How to make your Milk Cow (WAY MORE) Profitable!

Knowing where the products come from, the quality, and the fact it's going to your children is worth it tenfold.

Dairy farming large scale or small is something you do because you love it. If you think it is your ticket to wealth get another thought coming. My family has been in the dairy business for nearly two centuries, there have been good times and hard the good largly out weigh the hard but when they get hard. THEY GET HARD!!!!!

For those of us doing a lot of gardening--we depend on animal manure and manure based compost to grow food, but so many gardeners are having issues with persistent herbicides that stay in the manure after passing through the cow or horse. It can ruin a garden for years. Having a source of herbicide free manure really be a very valuable thing.

Life skills and responsibility for your children is priceless

I have goats for milk for my family to drink. We don't get butter since I don't have a cream separater, but I can make yogurt, soft cheese, some hard cheese, ice cream, and soap with it. I'll be selling most of the soap I make. ❤️ For our ice cream we prefer to go simple and just blend up frozen fruit with milk. My kids don't like sugar added, so if they ever want ice cream for breakfast, I'm down!

Growing up semi-homesteading in alaska I feel ya with the smoke salmon, with the exception we caught and cured it ourselves. We like to say we work like peasants, and eat like kings.

I had sooo many cheese fails 😂! But now it’s my favorite way to use up extra milk.

Yes... I'm a trucker. So I'm just looking to do low maintenance stuff on my farm now.

I made a huge mistake, and tried to do a sustainable community. It has only made me bitter and have discontent for people. They say 90% of sustainable communities fail, and now I know why. So I'm alone now. But I'm not throwing in the town. I am refocusing on doing things I can maintain all by myself once a week when I'm home.

I like goats, have had little trouble with them. They pretty much take care of themselves, I just have to make sure my place is like fort Knox. That's good though, in the long run.

Eventually I'd like to get some Kune Kunes, sheep, and those small Scottish dexter type cows. I got the name in my database, just can't remember what they're called. I think I saw one in your video.

I have friends moving down from Kansas city, starting fresh. So I'm kind of their mentor, since I left the city 10 years ago and learned the hard way how not to do things.

So yeah, that last part of the video if me. I make good money on my job; so this is more of a side hussle and a prepper/survivalist project, ecase I have to start relying on it more... do to the times we live in.

But nothing compares to your own grown food. You can not pay for the quality food you grow or make...IF the product is as good and pure as they claim it to be. Beside all you mentioned. We save on our barn cats and dog food with their daily ration of milk, as well as meat scraps from our beef and chicken processing. They are healthy and we don't have to take them to the vet.

Such great information! @3 are assessing what might work and what might not and this was great information for us to help assess. You guys are great and appreciate what you're doing. Cheers! Doug & Keri

This is the exact video we have been needing! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

What homesteaders REALLY need to do, instead of trying to produce everything themselves, is to create a local, word-of-mouth economy that's resilient (not just to hard economic times, but, more importantly, since it's a far more immediate threat, to crappy laws that try to ban raw milk, the sale of farm-processed beef, etc.).

One person has the 5-10 dairy cows and all the infrastructure that goes with that. Another person makes cheese. A third person is a farm sitter, for when the first person wants to take a vacation. And so on.

Two adults with jobs can't grow all the food a family needs, homesteading. But 10 adults can grow what 5 families need, no problem.

Thank you so much for shedding light on this subject! And thanks for the shout out!❤

How have I missed your channel before now? Subscribed! Yay!

FAVORITE YOGURT/CHEESE RECIPES OR BOOKS ON THIS SUBJECT AND KEEPING A FAMILY COW PRETTY PLEASE!

Great info- THANKS!

You can also ferment the poo for cooking gas and electricity. India does it.

Thank-you for sharing this type of content and for the mention! Any time you want to visit Alaska let us know, we will have a yurt this summer for visitors :)

Great breakdown of everything!

Totally agree. Unless you already have some of these infrastructures and processes in place (are you already in the habit of DIY dairy? Do you have the extra 30-60 mins a day to milk that cow? Do you already have perimeter fencing?)... then a dairy cow might not make sense.

Or do you have a small family? Doesn’t make sense — BUT you could learn to make cheese and swap with a farmer who DOES have tons of milk!