Mowing and Feeding it Fresh

[@Okanagan48]

The girls are definitely happy.

[@JayCollins2013]

Your husband. Is always thinking.. great common cense my. Watches his pennies closely. Taking care of family..

[@LellandLilly]

Nothing says spring like watching your family harvest cereal rye and rye grass for the cows. Lucky girls.

[@sorinpetre5541]

As I said...I hope in one day , this AT guys , will invent the Video clips with ...Smell Hooah ! Thank you , AoCH !

[@southtexashay777]

You are not kidding when it come to the smell of fresh cut grass. We are cutting and baling and storing small square's. have a blesses day.

[@flemmingnielsen3434]

Grass smells fantastic when its cut

[@mikeoneil2281]

i bet that smells so good. i truly miss that fresh cut smell it’s been a long time since i’ve left farming thank you for letting me live this through you. fresh ground and hay are the things i miss

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

Great stand of rye there. Ours wasn’t that thick by a long shot. The drone footage is great.

[@richardtaylor6300]

I love how the cows were lined up at the guard rail waiting. They knew what was coming....hahahaha 🤣👍

[@williamkowalczyksr6419]

Love the smell f fresh mowed grass😇😇😇

[@kens.3729]

The Cows 🐄 🐮 are Loving the Food. They can graze on it until their bellies are full. Yum! 👍

[@thaddeus_whiting]

I so glad you plant cover crops like the old timers, see so much barren ground over the winter. This is tried &true method. Nice very nice.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We love having cover crops.

[@MrMagnum7220]

We do tridcale and rye grass together. Good feed and good tonnage.

[@curtiswolf313]

Goodmorning Rhonda and family from south central NE. 👍

[@robertlafollette2236]

Sure wish I could smell that fresh cut rye. God Bless.

[@timbaker7238]

Looks like a nice treat for the ladies 👍

[@tracyeaves1084]

Thank you for the video

[@gregverhasselt8357]

Spring must have come earlier across the lake

[@andrewstich7117]

Very interesting video thanks for your time to explain your work on rye keep up the great work you do on your family's farm

[@stephenanderson3527]

Good Sunday morning from Missouri

[@kriswinger9391]

Looks like the cows certainly did love that rye grass feed mix! Cool to see your newly acquired bale chopper/grinder "do its thing". Looks like very nice weather.

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thank You

[@stephenpikaahu8883]

Bravo Rhonda Kevin and Acres of Clay family amazing drone filming thank you blessings from NZ

[@Adam_Poirier]

Awesome drone footage Ronda, hope you are all doing good!

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks!!

[@cedricgates9976]

friend of mine just put his cows out on grass after this winter with dry hay and they picked up a thousand pounds, shows what good feed does

[@briancrossno]

Goodmorning from west Tennessee

[@rodneywroten2994]

beautiful field

[@farmboy5622]

I was thinking the same thing as you said it,...about how nice it smells. I do miss those days!!!

[@dandemars3709]

Very good video

[@ulasbolan4528]

Beautiful. I would love to have my own field like that. My hay bill just increased 22% this week and my feed bill has increased 25 to 30% over the last year. Raising animals is getting hard. Go Brandon

[@Leon-qc7fe]

Nice to see some summer stuff. Thanks Ronda!!!!!!

[@Dermot501]

That lookslike some quality feed for the cows 🌾🐄🐄🐄🐄It should make for some tasty milk 🥛 😋

[@randykaempfe7959]

Good video Rhonda, hello from southern Illinois

[@williamhawks2372]

Yes the grass is very tall all ready and nice to your cutting grass again I hope your having fun and don’t brake down on you ?? Have a nice day

[@user-rw2um8ro2p]

Great video Rhonda and Kevin a nice crop of grass

[@torbenjensen6382]

hi Ronda nice to see how its going

[@ronsteltz8296]

Just found your you tube channel last night. Love watching you operation. Always good to see a family operation that know how to work together and have fun as well. Keep up the good work.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Welcome to the channel!!

[@danne77sthlm]

2 things that comes with spring and summertime, is the smell of fresh mowed grass and the smell of dry hay, ooh its great! And the cows liked it, they got completely silent and NOM NOM NO´ed way at it :)

[@chamdleynanayakkara6337]

Very Good morning ronda

[@lannydecamp7460]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@jimmycurran5355]

Really enjoyed the video.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks!

[@larrydavidson3402]

Nice to see you guys back out in the fields, do miss the smell of fresh cut grass. No doubt the girls love that stuff.

[@rdyardie]

Thank you for sharing your videos. Stay away from those deer antlers. 👍🏻

[@acresofclayhomestead]

YES!! 😄

[@gerrybrown]

Lovely looking grass

[@keithburkett9448]

Enjoyed the video. Hope y'all have a very blessed week 🙏🙏

[@Navajo-man]

Happy Sunday Ronda and Kevin and kiddo beautiful green grass smells good and as always you all happy day and safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@billbaas1402]

Man that’s one big looking field!

[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

Wow, homesteading looks so exciting, rewarding and also a lot of work. I’d love to live this way. Right now it’s not a possibility so I’m making the most of my urban backyard garden. I’ve really enjoyed watching everything grow and documenting the growth in my videos. I Love to film the bunnies and birds in action. I’m learning so much from you and other KZbinrs. I hope we can learn more from each other! I wish you an abundant harvest! 🌼🌻🐝☀️🌸🌺

[@Fishcop-326]

You and Kevin are pretty knowledgeable about farming considering you two are a couple of youngsters. This old timer has learned quite a bit from you guys.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

There's always something to learn. 😊

[@davidwaddell8758]

Hey Arces of Clay Family!👋 Hood luck on the rye grass drying and getting it cut! Hope ya'll r having a great weekend and a week to come! Be safe and blessed!❤️👍

[@randywilson9611]

Great video good to see y'all in the field good to see y'all again

[@patkelly7999]

Great job Everybody, that will make some nice feed:):)

[@toddpeters9007]

I plant winter rye in fall my dogs love it😯😊

[@szilitamas300]

The rabbit was lucky. 🙂

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Ah, you saw the rabbit! 😀

[@szilitamas300]

@@acresofclayhomestead Yes, I saw it. He must have thrown a six with his dice.😁

[@billyshumate853]

Great video Rhonda. It's getting mowing time again. Only problem is we've had rain the past three days. Y'all take care and have a blessed day and I'll see you on your next video.

[@unclerob617]

Zero Grazing... it's a way of life in Ireland. Krone Easycut F 360 front mower and Krone AX 280 GD self-loading forage wagon.

[@paulwalsh548]

looks great, i know lucerne does well in those wet spots too if your trying different things.

[@russellbelliveau1694]

Very interesting, for it being so early spring that grass grew a lot, seeet drone shots, it’s like mowing a huge lawn lol. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnviney7919]

A good day on the farm Rhonda!! Looks very nice and green from the drone camera! Have a great day! 😀

[@gerardsirrine9370]

Your right it does smell good and ❤ your videos God bless you and your family stay safe

[@genechronister7085]

Nice vid

[@arnoldromppai5395]

due to our grass not ready to graze before late June, every fall i broad cast just a rye grass on all my fields, in the fall. so it gets my cows steers calves an bull off hay sooner, this year with the very late snow melt an end of big snow storms, it melted off really fast, then we had 3 huge thunder storms dumping over 6 inchs of rain, and cold. the rye grass it only 3 to 4 inchs tall. but the cows are chasing it,, i couldnt be leave what i had to pat last fall for rye grass seed,it was over $80 a bag, when normally it been around 30

[@toddpeters9007]

Wow y'all it's hotter there than in southern NC !! Crazy

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yes, last week we hit some record high temps here.

[@robertthomas5590]

Is there anything this lady can't do??? Thanks for sharing.

[@dirtfloormotors]

They are doing what you are doing here on the rented fields on our land this year, but in past years they would just spray roundup on it and kill it then plant corn in the dead standing cover crop, I don't understand it but it seems to be better to chop and feed it. I just grow vegetables now so what do I know. LOL

[@herbhouston5378]

It's hard to always figure out the right thing to do. Producing quality "product" and still remain viable. All your costs, every one, continue to go up... and then someone else tells you how much to sell it for. It's perishable... it can't just sit on in a warehouse somewhere. Even hay can not be kept indefinitely. It'll lose feed value. As a farmer, you work hard every day and hope no animal gets sick or no calf dies before it even has a chance to be born. You hope no piece of equipment breaks. Your stock don't get out and, maybe, get to a road and cause a wreck. It's hard, and sometimes a seemingly thankless job, but ya know... I would still do it every day... if only I could. I never loved anything as much as farming. Paul Harvey recited a piece about "A farmer" years ago. See if you can find it somehow. It says a lot about who you are❤

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thank You!! Paul Harvey said it well.

[@joeskretkowicz3218]

wow havent mowed yet upstate ny

[@ronriehle1337]

Not surprised the cows would do well. Feeding green to the cows it's 25% more nutrition ! A lot is lost during fermentation. Now if you were to graze grass stands directly you would increase tonnage by 25% as well. Of coarse you might choose different grasses instead of cereal rye. Grain feeding probably needed to be reduced by at least 50% . The opportunities to reduce your biggest cost - feeding cows - are huge . Therefore your opportunities to increase profits are huge. Ask me how I know ? wink

[@farmerjack5324]

Love your channel Watching from Ireland Very interesting new Holland mower, What horse power is it and is it direct drive to the mower and can it spread the crop behind it.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

The mower has about 180 horse. It's a hydrostat drive, and can lay the product out in different widths.

[@williamrandall6472]

Rhonda, what is the piece on the mowing machine, that looks like a clock hand going around?

[@walt1064]

908 is DOLL .

[@newenglandhuntingfishingan4429]

What are you mixing together?

[@rodneyburris3946]

How many held you all milk?

[@phillipgoecke1585]

Will you get a second cutting off these fields?

[@acresofclayhomestead]

No, we will be planting it to corn next.

[@ziauddin7948]

good rye grass harvesting & cattle feeding but the disadvantage of this fresh feed method is availability of grass for short period until new grass grow & ready for feed #

[@richard9117]

Great to see you all back in the fields (is Rye the same as pee straw ? Its like ice cream for cows .

[@acresofclayhomestead]

No, it's not the same.

[@wildbill5126]

Rhonda, Dumb question, Kevin said that 1 of the grass's gives the cow's more energy, how does that relate to the cow producing more milk? Me not being a farmer is just wondering, I would be the guy driving the milk truck to the dairy producers. Cool video as always.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

More energy does mean more milk.

[@wildbill5126]

I was thinking that. but wasn't for sure on it. Still a very cool video especially the drone footage.

[@Hugo_Overthere]

That mower works a lot faster than our old Owatona swather. I like the wide wind row for drying out a thick harvest. We were stuck with cutting partial swaths. Is your wind row width adjustable? Have you considered separating out an A2 guernsey operation? Would you have a local A2 milk buyer?

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Our row width is adjustable. As of now, we don't plan to separate any of the herd. All milk goes together.

[@denniswagner6753]

How many cows are you feeding right now?

[@tonyburelle6633]

Great looking feed, pretty large fields, are you not going to feed the haylage like you were feeding the green chop?, or pile it and cover it?, thanks for sharing, Rhonda and Kevin

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We will be piling it and feeding it as silage.

[@tonyburelle6633]

Thought so, thanks Rhonda!

[@nsgkuaov]

Over here in lreland we call this zero grazing and we have a trailer with a mower on it a sorta mow it load it job , one man one machine and we feed it out directly from the trailer to the cows they Hoover it up like spaghetti! On our place we feed grass to our cows about 280 days a year, it is just rye grass and clover and we cut it every 17 to 20 days when grass is growing well and at the shoulders of the year it could be up to a 40 day rotation. Basically we grow grass and maybe a little maize for silage. We aim to grow about 12 to 14 tonnes of dry matter per hectare.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

That's amazing! You have a much longer grazing season. 👍

[@randymaylowski2485]

I was about to say "if they love the fresh cut chop"? And if " it has better protein and nutrients"? then why not just give it to them plain then with no mix?? But I think I know where you guys are going? Trying to do it so they don't get the 💩 of bypassing too much unbroke down body waste....lol Plus also probably given them mixed of salt and minerals and some other things. But Ronda has it been wet down their at your guy's farm? Our small farm just little ways south of the Mic,Bridge we are in a drought zone already hay fields are shorter usual, not even a foot tall in most places. Other than that good video and thanks for sharing your guy's info☺.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We are not in drought like you. Our hay ground looks good. We got a small shot of rain this afternoon.

[@randymaylowski2485]

@@acresofclayhomestead ah okay I was just checking, we been getting some rain but not even to make it count only like a dusting. But inerways thanks for sharing back!.

[@jeffscott2840]

👍👍👍👍

[@richardreese8038]

👍👍👍

[@CorvetteBill364]

Great shots from the drone Ronda. What are you using as the drone and Camera?

[@theoisaac9948]

👍

[@SawmillerSmith]

Have to be smart to be a dairy farmer. And a hard worker on top of that. Fallon of milk here is $ 2,99

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏

[@kurtc6302]

Really enjoyed your video.one question will you let the ryegrass grow and cut it again or will you turn this into row crops?

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We will be planting corn instead of letting it regrow.

[@michaellangan1369]

Howmany Cows are u milking.

[@PoorMansHomesteadCanadaBC1961]

I don't mind watching the adds because it helps you but when they start talking about Men's Balls I draw the Line Sorry not Gonna Watch That lol

[@acresofclayhomestead]

SORRY!! 😬 I can't and don't control the ads that people see...

[@grzegorzkasperski1408]

It would be nice to have a cutting header next to the forage harvester.