Dairy Heirs with Emmy Armstrong
Dairy farming as a wife, mom, and business owner, creating a legacy for future generations to come.
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The Fuel That Feeds the Farm! | Dairy Heirs
In this episode, Drew rides passenger to Somerset, Kentucky to pick up our soybean meal from CRC — the protein source that’s been a game changer for our herd. Once he’s back home, we unload it straight into our grain bin. No more storing it in the gravity wagon and shoveling it out by hand — we’v...
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It’s a Crappy Job but Someone Has To Do It! | Dairy Heirs
It’s a crappy job, but it’s an important one. Routine barn clean up keeps alleyways clear of manure, stalls fresh, and cows comfortable. We’re spreading barn lime to help control moisture, reduce odor, and keep bedding clean and cozy for our cows and heifers. Comfortable cows plus clean barns mak...
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“From Butter to Baby Heifers – A Week of Thanks” | Dairy Heirs
This week was full of blessings and busyness! We made butter with the kids at school, had a day packed with breeding, milk pick-up, and a little nostalgia looking back at my husband’s childhood treasures.
And just when we thought the week couldn’t get sweeter — our Holstein Crickette gave birth ...
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Hay y'all! Let's Take a Road Trip! | Dairy Heirs
Come with us as we travel to Pennsylvania. Home to the New Holland hay tools plant where we had the opportunity to tour the facility and see implements be built from the ground up. We had a couple more stops along the way, but we ended our trip in Maryland on a row crop and chicken farm!
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Cows and Earlage | Dairy Heirs
We do a corn maze every year and this year we are chopping the field to use as a combo of earlage and dry matter to mix into our TMR. We have been working really hard to get to this point because after the flood (Helene) we had to go across the river every couple of days to get our silage since t...
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Meet Emmy & The Dairy Heirs | Dairy Heirs
Join us on the farm as we get our soybean meal delivered and mix feed for the cows! This is a big part of our daily routine that keeps our herd healthy and producing high-quality milk for Little Lou’s Creamery. From delivery to the mixer, see how feed comes together to fuel our dairy cows and our...