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Jan. 25 2018
We have to step up together, innovate, and share our message. It is time for dairy farmers to “Face Everything and Rise”
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Jan. 23 2018
Robots helped us change the way we dairy, and we wouldn’t go back
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Jan. 19 2018
Land O'Lakes is sponsoring Farm Bowl to highlight the skills that football players and farmers share
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Jan. 10 2018
The single most important time in a cow’s life that could almost forecast her entire lactation is the transition period
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Jan. 9 2018
I’ve never been one to set a big New Year’s resolution. I guess with the farm always throwing curve balls at my life, it just feels too heavy of a thing to take on
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Jan. 5 2018
Have you checked out your farm on Google Maps and Google Earth? How does it look? What can people see?
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Dec. 27 2017
Before this piece starts the arguments for and against the above stated question, I want to simply open this as a conversation
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Dec. 20 2017
My Christmas list is rather short this year . . . the only gift I’d really like is to spend time with my family
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Dec. 19 2017
I have pulled many newborn calves since coming home from college. I am usually the go-to person when one of our employees sees a cow or heifer struggling to calve
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Dec. 14 2017
It has started to look a lot like Christmas at Hillcrest Farms. The weather has officially become what we consider pretty chilly here in Georgia
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Dec. 12 2017
We all have something that makes our farm unique, and we all have differing ways of accomplishing our goals as dairy farmers
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Dec. 6 2017
I am blessed to be among the 97 percent of dairy farmers who get to work with their family every single day
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Dec. 5 2017
Two surgeries. Two hospitalizations. Four different antibiotics. I’m still praying that this fourth antibiotic does what it’s supposed to
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Dec. 4 2017
From a young age, I knew I wanted to study agriculture in college. During my youth, my involvement in dairy judging, showing cows, FFA, among other activities, lead to my decision to choose a college with...
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Nov. 28 2017
It’s easy to let a down year or sad events drag us down, but the power of thankfulness is the reality of realizing where our priorities really lie
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Nov. 27 2017
Udder Milk, a New Jersey home delivery company, broke state law according to the New Jersey Department of Health. A cease and desist order
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Nov. 21 2017
Since 1986, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has compiled an annual summary of the cost to prepare a Thanksgiving meal
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Nov. 15 2017
The California landscape has always been evolving but recently the change has expedited dramatically
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Nov. 14 2017
There is just something special about that time as you slip on your boots and head to the barn
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Nov. 1 2017
Every letter of the alphabet is represented on the farm