IS THIS THE BEST FARM I HAVE EVER BEEN TO!?

[@chrislee2221]

Privileged to see this farm in operation, spent many years milking cows, abreast parlours and herringbone. Those cows are the cleanest I have ever seen. Great family great set up.

[@JohnSmith-xi3sq]

In 1966, i worked a 50 cow shed with buckets on a vacuum line. All of these parlours are a world away.

[@nickjohnson217]

We just don’t appreciate the farmers enough for what they do, it’s not just a job it’s a life of dedication and worry for very little compared to any other kind of living, thanks for all you give us your all amazing beings.

[@susanhawkins3045]

I’m no farmer but I found that so interesting. Thank you.

[@teresabrewer2661]

Brilliant video Tom. I'm no farmer and 60yrs old but I find farming fascinating. But why I love watching your videos is because you tell us knowing most of your viewers are not farmers. So you explain it so we do understand. Without farmers we don't have food or milk and most people don't think about that. I wish more people would support farmers cause you all get a rotten deal, in my opinion. Take care, give Ginge a thank you too 🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄

[@MrGrtx]

same here

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

☺️

[@meghanplamondon8639]

Cows really do seem to reflect their owners personality, Richard’s cows seemed so calm ,just like him. A wonderful set up, low stress. Bravo to you all.❤️❤️👍🐄🐄🐄

[@SwannOG]

I am as you say gobsmacked! That many cows three times a day and that enormous amount of milk above their old way of milking. It boggles the mind. I love the mechanics of the rotary parlor. Please continue these visits to other parlors we always find something new or at least done differently to learn from.

[@thr8061]

Several farms around here uses sand bedding and has a sand recycling system. They don't scrape too often because each alley is flushed with 1000s of gallons of water every 10 minutes. The sand is filtered & "washed" and it dries very clean and reused many times. All the manure goes through digesters which produces methane which is burned by generators to produce electricity for the dairy. They also have most buildings covered with solar panels. They actually sell excess electricity back to the grid because they produce so much per day. The water eventually (after about 12-15 "reuses" gets pushed to the field irrigation system. There is no runoff.

[@gregedmand9939]

Anyone tempted to think cows are "dumb" animals, that have to be driven and abused to exploit them, needs to watch this. They're willing participants that are quite comfortable with their lives. Cueing up 3 times a day, they quietly walk onto this machinery and stand to be milked, without even the incentive of food reward. There is no better picture of a contented cow, than these girls calmy chewing their cud and looking quite curious about what's going on around them.

[@WilliamVickers-y1y]

Great video impressive 👏👏

[@chuckroberts3310]

They suffer if they don’t get milked .. amazing animals ❤

[@MatthewGeier]

That's because people confuse docile with dumb.

[@mea3665]

There willing participants because they are trained with food 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 And as most women know when the tits get full it #$/=÷_< Hurts. They are female that's why they are smart.

[@dekdek551]

Absolutely 💯 love cows!

[@donaldtriumph1682]

Martin and his family are lovely people great to see the parlour as I only live down the road. Those boys know how to work hard. I think they only stop to go to sleep 💤.

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

Even with that amount of cows that's one of the cleanest farms I've ever seen.

[@KRay-fb2vf]

My wife's older sister married into what is now the largest dairy farm in Wisconsin U.S.A. I know their Carousel holds 100 cows and last I heard they are milking around 5,000. I wish I knew more so I could share. I have seen the cows leisurely walking in large groups waiting for their turn on the Carousel. Peaceful and stress free. Keep up the great work.

[@SmithyScotland]

What a fantastic operation, a fantastic family, and a fantastic vid. Can see why you were so excited about it Tom

[@MayorofDipshittery-lq7if]

That was a bloody impressive operation, run by a very knowledgeable and able family 👍

[@TheBibitte]

Thoroughly enjoyed today's video. What a set up!!

[@richrowley8355]

That was Awesome Tom. Bet Georgia was pleased when you buggered off 🙂

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

The per cow output is mind-blowing. Contented cows give good milk. 😊👍👍 Amazing video.

[@ronaldlucas5360]

It's good to see how other farm's work and to get ideas.

[@joanne85201]

Cool Parlor! That teat washer is fantastic and no paper towel usage.

[@OriginalMomo]

That rotary station is AMAZING! The cows form such a polite Que 🤣😂🤣.

[@Murphycats]

Quite impressive. But when I look at your old videos and compare to you latest ones, WOW!!!!! What an operation. You have much to be proud of!!!

[@TomPembertonFarmLife]

Thanks Peggy ☺️

[@nataliegraham9552]

It's fascinating to watch the rotary milkers do their thing! I ran across Derrick Josi's videos earlier this year - his dairy farm, part of the Tillamook co-op in Oregon, uses one - and I learned a lot about them from watching his content. What was really interesting to me was that it is so easy to train the new heifers to the rotary even without the lure of an extra treat of feed while they take a spin, and he occasionally has a rider who decides to go for another circuit instead of backing out, even with the 'nudger' at the end of the rotation that encourages the dawdlers to exit. 😄 Loved all the extra info I learned from this video - thanks Tom! ❤🐮❤🚜

[@JudyHart1]

Derrick’s setup is something else, he said one day it started as a drawing on the fridge in 2014, $6M later, a gorgeous setup, and out of the floodplain which is always a plus in Oregon.

[@_-martin-_]

I love a well structured and organized farm.

[@nicholaspower4621]

It is great to see you so excited Tom!! 2 gentleman and 1 lady there!! What a mine of knowledge they are!! Amazing set up!! WOW!!

[@billylyf6995]

Those cows are clean enough to show straight out the parlour. Theyre gorgeous

[@Xtremeraverbaby87]

That's pretty cool, amazing how they know to back off from the rotary as well

[@devito501]

This has to be the best video you have done in my opinion, Iv milked cows for Over 30 years an this must be one of the best productive farms Iv seen . The milk yields are staggering. Well done Tom you smashed this video .

[@Fieldsonyoutube]

Really fantastic seeing how different farms operate, should be a TV serious where you go visit milking farms all around the world.

[@stevepalmer8285]

Great content tom..respect and thanks 2 all the farmers out there.

[@Monagarrow]

Cows are spotless, credit to the lads

[@wipple2156]

who knew such aparlor existed- thank you for the field trip- how efficient. Learned so much thank you again

[@robmoss3501]

What an udderly fantastic video Tom. Something to aspire to towards.

[@bobuncle8704]

Wow, that’s impressive. So relaxed as well. It’s nice to have the work come to you with the rotary table.

[@BrentS-z7v]

A truly great set-up but the really amazing thing is the genetics in that herd of cows. Whoever is responsible for the breeding side of the operation is the hero on the farm.

[@dookiedooks8378]

I don't think the word 'WOW' was used enough....... Cheers for the vid Tom..... :-D

[@michaeld9731]

Very interesting! Georgia, Richard, and Simon were well spoken and explained things so that a non-farmer could understand! Thanks for sharing this.

[@eventinggeorgina4917]

Haha thank you we try our best

[@bruceg5729]

Congrats on your new baby boy! Harvey Jon Andrew Pemberton 🎉

[@KeithHill-wc3ew]

Brilliant video Tom what a fantastic set up,thanks for sharing.

[@aicirtkciub9167]

Wow nice farm. The cows all look happy and content. Lots of yummy milk to feed us the things we love ! ❤

[@SimonPerry-cz4ke]

What a Great Set up all Credit to Richard & Simon those Cows are something to be really proud of.

[@PhillipAbbott-n3t]

I worked on dairy farms in the 1960's 70s' & 80's , the largest one in the 80's had three farms around 1000 acres milking 600 cows and rearing all the followers. I felt that was a large concern .BUT THIS IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL!!!! AMAZING. And as already mentioned really CLEAN COWS.

[@colinbrown5597]

Wow. What an operation. Thanks for showing us. Be well and safe travels.

[@johudson4954]

I have learnt so much since I started watching your channel thank you Tom I have a huge appreciation for British farmers

[@martinsatchell]

So very similar to my cousins set up, the alleyway they walk back down is via a foot bath for when its needed

[@alicowls1605]

What an incredible farm, cows happy, clean and obviously amazingly looked after. What a great site that parlour was. Happy cows, happy farmers.

[@Selfsufficientsailor]

What a stunning bunch of cows- such amazing condition-they must be doing something right!

[@georgearmstrong9106]

they are doing everything right

[@AccountNotFound1]

Yes Tom love it keep all your hard work up and pls don’t give up KZbin for a long time unless u want to business pls do more long videos up to 30 min long

[@djborud]

GREAT EPISODE TOM! Amazing operation they have! Fascinating how farm engineering/technology has progressed to improve everything for the cow and the farmer.

[@sharonm3677]

Wow Tom you always have such interesting videos. Love when you show us the new technology that’s out there. You have such a keen interest in it that you just naturally ask all the right questions and your always itching to get in there and have some hands on experience. You demonstrate the ease of it and your so well versed in the equipment that you’re able to tell us what the old way was like and the benefits of all these new innovations. Wonderful video and thank you’s to the family that let you come out, video there production and they were wonderful in explaining and giving comparisons and such. Please send my thanks to them, it was incredible to see. Congrats to you and Joanna on becoming parents to that beautiful son of yours. Congrats to the entire Pemberton family and to Joanna’s family on this beautiful new family member. All my best wishes to you all!❤❤

[@ShortOrderCook]

How good is this! Thanks Tom! Fantastic!

[@irvenrathburn9421]

That is a fantastic parlor Tom thanks for the visit to a different way of milking cows.

[@tinkeringtaylor3053]

Well Tom i think with the amount of wow`s you found that very impressive 😲, because i sure did and thats just watching it on a screen 👍👍

[@sallyellis-gray8250]

Just started watching and for a moment thought you were in our parlour. We have a very similar set up but De Lavel mainly because our local dealer is De Lavel. 2 differences, a strap comes down behind a problem cow to stop her coming off, and we have a teat dip robot. We went from milking 21 hours a day in a 20/20 herringbone to 9 hours for 3 milkings. 750 cows. Lovely to see you visiting others farms

[@paulf4424]

Hats off to those lads, that's some setup. Times on your side Tom.

[@MrMagnat007]

Richard , Tom may have slowed you down but thank you so much for Showing us how the rotary works.. I wondered why the cows kept picking up their feet ?

[@Harry-zz8qn]

What a fantastic family farm. They should be proud 😊

[@gleanncaorann633]

Great video, remember when we had an 8 stall parlour. Seeing that setup is incredible, thats some outfit and the cows looked great 👍

[@MichaelSmith-lb4kv]

Really really good , amazing how dairy farmers work so we all can enjoy our milk. Thanks for a very informative video. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

[@farmershady48]

Tom and his Father are Fantastic Farmers. Thanks for another awesome upload

[@thousandwattflowerpot5419]

Great Farm and Family. Thanks for sharing your story of your trip to their farm Tom.

[@kimpetersen358]

Very impressive farming, thank you Tom

[@MidlandsFarmer]

Fantastic set up. You can see the family are so happy with it and that makes them relaxed too.

[@bernardcasey1500]

That was an extremely good video and very interesting. Tom loved every minute of it, thanks, Tom

[@carlstevens4981]

We had one of those teet wash systems, we only had a 16/16 herringbone. But it was a perfect parlor, auto id, acr, air line for dump bucket, auto feed auto wash. Absolutely amazing parlor for a small herd of cattle.

[@bobf4765]

Great video! That is one heck of a setup! Using your 42l per cow per session.. a little math, a little calculator... 27,720 liters per day... 7,323 US gallons per day.. 2,672,895 US gallons or 10,118,008 liters per year! That is a lot of milk! Watched till the end & these figures are low. One of the brothers said a 34,000 liter lorry would have to return to get the last couple hundred liters left in the tank, per day. Quite a nice operation they have.

[@johnwarwick4105]

A few years ago I got the chance go round the Duke of Westminster estate ( over your side of the country) can’t just remember but sure they milked over 2000 cows. Each shift did one and a half milking. They filled an artic milk tanker trailer parked in the yard, driver swapped an empty one for a full each time😳 they do tours so sure they would welcome a KZbin visit.

[@jeanlafrance8746]

The farm is so clean !

[@ianshannon8098]

Great set up I know a family from the bad county in N Ireland it was taking 15 hrs a day to milk put the rotary in 2 and a half hours.

[@rogersimpson9197]

Superb ,very interesting, thankyou sue & elliot

[@mrwellington102]

Yes Tom! Milk in an abreast! You should visit Patrick Holden's farm in Wales where he makes cheddar cheese. They've got a ten unit abreast.

[@SAB_Agri]

All I can say is what a Class setup 🤙🤙👍👍

[@suemills9045]

Wow that was amazing thanks Tom

[@1ADP]

Great video nice to see and hear how a state of the art rotary parlour works thank you to farm as well for explaining everything.

[@clairecpdxx8862]

A really interesting video Tom, Thankyou.

[@GrahamWP58]

What a fantastic parlour and how easy it is to milk such a large herd. 42L per head is awesome, very informative and interesting. Thanks Tom

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Fascinating , I am not a farmer , thankyou for showing us this . And the family that allowed it . Really nice folk .

[@benjaminlamey3591]

impressive setup. your are still a craftsman, they are proper industry.

[@Macemattee]

You need to come to New Zealand mate 650 is considered a relatively small herd over here. there are farms milking upwards of 1600 cows twice a day it would blow your mind man

[@karenokeson2705]

That was so cool! Tom, please thank that wonderful family for letting you visit! I spent my childhood on a dairy farm. Around a 50 cow (?) barn, usually milking around 42 (?) at a milking. In a stanchion barn with a pipeline system. This system blows my mind! At 55 and gone from farming many years, this is beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Hugs to you and all your family! ❤️🖤🤍🐄

[@WayneSmith-yf3fg]

I remember seeing a rotary parlor back in the 1950s. In New Jersey USA

[@PuFFerTV98368]

WoW now that’s a lot of happy cows!! Thanks for the video Tom.

[@marcamp5450]

So agree. No animal needs to be abused to gain compliance. Those cows are all special. They need love too! ❤

[@N7R5MG]

That's a well set-up dairy, I work on a 1100 head Holstein farm we milk 2 times a day on pasture and silage in australia its good to see how other countries do things

[@jamesburvill3243]

Wow,wow,wow,wow.A rotating parlour

[@ianmcarthur3554]

Noticed how clean it is

[@danielcooke7911]

Love it, automation for pushing up…you know that Ginge is gonna give you a broom and say one man power lol! Happy days

[@StephenHall-u4b]

That is an awesome place, great video Tom..

[@winstonsmiths2449]

Amazing video, very interesting! Good for them on their growth!

[@Mother..nature..77]

Wow that was awesome Tom 😊

[@budnspud]

I have never farmed and I just loved watching this

[@brettyallop6018]

Great video Tom! Love the passion, enthusiasm and especially liked the time-lapse, they were awesome!

[@JuliaMontoya-r9j]

That’s quite a system. Very efficient. Thanks for sharing

[@ipanzerschrecku4732]

they looked nice and happy - bet you if you put a speaker pusher robot playing the sound of the tractor and feeder more cows would get up to feed and more feed equals more milk.

[@betpatpatten3840]

Thanks for sharing! I've heard of these kind of milking parlors, and could see it was very efficient.

[@JDseller1]

The biggest thing that jumped out at me was that every animal and worker was relaxed/calm. That is a huge thing in being successful with livestock. Their entire system is well thought out and works smoothly. Their work load is not too physically taxing either, that really cuts down on fatigue. This is like outer space when compared to how my Grand Father milked in 1970. He milked 20 cows by hand into a five gallon bucket and ran the milk through a strainer on top of a ten gallon milk can. He then took a hand dolly and move the can across the road to the can milk cooler. ( Not a heavy enough electrical service in the milk barn to run the coolers) IRC the can plus the milk, weighed right at 90 lbs.

[@mshafer2006]

Awesome video Tom. This video totally debunks the animal rights activists. That really don’t have a clue. Farmers truly do care about their animals.

[@stephenprince1132]

Tom that was a fantastic video So interesting. What a system they are running

[@aicirtkciub9167]

Very cool I have to go to work but I will definitely finish watching the video. ❤

[@mariaparker7545]

As great as it is Tom there is nothing to compare with your cows scampering into the fields when the weather is better... superb video...

[@amandamason6699]

Thanks for sharing this amazing rotary parlour 🤩 fascinating to watch

[@MrDonfrans]

Ad that right there is why the Holstein cow is the best there’s nothing to touch her when looked after and fed right!!