>> I'm Peter Davie.
I'm into agriculture.
We're at Davie Farm in Delta,
British Columbia, Canada.
My grandfather was born in Delta,
lived here his entire life.
In the early '50s he came across this piece
of property that we're on now and decided
to buy it, and we've been
farming here ever since.
We're solely dairy farming.
We have purebred registered
Holstein Friesian cows.
The reason that you mostly see Holsteins
as dairy cows is for their production.
They are the highest producing
dairy cow bred today.
Our top cow currently milks
about 150 pounds a day,
and we have an 80-pound average over the herd.
This is our heifer barn and milking parlor.
We keep all our young stock in here.
We don't buy in any replacement stock.
They're all born and raised here on the farm.
This is our loafing barn where we house our
breeding bull and some of our other young stock.
Most of these animals are pregnant currently.
The few that aren't are why
they're in here with the bull.
This is our main dairy barn.
It has about 135 stalls in it to house 135 cows.
So this is the milking parlor.
You can see some cows are waiting to get milked.
It was built in the late '70s.
It's a double-six herringbone.
And so the cows are going to start
milking in just a few minutes here.
The average cow from the time you put her
in the parlor till the time she's walking
out is approximately seven minutes.
On the farm we have five people
in total working: my father,
my brother, myself and two employees.
Average day during the summer we start at 3:30
in the morning where myself or my brother come
down and we milk for about two
and a half hours approximately.
In that time we also will feed our young calves.
We grow grass and corn crops
for forage feeds for the cows.
And my dad, being 73, he still comes down
every morning at 4:30 to help feed calves.
His passion, his love has always been
farming, whether it be years ago with farming
with my grandfather and doing crops, vegetables
and sheep or dairy which he made the big push
in the late '60s to solely become a dairy farm.
I think my dad's passion for dairy was simply
for the fact that he got to work every day.
He loves the cows.
He loves working with them.
Just loves being around them.
On a dairy farm of our size, we have 240 acres.
We have a lot of mechanical equipment.
So maintenance is key to all of
it, whether it be a manure agitator
or some of the tractors you see behind me.
We have 12 or so tractors
ranging from 35 horsepower to 225,
and every single one needs
a couple oil changes a year.
They need grease every 8 to 10, 12 hours.
And so maintenance is a big part
of everything we do on the farm.
This is our Ford TW 35.
It's 1986 with 10,000 plus hours on it.
It's one of the most used
tractors at our operation.
We use it from everything from spreading
manure to tillage to mowing our forage crops.
We've tuned the injection pump to make
it 180 horsepower than the factory 160.
The dual wheels help with
flotation in our softer Delta soil.
They make a massive difference
compared to the single 520 tires.
It has three hydraulic remotes and
a category 3 three-point hitch.
Primary maintenance would be engine oil changes.
Using conventional oil, they
only last about 200 hours.
Switching to AMSOIL has changed that to where
we only have to do them every 800 hours or so,
so just an annual oil change is fine.
This tractor, being 33 years old and having
over 10,000 hours on it, it's a bit beat up.
But the engine and transmission
still worked flawlessly.
The 16 speed transmission shifter, the throttle
and three-point hitch are all easily accessible
and easy to reach, part of what makes this
tractor so functional and well-used on the farm.
If I wasn't farming, I don't
know what I'd be doing.
I'd be bored.
I can tell you that.
Every day here there's something new, and
that's why I chose to stay and keep doing it.
You know, tomorrow morning you might be a vet.
This morning I was a welder and a mechanic,
and the next day might be something different.
So it's always changing and it's always
evolving and it's always something new.
And you never know what's going to
happen on the day, and it makes it fun.
I always try and say no day is a
bad day when you're on the farm
