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Brandon is my husband, and he works for a Dairy here in Weber County, Utah. This dairy has been around since 1869. It's a family owned business and has been passed from one generation to the next... for 5 generations now. Brandon has worked for them for about 12 years and has plans to stay for as long as the Gibsons will let him. They're an awesome family, great friends of ours, and they are so good to us.
This is our personal blog and the Gibsons aren't a co-author, so we're posting information about the dairy to the best of our knowlegde. The dairy means a lot to us and I'm sure it's interesting to people who have never been to a dairy farm before, so we'd like to share what we know with others. We love the farm life and so do our kids. :)
There is so many different aspects to running a dairy that it might take me awhile to get pictures to post it all... but eventually I will.
This is our personal blog and the Gibsons aren't a co-author, so we're posting information about the dairy to the best of our knowlegde. The dairy means a lot to us and I'm sure it's interesting to people who have never been to a dairy farm before, so we'd like to share what we know with others. We love the farm life and so do our kids. :)
There is so many different aspects to running a dairy that it might take me awhile to get pictures to post it all... but eventually I will.
Corn Season
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Sept 27th, the first day of corn chopping!
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They chop 1,000 acres of corn... 750 is put in the corn pit at the dairy, then 250 acres is custom that they chop for other people.
Our son, William, admires the 8 row corn chopper that was rented for this season.
Bailing Hay
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The boys are ready to get started.
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The dairy grows about 500 acres of hay for their cows each year, and they're always buying hay from others too.
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The hay has to be bailed at dusk when there's dew on it. They can usually get 5 crops of hay where we live. The 1st and 5th crop is chopped, 2nd-4th crop is bailed.
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The first crop is cut around the 1st of June, and the last crop is chopped in October.
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Brandon smiling big... he loves his job.
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