As the days get longer and the sun gets hotter, hay and planting season are the only things on our minds

Farmers have just as much responsibility, if not more, to make sure everyone arrives home safely

Our calf ear tag numbering and coloring system has gone off the rails due to production and supply chain issues throughout the country

The advancements in dairying the past few decades have been impressive, and with technology, the changes will keep coming faster

Regular maintenance can go a long way in preserving a dairy’s hard working skid steer

They aren’t always perfect, but we know we can depend on our automated milking systems

Agricultural technologies must be shared with consumers willingly for them to include them in their diet

It is fun to envision what automation we may be able to integrate onto our dairy in the future

Harmful sounds can chip away at your hearing ability, but the damage is preventable

Many different minds have come together to make our barn very unique, especially when it comes to cow comfort

Many aspects of our dairy and ways of thinking have changed here at Hillcrest Farms since moving to a robotic milking system. The work is less physical and more mental

As winter turns into spring, we try to catch up on many random projects around the farm

Farm work often requires road travel, whether it is driving equipment from field to field, trucking animals from one location to another, or hauling milk

The other night, our robotic milkers called 36 times with one alarm or another. My dad got an early start on morning milking simply because he had been up since 11 p.m. the night prior tending to the robots

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is a phrase we have all heard and can relate to

The Wisconsin Farm Related Fatalities report showed 41 farm fatalities in 2017 and 34 in 2018

‘Tis that time of year again. Everyone’s on edge for obvious reasons; harvest is a pretty big deal. For a lot of the country, it seems like corn in 2020 will be better than it was 2019, and...

“Never stand behind a horse” were the words my grandfather periodically repeated during my childhood at the farm. Thanks to him, I learned at a young age that I could be kicked and severely...

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

We have been milking with robots for three months now. The months of construction as well as the retraining of cows were both stressful and labor intensive