 So what's up guys? Today I took a drive up to Dairy Farm. We filmed the vlog here I think, what was it last year Ross? When I took the pictures for the for the almost, oh almost two years. Oh that's right because I came up here before I was looking for the slaughterhouse. This is a year and a half. It's been a while been trying to get back up here. So you guys might remember farm vlog we did where we were showing like the pigs and the chickens and stuff and I've been talking back and forth to Ross for email for a while and I had a couple things I wanted to give him. We had some like feed in the warehouse I wanted him to try out and just come up and visit see how he's doing. So we're just gonna like take a look around the farm today maybe show you guys some animals. What do you buy? The square of the round. Yeah yeah yeah. It's going anywhere from from $25 to $45. A bell. Yeah and that's dry. When you silage ones are wrapped they're generally $45. Then the huge thing is transport. Yeah yeah. Huge cost to transport them. I just talked to a guy over in Springfield that's two hours away. Yeah. He went $350 and moved 12 12 round bales plus. How many bales you feed a day in the winter? Probably two a day maybe a little more. And you have to give them grain too right? I gave them corn in winter and now there's nothing on the field so they need something soon you know. Yeah yeah. Because I would know here they're coming through here. Yeah. Because they want the best. See that's what they're scouting for because I didn't feed yet. That's like a walking through a marsh. It's definitely not a place for a corn. It's dry right now. There's an area where springs come out of here. Oh yeah. It's not that one. What does three tit in me? It's only three quarters. Oh three nipples okay. It's a Jersey cow I had in the barn this time. You can once they dried off maybe though some of them some of them get fat you know. Yeah. They don't hold they don't hold weight not the Jersey crosses because they're more dairy seed. Yeah yeah yeah. But they were good mothers they grew they good growed calves you know. They see them calves running. They're so happy. Yeah yeah. That's cute. They're so funny. They don't stay with their own mother they just hang with the. They'll stay in the group the calves. Oh yeah. That's what they did when we grew up little calves. They was sitting a pile in the middle of the field for a whole day and now nursing but I'll tell you another thing well it doesn't matter to you but we had big problem with coyotes and the ravens. Yeah. With the calves. Huh. With the calves. They go with their eyes. Yeah yeah yeah they try to they try to pick their eyes out and then the calves help us and they basically eat their life. Yeah that's what they did that's one calf it's a herford here. They run around like the ears. Yeah yeah. There's one. She can't see you and she's wild as hell but she can't see both eyes. They already got them both eyes. Do you know which one? I don't know where she is it's a herford. It's a red and white base like that one. So she just follow some other one? They smell. Oh yeah. But they see when they know somebody there then they'll take off. Another one went through the fence and put a gash in and she actually got the flies in the summer and she got infected so bad she died. Oh you lost one. They put a gash cause they can't see. They went right through the fence and put a gash in them. That's horrible. Oh this is why they went through all this stuff. So we're out here just looking at some cattle. Russ wanted to sell a couple so I was thinking about it but as you guys know we didn't get the slaughterhouse this year so the problem is we got to figure out who can process nearby how to get the cattle to and from the slaughterhouse and then if even after they process the cattle if they're willing to ship it down to New York. I mean obviously money talks probably. If I pay a guy like $100, $200 just to get the cattle over there and then maybe a couple hundred to ship it down to New York it should be fine. It's just trying to sell the meat with a reasonable margin and when you buy stuff from distributors from vendors you have something consistent and if there's a problem you can always address it but as soon as you buy a thousand dollar cattle and you buy that meat you're stuck with it whether it's too lean or it has an off mineral taste. It's really more of a gamble but when you own the slaughterhouse and have the operation then you can make this cattle into jerky you can make that cattle into sausage but if you don't have that luxury then you're kind of stuck with selling the cuts so we'll see. I'll probably get two or three maybe four just so we have the local beef stocked up. I know you guys haven't been waiting for the local beef for a while but maybe one or two. City people came in the area the local people's kind of disappeared. Yeah it's like the rich people come here to kind of escape the city because it's not that far it's only like maybe a two hour drive to the city. Yeah that's what's coming up here very wealthy people very wealthy. They call it a blue tombstone because they're so expensive and very costly to put that silo up on there. But I mean if you buy a property with it on it already then and you don't have to spend the extra money then that's not that bad. No because they're worthless. What do they cost to put up originally? Originally I think he paid twenty seven thousand or something. That was my thoughts. That was an eighty maybe. That was an eighties twenty seven thousand. Now that thing probably costs you over a hundred grand. I imagine but they don't even have them anymore. I don't think nobody wants to damn things. They're giving them away because it costs more money to take them down. Oh because they're glass lined. They're glass lined on the inside. That's kind of crazy. Yeah because it's something to look at. Yeah but they tax you on that thing. Like per year. The taxes that zones. Yeah because what does it get zoned for agriculture or industrial or something. Yeah I guess how they figure this shit out but they tax on the silo. If they rip out then can you drop your taxes but it's so costly to pull them down. Then you'd have to probably probably take you five ten years to make up the cost of taxes. Right enough they're killing people. They're killing good milk cows. Milk and cows are killing them. The whole herd's going to kill them. It is pathetic. Hey the vegans want their oatmeal. Yes pathetic. I've heard all this kind of bullshit. My neighbor he was a sex therapist. He was here this afternoon. He's in Manhattan. I said you look like shit. His face like a pale face. You know what he did? He won't eat meat no more. Yeah that's why he doesn't look so good. He looks like a skeleton. Number one in his face is like white because he turned to a plant based. Maybe it makes his wife happy. That his pee pee doesn't work anymore. But this is what you're dealing with. But you find a spot and you'll be alright because you have the profit margin. There's no doubt. I'm lucky because I have what it's weird. Most people have the land and the business but they don't have the marketing aspect. I'm lucky in a sense that I already have the clientele and the business. But it's crazy because they're not paying you more for cattle but they're charging 25-40% more for each cut of meat. You know New York strip steak went up almost double in price. It's crazy. It's crazy. The stakes are going way up. Meat has gone up maybe 20-25% but not the cattle prices. That's why we're going broke. The big packers, Cargill, Tyson, they're all making a lot of money now. They're making even more money. Get richer. Tyson, Cargill, JBS and whose other big beef went wrong? I can't remember. Smithfield? It's pork. That's not the one I'm paying at pork. Tyson, Cargill, JBS. There's another big one. Oh, Masano does. That's the grain. They were giving... Animals don't like the rain at all, huh? No, cats hate it. Oh yeah, the cats don't like water. The dog wants to escape the rain too. Yeah, he sleeps in bed all the time. No wonder he's so healthy as a dog. I already gave him jerky and he still wants your eggs, huh? No, he's trying to eat the cat too. Anything with food, that's Henry. He's the most healthiest dog you've ever seen. He was kind of down there running the day-to-day operations when I wasn't feeling so good. What's up, buddy? I milk fed him and I sold him for $400. Figure that out. What's up, the pigs? $400 total or each? $400. I sold them. You lost your rear end. Because nobody wants to pay. I don't know if you can or not. Pork is cheap. Yeah, it's too cheap. When they do the pasture pork, the only forest stuff, acorns, pasture and stuff, then it gets expensive sometimes, but that's hard to do. You need a lot of land and it's a lot of work. It's not profitable. It's almost impossible. They're a little scared. It's been a couple hours. It's about 4.15 now. Pretty nice day earlier, but it's getting chilly now. Still pretty sunny out. I kind of feel bad for the guy. That's why I'm here, trying to help him out a little bit. He's been having some problems with the dog. The main reason I came up here today was to actually bring him some supplements, just some vitamins and stuff to see if he feels a little better. I shouldn't be doing it, but I think I'm going to help the guy get his farm properties listed on some website so he can sell them because nothing's happened in the past two years. I'll also see if I can buy some beef cattle, if I can work out the logistics. If I can't, I'm not going to go crazy with the beef cattle stuff. At least I'll help him with the farm properties. The only reason I'm doing this is because when I did help him take those pictures earlier, I was fortunate to have the people that were helping him reach out to me and help me with the slaughterhouse deal. Although that slaughterhouse purchase didn't go through and it didn't work out, it still gave me an opportunity and I do appreciate that. Hopefully, I don't know if you guys enjoy this or whatever, but I'll give you a little bit of an update about what I do on my Sundays when I should be relaxing. I'm going to spend another two hours driving back down home and we'll see. We might have some local beef because of this. If not, we've got some farm prospects that we might be buying in the near future nearby. So thanks for joining me, guys. I'll see you for tomorrow's vlog and have a good night.