FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT

Today’s wheel loaders have never been easier to operate and maintain. They’re also designed with many enhancements similar to those you’ve come to expect in your pickup truck.

Trying to figure out how to make the numbers work on a new-construction barn can be a bit challenging when you know exactly what you want, but the price exceeds your budget allowance. Cow comfort is not an area to skimp, but there are other things a dairy owner can do to be more cost-effective with a project.

When discussing calf barn ventilation, invariably the topic of using four air exchanges per hour for cold-weather ventilation will come up. After all, we wouldn’t want “too much” of that cold air in the barn. Or would we?

There exists hollow and empty barns, that once housed the lifeblood of a farm, and are now begging a return to useful service for the farm family.

When the time comes and I head to the calf barn in the morning dressed in pants, a sweatshirt and a stocking hat but my afternoon feeding attire includes a t-shirt and shorts, this can only mean one thing: Spring has arrived.