Faust Farms

03/24/2026

03/01/2026

01/18/2026

Drink whole milk!! Or raw if your state allows the sale of it!

01/07/2026

How much do you value a gallon of milk?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we view “value” when it comes to food.

Most people don’t think twice about spending $5–$7 on a fancy coffee drink. It’s a treat, it’s convenient, it tastes good, and it’s gone in 20–30 minutes. Totally fine — I’m not here to trash coffee. I enjoy a good treat here and there too.

But that same hesitation often shows up when it comes to buying a gallon of milk.

A gallon of milk often costs about the same as one fancy coffee — but instead of one drink, you get 16 cups. That’s 16 servings of protein, calcium, vitamin D, and other essential nutrients. It lasts most families a week or more and gets used for drinking, cereal, baking, cooking, and kids’ lunches. Broken down, that’s roughly 25–35¢ per serving.

Here’s the part most people don’t see: before a cow ever produces a single drop of milk, it takes a minimum of two years to raise her. Two years of feed, bedding, veterinary care, housing, labor, and daily care — with no return yet. And even then, there’s risk. Some animals never make it into the milking herd or aren’t able to produce long-term. By the time milk hits the shelf, there are thousands of dollars invested long before that first gallon is ever sold.

A coffee drink is one serving, one moment. Milk stretches across meals and days. It feeds families, not just cravings.

Milk isn’t expensive — it’s undervalued.

So next time you pick up a gallon of milk, remember how much goes into it before it ever reaches your cart. Sometimes value isn’t about the price tag — it’s about what lasts, what nourishes, and what truly feeds a household.

12/13/2025

Use real butter!!

10/31/2025

Be patient, we all want to get home safely

🚗 Car driver:
Geez, can’t this tractor go any faster? It’s been such a long day at work and I just want to get home for supper! 😩

🚜 Tractor driver:
I hate seeing that line of cars behind me. It’s so stressful.
I wish I could go faster, but my tractor tops out at 40 km/hr and that my legal speed limit.
I’m just trying to get my harvest done before the rain comes — the season’s short, and every hour matters if we want food on everyone’s tables. 😕

🚗 Car driver:
That darn tractor could at least pull over! It’s like that farmer thinks he owns the road! 🤬

🚜 Tractor driver:
I wish I could pull over safely… but the shoulder’s soft and dangerous. One wrong move and I could roll this rig, not to mention all the garbage on the roadside
If I pull over and merge back on the road and something happens, I’m liable.
I’m not trying to hold anyone up — just trying to do my job and get to the next field.
It’s only a short stretch.
I remember when these roads were mostly farmland and there were hardly any cars at all. 🥺

🚗 Car driver:
Why do these farmers have to move equipment during rush hour? This is ridiculous. 🥵

🚜 Tractor driver:
I hate being on the road, but sometimes I have no choice.
I’ve got acres to cover before the rain hits — and cows waiting to be milked when I’m done.
It’s exhausting, and it’s scary every time I see headlights stacking up behind me. 🥱

🚗 Car driver:
That’s it — I’m passing this rig. No-passing zone or not. I just need to get home. 😑

🚜 Tractor driver:
My heart drops every time someone passes.
They don’t realize how big and slow this thing really is — I can’t stop on a dime.
And there he goes… oh no, there’s a transport coming the other way! 😬

🚗 Car driver:
Oh my God. I’m going to die. 😵

🚜 Tractor driver:
That was way too close.
He’s lucky. We both are.
I just want to finish feeding the world and get back to my own family in one piece.
That two-kilometre stretch between fields takes years off my life. 😖

🚗 Car driver:
I can’t believe how close that was.
All I wanted was to get home and sit down to supper with my family.
Maybe I need to slow down?
What’s a couple of minutes, really?
That tractor just turned into a field… I shouldn’t have been so impatient. 🙁

❤️ Farmer Tim:
Tractor drivers, car drivers, and truck drivers are more alike than we think.
We all just want to get home safe.
We all have someone waiting for us at the end of the day.

Farmers need consumers to buy their food — and consumers need farmers to grow it. So let’s share the road, and respect each other.
It works both ways.

🚜❤️ Because in the end… we all have to eat. 🤗

10/28/2025

Volume up
Welcome to our world when Prancer is in heat. She will eventually go hoarse from all her bellering!

10/25/2025

🐄 PSA for the “I want a dairy cow” crowd 🐄

Some of y’all on these “for sale” posts crack me up.
“Is she halter broke?”
“Will she stand still while I clean her ears with a Q-tip and braid her tail with highlights?”
Ma’am… she’s a cow, not a show pony from Pinterest. 😅

Listen, dairy cows are not starter pets. If you’ve never owned cattle, please don’t start with a Jersey that just freshened. You saw one TikTok of a lady milking in a sundress and now you think you’re about to live your best farm girl dream — until Bessie wakes up cranky and decides you’re the problem.

What’s your plan when your “sweet baby angel” who lays in your lap on sunny days decides she’s in a mood and wants to mow you over? Or when she calves at 2 AM in the mud and you’re standing there Googling “why is milk coming out weird”?

If you don’t have the experience, facilities, or equipment, a dairy cow will humble you real quick. Go volunteer on a farm, learn first — don’t impulse buy a 1,200-lb animal because you think she’ll “fit in with the goats.”

Bessie deserves better than a TikTok dream gone wrong. 💁‍♀️🐄

10/20/2025

A little giggle for this Monday morning