BLOGS

I tend to be a quantity-over-quality type of guy.

Instead of a nice pair of jeans, I’d rather have three cheap pairs of Levis to take the pressure off washing.

Being a goal-oriented person has never been a “thing” I would normally associate myself with. This was something I acquired recently in my life. I am a full-time farmer, a mother and a part-time gelato maker.

Whoever the calendar guru was, I wish he would have made New Year’s in the bright morning of spring instead of the midnight of winter. It would have been so much easier to make resolutions and keep them.

In June 2017, we embarked on what was going to be a roller-coaster ride for the next 16 months. It was that summer we went on our first tour of robotic milking barns. We had started on the journey to modernize our dairy. I want to share with you some of the things we learned.

This is the start of our 10th year providing a Canada-specific edition of Progressive Dairy. The traditional anniversary gift list suggests we mark the occasion with tin or aluminum, as both materials represent the durability and flexibility needed to sustain a union.