the sector saved, honestly, without exaggeration , thousands of lives, i have my phone number freely available, and in fact people call from all over ukraine, starting from uzhgorod and ending with chernihiv oblast and sumy oblast, they actually call here and ask for advice on what to do with a cow when there is a problem. if possible, i fully explain everything, give hints, help as much as my skill and understanding of the situation is enough. how does the farm work? and what they make there, i love when the yard is flooded, the yard is flooded, i remember my childhood, when i i was a young boy, but in fact i took care of livestock, i had cows, pigs, horses, turkeys, pucks, geese, chickens, rabbits, dogs, cats, and in fact, i was the one who went out in the morning, it was me, so we lived on the edge of the village, and here and there the edge of the village came to life, i opened all my barns, here and there i went there to... ate, fed, and fed them

all, and you know, and here it all started for me too, i realized that people need to be shown and taught how to sell more expensive, how to sell more expensive milk, not for 5 uah, not for 6, not for eight, but how can you sell milk exactly for 15, 20, 30 uah, today the average selling price of milk is 30 uah, i work directly with the client, i have a client base and in fact i am there twice a week... people order milk, i distribute it, in fact i have clients in the capital, i distribute milk, in fact i started working on products with added value, edit value, in fact i became today, when after the invasion of a large-scale here after all these events, that happened, i had to completely transform my implementation, because i realized that i am not effective in implementation when i lose the direct.

contact with my client, so in fact i had to expand my list of products, from ordinary sour milk i went to the so-called young cheeses, one of them is mozzarella, so in fact i started making mozzarella, in fact this product , it is already more universal and has a completely different level of coverage, you see, but in fact it is already work, restaurants, supermarkets. in fact, this is already a product that you can put on the market today and already compete on a level with the same italian cheeses, that is , dutch cheeses, in fact, you can already put your product on display, because it is ukrainian, it is made from the milk of ukrainian cows, and in fact it , well, you know, it's ours, and it's completely different, it's not stabilized, it's a live product, a real live product, but i'm very particular about the quality of milk, that's my principle.

i am meticulous about the quality of milk, the milk must be the best, it must be of the highest quality, that is, it should not contain even a drop of inhibitor, in fact only then it goes into processing and in fact it goes further, further it goes for use, that’s exactly this position, that’s exactly the position of the living, well, it received feedback, and in fact the product near me is ordinary milk, ordinary... milk i sell only in glass, in glass jars, there is no plastic, ordinary cottage cheese, sour milk cheese, sour milk cheese is what we call it here, in fact, well, if it were a product, it is cream, cream , ordinary cream after separation, that is directly sour cream, sour cream, sour cream, which honestly in your life you have never tasted such sour cream, which i also make mozzarella, mozzarella, i'll tell you , i've been trying for a good six months... i still, until i

felt the grain, well, until i started already to really make real mozzarella, that 's how the process went, the process went, i started there with 1-2 kg, now i already sell 20-30 kg a week, and i'll tell you, it's not enough, how velesova's life has changed farm due to a full-scale invasion, all my livestock and my farm remained alive, because of how intensively things developed that... so quickly that there was not even time to think, to think about how to act, everything was, you understand , everything was on automatic mode, as far as you know, and everything was set up to survive, and not just to survive myself, but so that the livestock also survived , you see, this is the very trishara in this whole process, the trishara, because you can get into the car and go anywhere, the borders are open, everything...

they were sent for meat, i took them out of the vans and put them on my trailers, those cows that came up to me and licked my hand, i just took them, even i didn't know anything about them, i just took them to my place, and they would stay here and there, and they, and i thought to myself, how do you abandon them at all, do you understand how to abandon those cats and dogs who left me a bunch of people and actually left, mykhailo says , take them and let them live with you, well, how can i throw them away, you understand, it’s like this , well, if only... the responsibility was there, and here, right here, all the changes just made us move, because when we were actually here everyone was surrounded by the enemy, we had a slaughterhouse here behind the forest, but in fact here the columns were burning, here the orcs climbed through all the bushes, in short,

all who were alive there were able to cross the swamp of the uda river and many of them drowned, but some escaped, there was a whole village of refugees, at the beginning, when the invasion began, people came from kyiv and chernihiv. from sumy, just on the border, but they thought to stay here, go home, maybe it will be there for a day or two and everything will calm down, but when they went here already, when we already started shooting here and there, and there was a column of smoke, here it was roaring and fighter jets were flying so much so that even the trees have disappeared, then you understand, there is something here everything began to be perceived in a different way, that's why i'll tell you, this time was the most critical for me, because i all... i didn't have my fodder base as such at that time, but in fact everything i bought hay from people in neighboring villages , i bought grain from farmers, and in fact the situation turned out to be such that it all became surrounded, there were enemies there, and in fact i could not even

go there, and there was such a resonance that my livestock was nothing to feed, and i will tell you, i am very grateful to fellow citizens, i am very grateful to the whole community, which joined in and... in fact , step by step, people called me, people came, mykhailo, go get hay, we had two or three left there from a year ago, someone sold livestock there , there was no strength, well, in general, with such steps i started taking hay and we somehow started to make ends meet, the realization of products at that moment, you will present everything to order for customers, there are jammers, mobile communication does not work, in fact you cannot call anyone, everyone is in bomb shelters, and you physically have a whole... a milk machine, you have cattle are milked twice a day, and you need to milk them somewhere, it’s just that feeling, just go out, or pour into the pond, or you realize that for two days there was absolutely nothing to eat in the city , hunger was starting in the city, people who there was no

contact with the village, and what kind of contact with the village, when we are surrounded, you can't go anywhere, it all happens in a completely different way, i will tell you, the people with whom we communicated began to contact me. they began to provide help, because i delivered all my milk to checkpoints, so i was in teroboroni, in fact , you understand, i will tell you when the entire village left here, so that you understand, i was on the farm with a machine gun, i will tell you, i was in bulletproof vests at the block, at the checkpoints , in fact, then i came here consulted and every night for me it was so, you know, incomprehensible, well, i don't know, step into the night. because i did not understand, i will leave the house, what is waiting for me in the yard and what is waiting for me in the barn, how should i react when i know that there is no one here, well, you understand, that’s how it is, well, on this ravine i was actually alone here, that's it it was for me, well, to what extent, you know, well, not so much a challenge, well, it was probably some

kind of test, and i understand that veles helped me, but i don't know, our gods helped, but in fact, well, hold back. well, don't give in to this panic, grit your teeth, and still it kicks, kicks specifically, so mykhailo, do what you know how to do best, that's what i did, that's how the process went, but they started helping not only with hay, they started helping with fodder, i got this kind of movement, a worldwide slow-motion shot, namely the representative office in ukraine, we are with them communicated precisely at the moment of preservation of gray ukrainian cattle, that's how they started. to donate funds so that i could already buy products, so that i could somehow make ends meet, i am honestly very grateful to them, but for the fact that they helped me, and i will tell you, that's how it all turned out somehow to balance a little, but already, well, you understand,

already a little, somehow people started coming out of the bomb shelter, they already started leaving, well, they withdraw money from atms, cash already started to appear, well, you already understand... somehow this one went, went, went, the process went, already other small ones, but, well, entrepreneurs started importing products, there is a little bit. there, a little bit already in the bazaars , the concentration of people somehow went away, and as a matter of fact, i will tell you, somehow we slowly started to loop, loop out of the whole process, and despite everything that everything is closed, supermarkets are closed, healthy stores are all closed, there are no products, but it was small entrepreneurs, small farmers, who ensured the food security of this region, and i realized that the more such mykhailos as i am today, we would not have felt this problem at all. because we have already been taught, put on a needle already today , so that we should eat from the supermarket

, you understand, not us, we should not eat from our land, and this is the global problem itself, and today we felt this problem, everyone asked to bone deep , you understand, when you're lucky, i had completely full freezers, well , i'll tell you honestly, well, somehow subconsciously i understood that this would be all, i understood all this from under... consciously understood even from 12th year, since the maidan, i understood from the 13th year that this would be all, and i will tell you, for me this is all, i was preparing so quietly, but i was preparing for this war, i understood that reserves were needed, so i understood , that there should have been some reserve of provisions, that is, for me, because you understand, i grew up in the dnipropetrovsk region, and my family knows what hunger is, and i will tell you, if not this cow, not this cow, maybe i would not have been born, because the grandmother had six of them,

and in fact they were saved then by a cow that lived in their house, and they were tearing holes, they took out the grain from the chaff, ground it into breadcrumbs, and then they gave all the chaff to the cow, fed it, the cow gave little milk, and in fact, this is how my grandmother survived, my father was born, and accordingly i was born, so for me personally, well, a cow... it 's a little more than an industrial animal, you see, it's an animal that helped my family survive the famine, and in fact today with the total extermination of our livestock in the country, it's my duty, it's my mission, to keep this cow with me today , to give, to say: don't worry, i i will save you, and today i will tell you honestly, i am doing this, even in spite of the war, i continue this work today, so... to date, i have created a public organization, a fund for the revival

of primitive cows, precisely these autotentic cows of ours, so and today i want to revive, revive the ukrainian cow not from the position of the picture, but from the position of competition, competition with the global breed, with the same holstein with world leaders, so that we stand next to each other confidently and say that our breeds, our cows are no worse, they are much better, you see, it is precisely in such a segment, now i am conducting work, a story about a bull from the south, a very simple story, i will tell you, i have already entered askania, askania, you know, is currently under occupation, i brought his children from askania. i used to take them as calves, in fact, this is my veles, this was the first batch, well, a batch, i could

take only three calves or two cows in the trailer, well, i can’t take any more, and in fact, star, you came from dnipropetrovsk region, pass by, you are not from the south, the first time i brought veles, mokosha and mavka, but the second time i brought marfa, snezhana and ee, i don't remember the pear. was she or the apple tree called, well, the calf that died was called , well, well, after, well, after her leg was torn off, well, mine, and in fact , parallel to this , a person called me after some time, and introduced himself , that she herself comes from that side, from the so-called seamstress, so he said, i have a cow, which today is a gray ukrainian cow that gives milk. i say i took her as a heifer when she was still small, because her mother died, but the heifer remained, she says

she calved, now she gives 20 liters of milk, and in fact she gave birth to a calf, a bull, a bull from her so-called elm bulls, these are bulls from the 60s, 70s, she says, you 're dealing with the grays, i 've already lost a little bit of fame, youtube was already working, i started telling stories about the grays, that's what he says, if you come to me, he says, i... i can sell you a cow there, well, for starters , he says, if you want, i have another cow to calve, he says, this is a heifer, she will calve, i will start to give milk, because i have a baby, and in fact, so that there will be a baby. milk, and this one i called you latishka back then, i’ll just sell it to you, come and pick up the calf for now, because he says, i don’t know whether to hand it over to the slaughterhouse, well, he says, i don’t actually need it, i’ve come and took yarik, yarik, he was yarik, he says what 's his name, yarik, well, yarik is yarik, he took him out on a dog leash with a collar, he ran so small, so

small, and they are gray when they are born, they are red, red in color, that's what they are are born in such a circle. then they molt over time and become gray, but this is a typical sign of them, i started talking to volodymyr there, a farmer from dnipropetrovsk region, he founded his farm gray volyk, that’s what mykhailo actually says, i also want to breed gray cattle, like and you , if you can, maybe you can bring it to me , we actually went, i took yarik, and i'm going there, i have a video about this guy, and actually by the time he got to volodymyr, he was already hot. i say, well, he must, somehow last year, and in fact he drove through the summer, and then, you understand, it begins, i agreed with the owner that i will come and take the cow, so it turns out that it is already the beginning of february , i have a little frost there, there so-and-so, i say, let it will be a little warmer, and we agree that

we will be here in the 20s, i come to him , take it, towards the end of the month i take a cow from him, and the war begins, the war begins, they were occupied in the first four hours there, they were already in occupation, because changar was unblocked, they are near chengar there, that's all, he already showed me the crimea, that 's how through sivash, we talked with him, now we haven't talked for six months, well, he doesn't get in touch, i don't understand what his fate is there, but i will tell you that in such a format, i actually had to take this cow, he called me the last time that she gave birth to another calf. and already gives under 30 liters of milk, because of which, well, you understand, this is exactly what i need, just this type of milk, if we are now talking about the future, the future farms and the future of gray cattle, and he said it was difficult, mykhailo, if you haven't castrated the bull yet, don't castrate it, because this is the last bull from the elm bulls, because a rocket flew to their breeding base and all

the spermatozoa, the whole southern, the whole our gene pool is of all southern breeds. which were collected there for decades, centuries, in fact everything died, well, everything was torn apart and in fact it was all, so he says, save this bull, because in fact, well, it is, well, in fact, it is not a cure, it is the best genetics of the past and he he was the only one left, and then i called volodymyr, and i said, volodymyr, i will take this bull away from you, because, in fact , i will need him, and the moment came when i went here literally a couple of... weeks ago and i already took yaro to his farm, because at the same time all veles' daughters have grown up, all veles' daughters have grown up, and in fact, they need to be covered with something, or some kind of bull, i want them to take, well, if they took the exterior a little bit, everything- after all , dairy from dairy cows, that is ukrainian, so here are all my representatives

, one, two, or three of each breed, in fact they are donors for me, but actually just for an experiment, to decide in which direction it is better to work, well, how to say, find ala there , you know, if there was an ideal model for our future ukrainian cow, namely the dairy type of gray ukrainian cattle, and just then yariy came to my farm already not as a yak, not as a yak, he already came as a yak, he already came as a yaryl, that’s it somehow , you know, you know, yes, it is somehow just like that. it is also formed, well, believe me, when i knew that this ditch would be a ravine, then i didn’t think about it at all, i made a ravine out of a ditch, but then i say, that’s how you will swim, and then you already know, i ’m going like this, my son and i are talking with the little one, and i say, he will probably be a yaril, he just fits clearly into our mythology, how animals reacted to shelling, when there was such

a massive shelling, so they were scrambling at first, you know, at first there was... such anxiety in the eyes, well, this anxiety, by the way, you know, they calmed down when i went to them there in the barn, when i was with them in the barn, but they were actually calm , they drank water, they ate, you know, somehow they were, that i was next to them, but when the fighters started flying, it was like this, they all sat down, you see, this is the yard, the chickens, the turkeys are all clucking there, some are running there, the cows are mooing, there is something moving, a rocket is flying by or this wine is flying by. there is a feeling that it is just grave silence, this is literally the first day, then everything was humming, beating, doing, well, you already know, it is somehow calmer, first of all, they already were standing on the tables, well, so that they were standing. if a jet would fly here, then they would probably, well, it would be a little more difficult for me to collect them, yes, you understand, and that’s how they were, if they were on the arrivals, they would throw themselves against the walls there, because

they, well, , and so they were on the move , in fact, they all just came up, they have the sky, oh, and there is such a floor where they lie and where they hide, they just went there in a corner, got lost, stopped, they have an animal instinct, when they sense, feel some danger, they become in group, youth. they all went inside, they stood around the perimeter, that’s how they approached the young, the young came to one wall, they came to the second wall, well , to this fence only from the other side, and in fact, you know, they formed such a, you know, like the cossacks are forming a wedge , a circle like that, and they all stood up like that, and as a last resort, this is for them, well, you know, if, yes, yes, yes, a security zone, and then i went in, i say calm down, everything is fine there, and here we are somehow in such a perspective, this is how we lived with them, how many hu... would there have been before the full-scale war and now there are 12 cows and five calves, this is actually, if we take two exactly years ago, the cows were all standing in my barn before this

reconstruction took place, i only about her, if i thought about it, and on the eve of the war, in fact , i did it all, but because i understood, i added cattle, you know, but somehow before the war, when it was all, somehow it was all, i sold all my, well, if it was unnecessary, ala there ... some assets, so as not to get into debt, i actually made this whole farm my own own funds, and if no one bothers anyone, you understand, i am here and if it is mine, let it be less, but it will be mine and i will not be visible to anyone, i will have a clear conscience, i will sleep peacefully, the farm has begun to arrive , i drove all the cattle, it was actually summer, autumn, i brought in cattle of ukrainian breeds, i made an agreement, and in fact... the process of such, i say, geometric progression was already successful, because all the cows became pregnant, gave birth to calves, and if we talk about today, then i already have

about 50 heads of cattle, from which it comes out today i already have 20 cows, but they are all young, rumps and tanks, and i want to say the following, by the end of the year i will already have 25 cows, because the heifers are calving, and next year i will already have... 37 cows , well, based on my hindquarters, which i have, in fact, well, i want to say that there will be this number, or even a little more will be young, because they are all giving birth to calves, today all the cows that are are standing around us, they are almost all pregnant, you see, and today they, they will give birth to calves for me, and i have as of today the problem on the farm, where to put the calves, because the places are already running out, when i was doing the reconstruction, it was calculated on... 50 heads, i assumed that i would be there for a while, and veles connected like that, and we are hand in hand with him how many calves

have been produced here, why are we dealing with us here, i am like an artificer , here i am steaming so that there is milk, and veles, veles' children, gray, gray, i say, clipping, boy, did you manage to adjust the usual order on the farm, today, i am 120% packed with food, so i... know that no matter what happens, i have everything under my belt, but in fact, even if there will be no light, no gasoline, no shit, nothing will happen, we will survive , but in fact we will milk by hand, we will let the calves in, well, at least we will have something to feed the cattle, i am very grateful to mr. mykola, that’s it to my fellow farmer, he gave me a tractor, because he told me, mykhailo, you won't make it, he has such a large farm. this is his very first tractor, he says, i don't want to end up giving it to the metal, well, he says, he still drives it, he says, it will come in handy for you, how did he feel, because thanks to him

i'm just harvesting hay, i bought them all there, i was a biker in the past, i used to ride a big harley davidson, and honestly i sold this harley when i was buying livestock, buying equipment, tyupres, and i did the reconstruction , so i’ll tell you, i somehow had to for the sake of... a childhood dream, because this is the motorcycle that arnold schwarzenegger rode in the terminator, you see, somehow it’s like that, i also wanted very much such a motorcycle, the moment has come, i bought it, i am on i drove it a little, and then i came to the garage and said: i will sell you, i will sell you, because you need to give life to these animals, and i think that maybe the moment will come when someday i will buy myself some other motorcycle, so i will drive, and now... i drive on my old kruzak, because for me it is exactly what i need equipment, because it helps me quite a lot in

terms of economy, thoughts about the consequences. war for farmers of ukraine. if we're talking about now, i won't talk about the shutdown light, lack of all this. well, i will tell you, the main consequence is that there is a total manipulation of the war. so today in society - this is a total manipulation of war, this is an increase in the price of energy resources, this is an increase in the price of fuel and lubricants, this is an increase in prices. at the ministry of fertilizer, this is a decrease, a total decrease in the value of farm products. i 'll tell you, it's being manipulated, and quite clearly, and it's already being tracked today. every employer should think about how he should be more efficient in his work, in order for him to be able to raise the salary and equalize it at least to poland. to

the czech republic, to here, to this block, even to the first line, that is the process of increasing wages in order to keep workers in the cities. what motivates mykhailo to develop the village? i want my children and my grandchildren to return to ukraine and develop their business and lead my family, my gene, my genotype, my dna. but in the future they continued it exactly on their native land, you see, because if you look at mine geneology, in fact, i have the blood of everyone, of every part of ukraine, and i want, and i want, that my children, my grandchildren, great-grandchildren, that is, be, you know, real citizens of their country and that they be proud

by the fact that they have... a passport of a citizen of ukraine and for them to say to the whole world that we are ukrainians, here we are ukrainians, you understand, and not us people, third world countries have come to earn money, and we want to somehow make ends meet , so i want , so that we live in a country that is not the same as an independent, free country, you see, so that we would be, not to lie under one another and climb under others, so that we... were on a level with the world leaders, you see, and we can do all this, and we are already being strangled by the last ones there, i don’t know, 300-400, 500, thousands of years, when we lost the main war, we lost it once , and in fact we were put down, and in fact we are hollowed out, squeezed out, you take out, you understand, a people who go through something every 100 years, and what are we we constantly live in a state of cataclysm, in a state of war, we are

already being twisted... and completely stripped as a nation, i do not i know who does not like us , namely the ukrainian people, but we still live, we preserve our culture, we preserve our history, we preserve our dna and we even preserve our cow, but in order to still move on in the future, despite all the cataclysms that are happening to our people today, you know, the main task of ukrainian farmers today, you know, the main task of ukrainian farmers today is not to give up, i will tell you, precisely not to give up their positions, you know, just no no they're going crazy, don't sell the equipment, or don't lease the land to the holdings, or don't sell it, well, you're all approaching this right now, you understand that it's not clear whether our farmers will survive this second, second wave or not, 24th year

nowhere. it did not happen, the land market is opening for foreign investors, to date we have reduced the cost of land to a minimum due to the war, today you do not need to graduate from e-business, business, world business schools to understand the trends that are happening today, today classic conditions to sell the land as much as possible, even today to our farmers, small, big, who today really feels that he is a patriot, really that he feels that he is... a patriot, he needs to grit his teeth and survive it all , to keep this land so that their children and ours walk on their land, so that we are not a colony, so that we do not repeat the history of argentina and brazil, and in fact, so that we remain truly ukrainians, we will need to transform , we need to learn to live in a white way, well, not everyone is ready for this, not everyone

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