Apr 23, 2018 | Life on the Farm, Robotic Milkers
In the last couple of months, we’ve really hit our stride with the robotic milkers. We’re learning how to work with the milkers, and the cows are also adjusting well to the new process. We think a big part of it is because we’re adjusting so well to them by...
Mar 16, 2018 | Animal Care, Life on the Farm
A while back I wrote about what a cow’s typical day looks like on our farm. Now, for about 800 of those cows, the days look a little bit different. With the addition of the robotic milkers, our cows have a much more leisurely lifestyle. The main change in our cows’...
Feb 20, 2018 | Animal Care, Life on the Farm, Robotic Milkers
Now that we’ve added the robotic milking machines, a lot of people think we don’t need people around the barns because the machines take care of all the milking. Even with thirteen robotic milkers on the farm, we still need people outside in the barns pretty...
Feb 9, 2018 | Life on the Farm
We give a lot of farm tours every year. From restaurant owners, to cheese makers, to people in other industries, to dairy farmers from other countries, we enjoy sharing our farm with people from all different types of backgrounds. For the past 20 years, I’ve pretty...
Jan 18, 2018 | Life on the Farm
It doesn’t seem like that long ago that we moved from our tie-stall barn to the milking parlor, but it was 19 years ago. And now we have another huge move under our belts – going from the milking parlor to the robotic milking machines. Even though they were 19 years...
Nov 21, 2017 | Life on the Farm, Robotic Milkers
2017 has been a really big year for Majestic Crossing Dairy, and we wouldn’t be where we are today — milking our herd on 13 robotic milking machines — without a lot of help from a lot of people. Community members, farmers in the area and vendors whom we have developed...
