Rick Verhoef

@dairydoc_church That’s why trouw has the free app called DNA connect!

How close is the ration you give to cows compared to the paper ration (low CV=better). Devries found big variation

Dairy folks, ever wish you could learn more about the business of farming? We are now enrolling for cohort 5 of the Foundations dairy exec workshop - starts in January, co-hosted by @RobSwackhammer Paris VC & Milverton Wellesley vets. Signups close Dec 16, spaces are limited!

@MaizeingPete @LeeLaframboise Well generally that’s added in the mineral or separately added on farm. But it’s feed grade urea. Feeding levels change based on forages and commodities used.

@LeeLaframboise Yes. Dry year and feed was short

Wheat straw for feed is all bagged . Two bags of 10/250 and 12/200

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@RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @LeeLaframboise @parviewfarms @ayrporte @valleyfarmboy @FeedsDairyCows @KellyCreekDairy @dave_drm @JonWilken @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @3furrowsjd @typical_farmer @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @Lactanet_Canada I generally say 3% formaldehyde for maintenance bath and 5% formaldehyde for a high prevalence case. I use this calculator to know how much to put in.

@BernieKamphof @LeeLaframboise @parviewfarms @ayrporte @valleyfarmboy @FeedsDairyCows @KellyCreekDairy @dave_drm @JonWilken @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @3furrowsjd @typical_farmer @Dwaynek79781424 @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @Lactanet_Canada We were talking foot baths at some time. I've got auto foot baths, I think volumes need to be adjusted. Looking for recommended formaldehyde in a bath? And sorry for bring it up again 🫣

Hit that elusive 3x milkings per day, now to work on the liters. Loving the robot life! #ontag #teamblue #DortmansBros #DeLavalCan

@luke_bokma @LeeLaframboise @RDykxhoorn TAI 💪🏽

@LeeLaframboise @RDykxhoorn Unless you ultrasound every cow every day?

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@LeeLaframboise @FriedRidgeDairy @FeedsDairyCows @dave_drm @RyanSchriek @Milk_the_cow4 @3furrowsjd @ayrporte @AshtoniaCows @Shithaven73 @BernieKamphof @keithschweitzer @RDykxhoorn @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken When dad switch to 3x actually got more family time. Finished milking when we got off the bus then usually had night milkers and he was able to go to hockey with us.

@FriedRidgeDairy @FeedsDairyCows @dave_drm @RyanSchriek @Milk_the_cow4 @3furrowsjd @ayrporte @AshtoniaCows @Shithaven73 @BernieKamphof @keithschweitzer @RDykxhoorn @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @VerhoefRick @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Doing 2x was great other then kids came off the bus from school and hardly saw them before bed. Parlour is what made us grow the most, we just kept adding room to the barn and milked a little longer, not sure we would of grown past 100 cows if we would of started with robots

@ayrporte @cranbrookfarms @Dwaynek79781424 @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken No it’s a manure pit

@cranbrookfarms @Dwaynek79781424 @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Rotary Joe?

@ayrporte @Shithaven73 @RDykxhoorn @parviewfarms @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken That one guy in NewFoundLand milking 246 cows in a tie stall. That’s ridiculous. Not my kind of fun.

@Shithaven73 @RDykxhoorn @VerhoefRick @parviewfarms @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken #dairystats

@RDykxhoorn @typical_farmer @ayrporte @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken @silokingcanada

@VerhoefRick @typical_farmer @ayrporte @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Siloking should work that into their sales pitch

@RDykxhoorn @parviewfarms @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken You speak French?

@parviewfarms @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken If I moved up I could become a blue dealer & get parts & service at cost? 🤔 Wonder if anyone else has done this?

@typical_farmer @ayrporte @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken We like the hydraulic blade as we can then push leftovers in a windrow kind of idea and eat it up with the siloking. Then we can do DMI daily for each group! “You cant mange what you don’t record”- someone smarter then me

@VerhoefRick @ayrporte @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken We don’t have a juno, we have a Jonas. Tire a take off from our neighbor, rim, hub and spindle of a massey plow in a fence row, plate and steel was laying around here

@FriedRidgeDairy @Dwaynek79781424 @ayrporte @keithschweitzer @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Not too sure how to make a vote. But I know of 4 that have been pulled. 3 of the same colour and one “other colour”. I think they all had similar reasons and it’s just that they aren’t robot farmers. Some people are better off with a parlour. 🤷‍♂️

@Dwaynek79781424 @ayrporte @keithschweitzer @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Ok then you are robot neutral…can you post a poll… Have you pulled a milking robot? Past, current, will be in future? Red Blue Green Other

@ayrporte @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Kemp machines. Got it imported from Holland. kempmachines.com

@VerhoefRick @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken That's quite the feed pusher. Brand?

@ayrporte @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Hey that’s a nice barn you have there!

@keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Double 8 parlor 4 row sand Centre feed. New build 2022 We still enjoy milkn cows

@LeeLaframboise @k_lyons55 @BernieKamphof @FriedRidgeDairy @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @RDykxhoorn @FeedsDairyCows @keithschweitzer @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Robot milker for tiestalls I believe. Not many tiestalls left in SW Ontario. I don’t know of any robomax down here at least.

@k_lyons55 @BernieKamphof @FriedRidgeDairy @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @RDykxhoorn @FeedsDairyCows @keithschweitzer @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken What does this do ?

@LeeLaframboise @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Oh nothing wrong with robots. Parlour just works for us so far still. We don’t do any field work so got time to milk.

@VerhoefRick @keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken I used to just hate and cringe at the thought of robots. After we bought the other farm that had a robot I realized … the parlour had to go 🫢

@keithschweitzer @FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Double 10 parlour, 2018, sand, 3x Parlours aloud I here?

@FriedRidgeDairy @RDykxhoorn @BernieKamphof @3furrowsjd @dave_drm @FeedsDairyCows @typical_farmer @valleyfarmboy @Dwaynek79781424 @VerhoefRick @Shithaven73 @BurgentV @LeeLaframboise @Stan_ter_woerds @gary_markus @RyanSchriek @MySpringflo @Rippleview @ayrporte @DanenJack @joejansen1 @fullbins @JonWilken Hey X-verse …. Who is happy with their decision to go to milking robots? Pls leave a response in the comment so it pops up in the thread after you answered the poll … and pls retweet @FriedRidgeDairy