It has been really interesting watching these new silos go up, they are not used in our area so I had never watched one being built before. Having said that I know for sure I am going to really enjoy phase two, full automation! Thank you for taking us along on your journey.

It’s amazing how much the latitudes make a difference. Here in north Alabama, the latitude is 34.75 degrees north roughly. Our corn is already tasseled out. Obviously we get warmer than up north earlier in the year. We’ve had a lot of rain. I hope all the farmers are blessed with rain. For a great growing season !

I'm so impressed with the new silos. You guys have come a long way since I first started following you. Very wholesome viewing. God Bless you and your family.

Glad to see that you use the wood for heat instead of just putting it in a pile and burning it.

Thanks for bringing us along!

Rain.....a blessing for sure.

The challenges and improvements seem endless like your energy. I put on my 10thGeneration T-shirt on the days I'm working hard, just for inspiration. Still impressed with the cycles you manage as a dairyman and farmer. Another fine vid, thanks

Hi Eric, 18th of June, the corn field with new groth looking good. I am happy for you. Claude

We had a 2x6 fishbone/herringbone parlour which was really good. Especially if you had a new "hot-headed" heifer coming in for the first time, the older cows would basically squeeze her into place preventing her from starting tap-dancing. The only problem was that we had to attach the milkers from the side and not the back like you do. If a cow started to kick it would be easier for her to get the hoses tangled up. So if someone is building a parlour, make sure you attach from behind and not the side

I can hear the cow thinking while staring at the camera..."That's new. Is it food? I like food. Let's eat it. " 😊

I know this is judgemental but the lack of clean up around the new silos really bothered me. Thanks for getting to that chore!!!! Bob

The new Silos are quite the sight!!

Beautiful fields, sir! Hard work paying off. I hope the yields are nice and high for you guys this year!

YAY! a new vidya! been enjoying watching your videos man. My great grandparents had a dairy farm, but they passed before i was old enough to work on it.

Thanks Eric for showing all the improvements to your farm. Looks great!!

Miss those days grew up farming. Great videos.

Thanks for the in-depth look of the milking parlor! I've seen several parlors and noticed differences, but not understood what those differences are or why one may be better than another. Thanks for your explanations!

"We don't like manual labor around here"!🤣🤣🤣 Dairy farms have a totally different standard for what manual labor is! 🤣 Great video, and getting the falling silage to vent is going to be interesting when it's dropping over 100'!

I look forward to seeing the drainage system go in and the rest of the project. Thanks!

Another great video. Thank you Eric

Nice work! Thanks for posting!

good job!! Beautiful crops!!! Look'n good!!!

It's very interesting watching your updates to the farm. The storm water management will pay for itself in no time with just housekeeping around the barns. Walking through the mud from barn to barn is a pain... Excited to see the progress as you develop your site.

? ?? ? ! ! ? Wash cups ? ? Indexing entering cows ? ? ?? !!!!! ! You are so smart !! I must have been sleeping when you talked about post milking processes. Eric, I continue to be blown away by all you do and how well you and your dad work together. I was getting pumped about the new silos not realizing the every day, day after day after day, those cows needs MUST be attended to, both in the fields, in the barn and polar. Following you, I have thought I would not do well with the demands of the repetition of being a dairy farmer, especially milking the cows, TWICE a day. Mamma Mia! Seems to me you do your life with the love of God in you. I think you live you life "rightly" as we Quakers say. I tell you this while knowing you do fart like the rest of the children of God. I am glad I am subscribed to you. xo Claire

I’m a big user of stretchwrap. Exceptional for bundling lumber or firewood for example. Excellent mock up and cover for your temporary conveyor. Being raised on a dairy farm in the 60s and 70s everything was held together with bailing twine.😂

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us 😊

It's great watching your video I like seeing you know every thing about how the farm operates. You can tell that you love the farm life

We plant all red tail for silage. We really like the floury kernels.

Good see silo project is moving forward. 👍🏻🇨🇦

We quit milking in 2017. Crazy how fast the memories fade of milking, all the years later though can still remember all the steps that people don’t realize go into just the milking process every day

Yes !!! You all try to avoid physical work .😊😊😊😊I think your Family is a very good example how to work and work together . Btw : I have never seen a horizontal wood splitter

Excellent video

I have never seen a splitter work so fast. Must be a really nice unit.

Hello Eric , here in Indiana we have not had rain for almost two weeks all we got was heat index advisory . I rather have rain grass and fields and creeks and ponds here need rain. Covering the top of the conveyor that is good ideal .

Wholesome content as always. Funny seeing that cow checking out the camera.

Eric. The joy of a wood splitter! My dad got one when I was past 20. Until then, it was an axe & and sledge, and my mom went through cords of wood. You brought back good old memories.

Enjoy watching your vids, feels like "down home". Keep up the good work,,,Toledo, Ohio

Another educational & interesting few days on the farm. Great filming & editing Eric. Your farm looks terrific. Looking forward to seeing the robots in operation. Take care & stay safe.

My back still hurts watching you split firewood.

Love the videos, I'd love to work on a farm like yours one day

I love to watching the corn from start to finish. 🌽🌽

Those water boxes are called catch basins

Everything looks so good Eric

My favorite KZfaq channel

That looks like fun.

You sure have a great way of making your videos interesting all the way through, can't wait to see the results that you will be harvesting. Thanks.😁

I remember needing Can't-Kick's for cows and they were still feisty. I am glad that your herd is fairly nice in that regards and also that you have a bar preventing them from kicking back.

Good for you in trying to avoid hand shoveling !! I really liked that wood splitter, interesting horizontal feed, thanks brother in law😄. Lots of projects so little time. Thanks for all the extra time it takes to film and edit so we can follow along!!

Crops are lookin good!

Wow a Clean in place system for the milking system !

If the old pit gets full of water need to figure out a way to pump it into your other pits if they are a little to dry when you're agitating to spread it on the fields

glad you got the rain, the storms were gnarly in western pa, hopefully you got some cooler temps from it!

Good content is always hard to make. Thanks for sharing another chapter in the novel. -EZ

Excited to see the robot feeding!

great video thankd for posting

Thank you!

Hello my is Ralph Ellsworth Jr from Erie,Pa. One thing I like to say, you guy's take a lot of Incentive in taking care of your cows and keeping your milking parlor very clean and your cows udders very clean to. You don't see that in a lot of farmers. Give your farm a 100% thumbs up. And glad to see in work good with your father, God Bless

looking forward to seeing the drainage footage. im a plumber and dream of farming one day. love your content. that rain looked good for the corn

Always great video brother from the imperial county California 🇺🇲👍

10 minutes- 1200 views 😳💯 great work!!

I owned 2 skid steers. Next time get some roofing metal, make a slide, take 1/4 bucket, dump on the slide, saves shoveling. Keep the frame work and roof metal 4 other jobs.

you should run a heavy rear mount cultivator and have fertilizer tip on front sweep and put 28 along corn and your corn will with stand strong winds.

tx for sharing what it takes to run a dairy farm with those of us city folk from upstate NY :)

another great video!

Lucky man. If it has been me the spacing between the new silos would have been 6" too short for the bobcat to go.

I bet everything looks amazing after that rain. Sure wish we could get some in Southern Virginia.

That is really good looking corn. ❤❤❤❤

Drove down 322 yesterday those things are huge

All good!

That wood splitter looks practical.

Can't blame you for not liking the shoveling. I was a carpenter for a lot of years, and those days that I had to work shovel in hand were the worst. Good job!

Looks good

Looking at your sprayer, is it possible to put replaceable extenders on the down tubes that run on the ground regardless of your height adjustment, keeping it always below the corn and saving the current tubes in place?

Assist in enhancing his KZfaq algorithm, like I'm subscribing, viewing, liking, sharing and commenting from Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA.

Eddie Rabbitt loved a rainy night

BMR Brown Midrib. Did know that. Had to look it up. Loved the cow checking out the Go Pro. Hell of an operation. My cousin has a small parlor just outside of McConnellsburg off SR522. His parlor is round.

Cant beat the farm life

Good stuff Eric 😊😊

GO Birds!!! 🦅🦅🦅

I’d be filling in that old pit that’s sitting full of water, about to have a lot of spare dirt laying around

Welcome back and as always beautiful sharing adventure documentary countryside content video and you doing such an amazing job .. appreciate your efforts and hard work for sharing your beautiful sharing adventure to the World .. million thanks again ..

Nice catch!

We’ve been using authority XL for a decent while and we find that it’s work the best for shipping truck. No we are in Ontario

Crops look good Eric…👍

There is nothing wrong to find room for improvement, after 20 years in use.

I am in the southern end of the county and we missed that nice rain that you got. But you know what they say farming is the only morally acceptable form of gambling

funny how cows on all youtubers are always curious and see the cameras. smelling and lick them. makes my day. All glory to father.

It’s nice that they always seem to find the camera 🤣

I had to laugh at your comment about farmers and physical labor!! Your corn and beans look great!

Sure wish we had that rain here in Ohio, super dry and none in sight.

I am on a trip out west from Ohio. I watched this post in Livingston, Montana.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey 🥃 🎉

Hey Eric, when are the clean chutes going in??;)

Great video...the rain is awesome..God is Great.

we purchased a log splitter that goes on the skid steer........... wooooo dinny never going back to the ones you have to lift the log onto the splitter,

What you need is a little conveyor

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Hello from Kentucky

I’ve been seeing other farmers who getting away from building silos because of inherent dangers of silos, instead going to silage bags , your thoughts.Thanks

Eric, interesting explanation of your milking setup.