Yep. Land and money are hard, especially if we are pricing land against non farmers. Soil health, we have to talk about tillage to relieve compaction and still move forward on things we can measure. Zero till, especially in hay and in our area, is almost impossible. Like you said, this ground gets hard. Moldboard 1 time in 10 years can still move forward. Row crop is very easy to bring in soil health. Bring in cattle and hay and without some good tillage you're gonna have a hard time. If starting farming, soil health would be something i would work into after several years of normal farming. There is a lot of land around here that you need to conventionally farm to get it running. Then bring in soil heath. Imagine the hate I am gonna get if I pull out the moldboard plow Even grazing, we spend 6 months "confinement." It's hard to truly graze in winter. It's easy to raise cows in the summer. But our challenge or what I thought was going to be a challenge was the steers. Turns out steers graze finish just fine, just a learning experience about feed and what your finished weight are going to be. No different than the row crops in that you're experience and all the old-timers saying this is how it has to be. turns out a lot of them are more of a myth or guideline than a rule. We used to feed the population with cattle on grass. Now that we've gone through a 100 years of removing moving animals from the land and people from the land the government is now starting to see that the pendulum might have swung too far. You would have to have such a massive restructure to our society to bring twenty percent of the population back to a small farm to bust up the feedlots/ commercial You'd also have to bring back the small town And small town butchers. We know that it can work because we did it for thousands of years. It'll just never happen again without a major event upset the world I am the early adopter in the area. For the first 4-5 years, I couldn't make a mistake. For the last 3-4 years, i can't get anything right. And that hurts financially.
Couldn't agree more. When I say I don't think it's possible is I don't think we can get the farmers back. The whole point of my channel and confinement cattle topics is to show young people who are interested in farming, that it is possible. It just might not look like the big guys on here! Not everyone has or can get several hundred acres to graze or couple square sections of row crops. You can't make things come available, so work with what you can.
A lot of good points. I think being able to adapt is very important. It's the all your eggs in one basket thing. People get so focused on one path that by the time they realize it's not working it's too late. Farm the way that works for you.
Grazing cattle is best on land that is hard to crop or uncroppable. 90 percent of my summer pasture is wooded land. Cattle and trees go good together. If searching for pasture, wooded or lower land is usually priced a lot lower than good farm land. We are always trying to buy more land, open land for crops and wooded for pasture. Nice part about buying timber land is there is usually already marketable income (timber) on it. Geographically, everyone has their own unique circumstances. Same go for cropping practices! Everyone needs to do what they are comfortable doing!
Agreed, What I was saying is owend land is the hardest to obtain starting out. Honestly, pastureable ground is bringing the same as tillable around here from people coming up from the cities. Whole purpose of my channel is to show young people that want to get into farming that it is possible, it just might not look like the "big" guys on here. . .Thanks for watching Brad!
You and your wife should both be very proud of your operation and what you have accomplished. Thanks for another great, informative video. Looking forward to the next one .
Well back when I was a kid, all the farms were livestock hay and grain they were smaller and diversified. I totally disagree with you on the packer large 0:01 feedlot issue that just creates some more centralized food system with a Packers running the industry that’s just created less farmers that’s why I stopped being a member of the NCBA years ago. They just really are being ran by the feedlot, might want to follow what R-Calf USA is talking about about representing the independent cattle producer.- great video
All outstanding points. Land is and always will be the biggest hurdle to get started. I’d be very interested in the numbers side of the confinement barns for cow/calf. Most of the ones who will down you on that are Greg Judy foamers. Having 3k acres that you can walk 400 head down the road and rotational/intensively graze is not reality in the vast majority of places. Too many people in our neck of the woods. We are spread across 50 miles north/south just to keep enough ground.
How many acres do you own? I agree with you on tillage. Strip till is a great option but I don’t have the land to justify it. VT is also a great option, I do hire some of that done plenty of machines around just can’t justify my own. Land is just not available around me with all the huge dairies in my area. Great video
Well back when I was a kid, all the farms were livestock hay and grain they were smaller and diversified. I totally disagree with you on the packer large feedlot issue that just creates some more centralized food system with a Packers running the industry that’s just created less farmers that’s why I stopped being a member of the NCBA years ago. They just really are being ran by the feedlot, might want to follow what R-Calf USA is talking about about representing the independent cattle producer.
I'm not saying that the large feedlots are the way to go. I'm saying we don't have the farmers that want to raise them on the smaller scale. And no I don't think the government should step in and subsidize small "Regenerative" cattle farms. The less the government controls the better. If anything let to direct farm to table market drive the change not government.
@@e.a.bfarms well, you’re definitely right on that point there aren’t a lot of farmers that want to do livestock let’s face it being an equipment operator and doing row crops extends your labor meaning a labor extensive operation as opposed to a labor-intensive operation like livestock are I mean just think you’re taking care of your cattle multiple times a day
Your cows look good to me . I've seen several big barns put up for 100 head under roof. They say the cows eat half as much . Land prices around me are 20,000 a acre go 5 miles west it's 40,000 to 50,000 a acre . 20 years ago I thought 3,500 was too high for Land. Just remember everyone in the coffee shop knows more about your place than you . Just ask them lol
Yep. Land and money are hard, especially if we are pricing land against non farmers.
Soil health, we have to talk about tillage to relieve compaction and still move forward on things we can measure.
Zero till, especially in hay and in our area, is almost impossible. Like you said, this ground gets hard.
Moldboard 1 time in 10 years can still move forward.
Row crop is very easy to bring in soil health. Bring in cattle and hay and without some good tillage you're gonna have a hard time.
If starting farming, soil health would be something i would work into after several years of normal farming.
There is a lot of land around here that you need to conventionally farm to get it running. Then bring in soil heath.
Imagine the hate I am gonna get if I pull out the moldboard plow
Even grazing, we spend 6 months "confinement." It's hard to truly graze in winter.
It's easy to raise cows in the summer. But our challenge or what I thought was going to be a challenge was the steers. Turns out steers graze finish just fine, just a learning experience about feed and what your finished weight are going to be. No different than the row crops in that you're experience and all the old-timers saying this is how it has to be. turns out a lot of them are more of a myth or guideline than a rule.
We used to feed the population with cattle on grass. Now that we've gone through a 100 years of removing moving animals from the land and people from the land the government is now starting to see that the pendulum might have swung too far.
You would have to have such a massive restructure to our society to bring twenty percent of the population back to a small farm to bust up the feedlots/ commercial You'd also have to bring back the small town And small town butchers. We know that it can work because we did it for thousands of years. It'll just never happen again without a major event upset the world
I am the early adopter in the area. For the first 4-5 years, I couldn't make a mistake. For the last 3-4 years, i can't get anything right. And that hurts financially.
Couldn't agree more. When I say I don't think it's possible is I don't think we can get the farmers back. The whole point of my channel and confinement cattle topics is to show young people who are interested in farming, that it is possible. It just might not look like the big guys on here! Not everyone has or can get several hundred acres to graze or couple square sections of row crops. You can't make things come available, so work with what you can.
A lot of good points. I think being able to adapt is very important. It's the all your eggs in one basket thing. People get so focused on one path that by the time they realize it's not working it's too late. Farm the way that works for you.
Thanks for watching! Did the snow miss you guys also?
@@e.a.bfarms We got nothing out of the last system.
Look what the wind blew in... ha
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 Amazing the things that show up after a storm. 😁
New sub. You have a really good channel I enjoyed it a lot keep it up
Thanks for watching!
Grazing cattle is best on land that is hard to crop or uncroppable. 90 percent of my summer pasture is wooded land. Cattle and trees go good together. If searching for pasture, wooded or lower land is usually priced a lot lower than good farm land. We are always trying to buy more land, open land for crops and wooded for pasture. Nice part about buying timber land is there is usually already marketable income (timber) on it. Geographically, everyone has their own unique circumstances. Same go for cropping practices! Everyone needs to do what they are comfortable doing!
Agreed, What I was saying is owend land is the hardest to obtain starting out. Honestly, pastureable ground is bringing the same as tillable around here from people coming up from the cities. Whole purpose of my channel is to show young people that want to get into farming that it is possible, it just might not look like the "big" guys on here. . .Thanks for watching Brad!
Hello “E.A.B Farms”! Thank you for showing us such a wonderful video! I feel so happy! I look forward to your next work! Have a nice day!
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You and your wife should both be very proud of your operation and what you have accomplished. Thanks for another great, informative video. Looking forward to the next one .
Thanks for watching! Makes it easier to make them know some people enjoy the videos!
Good points
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Good to see your success. Keep evaluating your business components for profitability.
Good to see you watching Dave! Any snow up there?
@@e.a.bfarmsmaybe six inches. Hopefully enough to protect the rye and alfalfa.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn We barely got a dusting.
Well back when I was a kid, all the farms were livestock hay and grain they were smaller and diversified. I totally disagree with you on the packer large 0:01 feedlot issue that just creates some more centralized food system with a Packers running the industry that’s just created less farmers that’s why I stopped being a member of the NCBA years ago. They just really are being ran by the feedlot, might want to follow what R-Calf USA is talking about about representing the independent cattle producer.- great video
All outstanding points. Land is and always will be the biggest hurdle to get started.
I’d be very interested in the numbers side of the confinement barns for cow/calf.
Most of the ones who will down you on that are Greg Judy foamers. Having 3k acres that you can walk 400 head down the road and rotational/intensively graze is not reality in the vast majority of places.
Too many people in our neck of the woods.
We are spread across 50 miles north/south just to keep enough ground.
Thanks for watching!
How many acres do you own? I agree with you on tillage. Strip till is a great option but I don’t have the land to justify it. VT is also a great option, I do hire some of that done plenty of machines around just can’t justify my own. Land is just not available around me with all the huge dairies in my area. Great video
Less than 10% owned, Thanks for watching!
Well back when I was a kid, all the farms were livestock hay and grain they were smaller and diversified. I totally disagree with you on the packer large feedlot issue that just creates some more centralized food system with a Packers running the industry that’s just created less farmers that’s why I stopped being a member of the NCBA years ago. They just really are being ran by the feedlot, might want to follow what R-Calf USA is talking about about representing the independent cattle producer.
I'm not saying that the large feedlots are the way to go. I'm saying we don't have the farmers that want to raise them on the smaller scale. And no I don't think the government should step in and subsidize small "Regenerative" cattle farms. The less the government controls the better. If anything let to direct farm to table market drive the change not government.
@@e.a.bfarms well, you’re definitely right on that point there aren’t a lot of farmers that want to do livestock let’s face it being an equipment operator and doing row crops extends your labor meaning a labor extensive operation as opposed to a labor-intensive operation like livestock are I mean just think you’re taking care of your cattle multiple times a day
Your cows look good to me . I've seen several big barns put up for 100 head under roof. They say the cows eat half as much . Land prices around me are 20,000 a acre go 5 miles west it's 40,000 to 50,000 a acre . 20 years ago I thought 3,500 was too high for Land. Just remember everyone in the coffee shop knows more about your place than you . Just ask them lol
Ain't that the truth! Thanks for watching!