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National FFA Convention 2012, opening session
Tedding the grass.
Loading the bales of hay.
Off loading the bales.
Herke and Jouke in front of the new John Deere at the Eldiringhoff farm.
Packing the corn silage.
Unloading cattle at the sales barn.
We went to the Colorado State University with this bus.
The big John Deere seeding combination at the Eldringhoff farm.
Oversized loads.
Wimke and Wapke at the John Deere dealer.
Feeding the cows with a truck at Bijou Dairy.
Group picture in front of the DFA milk truck. The milk is collected every day.
Taking a drive in the Jolly truck.
One of the 8 ‘Case’ tractors.
Zeb is explaining how the sprayer works.
Picture of an old Ford, parked in the field.
Control panel in the milking parlour. Here you can read the cownumber and the milk production.
Mowing the grass.
Cows goes in the ‘robot’ for milking
Mowing grass silage, which will be stored for cow feed.
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.
Tractor mowing the grass. (about 10 acres)
Mowing the grass.
Cow goes in the robot for milking
Mowing from another angle, this mower has a conditioner that way the grass dries faster and keeps better quality.
This is the milking device. Placed on top of the cleaning stand.
Looking at harvest machines with Sarah.
Tedding the grass.
The brush for cleaning the weaning
Tractor with rake, this rake puts the grass in a windrow as you will see in the next picture.
This is the machine that counts the litres of milk.
Putting new froks on the combine before harvest.
Tedding the grass.
Making windrows.
The brush is cleaning the weaning
Tedding the grass, with a tedder you basically spread the grass and turn it over. that way it dries much faster.
This is the machine that controls the vacuum.
Loading the silage wagon.
The brush is cleaning the weaning
As you can see all the grass is windrowed. These lines are much easier to pick up with the loader wagon.
Combines sitting in the field waiting to cut the crop.
Making windrows.
Making silage.
the laser seeks the weaning
The loader wagon pick up the windrows of grass and transports them from the field to the farm.
Seperating milk of one cow.
Combine cutting wheat.
After being milked they get feed some corn silage, which combines great with protein rich grass.
Unloading the wheat into a truck.
Unloading the silage wagon.
The robot placse the milk cup
Loading from a closer angle the tractor drives over the windrows made by the rake and the wagon loads them.
Two times 10 cows, side by side, in the milking parlour.
The combine is unloading the wheat that it cut. It hold approximately 250 bushels of wheat in its bin.
Making a silage clamp.
The robot places the milk cup
Now the loader wagon is filled and the grass is ready to be stored for later use.
Baling the hay.
The combine is dumping the last load of wheat onto the truck. This was the last field for the year.
Making a silage clamp.
The milking starts
The loader wagon drives to the farm where the grass gets stored in a pit this is called ensilage. The tractor on top of it is packing the grass to get all air out of the pile.
This is the divice that collects the milk.
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.
Here can you see the milk supply line. One of them is filled with milk
The packing is very important that’s why 2 machines are used to ensure feed quality. The yellow roller in front is used to spread the grass evenly on the pit.
This machine is making the milk for the calfs.
Here can you see the little tank.
The milking is done. The cow is leaving the box
Making windrows and picking up the windrows
Here you can see the freezer and cooler.The meat is left here to hang and cure for a certain amount of days depending on the size and breed of animal.
A tractor with a machine that cleans the ditch
A tractor with a machine that cleans the ditch
This is the machine that mixes chunks of beef and fat into ground up beef which can be packaged and sold, depending on the fat content.
the arm of the machine
The different cuts of meat, at our local locker, then go into individual coolers which contain what a person orders.
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
There is another way to clean the ditch.
The name of the machine is: de hemos.
Close-up
We clean the ditch and at the same time spread the crushed reed across the land.
Close-up.
Seen at the back.
At the back of the machine the reed, mud and water is ground up and spread across the land.
The ‘woudegemaal’. This old pumping station was build to protect our land from flooding. They have some of the best maintained working steam engines.
There are eight pumping units with a total capacity of 4000m3 water each minute. Which makes this the biggest working steam powered pumping unit in the world.
A dutch windmill, a building we are known for.
Storage shed on the dairy Farm of family ‘de Boer’.
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