All $ amounts are in CAD

Very informative. I don't think your average person has any idea what time and expense goes into raising livestock. Well done.

What is the most respectable is how well those steers are treated for that minimum profit ! Thank you for that !

It’s very interesting hearing the reasoning behind your farming decisions. I think a lot of people think farms are like the ones portrayed in the Lassie series from the 60’s. It’s great to see how you balance your love of animals and rural life with making a successful and sustainable living. I enjoy all your videos and commentary

Very nice of you to share your information. People have to see this as a business of taking care of cows. The other thing most people don’t connect is you, the farmer has to put the cost upfront for 18 months before you get a payday. 1800 buck is a lot of money to have just hanging around on 4 hoofs.

Yes, you should definitely see more of these types of videos.

Excellent, honest video. We must remember infrastructure and electricity etc.

Great video. I love seeing all of your videos. I would love to see more of these types of videos. I think it is great that you took the time to make this video. There is so much miss information out there about dairy farming. You did a great job explaining how everything works. People think that it is so easy to farm . Thanks again and have a nice day. I'm 15 and I just started a small farm KZfaq channel anyone who wants to check it out feel free to do so.

It would be great to see the other side of the dairy industry before it gets into the gallon jugs. Or for your weird Canadian 1 litre milk bags lol. Thank you for allowing us into the more personal/ intimate side of your operation. I would be curious what your electric bill is for an operation that big.

2 more items to add to costs: 1) cost of infra Structure amortized + repair costs 2) cost of money invested over the period. - " what interest you could get had you left the money in the bank" use either future of present value of the costs over time

Jan, thank you for sharing that information. It appears to me that you really take good care of the steers and cows. I am glad to see that you get a fair amount of profit for those steers. I am 80 years old and had a career as a licensed electrical design engineer. Every day eating beef and drinking MILK. I am a huge fan of milk. Never out grew my love for a cold, cold, cold glass of milk. As a kid dad had a couple of brown milk cows. They provided milk and mom provided the butter milk (yummmmmmy), butter, corn bread and soft cheese. One person that worked on the farm taking care of the cows, mules and horses was a wonderful old black man. He took care of me for many a day while dad worked. I really think of and miss him a lot. He was a wonderful, unforgetable Christian man. Good luck with the farm, Sam Allen

Great video Jan, thanks for all the extra effort that went into this. Big thanks to your dad as well who probably did a double take when you suggested this topic. Safe to say the future of your farm and operation is in great hands. Thanks!!

Extremely good explanation. Farmers usually --undervalue their own labor. Otherwise very very video. Glad to see you using pails for feeding calves. Bottles are really a recipe for disaster and spreading of disease from one calf to another. Keep up the good work ! You are on a roll here !!!!

I remember a rhyme from when I was a kid. "How now, brown cow?" Today we got a close up of that cow. I have seen her in previous videos and now will always be watching for her.

I worked for a old farmer who always milked a handful of extra cows and dumped the extra milk in a long thin trough his calves all got milk right up to the ten month mark and wow did they look great. Great setup you guys run

Big fan! Thank you farmers around the world!!

Really like the close up pictures of the cows and calfs. They really seem to like to ham it up to the camera. You did an excellent job of explaining how you raise the steers. Thanks so much for sharing that. Hopefully your costs will go down and you make a better profit.

One side of farming that not many share with us,,,, Thanks!!

Very well done, thanks for sharing all that. We raise red Angus here in the states and we also background all our steers to finish, around 1300 lbs. We are on an all natural program so no antibiotics or hormones so they take a little longer to finish than your steers do, but our net profit comes out pretty close to what you showed.

When we see the cost of good meat in the supermarket, you realize it's not the farmer making the profits. Supermarkets are not your friends Jan, but this doesn't come as a surprise I bet. Excellent content, and I can say educational.👌😎

Very informative video. One of the problems with most farm videos is a lack of transparency. SOME farm YTers, not you or your family, make more money off YT than they do actually farming. You've gone a great job laying the facts and figures out, plus you've also showed how your family takes care of dairy bullocks. There's a lot of BS and old wives tales about this subject that is the complete opposite of what the vast majority of dairy farmers do. You've shown proof, and dispelled those rumors with video evidence how you care for those calves. Well done, as a family and farm, and well done to show the naysayers how it should be done.

Thanks Jan, that was a very informative look at a side of dairy farming most people don’t even think about. Your Dad has a very good business sense and I am sure you do as well. The timing was great as well, I am having beef burgers for supper tonight and this video puts my meal into perspective for sure.

Really interesting to see the financial breakdown. My sons just got done raising dairy feeder calves for 4-H that were 5 months old. We buy them weaned and vaxxed for 600.00. Then we spend around 250.00 in feed. I did not keep track of hay, bedding, or labor. You guys definitely have your operation running very efficiently!

That was very informative and loved your breakdown. Thank you so much for explaining it all. Great job.

Good vlog; good detailed analysis. (but the "waste milk" including medicine-tainted milk in my opinion is not free: that milk is a revenue for the milk cows' enterprise analysis; so therefore it is an expense for the steer calves' enterprise analysis). Best wishes. P.S. would love to see your sister's enterprise analysis for her goats; it makes me so curious.

Thank you for the transparency and helping us to understand the intricacies of farming and livestock.

Very informative, you did a great job explaining!! Would you be willing to do a video on the quota system in Canada? Thanks for another great video!!

Very informative! Jan and family, you all do a very good job with creating this content, it’s very impressive. I appreciate that you take the time to visit these topics to help inform those that aren’t familiar with how a farm is run. I watch and enjoy everyone of your videos and must say that this is the best one so far. One of the best farm videos I’ve seen. Thanks for all the effort and time put into these!

Thanks Jan for sharing the new video with interesting information on raising steers, costs, risks and profits.👍🤟❤

I like this sort of topic, especially focusing on things that stand out as different on your farm compared to other dairy farms

Great analysis on the accounting of the steers, thanks for doing that. I can only think to add the cost of space rental in the calf barn as well as the corrals. You can figure this by estimating how much the whole building / corral would cost to rent and dividing it by how many cows you can put in each. Also, couldn't you get paid for the manure that is taken out of the areas they stay? That could be a negative number on the cost side of the accounting. The farming operation should pay the steer operation for the manure if it enough to recognize in the accounting.

very well done, transparent and comprehensive!

Top notch explanation about your family farm operations. Thanks for sharing and God bless everyone involved in your farm business! Cheers

Thanks for taking the time to explain this part of your business. Appreciated.

I look forward to any tip of your videos. And look forward to some new and different videos that you do. You always do great videos

Well done Jan, thanks for what you and your family do!

so well explained, with numbers. well done!

Great discussion of dairy cost , thank you for sharing , stay safe , enjoy !!

Absolutely fascinating thanks so much for sharing your life and family with us ❤️❤️❤️

Awesome job on the breakdown! I enjoyed this video immensely! 🥰

great information. really enjoyed it. would love to see more of these for your milk heard too.

Jan, what a great video of your family operation. Thank you for sharing!

Great show today Jaan! It’s is every time of course but you were very on point with your explanation and presentation. Your normal into is probably one of the best on all of KZfaq. Future topics, it’d be awesome to see an explanation of all commodities and why those particular ones. It’s changed immensely since I left the farm close to 50 years ago. Once again great show.

very informative....thank you for doing this.

Good info! 👍 Have been enjoying your videos for a while now. Thanks Bruce

Interesting and informative, Jan. Thanks for sharing all of this information.

Thanks for sharing the financials. One of the most interesting post you have

That was terrific and obviously a lot of work. Glad to see those poor bull calves having such good life. Beautiful farm, always love seeing the drone overview in your intro. Thank you for such an informative video.

Thank you for laying all of that out. I am always curious about the business side of farming.

Great content! Thanks for putting in the extra time.

Thanks man! Realy cool video to have a look inside the numbers of a farm like this!! Keep it up, love the video's ❤️

Really interesting analysis! Thank you for your effort and sharing your insight.

Very informative on the real cost of farming !! Thanks for sharing !!👍👍

Thanks Jan, great overview of the entire process!:) It would be great to hear the same breakdown of milk production!:) Thanks!!

Very good video with explanations of every step. Feeding barley instead of corn is something I know about but few do here in the states.

that was truly enlightening….thanks for you work in preparing this report…..fascinating

Very good information Jan. Thanks.

Excellent video Jan! You put a lot of time and effort into all your videos. Obviously, this video required a lot of extra work compared to your normal videos. Excellent result for the video! Truly appreciate the deliberate way you approached the subject. No complaints here for any part of the video. Nothing but compliments and well wishes for you and your family!

Great video , very honest and open Be great to do one on the dairy side of the farm

Thank you For sharing, This stuff is very fascinating and helps to put things in perspective at the store. your videos are some of the few I get excited to see when there is a new one. Much respect to you and your family from down south. :-) Thanks Jan

Jan, You have always let your viewers know about your farm, upgrades, improvements and even troubles that happen in the course of the daily chores, milking cops and the barn chores. It is interesting and much different than the usual farm channels. Of course, you are always the star of the show and your efforts are greatly appreciated. Yes, I am sure that all your viewers would enjoy learning more about the inner workings of the farm and the financial structure of dairy farms in general. Nice presentation, Jan. Each item explained, all calculations including the possibility of losses worked out. Very nicely done. Thanks, Jan - interesting show especially with your walk through. Definitely more like that. Cole Cornstar does this with his farm and it is a revelation. One more thing - Nice to know you are making some profit from the steers rather than raising them at a loss. And, the more the grain prices drop, the better income you will gain.

Great info. Thanks Jan.

I love hearing the business side of things as well. Thanks

Getting to see how various aspects of your farm work is so interesting. Of course I love seeing the calves

Great in-depth video! I really enjoy your and your sister's videos. Keep up the good work...

Great video and information. Thank you for preparing and sharing all of this.

Thank you for all your work and congratulations for raising such nice beef

Hi Jan & family, thank you All for such dynamic informative video's! We all need to focus on future farming, we all need to eat naturally! Peace & Love to all here

Good information Jan! Thanks for educating us! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Very interesting video . Your farm is so is clean it’s great to see all your family work the business

Well done! The margins certainly are slim. Appreciate all your family does.

Jan , Thank you for your important jab

Jan, do you ever look at the genetics of the sire bull and the performance of the cow and decide to bring a particular bull calf to maturity for either breeding or selling off to a breeder? It would seem to me being one of the few pure Holstein herds those bulls would be very desirable especially if you are maintaining the pedigree of the cows. Just wondering.

So interesting. I love watching these and seeing what goes on behind the scenes. What hard work!

Jan. Real interesting!!! The science is incredible. Glad you can keep it straight! I don’t know how you would learn all this unless you grew up with it. Awesome video! 👍👍👍👍👍 Nice job.

Jan, Thank you for the video! Great information!

A very interestuing analysis of the steer operation of the farm and the reasoning behind the decisions.. Always appreciate the excellent content & presentation in your vlogs 🚜 🚜 🚜🐄🐄🐄🐄 🚜 🚜🚜

From a Toronto City Kid. Thank you for doing this.I have learned a lot

Thank you for a very honest informative video.

Thanks for sharing with us!

Well done video sir never think how much it take to raise them.thank you.

Great video Jan. I know it's a lot of work for the steers, but I'm happy to know your doing it. I know from the videos that every single person at your farm do look after the animals very well.

Thank you for this information. Very informative

Very informative clip. Thank you!

Well done on the up front costs but don’t forget depreciation on tractors, equipment, buildings etc. along with fuel,fertilizer, hydro and all the other costs involved. Really enjoy yours and Nelines videos. Super well managed dairy!

Excellent video as always. Informative and interesting at the same time. Hard work for you, your family, and hired hands. Very interesting to see in real time how much of our food is made. Many thanks and I hope you make a lot of money with the videos and I admire the production values and editing as well.

Hello young man iam do happy your viedo You didnt have to tell us anything but.i want.to say. Thank you and your family for.shRing.that.with us Just wanted to tell how you handle you self iam really proud.of you .i live in the United States a littlr state call Delaware Ythnk you again

Yea very informative thanks for taking the time to do this I love milk and beef so thank you for all y’all do

Really enjoyed this video Jan, it nice to see the honesty of want it takes and how much you make from each steer. I would love to see something from you about the milking side of your farm as well

Great information. Thanks for sharing.

Your milk for the calves isn't "free". Although it's "waste" milk and would otherwise be discarded, you are treating it through the pasteurisers so will have a cost associated with it. That was a very candid and honest summary of costs which very few farmers would do. You have a great advantage over there (compared to here in the UK/Europe) in being able to use hormone implants.

Thank you for the informative presentation regarding the steer calves and how they are raised. All your cows look very healthy and well cared for...males & females. Thank you for the video 😊👍

Nice job. Thanks for sharing.

Definitely a great video now you could see how much time and effort is put into just your beef cattle great job informs everybody and how hard it is to work on a farm your family is fantastic because I see they're all involved with the farm one way or another God bless and kudos to you 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️

Great video-thanks for the time and effort you spend putting this together-I learned a lot.

Thanks lots of work for the end results.

Very interesting video and i'm sure you need this information in your business and for planning. Keep up the great work, you guys impress me every time a video comes out.

Excellent. So interesting thanks 👍👍. The remainder going to pay for all the machinery and infrastructure im sure.

Find job. Your vids are always very informative .Keep telling us about a modern dairy . Keep up the good work

Thanks for this. It was very interesting! Always enjoy your videos!!