Hinz Registered Holsteins

12/02/2022

Happy Birthday to the Siverfox I call Dad

A man everyone who knows him, loves him. He’s everything any child would hope for in a father. When as a young child seeing a man work endlessly through hard times to make ends meet. Leaning on his loving wife, faith, and passion to succeed and not letting his kids see or feel the struggle. Never ever missing any type of game or sporting event throughout high school and being able to hear him in the crowd cheering you on. It never went unnoticed

As a young adult supporting every dream and aspiration to come to life. To be so willingly outgoing giving up his time, sweat, and patience knowing none of it has any return for himself but all for the glory of his children. It never goes noticed

He is the father any child dreams to have. He is my role model, my idol, my best friend. He is what makes me excited about being a dad. I hope to be half the father figure he is someday

I am so blessed to be able to call this Silverfox my Dad 🥹

10/12/2022

Happy National Farmers Day

Little throwback to some special moments with a handful of my girls over the years. Featuring Charitee, Falen, Dot, Daffodil, Delight, and Clorox. I always say I was born a farmer and I will be buried a farmer. Very thankful of the moments I’ve had with some these special cows and words can’t describe how much I miss them every single day

One of my favorite conversations was someone asked me, “Kipp, why do you always take pictures with cows butts?”

Pondering… “We’ll that’s a fantastic question I can see why you’d ask that. Guess we always like to show off their udders”

“Oh so essentially you just like to show off their boobs”

There was a bit of silence as I really didn’t know what to say but “I mean, yeah… you’re not wrong” lol

09/06/2022

The annual start to Corn Silage 2022 post 🥳🌽🐄

All equipment has been maintained, bunker walls are covered in plastic, and we are underway. Some people take off work for deer hunting but I don’t miss corn silage. This is my small way of still being part of this successful operation that has given so much to me over the years

Was even able to to polish two of the wax and detail the 9360R and 9630 over the holiday weekend

Great day to feed the world!

07/21/2022

CDL ✅

Everyday at the office, all these CFPs (certified financial planners) have their fancy Audis, Land Rovers, Jaguars, Lexus and like… yeah they’re pretty cool

Well, now that I got my CDL imma go polish up a Petebilt and drive that baby in and really flex on all them bi***es 😤

Big thanks to Hans, , and Chaz for helping me get ready for the test, being willing to take the truck off the road to practice, and being flexible

Another box checked off the list

01/01/2020

I’m a 5th generation dairy farmer, but I did not grow up on the family farm. I started helping on a farm at age 12, and could not image what life would be like without my time spent on the county line. So when I made the leap to start my own farm, my mission statement for Hinz Registered Holsteins was to “Provide an opportunity for a son or daughter I never had.” Meaning I wanted to create a lifestyle and legacy to raise my future children up with on a farm and pass it down.
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Over the last decade Iv spent endless hours wondering what did that really mean? Why would I want to pass down something this stressful and impossible to achieve, aka the farm. It wasn’t until at World Dairy Expo it became real again. Local friends achieving what I thought was impossible. What I wanted to pass on wasn’t just “a farm”, but rather it’s these heartfelt moments and love I had for my cows. The love for cows has developed me far more than just the farm ever will.
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2020 is set out for a change, a big change. I left the farm because it’s what needed to be done. As Marleen Adams told me in a personal meeting “Money can not buy you happiness in life, but without enough of it you’ll only have a life of misery.”
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I do not know in what capacity I will return but Hinz Registered Holsteins will be back in the next decade. Iv seen enough to know it is possible. I thought the hardest decision I ever made was to sell my herd, but in fact it was to walk away from a life altogether and enter a whole new world to pursue my dreams.
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Never forget your why.
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Live in vision, not circumstance

02/26/2017

I was nominated by Jamie Troxel to post one picture of a cow. In addition I've named some people that are great cow friends to join the challenge to keep this running. Let's flood Facebook with cow pictures instead
of the negativity we've been seeing lately. If I've named you, copy the text into your status, post one photo. If you're tagged it's your turn. ❤

A little throwback today goes back to my beloved Charity. Bolen-Vale Drake Charity EX92. She was the first cow I had purchased while at school in Short Course for $600. She had aborted a calf and she was about to be shipped so I offered to buy her. Then one night walking back from a party in Madison I got her bred to Pine Shelter Laramee for a bottle of Dr Cherry. She was the pioneer on my voyage farming on my own. Charity almost seen it all from the very beginning. She was purchased as a VG88 then went EX90 to EX92 in 14 months in one lactation. Sometimes you know when pets are going to leave. The winter of 2013-2014 I spent extra time with Charity. She was a ornery thing almost breaking my ribs on multiple occasions. But that winter she let me pet, hug, and talk to her while going through my marriage situation. Come the morning of July 4th I had to say goodbye. Her arthritis had finally got the best of her and took a hard fall when I was right there trying to help her. I knew she was not going to get up anymore. I asked my father to lay her to her resting spot and I left to go cut hay on that holiday. Loved that cow ❤️

08/30/2016

Sad day today. After 4 years and almost 4500 hours I loaded up my skidsteer today headed for auction. I remember signing the papers, seeing it come down the road, the first drive around, and now my last drive. Truly a remarkable machine. Never let me down. Hope someone enjoys it as much as I did. Very proud of my John Deere 326D.

This is a photo album of the day it was brought home

Newest investment at HRH

04/12/2016

When you go to town for a quick break to hit the "restart" button and catch a coffee. I wasn't real thrilled when I pulled into the farm yard an hour before classifying to set up to see, he's already here! 😑 It's a good thing this guy was full of jokes and was in the laughing mood because I think he sensed I needed it. We had a great discussion about cows, scoring, and the art of breeding cows like at Crisdhome and Luck-E.

I don't think it's too often a cow will make a classifier stop, and make her his first and top score of the herd. But today that was Dafodil 😊 Sondad Jayz Lucy 552 ET (Dafodil here) went EX 92 2E today while producing 150 #/day. She is now the second cow I have had the privilege of having reaching the point of 92 points behind Bolen Vale Drake Charity EX 92 who is a cow I started Hinz Registered Holsteins with.

We had 5 new VG cows and the rest is a progress in the making. Put it that way lol

Until next time

04/05/2016

Growing up we all have dreams right!? Some seem a little far fetched maybe? One of my biggest goals growing up was to be featured in what could arguably known as the most popular dairy magazine The Hoards Dairyman. I was asked about it last summer, and to my surprise it reached the public yesterday. Now I know to a lot of people, they seen this and rolled their eyes thinking "not again". Hey, my bad. Who knows, maybe the next one will me being interviewed by Barbara Walters after having to selling my cows sitting in a chair in a pool of tears "Kipp, what happened you looked so successful?" 😂 😂

Anyways I wanted to do a write up about it.

Growing up I used to gaze through this magazine at the Demullings and read the stories. One in particular was Brad Afdahl. The first one I ever tore out and pinned it up on my bedroom wall and said I want to be like him someday. At night I would read it over and over again before bed. Thinking of how I was going to do it just like Brad. Today it hangs up on my farm office wall.

I usually don't talk about my high school powerlifting career to most people. I'm well aware people think my head is big enough as it is let alone bring that up. But I'm glad it was part of this article. Because through the years my vision changed of who I wanted to be from this sport. I didn't just want to win. I didn't just want to milk cows. I wanted to be remembered.

I wanted to know when I was done, my name represented a symbol of work ethic, determination, fearlessness, and was inspiration that would be remembered and talked about years after I was gone.

I'm thankful to have the coach I did, Jeff Hahn. This coach showed me in the beginning how to obtain the mentality needed for that. One day in the spring of my sophomore year he took me out to do sprints by myself for some cross training. The day sticks out clear in my mind setting up for 25 yard sprints. I would sprint as FAST as I could. Come back and he would chew my ass "WHY DID YOU NOT RUN THROUGH THE END!?" Me, little stunned, confused, I shrugged my shoulders thinking I did? And for a man that has little to no farming experience said "When a farmer plants his corn, does he get 10 feet from the end of the field and lift the planter up to turn around?" Puzzled I said "Uh no?" "Then why did you not push through the end?!", said Hahn.

It was like a switch that turned on in my brain. Since that point there has never been a OFF position (unless I literally crash and pass out). After football practice I would either do extra sprints across the football field or ask to be let in the weight room to workout when I was already physically tired. Or at one time after moving the farm I milked 60 cows 3x a day, trucked feed to feed the cows, and slept 2 hours a day for 6 months. (Highly do no recommend this one)

Not to mention back when I was competing in high school I was also farming full time. Junior year I came off losing the championship placing second and I was going after a championship my senior year. I managed to farm 60 hours a week and worked out 3x per day. (Farm 5 hours before school, went to school, 3 hours after school, 10 hours/day on weekends. Workout during school, after school, and after coming home from night chores). But I made it. I won my championship, claimed my records.

It was that drive that has pushed me to this point in my dairy career today. People will think the publicity will probably get to me but my financials keep me grounded. People I owe money will read this. The future of my farm let alone the national dairy industry is very unknown. Farming is one of the only occupations you can do everything right and still fail. Nobody knows the struggles behind the scenes until that curtain is raised. The people like Brad Afdahl and Coach Hahn are the ones I still look up to and think about from those past times when I still need to push myself through when I'm almost to that line.

I feel extremely honored to be in apart of this magazine. This to me is a bigger accomplishment than most would perceive. I hope it isn't what I accomplish that people remember me for, but how I got here. Maybe my article will be ripped out and pinned on someone's bedroom wall to look up to too.

03/29/2016

I'm really starting to enjoy this. It has amazed me how easy life has been since completing the barn. Cow comfort is key. Tested the lovely ladies today and cows averaged 97lbs. Here's the sheet. Nobody super crazy here and nobody not pulling their weight. I like having that narrower range in production. The kicker is cows are eating 67.5% forage. Feeding lots of hay and straw. Still working on components but I think this is an excellent achievement with 50% of the barn being first calf heifers and almost 70% forage ration diet. #2016

02/21/2016

February 21, 2016. is complete!

02/16/2016