Read the article “Schuttes rely on robots now, proud of dairy heritage,” which ran in our June 12 issue. Click through the photos below to view more images of the Jo-Lane Dairy operation and the Schutte family.

“What other job would allow us to work together as a family every day?” says Jonna Schutte.

“There’s a lot to be said for simplicity,” Steve Harrison observes about the cow management and cow flow basics that prevail at the expanding and diversified Harrison Dairy Inc. based on the family’s Century Farm near Loudon, Tennessee.

March 20 marks the calendar as the official first day of spring, but every farmer knows that it is never truly springtime until the cattle are out on spring pasture.

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series profiling sources for an in-depth feature about the Chinese dairy industry, appearing in print later this summer. Calvin Willis, Ph.D., has made his home in Southern California for the past 35 years. Widely respected throughout the southwestern U.S. as a consulting dairy nutritionist, he also works internationally.

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Three dairy farmers on the Central Plains of the Midwest share their stories of how they are committed to the principles of sustainability by staying connected to their communities, protecting the land and environment, and sustaining the next generation of dairy farming for the future.

Many college students become nannies during school to help ends meet, but Kayla Alward – a rising fourth-year student at the University of Georgia – prefers to cow-sit.

While others breed for bigger cows and push for 2 pounds of average daily gain (ADG) for pre-weaned calves, Rosy-Lane Holsteins is sticking by what they believe in – healthy, productive cows regardless of how quickly they get there.

Any dairy farm girl will tell you that there isn’t much she can’t fix with a piece of baler twine, but Kristi Jarek took that mantra to a new level when she fashioned a gown from baler twine, feed sacks and old 4-H ribbons.