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Tedding the grass.
Loading the bales of hay.
Worlds First Rodeo
Horse Judging Career Development Event
Field tour on the Eldringhoff farm, here they just planted winter wheat.
In here they catch and separate the cows.
The Eldringhoff barn, on the facade you can see their brand.
This is called a pond, they use it to store the water.
A nice view from the Jolly ranch, you can see how dry the soil is.
Leading the cattle to a new pasture.
Dirt roads.
Heifers (young cow) at their pen at bijou dairy. They have about 1000 dairy cows.
Calves in their pen.
Sheds for the calves.
Packing the corn silage.
View from the hill.
Nice view on the Rocky Mountains.
Bonfire at the end of the day.
Some cattle near the road.
A stack of hay bales for sale.
A nice view in the evening.
The Food Lockers in Deer Trail
An irrigation system used to grow alfalfa.
Lunch at the red barn.
Oversized loads.
Wimke and Wapke at the John Deere dealer.
Group picture in front of the DFA milk truck. The milk is collected every day.
Taking a drive in the Jolly truck.
A day at the bison ranch and farm. The farm owned 40.000 acres of land.
One of the 8 ‘Case’ tractors.
A day shooting at the shooting ranch.
Eldringhoff road sign.
Wimke, Gea and Wapke waiting outside.
Picture of an old Ford, parked in the field.
One of the windmills they use to pump drinking water for the cattle.
The Simla food store.
The unloading ramp at the sales barn.
A view at the red rocks. The area is called the Garden of the Gods.
A river in the Rocky Mountains.
Snow in the Rocky Mountains.
Walking through the cornfield during a good year.
This picture is of one of our brood mares and her filly. (brood mare is a mare used just to raise colts)
This is a picture of a few cattle standing in a feed lot. Cattle that are raised for slaughter are grain fed, so they are kept in plots that do not contain grass and are fed in troughs.
Bringing our cows in so we can spray them for lice and flies and then branding our calves.
Green grass in August in Holland.
Pasture of grass. This photo was taken in summer.
Mowing the grass.
Mowing grass silage, which will be stored for cow feed.
Bringing the dairy cows from the pasture to the barn for milking.
Getting cows from the pasture. Our quad makes this job much easier. As soon as the cows hear the noise of this quad they already move to the fence.
In most paces the land for cattle is large and spread out. As you can see here, there is alot of room for the cattle to move around
All 26 of our cows in the lane where we can split the cows and the calves.
This is what wheat looks like before it is properly ripened. It is green and squishy in the middle. Once the wheat looks golden and ready it still has to ripen for two more weeks.
Mare and her foal running in the outside arena.
Tractor mowing the grass. (about 10 acres)
Mowing the grass.
Mowing from another angle, this mower has a conditioner that way the grass dries faster and keeps better quality.
They already know where to go.
We are known for cows in the pasture. We have an ideal climate for grass, we let our cows graze in the pasture. In this way we don’t have to silage the grass and bring out the manure. But where the cow shits on the meadow, the grass is not eaten for a while.
Due to our climate the grass grows everywhere.
We have to haul water to our cows.
Many farmers and ranchers have ponds, as you can see here, that allow the cattle to drink freely and the rain fills it back up. If there is not a pond available, large water tanks are set out and occasionally people will use old tractor tires as water tanks, such as the ones you've seen in other pictures.
This is what ripened wheat looks like. It is ready to cut and is beautiful looking.
A grazing horse in the pasture.
After mowing furrows of fresh grass
Tedding the grass.
Going around these fences. On the other side is a ditch were cows don’t go through either.
Even the dairy cows are outside, they are brought to the milking parlour in the afternoon. And they stay inside for the night.
A pile of wrapped round bales. We wrap the bales to protect them from the weather and to ensure the feed quality.
For hunting the clothing is the main key, you must have a orange vest and a orange hat.
Cattle that are raised for dairy or for other purposes, including breeding cattle are grass fed. This is a large pasture during the spring that has been allowed to grow over the winter. The cattle are rotated through pastures so that they will always have grass.
A beautifull Februari day in Holland
Tedding the grass.
Making windrows.
Tedding the grass, with a tedder you basically spread the grass and turn it over. that way it dries much faster.
The cows can drink water here. The solar panel on top powers a pump. If there aren’t any cows drinking the water, the energy gets stored in a battery. This is convenient on cloudy days like these.
Getting the horses in with the pickup so I can ride!
He is piniching his nose for he can get the tube down his nose.
This is an example of the places that a deer or antelope would hunker down and hide.
Combines sitting in the field waiting to cut the crop.
Dried grass after 3 days
Loading the silage wagon.
A beautifull Februari day in Holland
As you can see all the grass is windrowed. These lines are much easier to pick up with the loader wagon.
The water is pumped from this ditch.
The dairy of family ‘de boer’ is located in a nice ‘flat’ scenery and is a good example of a dutch family farm.
The horses running to the correls, they know the way!
This is a draw where you find groups of deer or antelope if the wind is blowing or if they are looking for fresh green grass.
Combine cutting wheat.
Making windrows.
Making silage.
As you can see the cows to eat all the grass. That’s one of the reasons why farmers chose to hold their cows in the barn.
A nice boat which becomes handy in a wetland area.
Horses running in, almost to the correls! Once they're in the correls, they will be easy to catch!
Windrow of hay.
Unloading the silage wagon.
Bringing the cows to the barn. In the distance you can see the barn.
Enjoying the landscape. Sitting on the sea dike which protects the dutch from the ever rising sea. You can see a nice freshly plowed field of clay soil.
Baling the hay.
Making a silage clamp.
Now the loader wagon is filled and the grass is ready to be stored for later use.
The combine is dumping the last load of wheat onto the truck. This was the last field for the year.
Here you can see the bales of hay.
Making a silage clamp.
I really like the view of all the cows walking in a row to the barn.
A pet deer was loose in town.
The combine is just finishing up a field. This is my own farm ground.
Riding on the silage clamp to make sure that there is less air in the silage.
The last part of their daily walk.
An uncut wheat field with the elevator that the wheat is taken to in the far distance.
Ana lope and their offspring roam in one of our pastures.
Now the grass can grow again so this whole process can repeat.
Putting new reed on a roof is a lot of work, a major disadvantage of this great isolating roofing material.
Making windrows and picking up the windrows
Childern in the wheat field after harvest.
Our farm seen over the lake.
Mowing the grass
A ditch full of cane
Getting some farming explanations with camera recording.
A tractor with a machine that cleans the ditch
The sailing school where the students stayed.
My cousin's cow waiting for her calf to be let out of the branding table.
A tractor with a machine that cleans the ditch
the arm of the machine
A group picture with all students from both United States and the Netherlands.
The arm cleans the ditch
The arm cleans the ditch
The arm with the cane
The machine draws the cane on the side
The tractor with the machine from the side
One of the many lakes in the province.
There is another way to clean the ditch.
The name of the machine is: de hemos.
Close-up
Private bridge to cross one of the many ditches all around the field.
We clean the ditch and at the same time spread the crushed reed across the land.
The ideal location to take a rest with a typical view. This is the restaurant from the ‘woudegemaal’ in ‘de Lemmer’.
Close-up.
A visit to Ameland. This island is located in the most northern part of the country and has some areas with beautiful nature.
Seen at the back.
Due to the strong winds the football often went into the water. But that isn’t a problem when you are on bare feet.
At the back of the machine the reed, mud and water is ground up and spread across the land.
Interview on the beach. Herke is a dutch student, he tells Kailey about the island.
The sailing boats of the sailing school.
The ball went into the water... At least there was a boat to save it.
The streets of Franeker.
The ‘woudegemaal’. This old pumping station was build to protect our land from flooding. They have some of the best maintained working steam engines.
A dutch windmill, a building we are known for.
Storage shed on the dairy Farm of family ‘de Boer’.
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