I realize the longer videos take make time but it’s nice being able to see more than a one min snippet. Thanks for the awesome job you do

It's interesting to see how modern dairy farming works. In all commercials I've seen, the companies want to make it look like farmers still use pitchforks for feeding animals.

I grow up in & around dairies for most of my childhood in the late 80's early 90's. It was nothing like this. It is amazing to see science evolving small farms like this.

Binge watching your videos. Glad to find you on KZfaq. The technology on your farm is amazing. Thank you for sharing, your girls look happy, comfy and totally content. 🐮🍨

Great job at explaining! You and your crew do such a great job at keeping your cows happy and healthy!

I just started watching your videos on Facebook the other day. I've learned more in the last 3 days about dairy cows then I have in my entire life up to that point. Keep up the excellent work!

I worked a 200 cow dairy in the 1970’s. This automation sure would be nice. This dairy wa s very modern, but those 5:00 am and 5:00 pm dates with the herd made for long days and no weekends. Great videos.

I have an interesting laly It is so cool how it works. Thank you for showing us your automated feeding machine.

Really interesting tour of the system. Thanks

Great explanation of how it works. This stuff is so interesting. being someone who grew up around farms I love to see the technology. How many times do you do a full clean up of feed that is left?

This is one of the most fascinating channels I’ve come across. Lot’s of amazing information

Glad you are on youtube, love the longer format videos!

I applaud you man I've been away from a dairy industry for many years. But you helped me get back in touch. I'm from Preston Iowa

So glad to see a long video on KZfaq!! Please post more.

I have 3 of these in FS22. Really saves me time. :)

It so wonderful to get these longer videos to full understand! It been hard to price together over in TikTok

thanks for the tour very informative and awesome! automation is the way to make dairy farming a happy investment for farmers, especially the milking and the feeding you have just shown. technology must come to us out here Swaziland!!

This is amazing, whoever designed these machines is a genius!

Could you do a video on everything there? Eccept the fields mabe, like the equipment and the barns all together? Young farmer from Iceland asking out of curiosity

Excellent vid and explanation thanks for this. Going from 3-4 hours per day of feeding to watching the robot go by is a game changer. The next 10 years are going to bring even more with AI influencing the methods and procedures.

Awesome job thanks so much for the KZfaq channel!!

This one of the best videos showing the Vector system.

Great video thanks for sharing. I’ve heard about and seen these some but not with this much explanation. Thanks!!

Interesting thanks for sharing Dan.

Thanks for mentioning your Versa Bagger, Dan and for helping to educate people on your important business!

Having grown up in Wisconsin working on 60 to 800 cow farms i am impressed with how technology is being used.

Was great to see it all in more detail 😄

New sub here love watching how things run on a big farm!!!

Awesome channel! My mom found you on Facebook and decided to show me your stuff. I hope you can post again soon, it’s always a joy to see you explaining the dairy farming industry from your humble and in my opinion very admirable and impressive farm. Regardless, God bless you and all your family, and all that you own and serve as steward over.

Great video!

I didn't grow up on a farm, but I have been on and around them my entire life. Your operation of your farm is so neat. I enjoy automaton and how all this works with your cows in unison. How many head do you normally have? I enjoy your videos.

I grew up in an old farmhouse that is red. Mom would give us a bucket of water and a paint brush and my brother and I would “paint” the house. 😂 Because it was red, the water would change the hue so we thought it was amazing. Good way to get kids to wash things. We also did it on dads tractor too. Kept us busy for hours!!

That feeding system is amazing!

you mentioned you saved $900 a month on power bill, that's awesome. i see other farmers with vectors going away from bunkers and bags for now GIGANTIC silos 28x 140 or some such monsters. how will that save power when traditionally the silo unloader is the longest running slowest machine in the feed lineup? starting and stopping a BIG 15 -20 hp motor isn't cheap.

Thanks that was interesting.

Thats pretty cool always wanted to see that in action

Very cool!

For our new robot barn we are considering it, love it!

Fascinating

this makes a lot of sense. good planning. with milking robots you want some cows up at all times to utilize milking capacity and keep milking frequency and in robot grain intake up. this encourages that.

Very interesting 🧐

Very cool

I would be interested in a video that explains all the different types of feed that is mixed and how each feed type is beneficial to the cow. Also, if you are able to produce it yourself or if it is outsourced.

This is so fascinating to watch, thank you for the education! May I ask, do they break down often? Xx

I often wonder if this feed system gives feedback to your phone, i have been curious about the automated feeding on farms and how it changes dairy farms productivity

The tech used in Ag is awesome. Instead of the farmer with pliers and hammer he only needs a laptop

Great video. Could never do this on TikTok but don’t get me wrong I enjoy those as well.

Aww I love cows they are to cute

I like your jhon dear trucker

I know silos are becoming less and less common but would the system be more efficient if the bins were being fed directly from a silo? Main advantage at least at first glance is less labor and equipment needed but drawbacks would below it would make it harder to check feed quality

Very educational

I can't imagine how much money that Vector saves just on labor costs. It would take 2-3 hours a day extra just to run the feeder system....3 milking a day per cow by hand...these robots must save 40-70k a year just on labor costs alone...or at least just give you some time with the family instead of working from 5am till 8pm every day 7 days a week.

Very nice! Only thing I would change is eliminate the feed kitchen and direct feed the Vector from silos. Then you would have a truly automated system. That would eliminate the need of a tractor and dump trailer and your labor. Not knocking your setup at all. It's very nice and efficient. Far better than my old school setup. Just curious, how clean can it get the kitchen? Is there much cleanup that you have to do before you dump more in the kitchen?

Very cool. Glad there are people like yourself that do this job, because I would never want to do it. Give me a server farm and network to monitor any day. But it is interesting to see how it is all done. Just in case you have a chance to answer ( it is obvious you have a LOT to do)....how do you know the feed is bad? Smell? look of it? or is it just time out in XX degree weather.

I personally think it's awesome you get the correct amount every time and minimal loss

This is pretty damned impressive.

They just added these to farming Simulator 22 and it is really nice to see them adding stuff like this

I'd like to find the video where you explain how rumensin works. I raise goats and would like to share that information.

Question:: how often do you clean /sweep out the feed in the kitchen and along the locks?

Usually herd of milk cow 1/2 will be consuming feed while the other 1/2 will be chewing cud

More long videos please. Go pro on a head band. Show it all!

Just curious, does the MFR have a bumper/recognition system to keep from running over anything its way (like a human or barn cat)?

whats maintenance like on one of those feed robots? costs and stuff?

How do you calculate a ration? Is it protein plus minerals or amino acids plus vitamins or all the above? Lpve the feed robot and thanks for the explanation!

I’m late to the party - just found this guy on social a month or 2 ago …. I can’t wait for this technology to move past the dairy and into more animal production-

Hey really random but I was curious how do you take care of medical issues? Like broken legs or other things that I cant think of right now.

i wish they could add this to Farming Simulator. Btw is Farming Simulator accurate or do they take shortcuts

If you haven't existing Barn it might not make the most sense but if you're building a brand new barn you could easily save enough on building materials to pay for that. Before I saw the video I didn't really think too much about those I was just thinking it would save labor and it would probably never pay for itself but I kind of see it now

Why did you go with a chain scraper vs robot? I'm assuming you have a pit at the end and not slats to the pit? Your shorts and long videos are great!

Such an interesting industry. Wish milk was less expensive in hawaii. Almost 7.00 a gallon.

Im from México how much does it cost to buy a milk robot thank for you help

Fun

You need a go pro lol but that feeder is awesome

You say it has a dry cow mix, are your dry cows in the same barn as the fresh cows? Or is there a different track? I don’t think you covered this on your tiktok either, but I may have missed it.

Does it have a censer on it to detect objects in it's path?

I really appreciate all I'm learning from you. Could you talk about how vegans are saying cows are causing climate change? True or not?

How designed the shed for you

How long does the battery last in the vector?

How many cows do you have? Have you ever been kicked or headbutted or seriously injured by a cow? What is the hardest part of being a dairy farmer? Have you ever wanted to do something different? After you butcher the cows that inevitably die, do you keep the beef or sell it? Do you butcher the dairy cows? Have you ever been 'visited' by an angry vegan? Are vegans and animal rights activists a serious problem, or more of a minor nuisance? Do you buy all of this feed, or do you grow it? How long did it take to grow your herd to the size it is today? Am I asking too many questions? I probably am. I'll stop now. PS. You're my favourite tiktok creator :)

Can you talk about the Holstein herd versus the Jersey herd?

Cost include grab claw ?

Love the channel! But you need a camera, not your phone. Easier viewing and better quality. Thanks for all that you do.

So what happens when the system FUBAR's? Explain the trade off in cost of labor vs. specialize repair needs? Replacement/repair cost of the technology?

i know you are used to tiktok but i would recommend filming in horizontial love the video though

You should post your tiktok response video to cow slaughter question on YT

Sounds like a Wookie purring.

The dirty side is the 'lick-able' side? Isn't that a universal truth? (Dirty dad joke) I found you (and 'liked') on FB, but I subscribed here as well. Keep up the good work.

I haven’t seen much from his Tik Tok, I hope he’s okay, or I missed something.

my sisters had bad luck last year wildfire burnt out their farm year they did take them to a safe zone was not the first fire my family had as to the dairy barns we just rebuilt in 2022 most of the fire was in the milking parlour someone that milk for us did have a chance to buy a milk run and did help he get it too he knows what to do for the cows to clear them out of the barn to but he did not know the back fence was open lol we had 2 weeks look for the cows and all of the calves in that barn my sister cow was at the safe zone most of the time they cow would stay there they have green grass to eat springtime not much to eat we did not expect to have any other wildfire season here year did for that one i have a standing timber someone on a quart started that one 2 more fires that person started wind did change direction and pushed the fir back to were there vehicles were to how we catch them interesting one of them was already charged with something in winter he was under a house arrest he should not have din here to march was very dry now mush snow to trouble the fire when ground into peat moss that I harvested and bagged under is a coal vine all we needed to have that start to burn to 2023 we had the fire out did have my men book on a holiday to Hawaii we did drop off the vehicle we use and equipment at an auction before they left short on driver and semis to and operator also they did all return back here that next day too we got back all that we had at the auction to October we had the fire out but we move on to and other fire to help out ther to my question the strips on the floor how did they go down install them i mean

So the robot v Basically paid for itself in the first year or 2? Dropping energy bills, having fresh feed for the cows, and the extra production and productivity. Plus it gives you more man hours to do other tasks. The robot starts making you money it seems.

Can you take the depreciation on the vector system like you would a tractor and TMR mixer?

How many cows are you milking

Do the milking cows ever go outside?

More views

Oh wow its a Moo-mba

Follow my logic. If you have ever been on a long airplane ride the crew feeds us and we sleep. Your cows eat and sleep and the robots do the work.

Proud of that 5125r tractor? I would'nt give you 2 cents for a green tractor built now.

If you don’t need to have a tractor and mixer in the barn y do u have such wide alleyways

@10thgenerationdairyman61