No one knows the exact extent that this pandemic will affect how we go about daily life in the future, but just as with historical events in the past, it’s clear that some things will remain changed

After you've selected your website’s domain, you will need to put content (pictures, videos, and text) on the internet via a website builder

Summer seems to be the time when farm life can take its greatest toll on our physical and mental health

For the past seven years, I have volunteered at the Dairy Cow Birthing Center at the New York State Fair. When I get there, I promptly plop myself next to the calf pen, which is normally swamped with people

It was so wonderful to visit with my sister, Cathy, and her family. Last week I went back to my roots and visited my hometown of Bend, Ore

“How do you get through the days you don’t want to be at the dairy anymore?” I wasn’t even slightly surprised to get this question from a fellow dairy farmer on Instagram earlier...

As producers, I’m sure most of you have heard pleas from agriculture communicators asking you to tell your story

Here at Hillcrest Farms, we take pride in what we do. The good days, the bad days, the hot days, and the cold days

Most of us have heard stories of the Knights of the Round Table. They were characters in the legend of King Arthur’s kingdom

For farmers, working with family can be an awesome blessing or one of life’s greatest challenges

This week is forecasted to be hot in nearly every dairy producing part of the country. Month-long predictions have much of the same with above average temperatures expected for all of July

There are plenty of “How to” books available on just about anything . . . how to succeed, how to wire a building, how to be a better person, how to be inspiring, and the list goes on and on

In the span of just over a week, my two oldest cows both passed away. Both developed conditions that sprang up and were treated meticulously — only to no avail

When I tell people that my favorite breed of dairy cow is the Brown Swiss, about 85% of the time they laugh, and then ask me why

Two months. It’s been just over two months since I made the bold step of quitting my full-time, steady, and equally rewarding job as a youth 4-H educator (which I loved, by the way)

As humans, we often make extra food purposely, so that we have leftovers to eat the next day. That same philosophy doesn’t work for dairy cows, who need fresh feed daily

My parents bought a farm that came with a house. The house ended up being a bit of a fixer-upper . . . I’m talking very little siding, negligible plumbing, and small animals in the walls

This tumultuous last week has many feeling a little more than unsteady. The atmosphere in our country as a whole has been polarizing

My experience has been that animal activists are the worst. They take tiny grains of truth and twist them into the most spectacular lies. It’s annoying but effective

When I was 2 years old, my parents both worked as herd managers on successful dairy farms in central New York, but then, everything changed