At times, dairy manure has been portrayed as a pollutant or has gotten a bad rap in the public eye through the media. But in reality, when handled and treated with care, manure can be one of the most important assets a farmer has! At Clover Hill Dairy, we recycle and reuse our manure through the process of a methane …
Managing healthy soils
Did you know there are more microbes in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on earth? Like a human being, soil is a living organism, and many factors influence it’s health. These microbes need to be maintained in order to perform to at their best. One the best things we do to promote the health of our soil …
Cross Bred Herd
If you ask the average person to describe a dairy cow they might say something like “black and white spots.” More than likely, they would be thinking of a Holstein cow. Because Holsteins are heavy milk producing cows, most of cows from Wisconsin, as well as the rest of the US are Holsteins. But heavily breeding all of our cows …