Farming isn’t easy; I don’t have to tell you that. It will rain on your hay, your cows will get out, the market won’t always play nice and that quarter-of-a-million dollar tractor won’t always run like it’s supposed to – if at all.

There are typically gaps in management between what a farmer is presently doing, what needs to be done and what could be done better.

The Kastenschmidts used the same facility to upgrade from stanchions to a parlor and then from a parlor to two robotic milkers. See photos of the operation below. Click here to read the article from our Jan. 1, 2017 print issue.