Gierok Farms Heads North To Trinity Dairy!

Let’s get to know Trinity Dairy better! My Dad and I took the time to head up north to visit with Trinity Dairy! There were tons of questions and answers that day. Many stories were shared and many laughs were had. As my Dad would say, “we were solving the word’s problems”. Huge thank you to Alan, Jennifer, and the rest of their family for visiting with us, it was great to meet everyone. Make sure to check them out on KZbin, Facebook, and Instagram @Trinity Dairy
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[@joegreen9112]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. The two channels I follow that automatically get a thumbs up before the videos gets started.

[@user-nr9dx1gs5w]

You folk are cut from the same stock as Trinity Dairy! I was Allen and Jennifer’s DHIA tester for 4 years and enjoyed them tremendously ! The kids are great to have around! It usually took us 2 hrs because of all the gabbing and laughter! Several years later and we are still friends! Thanks for your video and spending time together with this God filled family! I love your sign you gifted to them! I plan to watch more of your videos!

[@johnschnitzler8412]

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[@Rollinghillsfarmsmn]

Wonderful conversation to eavesdrop on. Great to hear real farmers trade opinions and ideas. Hope your dairies live on for years to come.

[@farmallchris]

I’ve been subscribed to trinity for a long time and you guys as well cool to see a video of KZbin creators meeting

[@teenagefarmer]

Great video guys, thanks for sharing

[@paulreis1648]

Great video good to see a young family farming

[@2ndgenfarmer]

Great video guys I appreciate your content and small farmers getting together to chit chat

[@alanpranke3299]

This is very special. Thank You!

[@br927]

Nice! I watch you both! Love it!! We use to make tunnels in the hay! My cousins were up and we were all going thru the tunnels, and my oldest cousin didn't know where he was, so he lights a match! Wonder he didn't burn the barn down! You guys are the best!! A lot of the wide front ends were Schwartz. Put molasses on any hay, and the cows will eat it and want more!

[@trinitydairy]

Video turned out awesome! You did a great job on it! Thanks again for coming up to the farm! Merry Christmas to you all and a blessed New year!

[@johngourley741]

Great questions and conversation

[@jeffmckinnon801]

Awesome video. Family, Farming, Fields, Friends. Great stuff

[@mikebrown1188]

My 2 favorite channels. I bet the kids enjoyed the stories as much as the grownups. You both represent agriculture very well.

[@harveyotoole2029]

Gierok Farms and Trinity Dairy, two of my favourite channels, great video.!!

[@Tom-pu1xh]

One of the best videos yet!! Keep up the good work! Very enjoyable!

[@geraldsundberg3610]

I personally don't farm but I love the farm life. And working the land.

[@duaneschmitz2674]

I live Mineral point Wisconsin you guys talk about not alot of dairy farmer between Mineral Point and Darlington use to be 14 to 15 dairy farm in 80s and 90s and early 2000s and by late 2000their is 4 or 5 and now 2 to 4 and in a 30 mile area around Mineral Point 40 to 50 dairy farm now maybe 10 to 20 left and that's just thinking off top of my head this is a part what's wrong with our country I live down by Joliet Illinois and I will say it Walmart and small groceries store were out of milk all the time meat went sky high in stores and we had little thing in milk and I will be nice and say what I think it was lol lol WE NEED SMALL FARMS BACK BEFORE OUR KIDS FOR NOT KNOWING HOW TO WORK HARD AND RESPECT PEOPLE IS GONE FOR EVERY

[@JamesDedmon]

Interesting on the narrow front tractors, my guess is for row cultivators, it’s much simpler to see the rows when the cultivators is on the front. Before the wide spread use of herbicides all crops was cultivated. In fact when Dad dairy farmed his silage crop was sorghum because of lots of Johnson grass the farm had when he purchased it. My uncle who dairy farmed was a corn silage guy. When I was a kid all the corn was cultivated with a narrow front WD45 Allis with 2 row mounted cultivators

[@reimerdairy7080]

Thanks for sharing

[@daviddobson1113]

Well as I have said before raising kids on a farm is the best thing anyone could do. I have no regrets at all raising my kids on the farm they all turned out very well. I am old enough to be well let's just say I am an old man lol. The farm teaches kid so much about life that they will get no place else. The small farms are slowly being forced out of business and that so sad.

[@atticuskilby515]

Agreed, I was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge of Virginia and I have no regrets because the skills learned there has served me well during my six decades of life.

[@jeffmichel4442]

I agree. My kids are farm raised. Great work ethic.

[@atticuskilby515]

What a great idea; it is great to see the two of you together.

[@teresadroessler9872]

Love both channels

[@digginfarmer5104]

Awesome video… I love watching both your channel’s.. we run a cow calf operation so very interesting video..thanks for sharing

[@douglaswhite7328]

14:20 Spring later, fall going later. - We are seeing this pattern on SE Massachusetts cranberry farsm, too.

[@countryboy3201]

Great video! I watch both channels and enjoy it all.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Really, really enjoyed this one. You have given me another channel to watch. It is so nice to see people who enjoy their life as it is. That is the way I was raised. And my faith has so much to do with my life that it is great to see others who aren't afraid to share theirs. I worked for a company for a couple of years originally named Michigan Animal Breeder's (I was in the accounting area). At that time they were called NorthStar Co-op. I left there in 2002 and haven't really kept in touch with them. I checked it out just now and think they may be under a different name now. Anyway thanks for the opportunity to enjoy a different channel. Looks like we may be hit by anything from a Blizzard to windy with some snow. (It all depends on the direction it goes in.) I wish you all a Very special Merry Christmas.

[@Plowboy4960]

Awesome video really enjoyed it raising kids on a farm is the best thing for them

[@dalemayes3854]

Thank you so much for doing this, it's to find another family farm 🚜!!!!!!

[@jeffclinch7448]

There is nothing like the small family dairy! The work is hard but what it creates something inside people that doesn't come in books,

[@dennisdole1764]

Just watched Trinity Farms video featuring you two. ❤ Just love it that you visited these hard working farmers. For those who’s never followed Trinity Farm, please do so, great content and a great family, just like Gierok Farm. 😊

[@gregkurtz4374]

very true

[@tomvandenbergh4127]

My wife and I have had the privilege of raising our 4 girls on a 40 acre 50 cow dairy here in south central Illinois. We are the last dairy in our township. Only 4 left in our county. The day is coming when no one will pick up our milk because of our small size and lack of enough other dairies close by.....But, one of the best places to raise a family. I wouldn't trade the past 25 years on the farm for a million dollars..... Loved this video with Trinity Dairy. Hope to see more videos of you both together. Thanks guys.

[@graygildner3434]

I have been watching both of your families. I really admire you.

[@nathandukelow1863]

My grandpa had 30 cows when on his dad's farm as a kid. He had half Guernsey and half Holstein he said by the time he graduated they had all Holstein because the Guernsey were finicky but he said there was a Guernsey they had that was big and lived to be 18. Now we milk 450 cows in robots. We have 1 gu/ho x which is nice looking from gu446. But I'm diehard Ayrshire and red Holstein

[@robertgrist8496]

No Call of Duty watching on that farm. Well done. Life worth living.

[@herbmartin9717]

Wow! A double treat. Thanks for the video! Subscribe to both.🙂 Merry Christmas from Lancaster County!

[@skipruckert4605]

George and Aaron I was very delighted that you visited Trinity farms. You are my number one and two subscriptions thank you. I hope you both survive as a small farm dairies. Please be safe and have a Merry Christmas. Skip Ruckert Western PA

[@thomasfogerty3515]

Farmall F20 had wide front option. But they where only sold in Southern Idiana area. The tricycle front end was for the mounted cultivators. Plus a tricycle was originally ment to replace the horse. So you are dealing with small fields. So the turning radius would be critical to move around in those small fields.

[@jeffhuntley2921]

Thanks for the heads up about another wonderful American farm family! I’ll be watching there channel as well

[@markellis6727]

Let me say, I've watched both your's and Trinity Dairy's video of your visit together , really enjoyed both of them, hopefully sometime in the future they can visit you guys

[@KC2DZB]

I think Dad's right about narrow fronts. People see the wide front end and think it's more stable, but they forget that the axle is mounted to a pivot under the center of the tractor. So the tractor will pivot around the center regardless of whether it's a narrow or wide front. As I understand it, narrow fronts became popular for cultivating row crops before herbicides became common place. Enjoyed the video, and I'm a fan of the 1066 also. 👍

[@_Elijah_1979]

Pretty Awesome you guys decided to visit other farmers and share information and knowledge - much needed in the near future 🙏

[@marcussamson7640]

grandpa bought a brand new oliver 66 1952 grandmother wouldn't let him use it till the wide front was installed. I used a narrow front till I was 26 its definitely different advantages and disadvantages to both the wide front doesn't turn as short but in my experience the wide front is more stable in my opinion and I always seam to drop a narrow in a hole were a wide front I can see the wheels better.

[@robertmarino2158]

Trinity farm does great work , hard working always , it's amazing what gets done ! Stay safe , do enjoy very much ! The uni picker is amazing , fun to watch in operation ! Congratulations ! Merry Christmas !

[@hardyedwards5405]

Really tickled to see you went to visit Trinity Dairy. I like them. Really drove home the fact your dad is an artist (as I've said before) with the very thoughtful gift.

[@1970jeremiahjohnson]

Excellent video!!! So glad you guys got together.

[@williamwaltz5082]

Absolutely loved the video. I religiously watch both channels. I grew up on a small dairy in Southwest Wisconsin and really miss those days

[@MillyRue]

I lived in town in northern rural Illinois but my aunt n uncle had a small dairy farm and my sister n laws parents had a beef/hog crop small farm and I spent every summer on the farms!! Loved it.. I keep asking my hubby to let me get a couple cows but he keeps saying the county won't let us!!! I'm willing to register them as "dogs"... cows can identify as dogs nowadays....right??? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@joshuagolombeski6133]

Great video guys two of the best dairy channels on youtube

[@donfinewood384]

My two favorite dairy farms, making videos and sharing thoughts, ideas and experiences!! Wow you’ve made an old man happy, take care and stay safe out there. Don

[@theatlanticdairyman7917]

Really nice to see small farms still going at it !

[@Mattea68]

i say they are still the "Backbone" of the industry vs these Factory Farms

[@duke3419]

Really enjoyed your visit with the Trinity Farm family. Thank you.

[@mikekf0eap16]

The only 2 farm channels I watch every episode, together, a good day. Thanks. Family farming is hard work and worth every drop of blood, sweat, and eye water.

[@martinfamilyfarms8478]

If you get a chance, check out Just a Few Acres Farms and Clover Mountain Dairy. These four channels are my favorite

[@barrythompson4605]

DAD likes to talk right.......lol

[@jimcox6687]

I enjoyed this video. Thank you I am from southwest michigan but could relate to everything all of you said. My great grandpa my grandpa, and my dad were dairy farmers. I also have a lot of hills on my farm. When people mention you sure have some hills I say I have one flat spot. It's at the bottom of the hill!!! Hope to see more interviews.

[@TheCoopdway]

Just wonderful, another nail on the head!

[@deerespetes8849]

U guys r a hoot!. This was a great idea for a video collaboration. Really enjoyed watching .

[@canvids1]

Wow thanks for a great video with Trinity Dairy as I have been watching them for 2 or 3 years now and just love the channel. I all so found you folks this year and do enjoy how you run your farm as well. Guess it is in my blood as I grew up on a farm back in the 194o's as a young kid. I moved on as a teen but have never forgot my up bringing.🥰

[@Travis_Rivers]

Awesome awesome vid such a great family

[@mikekuhn6216]

Regarding the "narrow front end": in the early '20s IHC came out with the "Regular" tractor. It was their first row-crop design and I had a narrow front end. They also designed a new front-mount cultivator for it and it was an instant hit. A farmer no longer had to depend on his horses to cultivate corn. Dad had a 4-row mounted on his M and I spent many long hours cultivating corn and soybeans. His first Allis was a WD with a narrow front, but he switched it to a wide front so I could plow behind him and the M. I was only 10 at the time. It enjoyed the video with the "Trinity" family; very nice folks. With 5 kids he won't run out of help with milking for many years. Thanks again for another great video.

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

Very cool! i follow them too. Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas! Stay safe and God bless.

[@robertmarino2158]

Continue doing these visits , what a learning experience for all , if you listen you can learn alot !! Very impressed with the visit & knowledge ! Stay safe everyone !

[@greatnorthernn-3154]

It was tough going in wet conditions if your narrow front tractor had a loader on it. Also I liked the wide front better for plowing.

[@colorado1088]

Very interesting talk about cow breed varieties. I could listen to you all talk together for hours. Of special note...the value of milk haulers and old hay.

[@georgeleray5657]

Arin it looks like you guys had a nice visit with trinity dairy I think both farms are some what alike both farms have been on the of my play list for some great video as always thanks George.

[@76RSLT]

Two of my favorite channels doing a collaboration, that's an awesome Christmas gift!

[@markchitwood5322]

Ampi my dad was one of the first dairy farms to help start it

[@dalebennett9867]

Great to see small farms still going much better than the big farms ran like big busses keep going God bless hope to see trinity make the trip to gierok farms

[@bigwhane8603]

31:51 I would love to hear your dads story of the drought of 88!!!!! People from my area talk about it and the new things they tried. We chopped corn stalks for feed instead of corn silage. Also first year growing alfalfa. And did triticale because only 500 bales got made rather than 2,000

[@TheGhostHAG]

No way! Two of the best farm channels out there. Y'all are doing it right. Amazing chat, thanks for letting us be a fly on the wall!

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

I've always liked the New Idea Uni's, there's only 2 around my area and both are dedicated snowblowers now, their harvesting days are long in the past.

[@jeffpeterson4978]

Two of my favorite You Tube channels come together! Love this!

[@Ron-rs2zl]

If you want to see more Uni's picking corn,check out bigdaddy 1992. These guys pick ALOT of corn(shinyest elevator ever!) then shell it later. They use the cobs to heat the farm buildings. Really good vids.

[@braderwin937]

Horadish is still available in Southern Ohio

[@ronzezulka6646]

My grandpa used to say if a blue silo went up,a for sale sign was next.

[@nathancarlson6005]

As a small dairy farmer from Washington state next time I’m deer hunting in Minnesota I would love to visit both your farms we are all very similar in the operations we run and really enjoy both KZbin channels

[@bryanginder5903]

All you speak the truth about so much, pretty much everything you talked about!!

[@deandenby8405]

Great video of 2 great farmers

[@gatorguy7711]

An excellent video that provided a great deal of information on both farm's dairy operations. I enjoy both channels. Thank you for all you do in providing a portion of our country's food supply. I am impressed by how hard each family works on their farm. Merry Christmas and keep up the great work!

[@toddvandyke1023]

Very good video. I love the content that both you and Trinity dairy produce. Thank you

[@bruceprentice6441]

Enjoyed your videos, and I watch the Trinity videos too. Your two families farm much the same way as I did. I milked cows,(Jerseys) for 42 years, stopped shipping milk September 2022. All of the things you discussed touched so close to home for me, the slight changes in seasons/growing conditions, and the variety of crops we can grow. The way we store feed now, and the dwindling number of dairy farms. I grew up on a farm and started my own dairy at 20 years old, hard work seemed to be my hobby. And much of the fun times we had as kids was around some kind of work, making hay, cutting firewood, making maple syrup in the spring, we just never really thought of it as work, it was just part of life. We were as much a part of the farm as the trees, the fields, and the cows in the barn. I still crop my land and keep cattle, but my sons didn’t want to farm. And I guess if you don’t want to, then you’re better off not. Great seeing the two families comparing techniques. I did wet wrapped bales mostly, and planted 40% Red Clover,40%Alfalfa , 20% Timothy. First year all you get is 3 cuts of clover, next two years 3 cuts of Alfalfa/Timothy, then plough it down for corn silage, my favourite rotation. Cows loved that high sugar Red Clover haylage

[@Dextamartijn]

Always great to see you guys collaborate. Also I grew up on a dairy.

[@ryanbachman9227]

Nothing better than smaller family farms. Where I live there are only 3 dairy farms in this county. Very sad. I’m not very far from pine county. You could drive a couple miles and there were dairy farms everywhere.

[@matthewwarfield4302]

So Pops is considering a Uni again?!! Would love to hear his reasonings behind, well everything! Reasoning through the "possible" switch to dry grain, thoughts on a Uni, why he's made the decisions he's made over the years. What he maybe would have done different. And of course any of his stories! One of the few stories I ever got from my dad was lining the bottom of the silo with unglazed crock jugs. He said the juice from the silage would filter through the jug. Never told me what it tasted like... Just always thought it was interesting. Have you seen Kip Siegler Farming? They milk around 200 and use 1 of their cement silos for high moisture shelled corn.

[@randybennett5417]

What an outstanding video.

[@johnhenderson299]

What a beautiful sign

[@dominick253]

I love farmers I just wish you guys would add one more gear to a tractor so you could do like 45 miles an hour. 🤣😂🤣

[@lawrencelacenski9781]

There is a tractor that almost goes 45mph it’s made by JCB in the UK , There are some scattered around the USA and gaining ground

[@dominick253]

@@lawrencelacenski9781 yes! I seen that on top gear. From what I understand there's a law saying tractors have to stay under a certain speed?

[@MarcvanExel]

Great visit to a great family, loved it!

[@drknockers5716]

Two favorite chanel!

[@macbaker72]

Again watching tok great farmers who love what their doing . This was awesome watch both of you s faithfully . I’ve been farming 42 years here beef cattle . Good luck tok both family’s wishing you the best of luck an merry Christmas too both grim Mac A Fo farms in Catskills of New York State

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

I made a comment this morning on Trinity's site and I'll make one on yours I have sold seed corn in the western Pennsylvania area ranging from 20 miles north of Pittsburgh to probably 60 to 70 miles north of Pittsburgh in my territory for about 35 years. You might be interested to know that in that territory my customers core maturities range from 85 to 90 day in the North to 115-120 days in the South median range being 100 to 105 day. Also interested in your chatting about the forages we have seen more and more of our dairy guys that are spreading liquid manure going to more grass type forage in some instances just because the grass will support the spreading of liquid manure onto the fields and seems to lend itself better than the legumes do. We buried here for 80 years quitting in 1998 and went into beef and we run about a 50 caliber this time of year that grows to between 65 and 80 after we begin calving usually early April. And we have found here that making Baleage and fading 300 to 350 bills every year from usually late November until early June when we put them back out on pasture that our best mix is orchard Grass Timothy alfalfa and a little bit of red clover. Red clover if you get into dry weather that the hay wants to dry faster than you can get it get it up will tend to keep a little on The Greener side and we'll ferment better in the plastic. Very interesting to hear how you guys farm in relation to us enjoy both of your channels immensely. My friend who is with me in the cattle business here last sent me she says I don't know how you can farm all day and watch KZbin Farmers all night but I can't LOL. Merry Christmas to both families really enjoy your videos

[@ethanlee9441]

I was told that the narrow front end tractors spun around at the end of the fields faster.

[@doncc6080]

Very good interview. I watch both of your channels. Spent summers on my uncles small dairy farm. There is another small dairy I watch in Maine. Tayfarms 70 cow tie stall, very nice old barn. Taylor is the hired hand. She does the videos.

[@richardharms8748]

Great to see you folks together. Happy Holidays .

[@davidschlecht3016]

When you talked about the farm life and the kids, it's imagination and freedom to play and contribute with some choose and learn and explore, their is nothing better than farm life. I consider myself so fortunate to have farm life in my childhood. Great video to see how other farms and locations compare.

[@alostpilgrimsjourney5953]

Visiting is an art to be enjoyed for the benefit of our souls.

[@robertburden1509]

Very nice of you to visit him he is a good guy hard worker keeping small dairy's going thank you for sharing and recognizeing another small dairy very nice 👍👍👍👍

[@gerryhubers3068]

Wonderful video! So nice to see and hear these families talking farming stuff!

[@israelmathes6268]

I moved in to great grandpa's barn the hay had been there since 1970 this was about 1998. I wintered steers in the brain and using that ha with a a grain ration. They steers gained aroun 3.6 lbs a day. Had the best cost to gain ratio I ever had.

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Lord have mercy I wish I was out there with you guys. I had to add this the narrow front end configuration began to be popularized by international when they built the regular then the f series and in the h's and M's and C's and B's and what I get reading is it really what changed us from narrow front to wide as an industry was more than anything the development of good dependable corn herbicides. The name Farmall was coined by international harvester because the configuration of their tractor was to be used for tillage, planting, working the crop with cultivators be it to any kind of row crop corn beans, cotton anything like that. Then when the better herbicides were developed in the wide front end came into Vogue. The idea was originally that the tractor could be used all year round from tillage till fall harvest work and that is why they coined the name Farmall and everybody else that came after whatever color they were green orange that other color green sands desert sand all those front configurations were copies of the Farmall. I'm an amateur tractor historian and that is basically what I have read and heard from other sources

[@thekibby8375]

Two of my favorite channels come together, sometimes technology is pretty awesome! I've also noticed the same thing with the climate around here, the springs are a lot tougher and the falls are a lot milder.