help me hitch up my RV that uses a ball to pull with. Since I am a senior citizen I use one of those grabber thing to place and remove the camera. A lot easier than that climbing in the bed.
Great video. I love field trips. I another way we learn where our beef gets their food.
Local elevator - greatest farmer hangout in the area, except church. As a kid and a 14-18 year old truck driver, I spent many hours in the elevator or mostly in line. That is fun to see the instant dock-age and protein, right in the elevator. It use to be, that it had to be sent to the state lab for those tests. Here in Montana, that was Great Falls. The elevator would fill a 3lb coffee can with grain sample from each truck. Every evening, (example my wifes cousin), she would take off in a Volkswagen with a diesel engine and drive just over 400 miles (by the time she got to each elevator) from Glasgow to Plentywood and back, picking up samples. Those were then transferred to a pickup who then picked up samples on the way to Great Falls. Next day we would know if we got docked for bad grain, usually weed seed, or bonus for protein. The drier the year the higher the protein for spring red, but fewer bushels. Last year on the farm we got an average of 14.4 protein but only 19 bushels per acre.
Where they feed-out cattle, one can hear the mills fire up early in the morning and run for hours. Mike maybe some of your quality cattle end up in my back yard. Within 20 miles of my farm the mills in the local feedlots have to keep about 1/4 million cattle each day content. Often the cattle are shipped in 800 miles just as feed comes in by unit train to the Panhandles and Colorado from the Mid West.
Great video! And... glad you you found your hat!!
Very cool! Thankyou Mike!!
25:25 The cat is the best.
i enjoy the how the feed is made with different gains pretty awesome i think so thanks for sharing this with me God bless
It sounds like this is the same Grain Mill in Belle that 65 yrs ago I helped Dad take in a truckload of barley and they added the other components and we went home a few hours later with our load of Cake which the cattle loved. We traveled about 2 hrs west to get there.
Great episode!!! I fully enjoyed it!!!!
Love what y’all are doing
Great respect for all the people involved in the industry.
Been through Belle Fousche a number of times great town and people. This was a great video never really understood how the elevator's worked. Would not like to be working in all that heat. Thanks Mike for sharing.
Thanks a Ton Mike, taking a trip to see the other side of America, from a City-E-Slicker of Jacksonville Florida And Indianapolis, Indiana.
Glad you enjoyed it
I enjoy how it’s made videos. Yesterday and today. Two in a row.
Very educational and interesting! Thanks Mike for taking us along. My uncle was an elevator agent for years so always found interesting. Every town had a small elevator so there is definitely some nostalgia with them. Good job
Great tour !!!!
Thank you for showing this.Bring back good Memory with a good friend we use to the mill to pick up feed.The smell of sweet feed .
Hi Mike, thanks for taking us along. It is neat to see the inner workings of a old feed mill still steam driven and with hand pulls for all the cylos and bins.
All new and upgraded mills are all automated now, push a button and computer does it all for them. A lot of the corn and grain farmers have gotten their own moisture and protein % meters. Sure helps them with the right time to harvest for quality and higher $ for their product provided mill quality control is met.
😊 enjoyed the tour. Very informative.
There's another great informative video . Mike you and Erin show so many folks how farm and ranch products get to the public threw small and large businesses all across America . It's like spokes in a wheel and it sure works better when we work together .
Great tour!
Thanks Mike for the Virtual Field Trip. I feel like singing....The Wheels on the Bus go round and round.....
Interestingly informative. Thanks.
Thanks, Mike. My brother-in-law works at a feed mill in central Pennsylvania, and I used to make hog & cattle feed (in a former life) with a feed mixing truck. Take care and be safe.
Thankyou Mike, for taking us on a very interesting behind the scenes tour!
Loved this video. Very interesting to see the process of making your feed. Thank you for taking us along.
Hope you're all doing well in Wyoming
Great video, thank you Mike.
Incredible video. I grew up in farm country where there were a few grain mills. I had no idea how complex the process was. Thanks for the video.