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Farming in Switzerland video!! Neat

Here is another showing them round baling hay. Quite a different baler. It wraps the bale in the chamber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsHN40HE-J8
Round baling
 
I visited Switzerland....it was July 1974.....they farm slopes that most North Americans can not even hike:


Bob...
 
Beautiful but I didn't see one head of livestock to eat all that hay. Did see the cowpaths. They say they have 2 kinds of cows there; one kind has both left legs long & the other, both right legs long. Bet that lil gal is really strong. A weedeater would only slow down the scythe man. Looks like it would be hard to get overweight in that country.
 
Surprising their cabs don't appear to be ROPS. Also have to think they need anchors to drop if/when the engine quits and the brakes fail.
 
My brother and sister just returned from Norway this week, after visiting with cousins there. One of our cousins that they visited is a dairy farmer, he mills goats. The pictures they took of our cousins farm land are similar. They take goats up the mountain to graze land a man can barely walk on. And the land they take hay off , we wouldn?t touch.
I really liked the rig with the front mounted disc mower. They have interesting equipment to farm with.
 

The girl reminds me of a Swiss exchange student that stayed with us for a week in June twenty years ago. She was a worker!
 
American farmers would not work that hard for the little bit of hay they got in that clip. We as Americans are spoiled to the mechanization of farming here. I know I am.
So what do they feed with all that hay or store since they didn't show any of that?
 
I disagree, I think most would love to be able to farm just like that. The problem is here we have to farm mostly on the open market so that is just not profitable. If we had the government price supports and regulations that made that work we would do it too.
 
Caterpillar guy: If you watch the second video they show a very short clip of them feeding their milk cows. If you look at some of his other videos they show more of the livestock in them.
 
Here is an earlier video that at the half way point shows them letting their Brown Swiss cows out on pasture. You can see the barn but that is about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJU0YOqxZpg
Letting the cows out.
 
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