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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.

In the early 1980s, Bob and Beth Kennett opened a B&B on their dairy as a way to make ends meet. Today, they welcome 1,000 guests every year from all over the world to visit Liberty Hill Farm and experience life on a dairy.

The Matsche family from Birnamwood, Wisconsin, recently expanded their dairy with the addition of new barns and an 80-cow rotary milking parlor. Take a peek here to see inside the office, the parlor and the pens.

When Brian and Bill Rowell built Green Mountain Dairy in 1999, they focused on cow comfort and efficiency. Since then, these brothers have won numerous awards for milk quality and reproduction, as well as Vermont Dairy of the Year in 2008.

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.