Posted by wi red dairy man on July 28, 2015 at 13:04:21 from (107.77.83.51):
In Reply to: MIlking survey posted by NY 986 on July 27, 2015 at 13:48:10:
We milk 40 cows in a remodeled 1914 hip roof dairy barn with tie stalls and a pipe line. It's a good number have 7 neighbors that milk in stalls as well some a few more some a few less. During the winter we drop down to twenty or no fun birthing and raising calves in below zero weather. We save calves for spring time fresh grass to make cheap milk. Sure we could get bigger but why work harder to pay the bank? Plus we farm for fun, getting bigger means more work and less time and less fun. I don't work out because I don't work well with lazy people and I don't have employees for same reason. Wife and I like to take time off go see her family as my parents are gone. Easy enough to find help to milk a miking or two in a simple stall barn with small cow numbers which is nice to. My dad farmed here for 40 years and was married 35 and he always said when you get married remember your married to your wife not the farm. And he's right.
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