A Day in the LIFE of An AMISH DAIRYMAN During Fall Harvest in Lancaster County, PA's Amish Country

[@chrismoody1342]

40 years construction here. I’ve sacrificed my knees, back and muscles working hard. No way I could keep up with this man. Being Dairy, I imagine there is zero days off, or the animals would suffer the consequences. I worked sometimes 10 hour days, sometime 6 days a week. This man works 14 hours, 7 days a week and uses twice as much muscle power. My back hurts just watching, I going to go lay down now.

[@dylanhaldiman1045]

Not gonna lie, these are some really nice looking cows

[@cz_ww2117]

The cleanliness of the barns is impressive, these are hard working people, caught somewhere between modern times and the 19th century. Respect their way of life.

[@ToddandAmandaWilliams-bm8mi]

I live the way the Amish live i have met so many down to earth nice amish they are hard workers and beliefs in things are amazing great people for sure

[@michaelhulskotter7623]

Sweet baby Jesus, the amount of work and heart these guys put in is impressive. Growing up in upstate New York. It was the saddest thing watching all these dairy farmers go out of business.

[@ecobouwen]

Why sad. They are at least i dependant from the cheeti g dirty government

[@soyoucametosee7860]

​@@ecobouwenbecause they went out of business. That's why it's sad.

[@jeb3415]

Michael i also grew up around Amish communities. Now, when I watch channels like Larson Farms and Sonne Farms- family farms and I am amazed by the amount of mechanical knowledge and work they do in addition to the agricultural and livestock… I honestly think the modern farmer works harder. I think we need all farmers small scale to large scale to feed our country. I admire the Amish in that they haven’t capitulated to big ag gmo and there is no doubt the Amish are producing a cleaner food and mild product for humans.

[@jeb3415]

*milk products. And when I say the modern farmer works harder I say in reference to all the equipment maintenance etc sure they have their cushy heat/ac cabs lol but I wonder if the trade off it totally worth it? Thank you for sharing this video.

[@randymarch5140]

I am from NY. I used to pick up milk in Lancaster county. Organic. It would take us 20 plus hours to drive to PA, pick the milk, then drive back to NY. Thank God there were no serious accidents in the 5 years we did this. I LOVE the Amish. We have Lancaster Amish here in the Mohawk Valley. Plus many other types of Amish. All Great neighbors

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. My neighbor purchased a farm up there a few years ago and moved with his family. His organic milk contract moved with him.

[@Art-ot2jn]

Dusty hay getting into me lungs now farmers wear face masks for protection

[@Art-ot2jn]

Oh how I hated those milk cans be di g overto pick up twice a day my pappa after 20 years of this could not stand straightened

[@jessicalightner7947]

There is no place in New York that takes 20 hours to get to Lancaster

[@Art-ot2jn]

@@jessicalightner7947 hores pulled the milk tank

[@willyfindlay4398]

Nice to see horses and a mule working on the maize silage.😊

[@sharvo6]

" Back in the 1960s and 1970s" you make it sound like ancient history.

[@philleggitt3005]

Getting close a lifetime for many of us who were there...

[@geoffoutdoors]

Ohio Amish country here .... really enjoyed this video 👍

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. Greatly appreciated.

[@varner226]

An Amish youtube channel? What a time to be alive...

[@LancoAmish]

You better believe it!

[@sharvo6]

Working in the silo sort of creeps me out ... seems like so many opportunities for something dreadful to go wrong ... wishing for good health for the farmers and their families.

[@victorianidetch]

It takes some serious skills to be a farmer.

[@joseduarte176]

I love seeing the hard work behind fresh produce.

[@Sean-bp6xb]

Lots of work. Long days. Thx! Watching from Ontario Canada 🎉

[@fordguy2001]

thanks for sharing this video i always enjoyed watching the amish work. i also live in lancaster county

[@johnstoltzfus8579]

I used to be Amish and enjoy watching the Amish life style and I grew up in Lancaster county. But I would not go back but it is cool 😊

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Much appreciated!

[@jamesadams893]

Why did you leave the Amish lifestyle

[@chuckschultz626]

😅@@LancoAmish

[@dennisbelles9236]

All respect to the Amish.

[@kylerittenhouse5426]

I used the bucket and step saver in the 80s on my uncles farm. Pipelines were not installed yet.

[@jamesducey2685]

Thank you for another special sharing. There are many nuances shown.

[@LancoAmish]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Both are greatly appreciated.

[@AS-tt8ui]

This dude has no trouble falling asleep

[@Diesal3]

I know right, I do not think insomnia is a problem these people suffer from! Just imagine his father at that same age and how much work that was.

[@bonzie321]

Plus he’s got to have more babies before bed.😝

[@AQ-pl7cp]

@@Diesal3😊 9:08 9:10 9:11

[@AQ-pl7cp]

@@bonzie321 52:27

[@johncconnolly1]

Fantastic video. This man takes the term "hard work" to a new level.

[@geraldsieber7266]

Very nice video. Forked a lot of silage out of the silo growing up.

[@russlong7175]

Same here 😅

[@johnluimes8359]

Used to have a 718 harvester on the farm when I was a kid. Never got that many tons per hour out of it. That was some impressive chopping for a little old 718. Never thought I would see one with a kernel processor either.

[@markb1487]

As a UK beef farmer,,this is fascinating to watch,👍💯👍

[@kathleenclark291]

Such beautiful horses! Hard work, rarely seen! ❤

[@Steve-mp4fo]

I like that guy,he worked hard

[@bill-n5o]

another good video thanks

[@daydreambeliever6603]

I didn’t know Amish farms use powered equipment. Farmers are hard working people.❤

[@coreyacre6070]

I wonder if the alarm I heard by the mixer was to let him know he had enough silage down.

[@markkallstrom5672]

We were 5 generations of dairy farmers here in Washington State .You have some very nice cows there . At one time we milked in a flat barn also , then in a double 10 parlor . Now we grow fresh market sweet corn selling mostly direct to the public . Kallstrom Sweet Corn , Ephrata , Wa.

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching and leaving the comment. There’s an Ephrata, Pa just north of here!

[@markkallstrom5672]

@@LancoAmish Yes I drove past Ephrata , Penn, , when looking foe JD 5830 chopper

[@derekgeddes7956]

Nice watch🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍😎

[@andrelacombe2131]

Thank the farmers for the nice video.

[@Iamtherodlight1453.]

Blessings, my brother

[@chadbraun2076]

Here in Wisconsin at least in Clark County the amish or at least what we call the old order amish usually don't have electricity on there premises. They don't use tractors. But do use stationery engines. I believe they use electric lights in there barns powered by gasoline or diesel generators from what I heard. They cook with wood or kerosene. Even though some amish will use bulk tanks for milk. Most still use cans. Some don't even sell there milk comically they just process it & consum it themselves. They mostly use horse & buggys. there are modern people who will drive them around. If they need to go longer distances. Some of them will saw wood for the public for extra $$. But we do havea a Mennonite population here in Wisconsin too. There are different factions of them they all seem to use electricity of the power grid. There are some that drive smaller tractors instead of car/trucks. Some that ride bikes & use horse & buggys. But farm with tractors on steel wheel & there are some Mennonites that drive cars/trucks use smartphones internet even social media! This farm looks to me the more like a Mennonite farm then amish since they don't use tractors here in Wisconsin. They dont use silo unloaders or mixers at least not the old order amish. I'm sure modern Mennonite use all that stuff. The amish are still pretty crude around here. The way this farmer feed his cows is pretty much the way my stepfather fed his dairy cows. But he didn't have a mixer. He milked his cow with a pipeline system & had 4 automatic takeoff milking units he milked around 45 cows when he retired from dairy farming in the spring of 2022. He wasn't a amish or Mennonite.

[@EthanHunter93]

I run a 16 aside hearing bone dairy with 567 milkers, 86 heifers in calf with about a dozen on the ground.. I appreciate this type of milking an how far the industry has come, Wether its armish lifestyle or modern life style. I appreciated watching this alot.

[@LancoAmish]

Thank you very much for watching and leaving the comment. Much appreciated!

[@danielcadnum7214]

By goodness friend how long does it take you to milk 567 Miller’s with 16 x 2 (32) stations? That’s a real feat? 💪 work! 😊

[@ИннокентийСеребренников]

Такое доение считается не очень чистым. На качество молока сказывается негативно.

[@EthanHunter93]

@danielcadnum7214 takes 3hrs depending how dirty the girls are. All up 5hrs with milking, mixing feed, then feeding the calves an heifers.. afternoon milking takes about 3hrs all up if there clean.

[@danielcadnum7214]

@@EthanHunter93 that’s awesome Ethan. Keep it up. I love diary operations with Gods soul in them. Those Mega Dairy farms 3000 plus operations are soulless and not bovine friendly. It’s animal cruelty if you asked me. And, someone should go to jail for those 18,000 Dairy cows that died from smoke and burned up in the Texas panhandle. To me that’s 180 family farms put out of business. Back in the day a 100 cow operation was supporting a family of six or more. I miss those operations all over the Midwest. Keep it up brother and God Bless you and your family. 👍🪂😎🇺🇸

[@Publicspeaking1234]

So much has changed since I worked on Ben & Sadie Glick (now Sam Glick) farm in Bart, Pa in the 80’s/90’s.

[@elenalevasheva3830]

Спасибо за ваши видео. На этой ферме все счастливы. Каждый важен и имеет значение. В этом секрет хороших отношений и счастливой жизни.

[@willyfindlay4398]

The dairy farm next to my parents house fifty years ago used to milk in the byre ( cow barn) but that went direct to a bulk tank even then. But your video brings back happy memories of all the manual labour involved. I am from Scotland UK 🇬🇧 😊

[@LancoAmish]

Thank you so much for watching and sharing. I’m glad you enjoyed the video!

[@peanutsmith1462]

Brings back memories of the late 80”S in enterprise Alabama on the dairy farm that milk taste so good and so sweet

[@LancoAmish]

Thank you very much for watching and leaving a comment. I greatly appreciate both.

[@marcclement7396]

Well done. Might want to have that cough checked out.

[@williamskk1]

Very interesting and well done video. Must have been a long day making and editing this video too,

[@JohnSmith-wx5bh]

did anyone notice the motor cart wheels twitching??? there are foot pedals that help to steer the cart.....If i am correct?? Some cows and horses keep themselves clean.....not all though

[@stevecobb7844]

Really nice healthy looking cows.. I watch some farm channels and not used to seeing dairy cattle in such good condition.

[@ginalarsen4875]

I loved the video!

[@leonardconlon9319]

Awesome video. I admire and can relate to farmer. Throughly enjoyed this video. My hat is off to this great man.

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching and leaving such a kind comment. I’ll pass it along for sure!

[@rebeccabowman6577]

Thanks for sharing. Makes me so home sick for the years I worked on a dairy farm. I really enjoy seeing how the amish do their farming. Congratulations on the new baby. I remember getting up at 4:30am and helping to milk cows and do ther things around the farm before I would go to school then come home and head straight back for the 4:30pm start of milking and other things. Then summers all day working morning till night.

[@william6526]

The next time you drink a glass of milk,use butter or some other dairy product remember how much work it took by a farmer to supply it to you.

[@plainandsimple2576]

Much respect!!

[@PaulTighe-e2n]

Beautiful video enjoyed it very much

[@austincline5648]

That little self propelled feed cart is really cool and handy.

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Greatly appreciated! It does speed up feeding that’s for sure.

[@billsauberlich7337]

Why do some machines have rubber tires and some steel

[@GAF19577]

I had a Metal Roof put on my house years ago by an Amish Group of guys here in Wisconsin. They were hard working & the most PLEASANT group of people you could ever meet.

[@scottjohnson6173]

I lived on a dairy farm when I was younger just me and my dad and my mom before my other brothers came along. I remember getting up with my dad getting everything all prepped up feeding the cows then we let the cows out and Grace all day long while we clean the barn and get everything all prepped up take them out to to the city to be processed. It was an every day job seven days a week twice a day you might come in the morning night it’s just an ongoing process you always knew what you had to do every day of the week. But at the same token, it was the best life. I think every kid should know how this whole process takes place and work on a plan for at least two years of their life.

[@markkallstrom5672]

Oh by the way , about 20 years ago I flew to Lancaster County and bought a John Deere 5830 chopper from a Amish guy that had bought it in Germany and my son and I ate at an all you could eat place there , great food .

[@bradwarner8933]

That is a great video my friend! That’s basically the same way my grandfather milked his heard. He had about the same number. I went out with him at 4:30 in the morning a lot of times. This brings back great memories! Good job narrating.

[@LancoAmish]

Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment. I greatly appreciate both!

[@konstantinusynin3469]

Small korgies are so funny at its work)

[@DassFrak]

Bon travail merci bon journée

[@orphayoder9085]

I used to live to milk everyone’s cows! I’m in Ohio. Your cows look like good producers! I loved to feed the calves. I did a lot of colostrum feeding . You save it all , keep it cool and in the end of it it’s like buttermilk. The calves love it. But you want to have a calf pellet to feed right away. Oh for the love of farming! Loved it ! Now I’m too old ha. I now work for a case farm , hatching egg farm. At this time we collect 9,450 53:08 53:08 53:08 53:08 53:08 Eggs per barn. Three barns.

[@adamdeane123]

So cool ,thanks for that ! Im a dairy farmer here in new Zealand, my family hav been milking cows for 120years

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment. Both are greatly appreciated!

[@MmmHuggles]

You sometimes hear of some Amish being hard on the animals, but it seems this guy is gentle and compassionate on these cows. The touches are soft, seems to show care for their wellbeing, clean barn, and all this while sounding sick too. The cows are also telling, they are so calm around him, they don't flinch when he touches them. He makes sure each gets feed. All the animals look fed well, even the dogs. All in all, a good farmer and good man from the looks of it. This likely shows in his family life too. A man who treats animals with respect and kindness will usually treat people with respect and kindness too. That all being said, there are things I just don't quite get about some Amish and it's probably logical to them. One being, if you can have a motorized silage processor, why must you use horses to pull it? Seems more logical to just use some of the power of the engine to maybe drive a wheel or two, but I know there is probably some explanation for it.

[@burtonhill3016]

What a life.

[@kimcircagirl474]

I still get emotional when I lay mine eyes upon the Amish,My dream has been to live near them ,Either Ohio and or Pa 🙏

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Thise are some hard working people

[@greggergen9104]

I would love to sit in on the meetings where they decide which technology to adapt and which to forgo.

[@lavida57]

You Farmers work so hard to feed us. Thank you Question, do the Dairy cows spend most of their productive life chained up or do they get the rome a bit?

[@ozarkview928]

I grew up washing and putting milkers together just like those , I don’t think I’d remember how to do it anymore. We pushed all the feed through with a wheel barrow and pitched silage out of the silo by hand . We only had around thirty or so cows . I miss those days sometimes.

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I washed and put those together for my neighbor back in the mid 1970’s. Fed the cows out of the forage wagon using a wheel barrow at the same time the diesel fumes filled the barn! 🤣

[@danielcadnum7214]

Amazing Godly 💪 work! 😊

[@maverick12212000]

This doesn’t seem anymore Amish than a small dairy in the Midwest. Lights, feed cart, tractor, fans…what’s Amish about it?

[@LancoAmish]

What Amish means to you is much different than what being Amish means to the Amish.

[@nevinmiller9831]

There are much different levels of Amish. Some allow electricity and tractors for field work just for example. Others require horses for field work like this one.

[@jacquethirlkel3001]

Amish is a religion. It has a range of conservative to liberal depending on the Amish group. It’s also a culture. Usually power comes from other than electricity although some Amish districts allow electricity outside the house in the barn for the business of raising animals. You might want to read up on the Amish. God bless.

[@janeausten7411]

You try lifting those pail’s 50 cows, 2 times per day.. at least 50 lbs each and see how you feel then

[@ruthbees7214]

It's a good thing they have some modern equipment on the farm. Farming is hard work,and as you get older it gets harder to do. So any labour saving machinery is probably welcome to ease their workload. Necessity is the mother of invention.❤😂

[@johanbibal8055]

hello I am French I have been following you recently I am introducing my children to your work they are happy to see you

[@MikeHolicky-pc5he]

I milked cows 19 years. He's got more modern equipment than I had

[@fastsetinthewest]

Nice video. I got a kick out of the serial plate for the LEBANON SILAGE PROCESSOR Manufactured by LEBANON AG SERVICES "ON" CANADA. Maybe it should say "IN?" That was a great video shot.

[@JoshuaSmith-xw6jp]

On = Ontario Canada

[@donnaburge7897]

Very interesting. Looks exhausting.😮

[@earnestmetz9834]

I'm exhausted.

[@Rayzer2368]

These people have more work ethic in their pinky finger than I do in my whole body. I so envy this lifestyle and wish the entire country would have to go back to this type of living and be done with corporations.

[@shirleyk6009]

I used to use milking machine’s just like them

[@helenmeyer8343]

When i was a teenager in cold Wis we had to pitch silage down all the time. That was many years ago but it made no difference that i was a girl.I wish we had had all these modern machinery back then. We still have the old order Amish were i grew up in Shawano Wis and they do everything the old way. Well most everything. We did tour a chicken farm and the eggs were washed automatically, but still not like a modern non Amish egg laying place.

[@Diesal3]

23:40 If they have Tractors, why not use them for this type of work? I used to live not far from this area and would travel thru Lancaster Co to Lancaster proper to visit all the outlet stores they have there and would see sights such as this regularly. Back then, before solar was so readily used, when you went thru this area after dark you were very lucky to see any lights at all. Maybe one gas light in a barn here and there but for the most part it was pitch dark. I remember someone telling me that many Amish in this area would have a phone installed in the outhouse. They would run adds for work and it would say you have to call between certain hours, like must call between 3p and 4p M-F because that's when someone would be there to answer the calls to line up work for them. Lots and LOTS of little shops that sold Amish products all over that area. If you are ever in that area it's worth the trip to check it out.

[@GeorgeCole-wz3cv]

Well that keeps you young

[@jamesshingledecker3158]

Do you allow your cows to go outside?

[@puncherdavis9727]

I admire that work ethic but sometimes I think they get so caught up in the tradition of working that they forget that there is easier ways to do the same thing.The guy could have brought up a cut off three Foot Pitchfork and tied up on his ceiling and when he has to go level that stuff he has a lot more leverage and just keep it up they're out of the weather under the roof able to be used year after year

[@marthadavis2810]

I would eat that! It looks fantastic.

[@ronniemctaggart6301]

There was a reason I always washed the milkers and line before milking bacteria will set in them inflations and hoses so you wash with extremely hot was ad just a small amount of Clorox if you do t have chlorine in the south a high bacteria count can get you in a world of trouble

[@skipruckert4605]

I was wondering is this the same Amish dairy that burned down Thanksgiving day? And I feel like I'm missing a lot because you don't have the caption printing available did you ever say how many cows this man milks? Skip, Western PA

[@kentuckylady2990]

Most dairy farmers in my area put their cows out to pasture between milkings.

[@joedoe-sedoe7977]

Gas lamps in a barn?? And pouring milk in the open but no barn flies around? I enjoyed the video, very interesting

[@LancoAmish]

Barns were lit by something before electricity was invented so it’s not that outrageous. Into the 80’s and even later milking in this style was quite common. Milk is pretty much all pasteurized so it’s not really a concern. Many raw milk sellers milk in this fashion and have even greater standards to abide by. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Greatly appreciated.

[@zahidwalid3868]

God bless

[@brimac58]

My brother works at a computer, but eats like an Amish farmer…..👩‍🌾 mingah!

[@sallydeslandes7990]

Do the cows ever leave the barn?

[@marklane2551]

The wheels on the tractor actually are more modern then pneumatic.

[@LancoAmish]

How is a worn out tractor tire tread bolted onto a steel wheel more modern than a pneumatic tire?

[@jessealt5415]

It's interesting that this Amish farm uses more modern technology than the "English" farm I grew up on in NEPA (30‐40 years ago). This must be a necessary compromise to stay in business these days. I'm guessing that's why this farm is still operational and there's very few of the smaller dairy farms left in NEPA.

[@LancoAmish]

Changes have definitely been accepted to be able to stay as a dairy farm. Lancaster is probably the most expensive area for Amish to stay in and a herd of 10 cows and milking by hand isn’t possible any more.

[@jessealt5415]

@LancoAmish Good for them. I hope they can maintain their way of life another 300 years even as NJ creeps in.

[@derylfinn4560]

Please tell me the cows are not chained up 24/7

[@ИннокентийСеребренников]

Это привязное содержание, много кто так содержит коров.

[@madnimunir5845]

Nice❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@DEgan5660]

Do you have a store locals could purchase goods from you? I am local and would like to support.

[@berenicebonifacio2216]

❤

[@jonf9492]

so much for the old ways

[@LancoAmish]

Thanks for watching and commenting. Unfortunately it isn’t possible to earn a living in Lancaster County with a dairy herd small enough to be milked by hand. The Amish have combined tradition with some modernity to still have economically viable small dairy farms unlike the tens of thousands of others like them that have disappeared since the 1980’s.

[@hobbyfarm6883]

These guys live in same area as me. We run a beef farm

[@Diddley-js6lf]

These Amish are either New Order or Mennonite Amish. Here in Michigan we have mostly New Order Amish. The Difference is the Gasoline Tractors, The Skid Steer etc.

[@LancoAmish]

Lancaster County is home to the largest Old Order Amish settlement in the world. There are no New Order Amish in the county. In fact, New Order Amish are just a minute fraction of all Amish in North America. Using tractors and skid steers doesn’t have anything to do with it.

[@lazarustheleper3649]

In tie-stall barns the pail system and sputnik collector is giving way to the pipe system, where the collectors from the cow's udders are attached to a long stainless steel pipe that runs along the individual cow stalls back to the milk house and into the top of the milk tank. Larger free-stall barns (cows can roam around and go to designated feed and watering facilities to get their nourishment) use milking parlors or robo-mikers. I've seen them all. Robo-milker setups the cows are trained to enter a cage where their teets are cleaned and suction cups are attached to them. The farmer gets to sleep in. The robot does all the work. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn3NepKbnt11h80

[@susanvaughn741]

I wonder how they keep records on each caw? It would be important to know everything about each cow.

[@esm1469]

There is probably a testing service available (at a fee) through the company they sell the milk to. I have siblings that operate similar limited tech farms (Mennonites). They get monthly samples from each cow tested which provides several data points.

[@bccradventures84]

So he can have all that mechanized stuff but has to unload the silage silo by hand?

[@LancoAmish]

Doesn’t have to…prefers not to buy an unloader on credit. Makes perfect sense. An unloader would be nice but is not as necessary as some of the other “mechanized” items you may be referring to.

[@ToddandAmandaWilliams-bm8mi]

I would love to find a job working with the Amish

[@RA-sz5tu]

it's not Lan-caster county it's Lanc-aster counter

[@LancoAmish]

I like to pronounce it the way it’s pronounced in the old country.