I've been dairy farming for almost 8 years now. I milk 50 cows with my wife and I have an off farm job as well. On most days I can work from 4am till 9pm or later when it's time to do field work. This year my wife got sick and can no longer be active working on the farm with me, so now I'm even more busy. We also have a 5 year old daughter. I have through much luck and some well thought out ideas been able to spend time with my family. We try to eat one meal a day together and do one activity a week together, we also go on a weeks vacation every year now. Some things I've done on the farm to make more family time. I don't now how large your farm is(It seems like the larger farmers work harder then I do). So stay small, use rotational grazing for all the animals(eliminates all kinds of labor in feeding and barn cleaning and animal health) spend money on mechanization. I've cut hours off of my day by using things like mixers carts, upright silos, automatic barn cleaners.(these seem more efficient then bunker silos and skid steers because you can multi task) I don't do this, but another idea that works is use custom operators for crops.
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