Good Morning from a breezy, hay scented Knolltop. Because everyone on the county is baling hay when you step outside the smell of newly baled hay rushes over you. It’s a glorious smell that never leaves you. It’s a smell that if you’ve grown up on a farm is as familiar as the smell of manure, corn silage or sweetcorn growing in the garden on a hot July afternoon. As soon as you breath in the morning air it takes you back to your childhood of lazy summer days spent playing in the yard while a whirlwind of farming activity plays out around you. Isn’t that a great memory?

Okay, now for the Name the Fitter contest. Kudos to all who ventured a guess yesterday, the correct name for the fitter in the picture was “Bear!” And no, I don’t know his real name. And the lady he’s hugging is a familiar face to anyone at any Holstein event in Michigan, I like to refer to her as “Mama Koebel” and her real name is Jennie Koebel from Tri-Koebel Holsteins in Three Oaks Michigan. And she has three girls…wow, they have a lot of threes!

Now for the next contestant on