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Farm Technology Days returns to a dairy farm

Wisconsin’s biggest outdoor farm show is returning to a familiar location.

Farm Technology Days is being hosted by Clinton Farms in Waupaca County, where the third and fourth generations of the Clinton family milk 800 cows, raise their heifers and grow their own crops.  Wisconsin Farm Technology Days General Manager Janet Keller tells Brownfield yes, there will be plenty of field demonstrations. “We’ll have a variety of hay harvesting equipment. We’ll have tillage equipment. We’ll have a great tiling demonstration by some of our sponsors and in addition, we’ll have the drones.”

Clinton Farms has hosted the show twice before in 1978 and in 2003.  Tom Clinton is the second-generation farmer.  He says the third and fourth generations now run the farm, and a lot has changed including the new 60-cow rotary parlor which reduced milking time and labor. “There are a couple of girls in there milking cows, and bam, bam. In a couple of hours, they’re about done.”

Keller says the Farm Technology Days shows non-farm families how a modern farm works and shows farmers the latest tools available. “Share new technologies, new knowledge, new ways of doing farming, any way we can help our farmers, that’s what we’re all about.”

AUDIO: Janet Keller discusses this year’s Farm Technology Days show with Brownfield’s Larry Lee