Currently it is owned and operated by Don and Colette Weiss, Nathan and Stacy Weiss and Noah and Celsey Weiss. Don, Nathan and Noah work daily on the farm with Don as the general manager, Nathan as the crops and feed manager and Noah as the employee relations manager and herdsman.

There are 10 full-time employees, excluding Don, Nathan and Noah.

950 milk cows and 120 dry cows.

Run 2,500 acres.

600 acres are grown as alfalfa for haylage, 600 acres are Mycogen BMR corn grown for silage. 50 acres are grown for straw, and then 800 acres for corn and 400 acres for soybeans.

All of the manure and sand bedding is run by a flume to a sand reclamation building where the sand is washed off, dried and reused as bedding. The manure is then directed to the manure pit.

The manure pit is pumped every spring and fall by Practical Applications of Durand, Wis.

Calves are in individual pens inside for the first 10 – 12 days for additional TLC then they go calf hutches outside. They are weaned in the calf hutches by getting strictly water with grain. At 10 weeks of age they are transitioned to groups in the calf barn.

At 8/9 months of age heifers are sent to German Valley Heifers of Mondovi, Wis. There are about 400 heifers there until they are about 200 days carrying calf, when they then return back to WFF.

All breeding age cattle are artificially inseminated. We use ABS genetics.

The cows are milked in a Delaval 50 cow carousel parlor. It is equiped with a ‘post-dip’ Delaval Teat Spray Robot (TSR). We milk three times per day at 275 cows per hour.

After everything is all said and done the milk is trucked to Eau Galle Cheese of Eau Galle, Wis. They make world renowned hard Italian cheeses such as, Parmesan and Asiago.