For the last 34 years, Kress and Tammy Simpson have run KTS Farm, a small 180-acre seasonal grass-based dairy in the Elk Run Watershed of Rutland Township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
Through the vagaries of weather and markets, they have built a successful business that they are now ready to transition.
While their son and daughter have helped with milking chores growing up, they are now exploring other learning opportunities, so Kress took steps to transition the farm business to a younger farmer that has been involved in the business.
Never in his wildest dreams did Jake Peissig think he’d see a 30-pound-per-cow increase when he and his father built a new robotic milking facility.
Now, according to a DeLaval press release, JTP Farms in Dorchester, Wisconsin, achieved the highest production for any VMS (voluntary milking system) customer in the world – and possibly any producer milking robotically.
This video was shown during the Progressive Dairyman World Ag Expo Seminars in Tulare, California, on February 13, 2013.
Steve and John Shehadey, owners of Bar 20 Dairy along with one of their managers, Stan Marks, talk about the management of their dairy and the use of a number of technologies to help keep their 6,500-cow dairy running smoothly in Kerman, California.
Click here to read the feature about the Shehadey family and Bar 20 Dairy, published in the Feb. 11, 2013 issue of Progressive Dairyman.
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This video was shown during the Progressive DairymanWorld Ag Expo Seminars in Tulare, California, on February 14, 2013. Brian talks about how their dairy has developed into a vertically integrated business.
From growing their own crops to utilizing technology in their feeding routines, Medeiros and Son Dairy works on the little things to make sure that their dairy is as successful as possible in Hanford, California. PD
Click here to read the feature about Brian Medeiros and Medeiros and Son Dairy, published in the Jan. 21, 2013 issue of Progressive Dairyman.
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This video was shown during the Progressive Dairyman World Ag Expo seminars in Tulare, California, on February 12, 2013. Todd Moore talks about his experience self-marketing his own dairy products from his two dairies in Plano, Texas.
Click here to read the feature about Todd Moore and Lucky Layla Farms, published in the Jan. 1, 2013 issue of Progressive Dairyman.
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Tyler Dockendorf plays a vital role in his family’s 130-cow robotic milking operation.
For the last 34 years, Kress and Tammy Simpson have run KTS Farm, a small 180-acre seasonal grass-based dairy in the Elk Run Watershed of Rutland Township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 
Never in his wildest dreams did Jake Peissig think he’d see a 30-pound-per-cow increase when he and his father built a new robotic milking facility.
“My goal is that my grandchildren will never know cows had horns.”
C.J. Middleton, originally of Hannibal, Missouri, was born a dairy farm kid.
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