Guest Blog

Dr. Kate Darling thrives on any chance she can get to study the interaction between humans and robots. Her specialty is robot ethics and how they apply in social and professional settings.

In the dairy industry, we are used to uncertain times. Variability in milk prices, weather and other factors are challenges in an ordinary year. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has added a new dimension to uncertainty in the dairy industry.

What are you listening to right now? What do you listen to while you're in the barn, or in the skid loader or in a tractor doing field work?

Have you ever found yourself scrolling through Facebook marketplace and seeing something that catches your eye? That’s the exact way our farm found calf hutches that are now key to our operation. The farm had been tossing around the idea of switching from a modified calf barn to hutches for a while, but finding some for sale within an hour of our farm made the decision to switch fairly easy.

Editor’s note: This article is the latest in a series from Rebecca Shaw about female entrepreneurs.

The year 2020 will go down in history books.

Let’s be real: Farming stinks right now. If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to detail some of the things I hate about being a dairy farmer right now.