BEHIND THE SCENES AT A FRENCH DAIRY FARM: BEILLEVAIRE

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Dairy products are a huge part of French food culture. Have you ever wondered how and where they're made? Let's go behind the scenes at a dairy farm in the Loire Atlantique! Beillevaire is a local producer of delicious dairy products here in France including butter, cheese, yogurt, desserts, and more. Our first stop was meeting the dairy farmers and cows at one of the farms where Beillevaire sources their milk. STAY TUNED FOR PART 2 SOON!
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THANK YOU to the amazing Beillevaire team for showing me behind the scenes and letting me see first-hand the dedication of your partners and employees. I had so much fun at the farm!
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[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

Merci, Diane. C'était vachement éducatif!

[@christineduffy3357]

Diane, This is one of your best videos ever. So sorry for your loss.

[@OuiInFrance]

Thank you!

[@Rachel-rs7jn]

Holy cow Diane....this is so well done. Incredibly professional. Hope this one goes viral too!

[@OuiInFrance]

You're so sweet, Rachel. Thank you. So glad you enjoyed it!!!

[@dulonbarua1471]

​@@OuiInFrance very nice Video, i live in paris, i want work in this farm. Please reply me

[@WavyCurlyGina]

What a wonderful video! These hard working folks love what they do and it shows ❤️

[@scottwesterfield6360]

French dairy products are just the best. Viewing how the cows are raised and treated at this dairy provides some insight into why. Bien fait, Diane!

[@cyndyainsworth8436]

Merci Diane. I loved meeting the cows and the people who care for them.

[@OuiInFrance]

Thank you, so glad!

[@amyspeers8012]

Loved the video. Thanks for having the intern and employee talk about their day.

[@mayganphynix8267]

I know Farmers work super hard. Ive volunteered on a Farm Rescue Sanctuary several times. got up at around 6 :30 in the morning to feed all the animals with a friend of mine, clean coops, and even treat chickens who had bumblefoot. I heard their stories of how they where treated before they where rescued, and it felt good knowing that they would never go through the terrifying experience of a slaughterhouse. and did you know France has an all Vegan Cheese Shop? ❤

[@DrSheri.teaches]

I love the way they care for the cows! That’s certainly no factory farm. No wonder French dairy products are so excellent.

[@athanase6613]

Diane, you have done a wonderful job of an almost professional quality. This video format is very interesting, very real. Please continue on this path.

[@mztango]

Very interesting. Looking forward to Part 2. They take great pride in their work.

[@andyshacks7812]

Loved that video. Really interesting to see young people working on the farm and having such enthusiasm for what they do. Look forward to the next one !

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed it, Andy! MERCI! And yes, it shocked me that Lena is only 14!!!

[@norbertfontaine8524]

@@OuiInFrance "it shocked me that Lena is only 14!!!" Me too !

[@palupalu5647]

@@norbertfontaine8524 she's a college student doing an internship to learn about the world of work. that's what I understood

[@hollybeeme]

I watched this without subtitles and understood a good deal of it. It will train my comprehension to do this, won't it? Anyway, loved visiting this dairy farm and look forward to the next part of it! Merci!

[@alimomandkotwal1893]

Loved it ...I have done working in farm in 🇹🇷 in a village its so joyfull working with animal ...

[@raine5222]

I would love to see more videos of behind the scenes of French Careers.

[@Chiefchief4444]

Wonderful! Merci beaucoup! encore

[@marielisec.a.3072]

Super pro, Diane! Thanks!

[@JD987abc]

Hi Diane. What a fantastic video. Very professionally done in line with some of the best documentaries I’ve seen. Consumers tend to think food stuff simply comes from supermarkets. The don’t realize the amount of work that goes into producing milk, cheeses, butter let alone chicken etc. Your channel is educational and fun which I’m sure makes production more difficult. Thank you for your hard work. Joe.

[@JD987abc]

And yes to the next episode on the dairy farm. Merci.

[@thomaskauffman983]

Beautiful!

[@jerrodsix545]

This was really great to watch and I can't wait to see part 2.

[@joelroach416]

Wow. I had to follow an American to France to learn about a cow farm. Great video.

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed it! Merci

[@muriellecozic6807]

Hello, I live in Nantes and here everybody know Bellevaire products. Now I know why and when I will buy a yaourt or a cheese I'll know where the milk come from. 😀 Thank you Diane

[@lailin4263]

Wonderful video, thank you Diane. Love your varied content - I always learn more about France. Keep up the great work, it is much appreciated! 💕

[@kendaward491]

Wow! I miss France so much! Thank you for this video it was excellent!

[@marilynst.germainhall2439]

Outstanding. So glad to have found your channel!!!! Merci.

[@foreverlearningfrench]

J'aime ça. Bon boulot Diane ! Excellente cinématographie.

[@johndepner9237]

I really enjoy these type of field trips, thank you for sharing!

[@FabulousFab84]

Merci Diane, that was just beautiful and perfect !

[@marilyngairns7934]

Thanks Diane. This is very interesting. I love watching the calves. am so sorry to hear about your loss.

[@catherinenesbit5446]

That ws fun to watch. Merci!

[@CiTalMe]

That was soooo awesome! I’ve only visited France once-about 17 years ago! I can’t wait to watch Part 2. The cheese shop looks like my idea of “Candyland”!

[@texicanwife]

I enjoyed this so much!

[@crinoidia]

Great video, Diane. I really enjoyed it!

[@suecrumley5925]

Loved this! Thank you, great job everyone.

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@kirstenraccuia3952]

Such a fun video. I had no idea about this process. Thanks!

[@mridgill]

Thank you Diane. I loved the video visit to the dairy farm. I look forward to more.

[@vikkipoitra749]

Great video! Interesting information expertly presented. Thank You!

[@jml4774]

Great video! Can't wait to see part two. Everyone seems to care about the animals, which is so nice to see.

[@valerieneal2747]

Cows are such gentle creatures..I love them🌸

[@KimberlyGreen]

I've always wondered if French cows are perpetually location-challenged. After all, they say « m'où » all the time. 😋

[@OuiInFrance]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

French-speaking cows say MEUH.

[@KimberlyGreen]

@@timotheelegrincheux2204 😉 I was just making a silly play on words. 'Moo' is the sound we associate with cows in English. And 'où' has a similar sound, but means 'where'.

[@KimberlyGreen]

@@JeanChordeiles Ah! You are so right! I forgot to add the proper accent as I wrote my comment. American keyboards aren't laid out like French ones, so it does take a sometimes-forgotten extra step. I'll edit my original comment to correct the mistake. Merci!

[@johncraycroft4919]

Nicely done!-- showing the real work, dirt and all, but a super clean end product, and great to see the young men and women taking to this work with enthusiasm.

[@joneckerle1314]

This video really resonated with me. My family here in the States have a dairy farm. I used to help my cousins with their chores and watched and waited while they milked the cows. So so sorry about the loss of your dear mom Diane 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lindafernandes6492]

Loved this video! More like this, please!💕

[@OuiInFrance]

Stay tuned for Part 2 at the end of the month. Thank you!

[@leslikuyweski4576]

Great video! I really enjoyed this!

[@stephanevilboux1706]

Bonjour. J'adore vos reportages sur les métiers. Vous avez mis en place plusieurs concepts très rafraîchissants tels que vos vidéos courtes où vous et votre mari échangez des mots prononcés en français puis en anglais. Puissiez vous continuer à vous amuser de la sorte. Cordialement. Merci.

[@mgdoodlestudio]

This was great! So interesting!

[@alician9663]

Wow this was such a great video! I loved seeing how much care and attention are given to the cows and the variety in the daily activities for everyone. Seems like long but very rewarding days. Those baby calves were so cute too!

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@marykia1720]

So sorry to hear about your mom. I am sending you lots of hugs and prayers. Keep close to your loved ones and they will help you through this. One day at a time.

[@MrNathansdad]

I loved this video and look forward to more scenes of regular french life

[@OuiInFrance]

So glad, thanks for watching!

[@5850terry]

Loved it. This sort of video is very interesting.

[@mlomarechal6877]

Vidéo très intéressante et instructive. Une vraie "pro" Diane !! merci beaucoup.

[@OuiInFrance]

Thank you very much. I appreciate you taking the time to watch :-)

[@marygracevillar]

I love this content.❤❤❤..so close to my heart and an amazing field to be in...

[@winnie5512]

This is so very well done. I do hope it will continue to pick up views. You have become such a professional and you clearly put so much work into this.

[@bridgetwalsh164]

So great. Thanks

[@mechelu5159]

Thanks, great content! Greetings from Eugene, Oregon

[@pierreinuk]

Many thanks for another lovely video

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching.

[@catechin29]

I came, because i saw your newsletter.. deepest condolences, and take care..

[@anitagiard4725]

What a lovely farm!

[@OuiInFrance]

It really is! ;-) Thx for watching!

[@Julie-zu6sw]

Lovely people!

[@kathyferroggiaro13]

Very interesting!

[@Sportkite1111]

Excellent!

[@Devintandy]

Another cool video, thanks for sharing .

[@OuiInFrance]

Thanks for watching!

[@janpeterbergkvist6304]

Great video!

[@thedavidguy01]

Oh la vache ! This is really a professional quality video. It's also interesting to hear this kind of French vocabulary. You could study French in school forever and never encounter the verb "traire" or the noun "la traite".

[@norbertfontaine8524]

la traite has two meanings : milking and trade (as in slave trade / traite des esclaves)

[@thedavidguy01]

@@norbertfontaine8524 Thanks, I did not know about that other meaning.

[@AlainNaigeon]

@@thedavidguy01 BTW, it's the same idea : something or someone pulled from a place to another one.

[@tkayala7921]

Merci!

[@kenromero9236]

I’ve really enjoyed watching how your video and editing skills have taken off.

[@teddeegrace1]

I grew up on a small farm in Missouri in the U.S. and we did have dairy cattle. To see a dairy enterprise this large was very interesting but also brought back memories of life on the farm as a child and teenager. One summer my mother and I teamed up to do the milking. I'm not sure why my father wasn't involved that summer; he had been diagnosed with skin allergies to cow dander and ground corn so that may have been the reason. At any rate, he had built a two-stall automatic milking rig and my mother and I had that process choreographed, both of us enjoying the efficiency with which we carried it off.

[@kellybryson7754]

Neat to see something different.

[@rowenn1729]

La qualité de tes vidéo est impressionnante. Une vraie reporter de terrain !

[@OuiInFrance]

Merci beaucoup ! ça fait très plaisir de lire ça :-)

[@maryb3317]

Très bien!!

[@NewTasty]

Amazing video.

[@Leila2023_]

really interesting... thanks

[@LightworkerLissa]

Interesting, will be looking forward to the next part. I'm saddened to hear about your mother. We are never the same after we lose a parent. Sending you blessings and healing energy during this stressful time.

[@georgiafrye2524]

There is a Wisconsin PBS program" Around the Farm Table" and a small dairy farm of the program director that makes only Cheddar cheese said they allow the calves to remain with their Mothers as grow faster and are healthier. This is a small natural operation and sadly not the norm in the US either.

[@nancylindsay4255]

@@georgiafrye2524 Ah, the importance of small and family farms! 💗 I am from (and still in) Wisconsin, so this is a value I hold strongly.

[@janw03258]

That was pretty interesting! Thank you! Pretty much works the same way in the U.S.

[@michaelwhite2600]

Merci Diane! C’était super! Tous Les vaches sont assez mignonnes! Probably mistakes there,🤪 I really enjoyed this ! I love the way they take care of these precious animals . Thank you! This is an excellent video. Love them all!

[@geoffrey1278]

Almost perfect 🧐 '' Tous les vaches '' -> * Toutes les vaches * 😁

[@michaelwhite2600]

@@geoffrey1278 Merci

[@wendytan-huang1154]

Enjoyed this very much. Would love to see the rolling of the butter? into disks and a lot more about farm life (veg and animals) in France, please. Gardening as well. Thank you!

[@monicamalone6445]

Really well done! Interesting!

[@OuiInFrance]

Thanks a lot!

[@kaitarai]

Lovely

[@roarmaus]

Very nice filmmaking. Nice editing and music.

[@GoingGreenMom]

Very cool field trip! Having been on a dairy farm or two here in the states, it is iij interesting to see how they do things.

[@OuiInFrance]

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

[@Angela-jy8um]

Cool! I like the videos in French too!

[@OuiInFrance]

Glad you like them!

[@octopigirl7]

Loved this video! France is also about country, not just cities! I caught every 4th word in French. lol

[@jerrismith9337]

Professional!

[@OuiInFrance]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@lorimiller2369]

Cute video! Also liked the bakery video. It’s amazing how all those jobs are apprenticeships. I don’t think people in Canada are encouraged to know about these kinds of jobs. France does a great job of maintaining the skills!

[@rosedavis9875]

Thank you Diane. Great video. I'm sorry to learn your Mom died. You will always miss her

[@femalism1715]

Wow. That was fascinating. I prefer 'fresh from the cow', unpasteurized milk. Does the farmer keep any milk for personal consumption? Or, is it all trucked to the dairy for processing? Thanks, Diane, great video.

[@billgreen1861]

Very interesting that they have apprenticeship before they are called employees. And most farm workers do start at an early age (14 years old is about right)and also early in the day. What I did not know was that calfs get their antibodies from the cows milk, I always thought it was by shots. Can't wait for the tour of the farm. Thanks, Diane.

[@StephaneCalabrese]

My guess it is France/European regulations.

[@billgreen1861]

@@StephaneCalabrese Which one the apprenticeship or the antibody comment?

[@michaelbrianschiffer2700]

Very interesting and educational. I also like that young people are interested in the trade and the apprenticeships that are available for them. I'm looking forward to the second video. From Annette not Michael (I don't know why it usually insists on using my husband's name!).

[@bconsilio3764]

Hi! OMG French cheese!!!!! In general dairy from Europe is AMAZING!

[@OuiInFrance]

It really is!

[@bconsilio3764]

@@OuiInFrance I discovered French cheese as a teenager on a school trip to Quebec ! Port Saulte has been my ultimate favorite since. I rediscovered it some 20 years ago at Whole Foods. There is a French Brie that has ruined all other Brie’s for me as well. I’m glad I’m not a drinker because I’m sure French wine would make me a snob!

[@bconsilio3764]

@@JeanChordeiles oh Jean, Bonjour, I may be American-born, but see my last name. I grew up eating strong Italian cheese. Which I do love, also. A plate of pasta is not complete (or even worth eating) without a mountain of Pecorino Romano freshly grated on top. I eat the rinds when they are too small to continue grating.

[@bconsilio3764]

@@JeanChordeiles it’s like all the Americans who just eat the interior and not the crust of Brie . And don’t even get me started on pizza or bread crusts. I truly should have been born in Europe!

[@palupalu5647]

@@bconsilio3764 Le Brie, cheese of kings and king of cheeses, since 1814, Congress of Vienna

[@stephaniemairs3871]

Yummy.

[@MianAshfaq792]

Good 👍

[@valeriewyndham1381]

Bonjour Diane, Super intéressante video!! Combien de litre de lait par jour récoltent ils? More, more...

[@travelinkim]

This was one of my favorites Diane. The process is interesting. Do they sterilize the big hoses that they transfer milk through? Just wondered how often it needs to be done to keep out bacteria.

[@OuiInFrance]

HI Kim, I believe they sterilize them daily at a minimum (and possibly multiple times per day). They run a solution through them and everything is cleaned after the milking, including all the equipment, floor, etc.

[@brigittelacour5055]

Yes it's cleaned regularly, and the cow's tits every time. Cows under traitement like antibio are milk outside from the tank. If bacteria, or contaminated milk is poor in the tank, all the tank is contaminated and can't be sell ! And in some case the milk factory can put the farm on restrictions, penalty or even out them System. It's very very controlled, multiple testing. If the farmer is working for a label erea like AOC "filière Comté", he could be made out, and the milk isn't buy at the same rate, much cheaper.

[@FRanceSource]

Most enjoyable. Love cows. Maybe you need to add 'love cows madly' to your store. LOL but serious.

[@OuiInFrance]

Thank you for watching. ;-) Maybe Oh la vache!! Kind of like the French holy cow!

[@FRanceSource]

@@OuiInFrance BTW I get many compliments on my 'love dogs madly' T.

[@Albert-fe8jx]

D, a departure from this life is an entry into Heaven. Frame the moment. Cherish the memories. Be thankful for the time.

[@joanlynch5271]

I saw a really interesting video about a place that dated to the Roman invasion against the French guard. Julius Caesar gave his men some of the french property as a thank you. The people discovered that it was good to grow Anaïs seed. They made some candy there. I think that it might be around Lyon.

[@palupalu5647]

you surely want to talk about the famous Flavigny aniseed drops (a village in Côte-d'Or named after Flavien, a Roman traveler.)

[@OuiInFrance]

***TURN ON SUBTITLES!!*** Hope you enjoy this one!! xx WATCH PART 2 HERE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5CakqKIopmNZ8k

[@misc7977]

@Oui in France- thank you so much for this video. Astounding!

[@eastmarvista3267]

Great video! Very professionally done.

[@OuiInFrance]

Much appreciated! Glad you liked it!

[@always.wondering.wandering]

Thank you, I enjoyed this. So, it looks like the milk is not pasteurized and is raw milk. Looking forward to seeing the next video.

[@staceyshinske3998]

it wouldn't be pasteurized at the farm, the raw milk is brought via truck to a central processor that would do multiple farms' pasteurization (this is how it is in the US, my presumption is the same, although there is far more of a raw milk culture in France than in the US - but it wouldn't be done on site).

[@StephaneCalabrese]

@@staceyshinske3998 Correct, the processing of the milk is done at the factory. While raw milk is widely used for cheese making, 95% of the bottled milk sold in France is pasteurized (UHT). This is why milk in France is sold unrefrigerated in the grocery stores.

[@lynnhardie5476]

I did get this post on KZbin but wasn't going to watch (dairy free) but, I agree, the quality is much more professional. I'm sorry to hear of your loss, thinking of you 😔