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Maintaining a position in the top 20 in any field is not something that comes about by accident. It takes hard work and dedication, but that is something not in short supply at Dual Lane Farms, where Bill Kloepfer and his four sons live and work.

Airport Dairy Ltd., located east of Fort Macleod in southern Alberta, is a family farm run by Harvey and Bernita Van Hierden.

Hendriks Dairies Ltd. is a family-run operation in Huron County, near Brucefield, Ontario. Tyler Hendriks is the third generation of his family to operate a dairy farm.

After combining his herd with half of his father’s herd, Tyler Hendriks outgrew the tiestall facility and built a new freestall barn.

Put $50,000 into their existing tiestall barn to keep it running for another year, completely redo the facility or build a new robot barn.

Instead of renovating their 51-cow tiestall barn, Amanda Lukassen and her husband, Kevin Sundborg, chose to build a new 80- to 90-cow robot barn. Using robots gives them more flexibility in their schedules and enables them to run the dairy in Ormstown, Quebec, without hiring outside help. View the slideshow below.