Hillview Family Farms

08/27/2026

If you’ve been thinking about buying direct off of the farm before but have never done it, or if you “used to have a guy” but don’t anymore, we’ve got you covered!! Once you try our beef you won’t want to go back to buying it from the store. You can order your cuts exactly how you’d like them, and we’ve got quarters or halves that will be available the end of September.

Want a smaller quantity? We’ve got you covered there too!! Check out our website for all of your locally grown and processed, USDA inspected beef needs!

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08/13/2026

We’ve got our third cutting of alfalfa down for the year. Making dry hay is our preference when possible because we don’t have to move all of the water weight inside of the bales, which saves wear and tear on our equipment, compaction in our fields, and the cost of plastic to wrap the bales. We’ve been using a hay Tedder which takes the windrows that the discbine leaves and spreads them apart to aid in faster drying. It’s another pass across the field, but it significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to get the hay dry. A few more hot sunny days and we’ll have a nice pile of dry bales made!

07/17/2026

It’s been a little warm this week! Mid 90’s with high humidity, and we’ve got chickens that will be processed in just a few days. With hot days and large chickens, keeping the barns cool is critical to keeping the birds alive. We use what’s called “tunnel” ventilation, where all of the air is pulled in from one side of the barn, and exhausted out the other, which creates a wind tunnel that is designed to pull the heat away from the birds. The air inlets are equipped with evaporative coolers that chill the incoming air, making it more comfortable inside the barn than it is outside on hot days.

Here you can see the evaporative coolers, if you look close you can see the water trickling down them providing the cooling effect.

07/10/2026

We’ve had great moisture so far this year and the crops definitely reflect that! But it has been tricky to get hay dry. With a dry few days in the forecast we cut most of our meadow today, some of it has standing water in it and was too wet, but we cut what we could. The windrows were so big they barely fit under the tractor, it’s going to be a lot of bales!

07/05/2026

On this 250th anniversary, we find ourselves thinking back to the generations who came before us. Their will to find a better world and carve out a place in that new world where they could raise a family. The incredible sacrifices they made when they left their homeland on a ship, then continued west by horse or on foot until they found a place to start over. The months of labor put in to clear the trees to build a shelter and to prepare the soil for seeds to try to keep their families fed during the long winters, all to do it again the next summer. Never realizing how the fruits of their labor would be felt for generations to come.

This is the story of our ancestors, their grit and willingness to work for everything they had, their faith that things would work out, and the freedom to play their part in building the greatest country on earth.

Not a day goes by that we don’t feel honored that we get to work the land, be the stewards for our animals, and raise our family here thanks to those who came before us! Here’s to another 250 years! 🍻

06/27/2026

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Picture this:

You’ve got everything ready for your 4th of July celebration. The snacks are served, your deck seating is arranged, the beverages are ice cold, you’ve even got some sweet fireworks ready to light, but wait, you forgot to get the beef!!

Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! To celebrate peak grilling season, all of our steaks are on sale from now until July 4th. Grab some of our locally grown and processed, no growth hormones ever, ON SALE steaks or ground beef!

Order on Hillview Family Farms. Custom order premium beef packages, perfectly tailored to your taste.

06/27/2026

With the warm weather coming the next few days we took some time to check all of our tunnel fans for proper adjustment in the chicken barns. Each barn has 15 - 54” fans on one end that keep the birds cool in hot weather. They pull air in through the evaporative coolers on one end of the barn, and push the air out of the other end, which creates a cooling wind inside of the barn.

Here we’re checking the RPMs of the fans to make sure that the belts are tight enough to spin the fan blades and move the amount of air that they are designed to move. If any fan falls below 410 RPMs, either the tensioner gets adjusted or the belt gets replaced.

05/29/2026

It’s grillin’season, and fortunately for you we’ve got a long list of beautifully marbled, juicy, locally grown and processed, hormone free beef ready to hit your grill! We promise you won’t be disappointed or your money back! Check out our catalog and give it a try.

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05/10/2026

That’s a wrap!! We’ve finished planting our corn. We tried a few different things this year on our corn ground. We used a new to us seed treatment that is designed to allow the phosphorus in the soil to be more available to the seed early on. We also reduced our planting population by a significant margin with the hopes that will result in larger ears on each plant to make up for fewer overall plants.

With the margins extremely tight as our input costs (seed, fertilizer, fuel) have all drastically increased over the last few years and the grain prices have stayed very low, we’re always looking for ways to be more efficient with each and every acre. We are definitely not afraid to try new things, some of them work out, and some of them don’t. That’s what makes farming so much fun!

Now onto planting our soybeans!!

05/09/2026

Last fall this property line was filled with trees and brush and many, many, many rocks. When this land was cleared years ago they began piling the rocks they picked off of the fields in this tree line. Over the winter and spring we made firewood from the trees, buried the rocks, dug the stumps out, and leveled the ground to improve our field and the neighbors field. Today we planted the field, and it reminded us that all of that time was well worth it!