I need to buy me a cow, I drink half a gallon a day =D
I'm curious if you're allowed as I see you're with Organic Valley ( we have that brand here in Michigan as well ) Do you have any opinion on Smart Balance Milk? That seems to be getting the attention of being healthier milk than your typical cheap state brand milk, it's also more expensive than organic milk depending where you buy it.
I can't teel you how much I enjoyed this video. I've seen so many horror stories about the dairy industry I was ready to give up on animal protien all-together. I'm so glad not to see assembly line production and squishing the animals in the smallest space available.
I believe they remove cows that are given antibiotics (when necessary) and send them to a kind of retirement home for cows. This is because cows given antibiotics can't still be milked and be sold as organic. This way they don't die.
Wonderful farm you have!! But again, I'm concerned with the lack of antibiotic usage for sick cows. Last time I had a basic biology course, corn doesn't make cows sick...BACTERIA does, and I"m pretty sure your farm is loaded with bacteria. Also, check the research, some of the worst cases of metabolic acidosis in cattle comes from grazing herds. Cows does have the digestive systems designed to handle corn and they need more nutrients than just grass alone.
Thank you for this informative video,i would like to ask questions though about organic practices. What happens after the cows finish lactating? and how do they keep on lactating for how long? Are Organic cows, artificially impregnated every year like the non organic cows? When they give birth, how is the life cycle of their offspring? Last question, is, are the Organic Dairy cows sold for their meat when they can no longer give their milk? These are important questions for the concerned thanks
@houseofisraelmusicThese questions can be the same for organic and conventional dairy farms, from a conventional farm i will answer them. When the cows finish lactating, they have a bout 2 or 3 months off(the"dry"period) in this time they are not milking and they just hang out with the other "dry" cows. Cows milk for 300 days of the year ideally. Cows are artificially impregnated, for safety mostly and prevention of inbreeding. Most animals naturally reproduce every year, its a natural cycle
God has given the worlds plants and animals into our hands. (Genesis 9) Everyone does what they can with what they have. It is not about getting rich, it is about making a living and helping our fellow man make his as well, the basics. We are thankful for what he has given us. Passing judgment onto others is the lords work, we have only he to fear.
So, anything goes? God also said not to plant mingled seed (plant and animal genes in GMO seeds). The proof is everywhere about the dangers of chemicals, industrialized farming (e-coli from grain feeding for ex.) hormone contamination of our water and food. God said to love our neighbors. If chemical farmers kill them with poisons, I can't make it ok in my mind. We have to judge whether something is righteous or not. Poison in agriculture is evil, it stems from war poisons for KILLING people.
Why do you think it is evil to maximize crop production per acre? Pesticides do have some drawbacks, but I believe that the benefits outway them. For example, more food for the world.
There is no other way to "maximize" production than with poison? I'm all for growing nutrient dense food that nourishes people, and with good rotation and pasture management we can do it without toxic chemicals and concentration camp ag. Plus, a sustainable/self sufficient system means more profit for the farmer. Farms haven't done too well as agri biz has drained the lifeblood out of them with their band aides. We can feed the world and we don't need the merchants of the earth to do it.
first of all i have to ask if you have any connection to farming. But for my real point I must say that self sustaining does not necessarily mean more profit. Right now organic farmers are hurting just as much as conventional farmers. And I really have nothing against organic farming it is just when people say that all other farming is evil is what gets me going.
Sorry, but I say polluting our groundwater, soil, and air with poison is evil. Many organic farms that are struggling are buying too many inputs, that's not self sustaining either. True grazing dairies, are doing much better. It would help to get to parity pricing. Still, I paid for my farm on conventional milk prices with low input. It's sad to see the 50 and 60 year old farmers swimming in debt, yet keep doing the same thing and never change. Cows+grass=health, blessings, profit, etc.
We are only scratching the surface of what's possible in producing clean nutrient dense food. Balanced fertility, foliar feeding, ocean minerals, kelp, rotations, straw bedding, high stock density grazing, tall grazing, line breeding, etc. The neat thing with this farming? No merchants of the earth; poison/hormone of any sort, GMO's, hybrids, etc. As organic farmers learn and share it is going to be awesome. Why would ANY farmer not get this? Read Graze, Acres USA, The Stockman Grass Farmer.
I have read Graze and I like what they have to say about grazing. They've done studies that have proved that grazing is more profitable most of the time and I do like grazing a lot more than confinement. But maximum production of crops per acre does not seem evil to me. When the water is polluted it is because it was not applicated correctly or because it was too windy and they should not have been spraying in the first place. Also pesticides are specifically designed to break down.
I wonder how the organic milk is selling these days with this economy.Dairy guys around here are selling a lot of their stock as feed prices have gone through the roof. I raise organic beef on one of our operations and the cost is getting prohibitive.
I read that you don't have any illness because your animals do not eat grain. Either you are lying or you have an extremely small amount of animals. When our organic beef get sick and need antibiotics we just send them to another operation.
No reason to lose the animal or make it suffer for the sake of "organic". We do not feed our organic free range animals corn either and they get sick about as often as those that get grained on a feed lot for market beef.
How the heck do you not use fossil fuel to run your ranch? Even if you are bailing volenteer hay you are burning fuel in your equipment and using power in your loafing barns and milking rooms.
I'm saying that the people that feel organic beef is better for them can buy my organic beef. The people who don't buy my organic beef can buy my standard raised beef. Organic beef is for the people out there that enjoy meat but think hormones and antibiotics are transferred through meat to them. I don't believe that so I eat standard raised meat. I believe disease is transferred through meat easier than medication so I prefer to eat vaccinated beef. No scare tactics here. I sell both.
I like to raise both on separate operations so that when an organic beef gets sick, I can medicate it and move it to another operation without sustaining a full loss. I totally disagree with the statements about grain/corn though. The beef products taste better when grained on a feed lot. Another reason I eat standard beef.
Sorry to wolfpelt, i was replying to ckfarms comments. As far as i can figure you're doin it right and givin the consumer what it thinks it wants. I agreed with your comments!
I see. No problem. My son says the organic meat is purchased by the tree hugger that likes to justify eating meat to their vegetarian buddies who look down on them for being human. He's a character that kid.
No, I'm saying you don't have a right to poison our water supplies, soil, and air! God does not allow murder, whether it's from a gun or a spray boom or needle doesn't matter. You might want to read a little about the cancer rates amongst poison farmers and especially the migrant workers that basically live in the poison fields. Start with Silent Spring. The truth is all around us. It's pretty hard to keep promoting the poison lie when organic farmers everywhere are showing how to do it right.
We do not use poison. If you are calling antibiotics poison you are crazy. If an animal has an infection, they need medicine. Try making your 60 holsteins a few thousand angus heffers on 56 sections of free range and then you will see what I am talking about. Some calves will get sick and they will need antibiotics, they will no longer be organic but it shouldn't mean you just let them suffer or put them down. It is common practice to have two operations to make an organic beef ranch work.
I'm talking about pesticides, herbicides, and hormones which are POISONS. Antibiotics are not the only option LOL! if used ONLY in emergency, which isn't what happens in most of ag today as antibiotic residue is getting into water supplies. The comments were to robo dairy concentration camp man. You still need rotational grazing on large dry land. Free range is poor management for health and sustainability. Look up Chad Peterson in NE for real dryland production for the future.
We use free range grazing. It is sustainable and has been for about 100 years. On an overpopulated micro-ranch I could see where rotational grazing would be needed. We have no problems with over-grazing land. We bail volunteer grass hay in a few sections and use it in the winter when deep snow is on the ground for organic beef. We are in Northest Idaho and Southwest Montana, this is not dryland area. What do you use in place of antibiotics for infection, respiratory or otherwise?
Chad Peterson has 900 pairs on 9000 acres and has quadrupled production on his ranch. EVERYONE will benefit from rotating. I focus on prevention so have few issues. I feed kelp and probiotics to boost immune function. Others use vit. C, garlic, tinctures,essential oils, mullein tea, and homeopathy for things like respiratory. Your ranch could support many more animals and more families if rotated. Look up Jerry Brunetti, Paul Dettloff DVM, Greg Judy in MO on high stock density grazing.
We are not interested in having more stock right now. Have you looked at beef prices lately? If we really wanted to maximize every last acre, we would probably go to rotational and deal with the costs (65 miles of fencing), right now we are fine where we are at with our organic operation and we are sustainable. We also feed kelp and vitamin C. Some animals just get sick or have injuries. We do not waste our time with witchcraft, we cure the animal and move it away from the organic operation.
Witchcraft? LOL!!! God gave us herbs and essential oils. The merchants of the earth give us sorcery/drugs. Mock God if you like, I consider it foolish. God is going to destroy Babylon and her poisons, then what's your plan?The point was, your ranch could be split between several families. There's no need for huge operations and inefficient use of the land. Also, smaller farmers have time to care for the land and animals so there is less chance of problems, and a whole lot more production.
I do not mock God and I would consider it foolish to do so as well. Why would we split our land? Our land was settled by our family before the turn of the century. Myself and my two brothers each have cattle and sheep operations and my cousin has a family ranch in Arizona. It is split as far as it is going to be. We make what money we need to. Why does every square inch of land need to be used to it's maximum capacity, that sounds like greed.
God also equiped us with a brain to discover medicine. I am not sure which church you attend but mine does not look down upon the use of medicine to stop sufferage.
Just because you haven't figured out how to raise healthy animals doesn't mean others haven't. Typical conventional farmer mindset to accuse someone of lying that's doing it right. Pathetic!! True organic production requires effort. Balanced fertility with trace and micro minerals, etc. Grazing rotation, crop rotation, etc. There are plenty of organic farms doing it right, talk to some of them to see what you need to do to improve the health of your animals. Most are happy to help others learn.
Like I said, the ranch shown here is a tiny little 4-H type operation. It is possible they do not have any sickness or problems. It is also a dairy, I run a beef operation. Our organic operations make money or they would not be organic. The ranchers shown in this video have barely gotten their feet wet in the organic dairy business.
Our family grows 2500 acres of round up corn in a sandy desert where we get 8' of rain/yr. we're 10 miles from the nearest river. we irrigate with center pivot irrigation. we use raw manure for fertilizer. our corn produces enough oxygen to meet the respiratory needs of half a million people. we compost and use it for fertilizer on 1500 acres of alfalfa. we milk 5000 cows and support 80 families. we sell 425,000lbs of milk /day to a local cheese plant. we pump millions into the local enonomy.
Like I said, There's nothing to be proud of poisoning the world around you. What's your plan when the water runs out? When MonSatan wants $500/1000 a bag for it's corn + a chemical to germinate it? How many children have died from the hormone and chemical residues in the milk you produce? Small sustainable farms pump more $ into the economy because they aren't feeding on Monsatan's tit. Plus, there will be clean water and soil for future generations. If you don't poison them all in your greed!
No antibiotics? do you let them just die when they are sick? How do you pasture in the winter? Minnesota has long cold winters don't they? Fossil fuels are used to power the dairy, run the tractors & trucks, transport the milk & feed , plant and harvest the fields, process the cheese, pasteurize the fluid.
No antibiotics needed "cuz cows aren't eating corn which makes them sick. Cows are ruminants, designed to eat grass. When fed corn they get sick and need antibiotics. No fossil fuel used to raise feed (corn). Summer grass is stored for winter forage.
Corn doesn't make cows sick, E coli, strep, staph, salmonella, myco and too many other naturally occuring bacteria make cows and humans sick. When Cows are housed in winter barns with little sunshine for 6 months of year a small % will get sick. On oranic farms those cows are shipped off site and treated. Summer grass has to be swathed, raked, baled and hauled with fossil burning machines. Milk is Milk, It's all good
Grain makes the rumen acid, which allows things like e-coli to take over. The cow is a herbivore and will always be. Milk is not all the same. My organic milk does not have synthetic hormone residues in it (BGH or breeding hormones), or poison chemical residues. I'm not polluting my children's water or food on my farm either. Organic grass fed is the only future we have. The merchants of the earth (Rev. 18) have run out of time. Time for health, vitality, and sustainability to rule!
Production is all that matters? No wonder you don't get it. I'm more concerned with quality/mineral density, sustainability, and health. I'd rather eat half as much and get the same nutritional value. I also like my Fendt tractors that are paid for from my 60 grass fed Holsteins. There's nothing to be proud of with polluting the world we live in. I know, the "I'm feeding the world" lie. Look around, aint happening. Nutrient dense food is the answer to solve all our problems. Human health esp.
You think MonSatan cares about the people of Africa?LOL! No army, has been responsible for death and destruction like they have. Christ warned us of those that steal, kill, and destroy. Love of $ is all that matters to them, and unfortunately, many farmers trapped in poison delusions. Maybe you don't mind being a serf to them, but I'd rather produce clean NUTRIENT dense food that can feed the world without EVIL sucking the lifeblood out of the countryside. Choose ye this day who you will serve.
i actually have a question about organic dairy, when a cow gets milk fever or something like that, do you give them calcium supplement? Or maybe they just get it from the grass they eat... And can you treat cows for mastitis? or are they culled? thanks
Just like humans which cannot get sick from bacteria when they eat the right food. NOT.
That beeing said, giving all animals - whether sick or not - a constant supply of low dose antibiotics if of course a horrible idea and should be prohibited. (not because it's bad for the animals but because it is the ideal way to make bacteria resistant)
I need to buy me a cow, I drink half a gallon a day =D
I'm curious if you're allowed as I see you're with Organic Valley ( we have that brand here in Michigan as well ) Do you have any opinion on Smart Balance Milk? That seems to be getting the attention of being healthier milk than your typical cheap state brand milk, it's also more expensive than organic milk depending where you buy it.
AdamGomez87 3 months ago
Your dairy is the FIRST one I've seen where calves are with their mothers. Why is this?
lovelytigress 6 months ago
do you feed them anny grain or just hay?
rakerman102 1 year ago
What do you do with the calves?
What do you do when the cow is old or unable to produce milk?
GreyhoundLoverHere 1 year ago
Just out of curiosity, what is your herd average?
ebrant10 1 year ago
I can't teel you how much I enjoyed this video. I've seen so many horror stories about the dairy industry I was ready to give up on animal protien all-together. I'm so glad not to see assembly line production and squishing the animals in the smallest space available.
lblanco93722 1 year ago
I believe they remove cows that are given antibiotics (when necessary) and send them to a kind of retirement home for cows. This is because cows given antibiotics can't still be milked and be sold as organic. This way they don't die.
takeurlumps 1 year ago
Wonderful farm you have!! But again, I'm concerned with the lack of antibiotic usage for sick cows. Last time I had a basic biology course, corn doesn't make cows sick...BACTERIA does, and I"m pretty sure your farm is loaded with bacteria. Also, check the research, some of the worst cases of metabolic acidosis in cattle comes from grazing herds. Cows does have the digestive systems designed to handle corn and they need more nutrients than just grass alone.
TBhorsegirl 1 year ago
Thank you for this informative video,i would like to ask questions though about organic practices. What happens after the cows finish lactating? and how do they keep on lactating for how long? Are Organic cows, artificially impregnated every year like the non organic cows? When they give birth, how is the life cycle of their offspring? Last question, is, are the Organic Dairy cows sold for their meat when they can no longer give their milk? These are important questions for the concerned thanks
houseofisraelmusic 2 years ago
@houseofisraelmusicThese questions can be the same for organic and conventional dairy farms, from a conventional farm i will answer them. When the cows finish lactating, they have a bout 2 or 3 months off(the"dry"period) in this time they are not milking and they just hang out with the other "dry" cows. Cows milk for 300 days of the year ideally. Cows are artificially impregnated, for safety mostly and prevention of inbreeding. Most animals naturally reproduce every year, its a natural cycle
awd2702hero 1 year ago
God has given the worlds plants and animals into our hands. (Genesis 9) Everyone does what they can with what they have. It is not about getting rich, it is about making a living and helping our fellow man make his as well, the basics. We are thankful for what he has given us. Passing judgment onto others is the lords work, we have only he to fear.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
So, anything goes? God also said not to plant mingled seed (plant and animal genes in GMO seeds). The proof is everywhere about the dangers of chemicals, industrialized farming (e-coli from grain feeding for ex.) hormone contamination of our water and food. God said to love our neighbors. If chemical farmers kill them with poisons, I can't make it ok in my mind. We have to judge whether something is righteous or not. Poison in agriculture is evil, it stems from war poisons for KILLING people.
ckfarm 3 years ago
Why do you think it is evil to maximize crop production per acre? Pesticides do have some drawbacks, but I believe that the benefits outway them. For example, more food for the world.
tjkillduff 2 years ago
There is no other way to "maximize" production than with poison? I'm all for growing nutrient dense food that nourishes people, and with good rotation and pasture management we can do it without toxic chemicals and concentration camp ag. Plus, a sustainable/self sufficient system means more profit for the farmer. Farms haven't done too well as agri biz has drained the lifeblood out of them with their band aides. We can feed the world and we don't need the merchants of the earth to do it.
ckfarm 2 years ago
first of all i have to ask if you have any connection to farming. But for my real point I must say that self sustaining does not necessarily mean more profit. Right now organic farmers are hurting just as much as conventional farmers. And I really have nothing against organic farming it is just when people say that all other farming is evil is what gets me going.
tjkillduff 2 years ago
Sorry, but I say polluting our groundwater, soil, and air with poison is evil. Many organic farms that are struggling are buying too many inputs, that's not self sustaining either. True grazing dairies, are doing much better. It would help to get to parity pricing. Still, I paid for my farm on conventional milk prices with low input. It's sad to see the 50 and 60 year old farmers swimming in debt, yet keep doing the same thing and never change. Cows+grass=health, blessings, profit, etc.
ckfarm 2 years ago
We are only scratching the surface of what's possible in producing clean nutrient dense food. Balanced fertility, foliar feeding, ocean minerals, kelp, rotations, straw bedding, high stock density grazing, tall grazing, line breeding, etc. The neat thing with this farming? No merchants of the earth; poison/hormone of any sort, GMO's, hybrids, etc. As organic farmers learn and share it is going to be awesome. Why would ANY farmer not get this? Read Graze, Acres USA, The Stockman Grass Farmer.
ckfarm 2 years ago
I have read Graze and I like what they have to say about grazing. They've done studies that have proved that grazing is more profitable most of the time and I do like grazing a lot more than confinement. But maximum production of crops per acre does not seem evil to me. When the water is polluted it is because it was not applicated correctly or because it was too windy and they should not have been spraying in the first place. Also pesticides are specifically designed to break down.
tjkillduff 2 years ago
I wonder how the organic milk is selling these days with this economy.Dairy guys around here are selling a lot of their stock as feed prices have gone through the roof. I raise organic beef on one of our operations and the cost is getting prohibitive.
I read that you don't have any illness because your animals do not eat grain. Either you are lying or you have an extremely small amount of animals. When our organic beef get sick and need antibiotics we just send them to another operation.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
No reason to lose the animal or make it suffer for the sake of "organic". We do not feed our organic free range animals corn either and they get sick about as often as those that get grained on a feed lot for market beef.
How the heck do you not use fossil fuel to run your ranch? Even if you are bailing volenteer hay you are burning fuel in your equipment and using power in your loafing barns and milking rooms.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
So you're sayin all that don't pay twice for organic will burn in hell? u do your thing i'll do mine, just don't sell yours using scare tactics
robothat 3 years ago
I'm saying that the people that feel organic beef is better for them can buy my organic beef. The people who don't buy my organic beef can buy my standard raised beef. Organic beef is for the people out there that enjoy meat but think hormones and antibiotics are transferred through meat to them. I don't believe that so I eat standard raised meat. I believe disease is transferred through meat easier than medication so I prefer to eat vaccinated beef. No scare tactics here. I sell both.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
I like to raise both on separate operations so that when an organic beef gets sick, I can medicate it and move it to another operation without sustaining a full loss. I totally disagree with the statements about grain/corn though. The beef products taste better when grained on a feed lot. Another reason I eat standard beef.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
Sorry to wolfpelt, i was replying to ckfarms comments. As far as i can figure you're doin it right and givin the consumer what it thinks it wants. I agreed with your comments!
robothat 3 years ago
I see. No problem. My son says the organic meat is purchased by the tree hugger that likes to justify eating meat to their vegetarian buddies who look down on them for being human. He's a character that kid.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
No, I'm saying you don't have a right to poison our water supplies, soil, and air! God does not allow murder, whether it's from a gun or a spray boom or needle doesn't matter. You might want to read a little about the cancer rates amongst poison farmers and especially the migrant workers that basically live in the poison fields. Start with Silent Spring. The truth is all around us. It's pretty hard to keep promoting the poison lie when organic farmers everywhere are showing how to do it right.
ckfarm 3 years ago
We do not use poison. If you are calling antibiotics poison you are crazy. If an animal has an infection, they need medicine. Try making your 60 holsteins a few thousand angus heffers on 56 sections of free range and then you will see what I am talking about. Some calves will get sick and they will need antibiotics, they will no longer be organic but it shouldn't mean you just let them suffer or put them down. It is common practice to have two operations to make an organic beef ranch work.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
Also, I am not poisoning your water supply. Your dreaming and spreading propaganda about someone whom you know nothing about.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
I'm talking about pesticides, herbicides, and hormones which are POISONS. Antibiotics are not the only option LOL! if used ONLY in emergency, which isn't what happens in most of ag today as antibiotic residue is getting into water supplies. The comments were to robo dairy concentration camp man. You still need rotational grazing on large dry land. Free range is poor management for health and sustainability. Look up Chad Peterson in NE for real dryland production for the future.
ckfarm 3 years ago
We use free range grazing. It is sustainable and has been for about 100 years. On an overpopulated micro-ranch I could see where rotational grazing would be needed. We have no problems with over-grazing land. We bail volunteer grass hay in a few sections and use it in the winter when deep snow is on the ground for organic beef. We are in Northest Idaho and Southwest Montana, this is not dryland area. What do you use in place of antibiotics for infection, respiratory or otherwise?
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
Chad Peterson has 900 pairs on 9000 acres and has quadrupled production on his ranch. EVERYONE will benefit from rotating. I focus on prevention so have few issues. I feed kelp and probiotics to boost immune function. Others use vit. C, garlic, tinctures,essential oils, mullein tea, and homeopathy for things like respiratory. Your ranch could support many more animals and more families if rotated. Look up Jerry Brunetti, Paul Dettloff DVM, Greg Judy in MO on high stock density grazing.
ckfarm 3 years ago
We are not interested in having more stock right now. Have you looked at beef prices lately? If we really wanted to maximize every last acre, we would probably go to rotational and deal with the costs (65 miles of fencing), right now we are fine where we are at with our organic operation and we are sustainable. We also feed kelp and vitamin C. Some animals just get sick or have injuries. We do not waste our time with witchcraft, we cure the animal and move it away from the organic operation.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
Witchcraft? LOL!!! God gave us herbs and essential oils. The merchants of the earth give us sorcery/drugs. Mock God if you like, I consider it foolish. God is going to destroy Babylon and her poisons, then what's your plan?The point was, your ranch could be split between several families. There's no need for huge operations and inefficient use of the land. Also, smaller farmers have time to care for the land and animals so there is less chance of problems, and a whole lot more production.
ckfarm 3 years ago
I do not mock God and I would consider it foolish to do so as well. Why would we split our land? Our land was settled by our family before the turn of the century. Myself and my two brothers each have cattle and sheep operations and my cousin has a family ranch in Arizona. It is split as far as it is going to be. We make what money we need to. Why does every square inch of land need to be used to it's maximum capacity, that sounds like greed.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
God also equiped us with a brain to discover medicine. I am not sure which church you attend but mine does not look down upon the use of medicine to stop sufferage.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
Just because you haven't figured out how to raise healthy animals doesn't mean others haven't. Typical conventional farmer mindset to accuse someone of lying that's doing it right. Pathetic!! True organic production requires effort. Balanced fertility with trace and micro minerals, etc. Grazing rotation, crop rotation, etc. There are plenty of organic farms doing it right, talk to some of them to see what you need to do to improve the health of your animals. Most are happy to help others learn.
ckfarm 3 years ago
Like I said, the ranch shown here is a tiny little 4-H type operation. It is possible they do not have any sickness or problems. It is also a dairy, I run a beef operation. Our organic operations make money or they would not be organic. The ranchers shown in this video have barely gotten their feet wet in the organic dairy business.
WolfPeltSalesman 3 years ago
That's sustainable!!!!
robothat 3 years ago
Our family grows 2500 acres of round up corn in a sandy desert where we get 8' of rain/yr. we're 10 miles from the nearest river. we irrigate with center pivot irrigation. we use raw manure for fertilizer. our corn produces enough oxygen to meet the respiratory needs of half a million people. we compost and use it for fertilizer on 1500 acres of alfalfa. we milk 5000 cows and support 80 families. we sell 425,000lbs of milk /day to a local cheese plant. we pump millions into the local enonomy.
robothat 3 years ago
Like I said, There's nothing to be proud of poisoning the world around you. What's your plan when the water runs out? When MonSatan wants $500/1000 a bag for it's corn + a chemical to germinate it? How many children have died from the hormone and chemical residues in the milk you produce? Small sustainable farms pump more $ into the economy because they aren't feeding on Monsatan's tit. Plus, there will be clean water and soil for future generations. If you don't poison them all in your greed!
ckfarm 3 years ago
No antibiotics? do you let them just die when they are sick? How do you pasture in the winter? Minnesota has long cold winters don't they? Fossil fuels are used to power the dairy, run the tractors & trucks, transport the milk & feed , plant and harvest the fields, process the cheese, pasteurize the fluid.
robothat 3 years ago
No antibiotics needed "cuz cows aren't eating corn which makes them sick. Cows are ruminants, designed to eat grass. When fed corn they get sick and need antibiotics. No fossil fuel used to raise feed (corn). Summer grass is stored for winter forage.
ConservationMinn 3 years ago
Corn doesn't make cows sick, E coli, strep, staph, salmonella, myco and too many other naturally occuring bacteria make cows and humans sick. When Cows are housed in winter barns with little sunshine for 6 months of year a small % will get sick. On oranic farms those cows are shipped off site and treated. Summer grass has to be swathed, raked, baled and hauled with fossil burning machines. Milk is Milk, It's all good
robothat 3 years ago
Grain makes the rumen acid, which allows things like e-coli to take over. The cow is a herbivore and will always be. Milk is not all the same. My organic milk does not have synthetic hormone residues in it (BGH or breeding hormones), or poison chemical residues. I'm not polluting my children's water or food on my farm either. Organic grass fed is the only future we have. The merchants of the earth (Rev. 18) have run out of time. Time for health, vitality, and sustainability to rule!
ckfarm 3 years ago
how many cows do you milk on how many acres with how much production per cow?
robothat 3 years ago
Production is all that matters? No wonder you don't get it. I'm more concerned with quality/mineral density, sustainability, and health. I'd rather eat half as much and get the same nutritional value. I also like my Fendt tractors that are paid for from my 60 grass fed Holsteins. There's nothing to be proud of with polluting the world we live in. I know, the "I'm feeding the world" lie. Look around, aint happening. Nutrient dense food is the answer to solve all our problems. Human health esp.
ckfarm 3 years ago
Plumynut for Africa.
robothat 3 years ago
You think MonSatan cares about the people of Africa?LOL! No army, has been responsible for death and destruction like they have. Christ warned us of those that steal, kill, and destroy. Love of $ is all that matters to them, and unfortunately, many farmers trapped in poison delusions. Maybe you don't mind being a serf to them, but I'd rather produce clean NUTRIENT dense food that can feed the world without EVIL sucking the lifeblood out of the countryside. Choose ye this day who you will serve.
ckfarm 3 years ago
@ConservationMinn cows dont get sick?
i actually have a question about organic dairy, when a cow gets milk fever or something like that, do you give them calcium supplement? Or maybe they just get it from the grass they eat... And can you treat cows for mastitis? or are they culled? thanks
awd2702hero 1 year ago
@ConservationMinn cows milk is for there hefers not for humans imagine a hefer sucking mary's triple g cups! agreed??
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AnybodyMustermann 1 year ago
@ConservationMinn
Just like humans which cannot get sick from bacteria when they eat the right food. NOT.
That beeing said, giving all animals - whether sick or not - a constant supply of low dose antibiotics if of course a horrible idea and should be prohibited. (not because it's bad for the animals but because it is the ideal way to make bacteria resistant)
AnybodyMustermann 1 year ago
@robothat You're a city slicker aren't you?
jbrussell1 4 months ago
@jbrussell1 nope<i'm a dairy farmer(5,000 milking, 5,000 acres irrigated)
robothat 4 months ago