Known more for turkey production than dairy farming, the rolling hills of southwest Indiana are also home to the four dairies featured on the 2015 Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange. This event was organized and promoted by the University of Kentucky and Purdue University Extension, Indiana Dairy Producers and the Kentucky Dairy Development Council.

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of articles to review the four most common management philosophies that dairy managers employ. The first article in the series appeared here and reviewed the authority-obedience philosophy.

On our dairy, I am in charge of “the books” and am quite comfortable with the QuickBooks software desktop format. I am able to enter and pay bills quickly and easily and perform payroll within the program.

Horses tied and waiting, we watched 386 commingled spayed heifers move across a large mountain meadow as a cohesive herd. We were camped in a meadow surrounded by aspen trees, just below the Continental Divide in western Montana.