Tanner Mashek

Tanner Mashek is a 7th generation farmer. He, his parents Dennis and Barb and brother Josh run Hilltop Acres numbering 450 Brown Swiss and 1,000 acres.  Tanner is responsible for day to day herd management as well as genetics.  Josh is the farm mechanic and is in charge of crop work.  Barb manages the calves while Dennis oversees all phases. Tanner graduated Northeast Iowa Community College in 2015 with a degree in Ag business, interned at Swissgenetics in 2015 for 3 months, then returned to the family farm in April of 2015.   

The milking & dry cows are housed in a free stall barn and milked in a double 12 parallel parlor 3 times a day. The current Rolling Herd Average on the cows is 28,693M 4.5F 1285F 3.4P 977P. The farm grows all the replacement heifers and breeding bulls for about 900 head total. Milk cows, dry cows, heifers, bulls are all fed a TMR ration. Animals under 5 months old are housed in our calf barn. Baby calves are fed in individual pens until about 12-14 days old and then are adapted to automatic feeding machines. Heifers and bulls each have their own plans to weaning. Calves after weaning are grouped in pens and are fed a grain mix and hay.

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Hilltop Acres is known worldwide. It started with Hilltop Aces Blend Jillette and Hilltop Acres Jetway Dixie, in the early 80’s. Jillette’s most popular bull was Jolt. The Jetway Dixie family put many popular bulls in AI including Dominate, Dynasty, and Driver. The exciting thing about the Jetway Dixie family is that it is a huge part of the genomic game today as our popular Cadence Paula traces back to Jetway Dixie.

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Some special Cows:

- Cadence Paula - one of the best bulls dams of the breed 10 sons in AI today.

-Bosephus Dixiland-dam of the popular “Daredevil”

-Majeste Teresa: #1 genomic PPR cow of the breed today. 4 sons heading to AI

 -Kickstart Paradise (daughter of Paula)-#17 PPR COW

- Kickstart Princess (daughter of Paula) - #19 PPR COW​

- Driver Jan P ET- #60 PPR cow and polled!

-Doboy Tabby-#67 PPR cow

-Kickstart Priscilla (daughter of Paula)- #67 PPR cow