Our Farm Made HOW MUCH In One Day?

Got a truck here with Mineral from Seneca, Kansas. Seneca, Nemaha Central, is who Southeast plays for the championship for two-way football in Kansas this next week. I don't want to say enemy territory, but it's a ride, you know, only one team can win. We got fresh Mineral. We had fresh corn last night. By the end of today we should have a pile of fresh distillers. Meet the Peterson family. Our dad, the three Peterson brothers, and our families farm together in central Kansas. Our family farm started in 1882 and has been raising cattle and crops ever since. Please subscribe to this channel and give us a like and a comment if you enjoy the video. Here's a 20 from Bowdell. We got matched up with mine from Salina last Thursday. They're only four days apart for purchase dates. Alright, we're going to sort this pen. We're basically going to take the biggest 20 from this pen to make two loads for our sale out on Thanksgiving. We did a farm tour this morning, so we got a little bit of a late start on the tours. Okay, these cattle are going to pen six, which is one of the muddier pens, but we're going to put less. And seven is a drier pen. We're going to put 124 head in, which is the two loads ready to sell. Okay, Nathan and I got everything put away. Wow, you can actually see dust blowing out. So the smaller ones, medium ones, are put back in pen six. This will be the full pen, 120. We actually ended up with a few more than two loads, so we'll take a couple head off the day of the sale. They're ready to eat. Usually they eat three hours before this. Alright, we got this one. We're giving this one a pair of peas over here since a lot of these are calves. Just got three left, so just enough for two ten doses. Alright, I almost forgot to start filming because I was just listening to a podcast and enjoying myself. But here's our old 4050. It's definitely a total chore tractor, not a shiny round cab that you see sell for $100,000 on an auction. But it gets the job done for us. It has a whole bunch of hours, but just keeps going along. But we had this air intake crack in here, but I was able to order a used one from Abilene Machine, which is a pretty nationwide known salvage yard. Well, they do all sorts of stuff, but they're just right down the road from us. So I'm pulling out this old one, and we'll get in this other one right here. And then we'll hopefully not just be sucking air from down there. So you can see we've been... we roll corn with this, and so it's in a lot of dust loading feed and rolling corn. So we need to get that fixed for sure. I was pretty pleased with how... it looks like it's going to be fairly easy. I already have these four bolts loose. Should just be able to take off that rubber part and slide it out here and slide in the new one. And move all my filters and stuff over. Alright guys, I didn't show very much of the process I don't think, but I got this new air filter housing in. I blew everything out. Washed it out, but it was a real disaster. God, it blew out. I ended up having to lift the whole hood up to be able to get that thing out of there. So it was a little harder than I thought it would be, but not that terrible hard. This is good to go again. Also, as that was coming off, that plastic piece cracked. Which, it was cracked before, and I had glued it. Now I glued it again, so we'll see how long this one lasts. Maybe I could order one of those. It'd be nice to have one of those cyclone air cleaners on here, but... It sure is nice to have a place to work out of the wind and cold. It's sprinkling a little today, but boy, I feel like I could sweep... Whoops. I can't film and sweep apparently. I feel like I could sweep three times a day every day and still have dirt on my floor. On to the next little project. Alright, next project is our real high-tech fuel trailer we have here. This cord has been getting real crispy and junky, and has caused us a little trouble. So I'm finally just going to replace it. I couldn't find a new cord, but then I found this one that I believe was on a chemical transfer pump that quit working. Nice and flexible, seems to be in good shape. So we're just going to reuse, repurpose, and hopefully make this a little better. Okay, we got our new cord on there. I also made a place to hang it to be a little neater here. We got baby steps going on. Put a little thing to hook the fuel nozzle on. There's what a frozen fly... Frozen fly looks like. Nice. A lot of frosted ground this morning. It's a happy Thanksgiving morning. The cattle get to eat here. Instead of mashed potatoes, they get distillers. Instead of turkey, they get corn silage and yummy corn and hay. So I'm getting them fed first thing this morning. I'll get them fed. Then I'll take my family over to my aunt's house and we'll get all of us fed. So, happy Thanksgiving. You found one with a block. Yep. I mean, it's still a department store. No, it's going to be my turn. And this turn is for me. Cheese. Say cheese. It's Thanksgiving weekend. And we're feeding the cows here at my house. Brighton's helping me like she always does. Do we like feeding the cows? What are they eating right now? Distillers. I was joking the other day that distillers kind of looks like pumpkin pie filling. So we're going to pretend like these cows are getting some pumpkin pie type stuff. Does the distillers kind of look like pumpkin pie? Yeah. What color is it? What's your favorite food to eat at Thanksgiving? Turkey. The classic. We are moving some bales home from the side of the field. A little damp out there but that's why it's nice they're on the side of the field. Looks like Noah needs one more bale. Just one more left to top it off I think. Those are a little damp out there right on the side of the fields. Back to the place I'm going to park it here and dad's going to unload it there between these. By this field barrel. Look it's snowing. Also it's blue sky so it's kind of confusing. But on, well yesterday, our pump pit for the well at dad's place. Pressure switch seemed to quit working. Pressure tank, bladder tank was leaking. So it was like two problems happened at once. So we are going to try to get that figured out. We got the old tank out. Here's our new tank. These unions were a little hard to get loose but we were able to get them. Pulled it out with a rope and now we're going to go back in with the new ones so our cattle can get water. We did have backup water district water but our valve's not working. So to replace this the water's off but then we'll get water back to the cattle. Okay we got it back in here and now dad's going to turn the water on. See if we have any leaks. So we can connect the cattle waters to the water district in the house. If we lose electricity or if our pump goes down. The water district is a big water tower up on the hill. And then they have backup generators for their wells and stuff. But usually we rely on the well here for the feedlot. And then the house just is on water district. So this is a pressure tank that has an air bladder in here. And then this is our pressure switch. So this provides pressure. So the pump kicks on and pumps it up to 50 PSI. And then we'll kick off. And then as the cattle drink water or you're using water it goes down to 30 PSI. Once it gets to 30 PSI the pump kicks back on again. So basically this bladder tank basically keeps your pressure consistent. And then makes it so the pump doesn't have to just run all the time. My dad took off. My hands are too cold to film anything. But we just wound up the second wire that's around this field. It was all grazed off. And the only thing that's still green is these radishes and turnips. Evidence of the cows being here. Next year's fertilizer. So the second wire is now all rolled up. We needed the posts. We're going to leave the outside wire there. The top wire. Okay I made it over here to check these cows that have been at Greg's. They have, I cannot believe how full that pond is. It might be our fullest pond that's on our properties. Anyway I'm going to give them some distillers today. You can see a big group over there. This cow found, oh I can have this pile all to myself. There's another cow that found a pile all to herself over there. Happy cows. As long as they share. What did we just find in the trees, Damon? Two jugs of hydraulic oil. One was full, one was half full. Yeah well it was down in this waterway. Now we got extra oil. Water, water, water, water, water. I didn't have any more three inch hoes to extend this out. So there's my cheap solution. That's like some gutter hose. Runs out pretty fast this way. I don't know if we'll get to it this week. But hopefully next week at least we will fence the rest of this. And there is a pond over in those trees over there. And then, and thanks to those November rains it has water in it. And so it's not running water so we'll still have to chop it if it gets cold. But at least we won't have to haul water in the cold. So we shouldn't be doing this for too much longer. My dad's in the pen scraping again. Just cleaning up some wet spots. Dad's loader was leaking some hydraulic oil this morning so I'm putting the bail on his trailer. His tractor's working fine but when he moves the loader it's got to leak. What's funny is I've been meaning to take this loader off for like a week. Because I don't need it much for feeding in the winter but I did need it today. My dad is unloading bales with my M7 loader tractor. So I wanted to get started. And it'll still get loaded tonight to go feed at my dad's house. And my dad is back with the semi and he's unloading it now. I think he's done now. So I'll be able to park this load, or park this empty. And then I'll load this and my Grower 1 load at the same time. Basically. And so it worked out. Saved us both a little time. Looking at the big picture of what it is that a lot of us are involved in. And so this next video I talked a little... No, I'm not going to swim. Alright, it's time to change shoes on the sprayer again. Supposed to be pretty nice today. Supposed to be cold tomorrow. A little warmer over the weekend. Our sprayer needs to get fatter. Yeah, we're going to feed it its Thanksgiving meal and make it fat. We want it to be not freezing at night when we spray fall burndowns, basically. Is what I've been advised. I'm hoping to do a little more this year than I have in the past. And so I've been waiting for a window because it keeps... It was too warm and then it was too wet and then it was too cold. But it looks like we're going to get a few days. And it would only take me a couple days probably to do what we need to do. We're going to put the floater tires on because there are going to be some wet spots. From all that November rain we had. But otherwise it should be really nice conditions. It's a nice track. It's getting up to like 57 today. I think we'll actually put some warmth back in the shop maybe with the door open. Time to go in the fat boy tires. I'm going to be using these ones in the winter and spring. So here's pins 6 and 7. Pin over here, pin 7 is for sale tomorrow. So I'll get to make the drive into Salina. If you want to bid on Cattle USA you can buy these steers tomorrow. There are 124 of them for sale. Hoping to beat our best price ever. Okay, getting pin 7 out of the pen this morning. Time to sell. Get out of here. There's a nice steer. Hey, get out of here. Hey, hey. Hey. No more feed for you in the pen. Next time you eat it's going to be at the next place. Come on steers. Push on down there. Yep. Well they had a calf sale this week but there's lots of ballers here today. I can already hear them. There's my first one off the truck. The other ones are being a little pokey. It's Thursday, sale day. Kendall took the first load of cattle in. I'm taking the second load, fueling up here really quick. These are big old steers. Barely fit on the truck but we got them after some work. I'm sweating and it's 32 degrees outside. On the second load in, hopefully they sell well. Our last couple loads of cattle have sold really well these last couple weeks. So we have high hopes for today. We'll let you know how they do. Alright, these two came out of here. Now 50 to buy. Now 50, 450, 450. Next month will be 550. 450, 450, 450. Okay, I was done buying so I walked across the street. Got some cattle supplies. And I'm going to go back across and stay there until my cattle sell. We got a grain semi here. They're in the wrong place. I'm just setting my supplies in here and I'll go back in and watch. There's the round of the steers I bought. There's 27 going on the top here. Alright, got those cattle unloaded at the sale. Kendall is still there buying some more as well as watching our two load sell. And he's probably not going to make it back in time for chores. So I'm going to do chores here. Dad and I just spent a few minutes moving cattle around because we had a few empty pens from the cattle that sold. So we did a bunch of switcheroos. And so got all that done and now we're going to feed them. And all the cattle are in different pens. So I got to pay real close attention to which pen I feed to. I'm also going to be loading. Dad's over there feeding out his load. And then he takes this feed truck home to his house. So I'm also going to be loading this feed truck with a ration. So I'm going to load the Kubota. I'm going to load the feed truck. And Dad's feeding out his load. Alright, first ingredient is the mineral product we keep in this old Sioux Steel grain bin. Got that put in the bucket here. And then I'll fill the bucket with hay. This is ground hay from hay bales. And we'll dump that in the feed mixer first. Alright, next we're going in for some grain screenings here. From the local elevator. And with each of these ingredients I'm also dumping in Dad's feed truck. Alright, next is corn. This is rolled corn from the Sioux Steel grain bin on the backside of this shed. It comes in through that hole in the side there. If you saw our Instagram story this morning, while Nathan was rolling this corn this morning, he was singing the, they see me rolling, they hating. Alright, next up is these corn wet distillers grains. Put a big ol' scoop of that in there. Alright, the last scoop is silage. Corn silage. So get a full scoop of that. You'll have to excuse my poor driving while holding my cell phone to film. Easier to do with two hands. So we're at about 5,000 pounds. And this is our last scoop of silage here. And this will put us up to about 67 is where we need it to go. So the feed wagon is loaded now with 6,700 pounds of ration. Which the ration is the word we use for all the ingredients mixed together. It's just like cooking. You put the ingredients together, you mix it together, and then you bake it. We feed it. And right now this feed mixer is mixing. So you can see the PTO going, they're turning around and around. So once it's all mixed together, I'll be feeding four different pens with this load. And we sold 123 head this morning, or this afternoon at the sale. So we're down 123 head from the feedlot up here. But we're still at I think probably 6 or 700, even though Kendall's buying back some today as well. So we've got two rations up here at the feedlot. We've got the grower one ration, the grower two ration both fed with this wagon behind me. And then my dad does the starter ration with that white feed wagon. And then the feed truck goes home and does a second grower two ration to those heifers at my dad's house. So we've got quite a few things going on. In my notebook here, I've got each pen, which ration it is, how many pounds they get in the morning, how many pounds they get at night, how many pounds they get total, how many pounds per head. And the goal is basically to feed them as much as you can that they'll eat without overfeeding. So we keep track of what we feed each day. And you want your cattle to grow on the most efficient way as possible. That's the name of the game with backgrounding and with feeding cattle. And each one of these pens, we try to keep cattle about the same size in groups. So we're constantly sorting the cattle to where they're in the same size of groups in the pens. And then when it comes time to sell, we'll take loads into town every Thursday or every other Thursday. We sell the cattle when they're about 850 pounds and we try to buy them when they're about 500, 600 pounds. So we're taking them from 500 or 600 pounds up to 800, trying to sell them in groups that are about the same size. Feed them twice daily. All right, so we've got 2,300 pounds, well, 2,200 pounds to feed tonight to get to our daily total. This is pen six. It's a grower two pen. Let's see if we got, well, we don't have it written. It's supposed to be written right here, grower two. So we'll feed 2,200 pounds. I'll do the math off of this scale here. Right now it says 6,700 pounds. So 6,700 minus 2,200 is 4,500. So we'll feed down to 4,500. All right, next is pen seven, which we moved from pen 10, but they are grower two. And we've been splitting the load between grower one and grower two, but now we have less cattle. We can do all 2,100 of all grower two. All right, done with grower two. Kendall's going to feed grower one once he gets these unloaded. How many did you buy? 64. We have some more coming from another sale barn, too. How many of those? Like around 55. So we sold 123 and bought 111? Prices are high on both ends. Yeah. Expensive money. How much did they sell for? 2,200 I had, but minus $6. Oh, 2,100. A quarter. I should have done a quarter, they'd have brought up 2,200. That was pretty bad. There's my heifers. Get them out here. So we got new cattle, and we split them heifers and steers, and we're getting from two different places, so we use this pen. So I close these gates across here so that if they crawl through the bunk the first night, they're not out in the open. But Greg is here helping. We needed all hands on deck. He hauled the second load, and he's helping dad feed hay while I... and he loaded my first load. So Greg and I have been splitting duties on a lot of cattle stuff today. All right, that's it for the day. Got all the loads fed, got the cattle sold, got the new cattle put away. Nice busy cattle day. Thanks for watching, everyone. 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