We Can't Keep the Baby & Storm Update

#AcresofClayHomestead
We are a 1st generation family owned and operated Dairy Farm in Michigan. The aftermath of the storm.
Baby Bull Calf
How sorghum regrows and a look at the later planted sorghum.
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[@mauricemokuruk4044]

Good morning Ronda have a blessed day stay safe

[@biloxiblues4408]

You have got the most gorgeous blue eyes !

[@isbcornbinder]

I hope you are told every day just how beautiful you are, inside and outside.

[@kennydean4512]

Ronda, you with that baby calf, NOW I know where Mackenzie gets her silliness from. Lol she takes after you so much.😊

[@robertjenkins9747]

Glad you did not suffer wind damage. Your like morning coffee, good to start your day.

[@robertjenkins9747]

On another Note. Thank You. That was sweet to reply.

[@mkelleyp7]

Commercial table grapes are bigger because they are treated with Gibberellic Acid, a natural product, to stimulate growth. Wine grapes and untreated table grapes naturally have smaller berry size than store bought table grapes.

[@ohmbug10]

The small grapes are usually sweeter and more flavorful too when fully ripened.

[@BoydGilbreath]

Good work!

[@stephenpikaahu8883]

Always great postings Rhonda thank you blessings from New Zealand

[@davidwaddell8758]

Hey Ronda and family!👋 Glad 2 see the farm and y'all came out ok! 😆❤👍

[@clarencegingerich9949]

You all have such a Blessed family

[@ABF-om9rh]

Glad all is well.

[@lannydecamp7460]

Great video

[@tonyburelle6633]

Great video, those grapes are incredible, always tough to have to send a calf away, , the sorghum looks real good so far, thanks for sharing

[@mountainviewturning5319]

Wow amazing

[@robertlafollette2236]

Glad to know that you made it through the storm okay. God Bless.

[@robertlafollette2236]

Love your little Black and White Picture.

[@cgulden]

Sorghum gives back as much as the seeding, cool.

[@donburg5125]

Thank God you aren't sour, you are one hell of a sweetheart Rhonda. Keep up the good work

[@donalmulvey7479]

Great video Rhonda 🙂👍

[@willtekata9260]

Hi Ronda you're looking awesome as usual. We're having a different kind of storm down here in New Zealand. But hey I hope you guys are well. God bless you and yours.

[@jessieblanton9547]

Storm here thursday night bad else where in North Carolina. Howdy.🐄🐄⚡⚡🌧🌧🌧🌩🌩⛈⛈

[@michaellorio9774]

tr bonjour encore une belle petite vidéo 👍👍👍

[@tonywarren8283]

Love the new cover picture . And great content . Tony

[@cbboggs6459]

Great video. 🍇🐂

[@billhooker3006]

Hey Rhonda. Glad to hear the storm missed you guy's. I feel for the farmers that did get the brunt of it. Saw the pics also. Grim reminder of what happens down here in FL. Baby Bull Cow had you pinned against the wall wanting some mama milk! LOL. Grapes look great. Love the vid keep them coming......ttyl.....bb.

[@formeraide529]

Didn’t realize that many new shoots came from the cut Stalks. You should have a nice cutting of it next time. Take care and God Bless you and your family.

[@jonathanshrewsberry8507]

Really enjoy all your videos. I’m glad the strong storms missed you guys. Hope you and your family are having a wonderful day!

[@glennjarrett8331]

😊😅

[@ransomtester5347]

hi good morning watching new video today Saturday 12 21 👍👍👍✌✌🙏🙏🙏🤠🤠

[@flemmingnielsen3434]

Sorghum stranding good

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

Our Concord grapes are always ready the same time as corn silage. Every year without fail. If we chop the first week of September or the middle of October, always the same time.

[@gdsteyr]

Really cool video I've been farming all my life but we don't grow Sorghum in West Wales so I learnt something today. Also as someone who's got back into gardening I love seeing all the stuff you grow. BTW your videos also are quite educational which is great as the public are very misinformed on agriculture.

[@wazowski6709]

@2:37 OMG! This is the best thing I've seen on the internet in for ever!!!

[@alibarri9967]

family good 🌹🌹

[@toddh9365]

You look great in black . very pretty

[@kenturmon9428]

Omg you are 🔥!

[@wimpytigger7423]

👍🐄🚜👍🐄🚜👍🐄🚜👍🚜🐄👍 "Glad" to here you are so well

[@agirlandhercows501]

your grapes look amzing

[@carlreed2558]

Nice grapes

[@traceyhill6872]

I was driving when it hit Ottawa Illinois! Hauling about 9300 gallons of natural gasoline to the ethanol plant in Hennepin IL. Probably 60-70 mph winds. Walcott IA had 119 mph winds. Crazy! Glad you all were spared from the destruction!

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Glad you were safe! That's scary strong winds!!

[@glennhunter7018]

Good video again I’m glad you are OK after the storm pretty eyes I sure do feel old now 50 years old and again thanks for the birthday wish I hope I make it to another birthday y’all be safe Pretty eyes tell everybody I said hi And keep the good videos coming

[@acresofclayhomestead]

50 years old is still young!! Stop thinking you're old. Lol. You will be blessed with many many more years ahead. 😊

[@glennhunter7018]

Acres of Clay Homestead thank you so much for that comment pretty eyes Cannot wait for the next video I know it will be good be safe I am so glad i run across your channel on KZbin I SUB to about 200 people on KZbin and I mean what I am about to Say you are my favorite channel to watch pretty eyes I really enjoy watching it and another thing you always give me a heart and comment back a bunch show you care about people you got a big heart pretty eyes yall be safe in this crazy world God be with you. That picture you put in the circle it is a very Pretty Pretty Picture

[@cristykinerson9901]

Your calf is cute and silly

[@jeffnelson2899]

My grandmother grow grapes too make grapejelly and juice. The type she had was concord grapes. Looks just like your grapes

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Same here! 😊

[@travisjames7922]

Have been watching these videos and didn't know you're in Dorr. Im down in Kalamazoo.

[@wrongway-oe5dm]

Ok rhonda we need to take you to the eye doctor on the bull situation 😝😂 just kidding was to cute everything looks good

[@garyreid7865]

had big storm here in scotland 1 months rain in 4 hrs in some places caused a train crash outside aberdeen

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Wow!! That's a crazy about of rain!

[@joanelsullivan7866]

You are so nlessed to have missed the storm we are about 80mi SE of Chicago there's still people in our area without electric and trees down. We ere BLESSED our electric flickered and we barely have a few twigs. Neighbors have whole trees. Go's to show GOD only gives us what we can take. I wish I could get grape like that makes REALLY good jelly.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We are very thankful!! Glad to hear you didn't lose power either.

[@glenn6448]

I got stuck in an elevator at the veterans clinic when the storms hit Lacrosse/Tomah area in Wisconsin 🤣

[@acresofclayhomestead]

😳

[@bernardfontaine1334]

@@acresofclayhomestead bjr acres vue ta vidéo cet super tu ma montre ta passé une bonne nuit. Ton Bernard cet lève à 9h du matin heur français ici beaux soleil se matin à carentan les marais base Normandie France. Enbrasse tout le monde de ma pare de Bernard bis

[@ericmichel6381]

Bonjour ça va bien mangé gâteau 🍰🍰🙏🌹🍰

[@ziauddin7948]

had i been living in US & had friendship with U would have purchased that black beautiful & lovely calf & raised him to fully grown bull or cow # ❤️💕💓 i love calves #👍

[@davidwilliams26]

We lost your commentary when you were in the field for awhile. The grapes looked really full. The garden looks nice can't wait for canning season. It's nice to see your youngest working with his father good upbringing. As always love the videos and your family values

[@Jon4784]

Beautiful grapevines and is sorghum like corn ?

[@jamesyarbrough3996]

Your Beautiful EYES sure do sparkle outside in the Sunshine 🌞

[@davidpayne1519]

Good to see you as always, glad them storms missed you, from what I've seen they were bad more of birth pains, ya'll be safe n take chances, hope u got emergency storm shelter of some sort ok see later

[@waltersmith3441]

The grapes won't get really sweet until after the 1st frost

[@underwaterdroneservices7292]

That Sudan Grass (right R?) does look a whole lot like corn.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yes, you are correct. 😊

[@franciscobritolopez7831]

Holaaa que bueno este video como aser que la planta del maiz de más piñas me a sol pren dido graciasssssss 😘👍

[@michaelmijatovich8983]

One of those affected by that storm was Cole the Cornstar in Iowa .

[@duanebolen8359]

You are a C Iowa corn fields are flat trees in Cedar Rapids are on the ground Highline wires high line poles Are broken off like toothpicks they expect us not to have electric till Tuesday of next week

[@michaelmijatovich8983]

@@duanebolen8359 best wishes to you

[@glennporteous8755]

Grape trees in Michigan, I’ll be dipped

[@MrBer43]

Called stooling out🤪😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yeah, that's what Kevin calls it. 😏

[@sveinthorebergan5769]

you are really cute ...wow i like your videos

[@underwaterdroneservices7292]

A while back we had a 100 acre recreational farm property (even had an old Nuffield 460 tractor). We don't have pets but I was considering getting a cow or two strictly as pets and totally raise them as pets, like see if they want to hang out with humans, feel secure enough to nap around humans like cats and dogs do, play fight, be petted, go for walks, get them to answer to their own name, play fetch or a cow equivalent, learn tricks, be cleaned and brushed etc. Never did but now wish I had. That little black cow looks like it wants to be a pet. p.s. I was looking after three gold fish over a winter so they didn't freeze solid in my mother's yard water feature. One of them was extra friendly so I treated it as a pet. That fish ended up doing things that fish don't do.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yes, you need to buy a couple calves. 😊🐄🐄

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

We have a char cow that stands on the hill every morning and waits. When she sees us headed to the barn to feed the calves she starts her trumpeting. She can moo for over a minute straight. She calls the entire herd up and they beat me to the barn to beg for grain. We took a heifer off of her and put it in with the herd by my dads a year or so back. She does the exact same thing yells every morning. Cows are very vocal animals . We call our calls with words so if you say hey girls you get a short moo but if you say lets go girls its high pitched moo followed by a dustcloud headed to the feedlots.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

LOL, that's so funny! 😂

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

@@acresofclayhomestead we have learned over several generations that if the cows thinks it's their idea everybody else will have an easier day

[@kens.3729]

How did your Tall Tomato 🍅 Plants in your Garden do with the Storm ⛈ ? Lots of Grapes. 🍇

[@acresofclayhomestead]

The tomatoes did pretty good. Some did fall over a little, but no bad damage.

[@kennydean4512]

Ronda You're not a sour person, you are a sweet person. Lol

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks!!

[@Ticky66MN]

Our grape vines look great this year but no grapes at all. Any idea why that would happen? Thanks Ronda.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Did you fertilize them with nitrogen?

[@robertmarino2158]

As they become softer the sugar content will become sweeter , fyi , Bob

[@robertschoenborn8413]

I think I'm seeing a lot of bean field's ? Dose that mean the market is high for them? It looks like soy beans maybe ? Anyhoo happy Thursday evening neighbor 👍👍✌✌😉

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yes, lots of soy beans got planted.

[@grzegorzkasperski1408]

Have you used protection on grapes against mold or have resistant varieties? How high did you cut the sorghum- 2-3 inches.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I've never used anything on my grapes. We cut the sorghum with a 6-7 inch stubble

[@cedricgates9976]

what kind of grapes are they they for the table or wine? could you ever make hay out of the sorghum or is it just green feed?

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I think they are Concord grapes. I will make juice and jelly out of them. Yes sorghum can be baled also.

[@ToyotaPete]

❤👍

[@bigfarmerblake5585]

My ant and uncle live in Iowa they got 107 miles and hour wind

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Hope their place is ok?

[@bigfarmerblake5585]

It is but there roof is junk and they still don’t have power but they have a generator

[@Jim-tj5lq]

You definitely have enough grape

[@arnoldromppai5395]

this is the frustrating part, trying to buy up calves, sure i have one farm that will text me when they have a calf or 4, and i will run and pick it up. but i have found, it getting harder and harder to buy right from the farm. and to go to a sales barn to buy, it a 7 hour drive, yes 7 hours, dragging a trailer, not knowing if you will be coming back empty or loaded. and this year, that been not an option, unless i take a hotel for 14 days before sales day, you leave your Provence you have to self quarantine. and same thing on return home, witch is still in effect to this day, so i was buying right off the cattle truck, as it is heading east or west. you dont know were they came from. and every calf including the beef cross ones were all sick, and you get them better, and a week later its back, and dont respond to the treatment you first used, every one went though this 3 times, and i had a beef cross that went though it a 4th time, but it was a loss, each time i took poop samples into the vet so we could get a best treatment. it was the opinion of the vet that none of them got enough colostrum if any at all, this was farther be leaved after a autopsy of the lost beef cross. and as he said being i was buying them off the truck driver there no why of knowing what farm they came from, even tho everyone must have an RIFD EAR TAG to trace live stock, even when you take them in to be butchered they must have an Rifd tag to be scand out as end of life, but with this system, it is not made puplic, you can call in the number/s but they will not tell yoou anything.. and any calf loaded on the trailer is $50 cnd and i been willing to pay farmer direct a $100 each, weather a heifer or bull. i have some Augus cross i got from my regular farm a year ago last march that are at another farm right now being bread.. i never did get the number of calves i wanted this year, as many were very sickly looking, who knows how long they been on the truck..i just uploaded a calf update this morning

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Wow, 7 hour drive? I wouldn't want to make that drive either.

[@arnoldromppai5395]

@@acresofclayhomestead in my younger years i use to make that drive just for some thing to do, by as i got older its no fun, once you cross out of Ont. into MB its totally flat lant and you see city lights a head for hours.

[@roberthemphill8588]

Thanks for the video... I sell all of my calves at auction or private sale. My wife wants to make pets of all our animals, so she cannot witness me loading the livestock and trailering them to the sale barn. So it goes in the modern cattle business.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

It's easy to get attached to some of the calves. 😊

[@johnswartz6321]

I kinda like sour but I don't like bitter. I guess that's why I don't like beer.

[@jaybernieschoep3491]

We got 11 inches of rain in one shot And a tornado.

[@danielloveall2952]

Cole the cornstars farm got hit pretty good there still estimating the Damage Cole's Dad said maybe close to half a million in damages

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yeah, they got hit the hardest in IA. 😞

[@sodbuster518able]

I was going to add this same comment as well.

[@user-oe7gd7mj1j]

Aí. Vc. E. Linda❤😂🎉

[@RobertJones-ey9qz]

Question for you: Could the sorghum be cut and baled and used for hay? Not real familiar with it, so was wondering about that. Thank you Another interesting video, keep them coming. Have a good day.

[@timothymiller4217]

Pretty sure that on This Farm Wife - Meredith Bernard they make hay with it. It is another great channel like this one. Showing real farm life

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yes, sorghum can be baled as well.

[@sodbuster518able]

Check out chronicles of this farm wife ch another great real farm ch.

[@josephpuou96]

Good morning from Hawaii🤙🏝 what do you make with your grapes ?

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I make grape juice and jelly. 😊

[@henryminton4760]

Climate change is really,really,bad here in the U.S....Everyones insurance rates are going up too much...Stay safe...

[@rodneywroten2994]

sorry i could not watch the last bit of the video Ronda because of the crazy internet

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I know what it's like. 🙄

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏

[@lawrenceihrke508]

How do you have time to do house work ? And milk cows ,cut hay and all

[@lawrenceihrke508]

PS I ENJOY YOUR VITOS

[@yanagreene2760]

What do u do with all the grapes

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I make juice and jelly. 😊

[@flatbrokefarms8315]

Could I buy some of your bull calves off your farm?

[@jasonleckrone2577]

What's up with the chicken barns

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Brother in law's turkey barns...

[@richardriehle4159]

how many dry matter tons per acre from the sorghum fields do you expect this year?

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Fields we cut only once will probably yield 3 tons of dm. 2 cutting fields will double that.

[@ziauddin7948]

👍 #

[@john3559]

such a pretty woman

[@jeremyswindell2330]

Grapes all over

[@coltonworkman9535]

I don’t know where your at in the world but you are the queen of the south or north which ever 🥵😍

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We are in Michigan. LOL

[@irvinwittmeier5208]

!;-)

[@johnnyrichter963]

I ♡ u I ♡ Aoch may I move there live n a tent a camper a non stinky barn? Can u not work so hard and do a video every day? Can u mount live steam camera around the farm so we can watch all that goes on when ever?

[@underwaterdroneservices7292]

Hey R. I was just thinking. Could I be your pet? We could make a corner in the barn for me to stay in (preferably a separate stall from the other animals though.). You could just give me the equal amount of time as you give the rest of the animals (and a little food once in a while). I would likely just sit there all day staring through the fence in the direction that you might be coming from occasionally. I promise not to be a problem! I couldn't promise that I wouldn't bite that Kevin guy if he got too close though.

[@underwaterdroneservices7292]

Hi R. Just wanted to clarify that this is entirely a silly joke. The animals like you so much so I was just joking that I would too. Also, me kidding about "that Kevin guy" is entirely joking around as well. You and your husband seem to get along very well and it's nice seeing you together on video still acting almost like teenagers toward each other having being married for quite a long time. Likely every person that watches your videos think you're a sweetheart and it seems that Kevin deserves you. You make a cute couple and you all make a very cute family.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Underwater Drone Services, yes, I know that your comments are said in a joking manner. Your comments always make me laugh. No worries!! 😊

[@kens.3729]

Obviously the Farm is a Business and you can’t keep the Male Calf since it doesn’t bring value. ☹️

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yes, that is true....

[@CorvetteBill364]

You were teasing us. I thought you were going to tell us you were going to have a baby, and it was going to be a boy!,,

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Lol. Noooo not me. 😁😁

[@CorvetteBill364]

Acres of Clay Homestead Lo LOL. You are still young and beautiful, You have plenty of Babysitters. Your channel is so good. I check to see every evening for new post. My Mother did lots of canning. We were a family of 7 . Dad, Mama and 5 boys. We eat what we raised, so we had to do a lot of veggies and fruits. We dryed most of our fruits.

[@12345NoNamesLeft]

I'm surprised you don't keep some baby bulls and eat them.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

We do have a few steers that we raise.

[@kennethdean2417]

Ronda you are Sugar and Spice and Everything nice

[@gregorhay123]

40 lol

[@BM-hb2mr]

Dont do sour either . Yuck