Join host Matti McBride as she chats with Anton Borst, owner of Halarda Farms in Elm Creek, Manitoba. Learn about the dairy, current succession plans, why Halarda Farms invests in technology and opts to be a trial farm for emerging technologies, as well as future plans for the dairy.

Here is the episode breakdown:

0:50 – Introduction to Halarda Farms
1:40 – Using a parlor and robots
3:00 – History of Halarda Farms
4:30 – Succession planning
6:30 – Slow, steady growth
8:00 – Investing in technology
10:00 – Managing employees and technology
12:00 – Employee buy-in
14:30 – Experiences with being a trial dairy
17:00 – Current technologies being trialed
18:30 – Goals at Halarda
20:50 – The life of a cow at Halarda
24:30 – Future plans
27:00 – Rapid-fire questions

Anton Borst: Halarda Farms